8-letter words starting with LA
Embark on a linguistic journey with words that begin with the letter LA. This section showcases how LA at the start shapes the identity and sound of various words. From commonly used terms to rare finds, explore the diverse range of words that start with LA, enriching your vocabulary and appreciation for language.
| Word | Points | Definition | Sentence example |
|---|---|---|---|
| laughing | 13 | showing or feeling mirth or pleasure or happiness | laughing children |
| language | 10 | a systematic means of communicating by the use of sounds or conventional symbols | he taught foreign languages |
| laughter | 12 | the sound of laughing | - |
| landlord | 10 | a landowner who leases to others | - |
| landlady | 13 | a landlord who is a woman | - |
| lavender | 12 | of a pale purple color | - |
| launcher | 13 | armament in the form of a device capable of launching a rocket | - |
| landmark | 15 | an event marking a unique or important historical change of course or one on which important developments depend | - |
| latitude | 9 | an imaginary line around the Earth parallel to the equator | - |
| lawfully | 17 | by law; conforming to the law | we are lawfully wedded now |
| lavatory | 14 | a room or building equipped with one or more toilets | - |
| lacrosse | 10 | a game invented by American Indians; now played by two teams who use long-handled rackets to catch and carry and throw the ball toward the opponents' goal | - |
| ladyship | 17 | a title used to address any peeress except a duchess | - |
| landfill | 12 | a low area that has been filled in | - |
| laxative | 18 | a mild cathartic | - |
| landline | 9 | a telephone line that travels over terrestrial circuits | - |
| labrador | 11 | the mainland part of the province of Newfoundland and Labrador in the eastern part of the large Labrador-Ungava Peninsula in northeastern Canada | - |
| lamppost | 14 | a metal post supporting an outdoor lamp (such as a streetlight) | - |
| labelled | 11 | bearing or marked with a label or tag | - |
| laziness | 17 | apathy and inactivity in the practice of virtue (personified as one of the deadly sins) | - |
| laudanum | 11 | narcotic consisting of an alcohol solution of opium or any preparation in which opium is the main ingredient | - |
| labourer | 10 | someone who works with their hands; someone engaged in manual labor | - |
| ladylike | 16 | befitting a woman of good breeding | ladylike manners |
| lamented | 11 | mourned or grieved for | the imprint of our wise and lamented friend |
| labeling | 11 | - | - |
| ladybird | 15 | small round bright-colored and spotted beetle that usually feeds on aphids and other insect pests | - |
| laureate | 8 | someone honored for great achievements; figuratively someone crowned with a laurel wreath | - |
| lateness | 8 | quality of coming late or later in time | - |
| lakeside | 13 | the shore of a lake | - |
| laboured | 11 | lacking natural ease | - |
| laboring | 11 | doing arduous or unpleasant work | the bent backs of laboring slaves picking cotton |
| languish | 12 | have a desire for something or someone who is not present | - |
| laminate | 10 | a sheet of material made by bonding two or more sheets or layers | - |
| landfall | 12 | the first sighting of land from the sea after a voyage (or flight over water) | - |
| lavishly | 17 | in a wasteful manner | the United States, up to the 1920s, used fuel lavishly, mainly because it was so cheap |
| layabout | 13 | person who does no work | - |
| lashings | 12 | a large number or amount | - |
| landsman | 11 | an inexperienced sailor; a sailor on the first voyage | - |
| larboard | 11 | the left side of a ship or aircraft to someone who is aboard and facing the bow or nose | - |
| lakeview | 18 | - | - |
