6-letter words containing la
- labio- — relating to or formed by the lips and (another organ or part)
- labium — a lip or liplike part.
- lablab — hyacinth bean.
- labneh — a Mediterranean soft cheese produced by straining yogurt
- labors — Plural form of labor.
- labour — productive activity, especially for the sake of economic gain.
- labral — of or like a lip
- labret — an ornament worn in a pierced hole in the lip.
- labrid — any of numerous fishes of the family Labridae, including the wrasses, the tautog, and the cunner, and characterized chiefly by well-developed teeth and, often, brilliant colors.
- labrum — a lip or liplike part.
- labrys — A double-headed ax in Minoan mythology.
- labuan — an island off the W coast of Sabah: part of Sabah state, E Malaysia: a free port. 35 sq. mi. (90.65 sq. km).
- lacert — (obsolete) A fleshy muscle of the human body.
- lacery — Lace or laces collectively.
- laches — failure to do something at the proper time, especially such delay as will bar a party from bringing a legal proceeding.
- lacier — Comparative form of lacy.
- lacily — in a lacy manner or pattern
- lacing — a netlike ornamental fabric made of threads by hand or machine.
- lacked — deficiency or absence of something needed, desirable, or customary: lack of money; lack of skill.
- lacker — to coat with lacquer.
- lackey — A servant, esp. a liveried footman or manservant.
- laclos — Pierre Ambroise François Choderlos de [pyer ahn-brwaz frahn-swa shaw der-loh duh] /pyɛr ɑ̃ˈbrwaz frɑ̃ˈswa ʃɔ dɛrˈloʊ də/ (Show IPA), 1741–1803, French general and writer.
- lacmus — (archaic) Litmus.
- lactam — any of a group of cyclic amides characterized by the NHCO group, derived from aminocarboxylic acids by the intramolecular elimination of water from the amino and carboxylic groups.
- lactic — of, relating to, or obtained from milk.
- lactin — (obsolete) lactose.
- lacto- — indicating milk
- lacuna — a gap or missing part, as in a manuscript, series, or logical argument; hiatus.
- lacune — a gap or space
- ladakh — a region in Jammu and Kashmir, India, on the borders of China (Tibet) and Pakistan. 45,762 sq. mi. (118,524 sq. km).
- ladder — a structure of wood, metal, or rope, commonly consisting of two sidepieces between which a series of bars or rungs are set at suitable distances, forming a means of climbing up or down.
- laddie — a young lad; boy.
- laddus — Plural form of laddu.
- ladied — (obsolete) ladylike; not rough; gentle.
- ladies — a woman who is refined, polite, and well-spoken: She may be poor and have little education, but she's a real lady.
- lading — the act of lading.
- ladino — Also called Judeo-Spanish, Judezmo. a Romance language of Sephardic Jews, based on Old Spanish and written in the Hebrew script.
- ladled — a long-handled utensil with a cup-shaped bowl for dipping or conveying liquids.
- ladler — a person who serves something out with a ladle
- ladles — Plural form of ladle.
- ladoga — Lake, a lake in the NW Russian Federation in Europe, NE of St. Petersburg: largest lake in Europe. 7000 sq. mi. (18,000 sq. km).
- ladron — a thief.
- ladyfy — To bestow the title of Lady on a woman.
- laelia — any of several epiphytic tropical American orchids of the genus Laelia, having fleshy leaves and showy flowers.
- laevo- — on or towards the left
- laffed — Simple past tense and past participle of laff.
- laffer — (entertainment industry) A comedy.
- lagash — an ancient Sumerian city between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, at the modern village of Telloh in SE Iraq: a palace, statuary, and inscribed clay tablets unearthed here.
- lagena — an outpocketing of the saccule of birds, reptiles, and bony fishes corresponding to the cochlear duct of mammals.
- lagers — Plural form of lager.