9-letter words containing las
- cytoplast — the intact cytoplasm of a single cell
- declassee — (of a woman) having lost social standing or status
- diaclasis — (medicine) Osteoclasis.
- dysplasia — abnormal growth or development of cells, tissue, bone, or an organ.
- ectoblast — the ectoderm.
- ectoplasm — Biology. the outer portion of the cytoplasm of a cell. Compare endoplasm.
- elastance — (physics) An electrical property that is the inverse of capacitance.
- elastomer — A natural or synthetic polymer having elastic properties, e.g., rubber.
- emplaster — a plaster
- emplastic — adhesive
- enclasped — Simple past tense and past participle of enclasp.
- endoblast — Entoblast.
- endoplasm — The more fluid, granular inner layer of the cytoplasm in ameboid cells.
- entoblast — Any of the embryonic blastomeres that develop into the endoderm.
- esemplasy — unification
- etioplast — (biology) A chloroplast that has never been exposed to light.
- euplastic — healing quickly and well
- eyelashes — Plural form of eyelash.
- fiberglas — finespun filaments of glass made into yarn that is woven into textiles, used in woolly masses as insulation, and pressed and molded as plastic material
- fireblast — A fiery explosion.
- flash gun — a device that simultaneously discharges a flashbulb and operates a camera shutter.
- flash mob — a group of people mobilized by social media to meet in a public place for the purpose of doing an unusual or entertaining activity of short duration: The flash mob brought wide smiles to the faces of commuters waiting for their train.
- flash rom — Flash Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory
- flash set — undesirably rapid setting of cement in concrete
- flash-fry — to fry something very quickly by placing it in a pan on a very high heat
- flashback — a device in the narrative of a motion picture, novel, etc., by which an event or scene taking place before the present time in the narrative is inserted into the chronological structure of the work.
- flashbang — Alternative form of flash-bang.
- flashbulb — a glass bulb, filled with oxygen and aluminum or zirconium wire or foil, which, when ignited electrically, burns with a brilliant flash to provide momentary illumination of a subject.
- flashcard — a card having words, numerals, or pictures on it, designed for gaining a rapid response from pupils when held up briefly by a teacher, used especially in reading, arithmetic, or vocabulary drills.
- flashcube — a cube, for attaching to a camera, that contains a flashbulb in each vertical side and rotates automatically for taking four flash pictures in succession.
- flashguns — Plural form of flashgun.
- flashiest — Superlative form of flash.
- flashlamp — an electric lamp, usually containing xenon or another noble gas, used to produce a brief flash or pulsed flashes of intense light, such as that used in a camera flash
- flashness — Quality of being flash.
- flashover — Electricity. a disruptive discharge around or over the surface of a solid or liquid insulator.
- flashtube — electronic flash.
- flotillas — Plural form of flotilla.
- frontlash — an action or opinion that is in reaction to a backlash.
- gastrulas — Plural form of gastrula.
- germplasm — Alternative spelling of germ plasm.
- glaserite — (mineral) A saline evaporite, consisting of potassium sulphate.
- glasphalt — a road-surfacing material composed of asphalt and crushed glass.
- glass can — a short squat beer bottle
- glass eel — elver.
- glass eye — artificial eye.
- glass jaw — a person's jaw, especially that of a boxer, that is vulnerable to even a light blow.
- glass pox — alastrim, or mild smallpox.
- glass tty — /glas T-T-Y/ or /glas ti'tee/ A terminal that has a display screen but which, because of hardware or software limitations, behaves like a teletype or some other printing terminal, thereby combining the disadvantages of both: like a printing terminal, it can't do fancy display hacks, and like a display terminal, it doesn't produce hard copy. An example is the early "dumb" version of Lear-Siegler ADM 3 (without cursor control). See tube, tty; compare dumb terminal, smart terminal. See "TV Typewriters" for an interesting true story about a glass tty.
- glassboro — a borough in SW New Jersey.
- glassfish — any small, transparent marine, brackish, or freshwater fishes of the genus Chanda (or Ambassis), native to Africa and the Indo-Pacific region and popular in home aquariums.