| laudable | 11 | worthy of high praise | applaudable efforts to save the environment |
| landless | 9 | owning no land | the landless peasantry |
| latchkey | 20 | key for raising or drawing back a latch or opening an outside door | - |
| latching | 14 | - | - |
| layering | 12 | - | - |
| landmass | 11 | a large continuous extent of land | - |
| lawmaker | 17 | a maker of laws; someone who gives a code of laws | - |
| lambskin | 16 | skin of a sheep or goat prepared for writing on | - |
| lameness | 10 | disability of walking due to crippling of the legs or feet | - |
| lacerate | 10 | irregularly slashed and jagged as if torn | lacerate leaves |
| ladleful | 12 | - | - |
| larkspur | 14 | any of numerous cultivated plants of the genus Delphinium | - |
| langrage | 10 | - | - |
| largesse | 9 | liberality in bestowing gifts; extremely liberal and generous of spirit | - |
| lassoing | 9 | - | - |
| latticed | 11 | having a pattern of fretwork or latticework | - |
| laagered | 10 | - | - |
| labarums | 12 | - | - |
| labdanum | 13 | a soft blackish-brown resinous exudate from various rockroses used in perfumes especially as a fixative | - |
| labelers | 10 | - | - |
| labeller | 10 | - | - |
| labellum | 12 | - | - |
| labially | 13 | - | - |
| labiated | 11 | - | - |
| labiates | 10 | - | - |
| lability | 13 | - | - |
| laborers | 10 | - | - |
| laborism | 12 | - | - |
| laborist | 10 | - | - |
| laborite | 10 | - | - |
| labroids | 11 | - | - |
| labrusca | 12 | - | - |
| labryses | 13 | - | - |
| laburnum | 12 | flowering shrubs or trees having bright yellow flowers; all parts of the plant are poisonous | - |
| lacebark | 16 | small tree or shrub of New Zealand having a profusion of axillary clusters of honey-scented paper-white flowers and whose bark is used for cordage | - |
| laceless | 10 | - | - |
| lacelike | 14 | made of or resembling lace | - |
| lacerant | 10 | - | - |
| lacertid | 11 | Old World terrestrial lizard | - |
| lacewing | 14 | any of two families of insects with gauzy wings (Chrysopidae and Hemerobiidae); larvae feed on insect pests such as aphids | - |
| lacewood | 14 | variably colored and sometimes variegated hard tough elastic wood of a sycamore tree | - |
| lacework | 17 | work consisting of (or resembling) lace fabric | - |
| lacheses | 13 | - | - |
| laciness | 10 | - | - |
| laciniae | 10 | - | - |
| lackaday | 18 | - | - |
| lackered | 15 | - | - |
| lackeyed | 18 | - | - |
| lackland | 15 | - | - |
| lacmuses | 12 | - | - |
| laconism | 12 | terseness of expression | - |
| lacquers | 19 | - | - |
| lacqueys | 22 | - | - |
| lacrimal | 12 | of or relating to tears | - |
| lacrymal | 15 | - | - |
| lactases | 10 | - | - |
| lactated | 11 | - | - |
| lactates | 10 | - | - |
| lacteals | 10 | - | - |
| lacteous | 10 | - | - |
| lactific | 15 | - | - |
| lactitol | 10 | - | - |
| lactones | 10 | - | - |
| lactonic | 12 | - | - |
| lactoses | 10 | - | - |
| lacunars | 10 | - | - |
| lacunary | 13 | - | - |
| lacunate | 10 | - | - |
| lacunose | 10 | - | - |
| ladanums | 11 | - | - |
| laddered | 11 | - | - |
| laddiest | 10 | - | - |
| laddisms | 12 | - | - |
| ladening | 10 | - | - |
| ladettes | 9 | - | - |
| ladhoods | 13 | - | - |
| ladified | 13 | - | - |
| ladifies | 12 | - | - |
| ladrones | 9 | - | - |
| ladyboys | 17 | - | - |
| ladybugs | 15 | - | - |
| ladycows | 17 | - | - |
| ladyfied | 16 | - | - |
| ladyfies | 15 | - | - |
| ladyfish | 18 | game fish resembling the tarpon but smaller | - |
| ladyhood | 16 | - | - |
| ladyisms | 14 | - | - |
| ladykins | 16 | - | - |
| ladylove | 15 | a woman who is a man's sweetheart | - |
| ladyness | 12 | - | - |
| ladypalm | 16 | - | - |
| laetares | 8 | - | - |
| laetrile | 8 | a substance derived from amygdalin; publicized as an antineoplastic drug although there is no supporting evidence | - |
