12-letter words containing la
- by and large — You use by and large to indicate that a statement is mostly but not completely true.
- c'est la vie — that's life
- cable-laying — involved in or connected to the activity of laying cables
- cactoblastis — a moth, Cactoblastis cactorum of South America, that was introduced into Australia to act as a biological control on the prickly pear
- caesar salad — Caesar salad is a type of salad containing lettuce, eggs, cheese, and small pieces of fried bread, served with a dressing of oil, vinegar, and herbs.
- cafe au lait — coffee with milk
- calabar bean — the dark brown very poisonous seed of a leguminous woody climbing plant, Physostigma venenosum, of tropical Africa, used as a source of the drug physostigmine
- calabrasella — a card game for three persons that is played with a 40-card pack made by removing the eights, nines, and tens from a regular 52-card pack.
- calamitously — In a calamitous manner.
- calculatable — Able to be calculated; calculable.
- calculatedly — in a calculated manner
- calculations — Plural form of calculation.
- camouflaging — Present participle of camouflage.
- canaliculate — having a groove or grooves
- cancellarial — relating to a chancellor
- cancellation — the fact or an instance of cancelling
- canoe slalom — a competitive event in which a canoeist maneuvers through a slalom course, usually in white water.
- canola (oil) — an oil derived from the seed of any of several varieties of the rape plant, used in cooking, salad dressings, etc.: it is low in saturated fats
- cantillation — the traditional notation representing the various traditional Jewish melodies to which scriptural passages are chanted
- cantillatory — involving chanting or incantation
- capillaceous — having numerous filaments resembling hairs or threads
- capitularies — Plural form of capitulary.
- capitulating — Present participle of capitulate.
- capitulation — the act of capitulating
- capitulatory — the act of capitulating.
- carbon black — a black finely divided form of amorphous carbon produced by incomplete combustion of natural gas or petroleum: used to reinforce rubber and in the manufacture of pigments and ink
- carboxylated — Simple past tense and past participle of carboxylate.
- cardinalates — Plural form of cardinalate.
- carpool lane — a lane of a major road or motorway that is reserved for vehicles with a minimum number of passengers, designed to encourage carpooling
- carunculated — Alternative form of carunculate.
- castellation — Architecture. built like a castle, especially with turrets and battlements.
- catallactics — political economy
- cataphyllary — a scale-like, simple form of a leaf, such as those which surround a bud
- caterpillars — Plural form of caterpillar.
- cattle class — a jocular name for the economy-class section of an airliner, in which passengers have little space to move
- cedrelaceous — resembling or having the characteristics of a citron fruit
- cellarmaster — a person in charge of a wine cellar.
- center plate — one of a pair of plates that fit together and support the body of a car on a truck, while allowing the truck to rotate with respect to the body. One plate (body center plate) is attached to the underside of the car body and the other (truck center plate) is part of the car truck.
- ceroplastics — the art of wax modelling
- chained lady — the constellation Andromeda.
- chalazogamic — relating to the process of chalazogamy
- chamberlains — Plural form of chamberlain.
- charge plate — an identification plate, especially one from which an impression can be taken, issued to a customer and used to make purchases on a credit basis.
- charlatanism — the practice or method of a charlatan.
- charles' law — the principle that all gases expand equally for the same rise of temperature if they are held at constant pressure: also that the pressures of all gases increase equally for the same rise of temperature if they are held at constant volume. The law is now known to be only true for ideal gases
- chartophylax — an official who serves chiefly as the chancellor and archivist of a diocese.
- chartularies — Plural form of chartulary.
- chef's salad — A chef's salad is a green salad with hard-boiled egg and strips of meat and cheese on top.
- cheiloplasty — plastic surgery of the lip.
- chenin blanc — a white grape grown in the Loire region of France and in South Africa, California, New Zealand, and elsewhere, used for making wine