6-letter words containing la
- clamor — If people are clamoring for something, they are demanding it in a noisy or angry way.
- clamps — Plural form of clamp.
- clancy — Tom. 1947–2013, US novelist; his thrillers, many of which have been filmed, include The Hunt for Red October (1984), Clear and Present Danger (1989), Debt of Honour (1994) and Red Rabbit (2002)
- clangs — Plural form of clang.
- clangy — Having a clanging sound.
- clanks — Plural form of clank.
- clanky — making clanking sounds
- claque — a group of people hired to applaud
- claret — Claret is a type of French red wine.
- claris — (company) A subsidiary company of Apple Computer, Inc.. In January 1998, Apple restructured Claris to concentrate on their FileMaker line of database software and changed the company's name to FileMaker, Inc..
- clarke — Sir Arthur C(harles). 1917–2008, British science-fiction writer, who helped to develop the first communications satellites. He scripted the film 2001, A Space Odyssey (1968)
- clarts — lumps of mud, esp on shoes
- clarty — dirty, esp covered in mud; filthy
- clashy — (obsolete, regional) wet; rainy.
- clasps — Plural form of clasp.
- classy — If you describe someone or something as classy, you mean they are stylish and sophisticated.
- clasts — Plural form of clast.
- clatch — a squelching sound
- clatty — Used to describe people, places, and objects that are a bit shabby, dirty, 70's, greasy.
- claude — Albert. 1898–1983, US cell biologist, born in Belgium: shared the Nobel prize for physiology or medicine (1974) for work on microsomes and mitochondria
- clause — A clause is a section of a legal document.
- claver — to talk idly; gossip
- claves — one of a pair of wooden sticks or blocks that are held one in each hand and are struck together to accompany music and dancing.
- clavie — a tar-barrel traditionally set alight in Moray on Hogmanay
- clavis — a key
- clavus — a corn on the toe
- clawed — having claws (sometimes used in combination): sharp-clawed.
- claxon — a loud electric horn, formerly used on automobiles, trucks, etc., and now often used as a warning signal.
- clayed — a natural earthy material that is plastic when wet, consisting essentially of hydrated silicates of aluminum: used for making bricks, pottery, etc.
- clayey — of, smeared with, or full of clay
- colada — piña colada.
- colasl — (mathematics, application) An early system for numerical problems on the IBM 7030. It used a special character set for input of natural mathematical expressions.
- collab — a collaboration
- collar — The collar of a shirt or coat is the part which fits round the neck and is usually folded over.
- copula — A copula is the same as a linking verb.
- cotula — (in prescriptions) a measure.
- cullay — the soapbark tree (Quillaja saponaria)
- cupola — A cupola is a roof or part of a roof that is shaped like a dome.
- cupula — a dome-shaped structure, esp the sensory structure within the semicircular canals of the ear
- cyclas — a tunic or surcoat, longer in back than in front, worn over armor in the Middle Ages.
- d-flat — C#
- dakhla — an oasis in S Egypt: source of ocher.
- dalasi — the standard monetary unit of The Gambia, divided into 100 bututs
- dalila — Delilah (def 1).
- dallan — (in Persian and Indian architecture) a veranda or open hall for reception of visitors.
- dallas — a city in NE Texas, on the Trinity River: scene of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy (1963). Pop: 1 208 318 (2003 est)
- darlan — Jean Louis Xavier François (ʒɑ̃ lwi ɡzavje frɑ̃swa). 1881–1942, French admiral and member of the Vichy government. He cooperated with the Allies after their invasion of North Africa; assassinated
- declaw — to remove the claws from (an animal or bird)
- deland — Margaret (Margaretta Wade Campbell Deland) 1857–1945, U.S. novelist.
- delano — a city in S California.