11-letter words starting with la
- latent time — the time from the onset of a stimulus to that of the response
- lateral bud — axillary bud.
- lateralised — Simple past tense and past participle of lateralise.
- lateralized — Simple past tense and past participle of lateralize.
- laterigrade — having a sideways manner of moving, as a crab.
- lateritious — of the color of brick; brick-red.
- latex paint — paint that has a latex binder and can be removed while it is wet by applying water.
- latifundium — a great estate.
- latin cross — an upright or vertical bar crossed near the top by a shorter horizontal bar.
- latin lover — seductive Latin American man
- latirostral — (of a bird) having a broad beak
- latiseptate — having broad partitions or septa
- latitudinal — of or relating to latitude.
- latrocinium — highway robbery
- latticeleaf — laceleaf.
- latticelike — Resembling a lattice.
- latticework — work consisting of crossed strips usually arranged in a diagonal pattern of open spaces.
- laudability — Laudableness.
- laugh lines — Laugh lines are wrinkles which some older people have at the outside corners of their eyes.
- laugh track — a separate sound track of prerecorded laughter added to the sound track of a radio or television program to enhance or feign audience responses.
- laughworthy — worthy of being laughed at
- launch into — begin enthusiastically
- launch shoe — an attachment to an aircraft from which a missile is launched
- launderable — to wash (clothes, linens, etc.).
- launderette — a self-service laundry having coin-operated washers, driers, etc.
- launderings — Plural form of laundering.
- laundresses — Plural form of laundress.
- laundromats — Plural form of laundromat.
- laundry bag — A laundry bag is a bag for clothes that that are about to be washed.
- laundry van — a van driven by a laundry worker and which is used in the collection and delivery of laundry
- lauric acid — a white, crystalline, water-insoluble powder, C 12 H 24 O 2 , a fatty acid occurring as the glyceride in many vegetable fats, especially coconut oil and laurel oil: used chiefly in the manufacture of soaps, detergents, cosmetics, and lauryl alcohol.
- laurustinus — a southern European evergreen shrub, Viburnum tinus, of the honeysuckle family, having large clusters of white or pinkish flowers.
- lautreamont — Comte de (Isidore Lucien Ducasse) 1846–70, French poet, born in Uruguay.
- law faculty — the department or division of a university concerned with teaching law
- law society — association of lawyers
- law student — sb who studies legal system
- law-abiding — obeying or keeping the law; obedient to law: law-abiding citizens.
- law-breaker — A law-breaker is someone who breaks the law.
- lawbreakers — Plural form of lawbreaker.
- lawbreaking — Unlawful; illegal.
- lawlessness — contrary to or without regard for the law: lawless violence.
- lawn tennis — tennis, especially when played on a grass court.
- lawyer cane — any of various kinds of entangling and thorny vegetation, such as the rattan palm, esp in tropical areas
- lawyer palm — any of various kinds of entangling and thorny vegetation, such as the rattan palm, esp in tropical areas
- lawyer vine — any of various kinds of entangling and thorny vegetation, such as the rattan palm, esp in tropical areas
- lay analyst — a psychoanalyst who does not have a medical degree.
- lay baptism — baptism administered by a lay-person.
- lay brother — a man who has taken religious vows and habit but is employed by his order chiefly in manual labor.
- lay eyes on — the organ of sight, in vertebrates typically one of a pair of spherical bodies contained in an orbit of the skull and in humans appearing externally as a dense, white, curved membrane, or sclera, surrounding a circular, colored portion, or iris, that is covered by a clear, curved membrane, or cornea, and in the center of which is an opening, or pupil, through which light passes to the retina.
- lay hold of — to seize or grasp