7-letter words containing la
- delilah — Samson's Philistine mistress, who deprived him of his strength by cutting off his hair (Judges 16:4–22)
- deplane — to disembark from an aeroplane
- dewclaw — a nonfunctional claw in dogs; the rudimentary first digit
- dewlaps — Plural form of dewlap.
- dholaks — Plural form of dholak.
- dilated — Simple past tense and past participle of dilate.
- dilater — One who, or that which, dilates, expands, or enlarges.
- dilates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dilate.
- dilator — Anatomy. a muscle that dilates some cavity of the body.
- dillard — Annie, born 1945, U.S. writer.
- dipolar — Physics, Electricity. a pair of electric point charges or magnetic poles of equal magnitude and opposite signs, separated by an infinitesimal distance.
- dislang — (language)
- display — to show or exhibit; make visible: to display a sign.
- dollars — Plural form of dollar.
- dongola — a former province in the N Sudan, now part of Northern Province.
- dorlach — a quiver for arrows
- douglas — Isle of, an island of the British Isles, in the Irish Sea. 227 sq. mi. (588 sq. km). Capital: Douglas.
- dowland — John, 1563–1626, English lutenist and composer.
- dracula — (italics) a novel (1897) by Bram Stoker.
- drugola — a bribe or secret payment made with illegal drugs.
- dry law — a law prohibiting the manufacture or sale of alcoholic beverages.
- dryland — Often, drylands. a tract of land having dry, often sandy soil, as on the floor of a valley: Acres of the drylands have been reclaimed by irrigation.
- dullard — a stupid, insensitive person.
- e layer — the radio-reflective ionospheric layer of maximum electron density, normally found at an altitude between 60 and 75 miles (100 and 120 km).
- earflap — either of a pair of flaps attached to a cap, for covering the ears in cold weather.
- eblaite — the Semitic language of the people of Ebla, believed to be closely related to Ugaritic, Phoenician, and Hebrew, but written in cuneiform characters borrowed from Sumerian: decoded from the Ebla Tablets. Compare Ebla.
- elamite — an inhabitant of the ancient kingdom of Elam
- elapids — Plural form of elapid.
- elapine — relating to or resembling an elapid
- elapsed — Simple past tense and past participle of elapse.
- elapses — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of elapse.
- elastic — (of an object or material) able to resume its normal shape spontaneously after contraction, dilatation, or distortion.
- elastin — An elastic, fibrous glycoprotein found in connective tissue.
- elating — Present participle of elate.
- elation — Great happiness and exhilaration.
- elative — (grammar) In Semitic languages, the \u201cadjective of superiority.\u201d In some languages such as Arabic, the concepts of comparative and superlative degree of an adjective are merged into a single form, the 'elative'. How this form is understood or translated depends upon context and definiteness. In the absence of comparison, the elative conveys the notion of \u201cgreatest\u201d, \u201csupreme.\u201d.
- ellagic — (of an acid) derived from gallnuts
- emblaze — (transitive) To kindle; set ablaze.
- emplace — To assign a position to something, or to locate something at a particular place.
- emplane — Alternative form of enplane.
- emulate — Match or surpass (a person or achievement), typically by imitation.
- enclasp — Hold tightly in one's arms.
- enclave — A portion of territory within or surrounded by a larger territory whose inhabitants are culturally or ethnically distinct.
- endlang — (provincial, Northern England) Lengthways; along.
- endplay — A way of playing the last few tricks that forces an opponent to make a disadvantageous lead.
- enflame — Alternative spelling of inflame.
- england — country
- enlaced — Simple past tense and past participle of enlace.
- enlaces — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of enlace.
- enlarge — Make or become bigger or more extensive.