7-letter words starting with l
- lakelet — A small lake.
- lakshmi — the Hindu goddess of fortune.
- lalique — René Jules [ruh-ney;; French ruh-ney] /rə neɪ;; French rəˈneɪ/ (Show IPA), 1860–1945, French jewelry and glassware designer.
- lallans — a literary version of the variety of English spoken and written in the Lowlands of Scotland
- lalling — to make imperfect l- or r- sounds, or both, often by substituting a w- like sound for r or l or a y- like sound for l.
- lalr.ss — (tool) An LALR1 grammar parser generator written in, and outputting, Scheme by Mark Johnson <[email protected]>. Version 0.9 (before 1995-10-30). FTP new/lalr.shar from the Scheme Repository.
- lamaism — the Buddhism of Tibet and Mongolia, a Mahayana form including non-Buddhist Indian elements as well as elements of the preexisting Bön shamanism.
- lamaist — One who believes in lamaism.
- lamarck — Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet de [zhahn ba-teest pyer ahn-twan duh maw-ne duh] /ʒɑ̃ baˈtist pyɛr ɑ̃ˈtwan də mɔˈnɛ də/ (Show IPA), 1744–1829, French naturalist: pioneer in the field of comparative anatomy.
- lambada — a Brazilian ballroom dance for couples, with gyrating movements and close interlocking of the partners.
- lambast — to beat or whip severely.
- lambdas — Plural form of lambda.
- lambent — running or moving lightly over a surface: lambent tongues of flame.
- lambert — Constant [kon-stuh nt] /ˈkɒn stənt/ (Show IPA), 1905–51, English composer and conductor.
- lambeth — a borough of Greater London, England.
- lambing — a young sheep.
- lambkin — a little lamb.
- lamboys — a skirt-like piece of armour made from metal strips
- lamella — a thin plate, scale, membrane, or layer, as of bone, tissue, or cell walls.
- laments — to feel or express sorrow or regret for: to lament his absence.
- lamerie — Paul de. 1688–1751, English silversmith of French Huguenot descent, noted for his lavish rococo designs
- lameter — (Scots) a cripple.
- lametta — Thin wire or foil made of brass, gold or silver; now especially thin strips of metallic foil used as Christmas decoration.
- lamiger — a disabled person
- laminae — a thin plate, scale, or layer.
- laminal — laminar.
- laminar — composed of, or arranged in, laminae.
- laminin — a glycoprotein in animal tissue that is important in binding together the molecules which form the extracellular matrix
- lamming — Present participle of lam.
- lampang — a city in NW Thailand.
- lampern — The European river lamprey, Lampetra fluviatilis.
- lampers — lampas.
- lamping — a source of intellectual or spiritual light: the lamp of learning.
- lampion — a small lamp, especially a small oil lamp with a tinted glass chimney, formerly very popular as a source of illumination on carriages.
- lamplit — Illuminated by a lamp or lamps.
- lampoon — a sharp, often virulent satire directed against an individual or institution; a work of literature, art, or the like, ridiculing severely the character or behavior of a person, society, etc.
- lampost — Alternative spelling of lamppost.
- lamprey — any eellike marine or freshwater fish of the order Petromyzoniformes, having a circular, suctorial mouth with horny teeth for boring into the flesh of other fishes to feed on their blood.
- lampuki — a large marine fish, Coryphaena hippurus or C. equisetis
- lamster — a fugitive from the law.
- lanated — Alternative form of lanate.
- lancers — a cavalry soldier armed with a lance.
- lancets — Plural form of lancet.
- lanchow — a city in and the capital of Gansu province, in N China, on the Huang He.
- lancier — Synonym of lancer.
- lancing — a long wooden shaft with a pointed metal head, used as a weapon by knights and cavalry soldiers in charging.
- land on — any part of the earth's surface not covered by a body of water; the part of the earth's surface occupied by continents and islands: Land was sighted from the crow's nest.
- land up — any part of the earth's surface not covered by a body of water; the part of the earth's surface occupied by continents and islands: Land was sighted from the crow's nest.
- landaus — Plural form of landau.
- landers — Plural form of lander.