| laevulin | 11 | - | - |
| lagering | 10 | - | - |
| laggards | 11 | - | - |
| laggings | 11 | - | - |
| lagnappe | 13 | - | - |
| lagoonal | 9 | - | - |
| laically | 13 | - | - |
| laicised | 11 | - | - |
| laicises | 10 | - | - |
| laicisms | 12 | - | - |
| laicized | 20 | - | - |
| laicizes | 19 | - | - |
| laidlier | 9 | - | - |
| laighest | 12 | - | - |
| laipsing | 11 | - | - |
| lairages | 9 | - | - |
| lairiest | 8 | - | - |
| lairised | 9 | - | - |
| lairises | 8 | - | - |
| lairized | 18 | - | - |
| lairizes | 17 | - | - |
| laitance | 10 | - | - |
| lakebeds | 15 | - | - |
| lakefill | 15 | - | - |
| lakehead | 16 | - | - |
| lakeland | 13 | a popular tourist area in northwestern England including England's largest lake and highest mountain | - |
| lakelets | 12 | - | - |
| lakelike | 16 | - | - |
| lakeport | 14 | - | - |
| lakeward | 16 | - | - |
| laliques | 17 | - | - |
| lallands | 9 | - | - |
| lallings | 9 | - | - |
| lallygag | 13 | be about | - |
| lamantin | 10 | - | - |
| lamasery | 13 | a monastery for lamas | - |
| lambadas | 13 | - | - |
| lambaste | 12 | censure severely or angrily | - |
| lambasts | 12 | - | - |
| lambdoid | 14 | - | - |
| lambency | 17 | an appearance of reflected light | - |
| lamberts | 12 | - | - |
| lambiest | 12 | - | - |
| lambings | 13 | - | - |
| lambkill | 16 | North American dwarf shrub resembling mountain laurel but having narrower leaves and small red flowers; poisonous to young stock | - |
| lambkins | 16 | - | - |
| lamblike | 16 | like a lamb in meekness and gentleness | - |
| lambling | 13 | - | - |
| lamellae | 10 | - | - |
| lamellar | 10 | - | - |
| lamellas | 10 | - | - |
| lamenter | 10 | a person who is feeling grief (as grieving over someone who has died) | - |
| lameters | 10 | - | - |
| lamigers | 11 | - | - |
| laminals | 10 | - | - |
| laminary | 13 | - | - |
| laminins | 10 | - | - |
| laminose | 10 | - | - |
| laminous | 10 | - | - |
| lamister | 10 | - | - |
| lamiters | 10 | - | - |
| lammiger | 13 | - | - |
| lammings | 13 | - | - |
| lampases | 12 | - | - |
| lampasse | 12 | - | - |
| lamperns | 12 | - | - |
| lamphole | 15 | - | - |
| lampings | 13 | - | - |
| lampions | 12 | - | - |
| lampless | 12 | - | - |
| lampoons | 12 | - | - |
| lampreys | 15 | - | - |
| lampukas | 16 | - | - |
| lampukis | 16 | - | - |
| lampyrid | 16 | - | - |
| lamsters | 10 | - | - |
| lancegay | 14 | - | - |
| lancelet | 10 | small translucent lancet-shaped burrowing marine animal; primitive forerunner of the vertebrates | - |
| lanceted | 11 | - | - |
| lanching | 14 | - | - |
| lanciers | 10 | - | - |
| landdros | 10 | - | - |
| landfast | 12 | - | - |
| landform | 14 | - | - |
| landgrab | 12 | - | - |
| landings | 10 | - | - |
| landlers | 9 | - | - |
| landmine | 11 | - | - |
| landrace | 11 | - | - |
| landrail | 9 | - | - |
| landside | 10 | component consisting of a side piece opposite the moldboard | - |
| landskip | 15 | - | - |
| landslid | 10 | - | - |
| landslip | 11 | a slide of a large mass of dirt and rock down a mountain or cliff | - |
| landsmen | 11 | - | - |
| landward | 13 | toward land | landward, miles of rough grass marshes melt into low uplands |
| landwash | 15 | - | - |
| landwind | 13 | - | - |
| laneways | 14 | - | - |
| langahas | 12 | - | - |
| langered | 10 | - | - |
| langlauf | 12 | - | - |
| langleys | 12 | - | - |
| langrels | 9 | - | - |
| langshan | 12 | - | - |
| langspel | 11 | - | - |
| langspil | 11 | - | - |
| langsyne | 12 | past times remembered with nostalgia | - |
| languets | 9 | - | - |
| languors | 9 | - | - |
| laniards | 9 | - | - |
| lanitals | 8 | - | - |
| lankiest | 12 | - | - |
| lankness | 12 | - | - |
| lanneret | 8 | - | - |
| lanoline | 8 | - | - |
| lanolins | 8 | - | - |
| lanosity | 11 | - | - |
| lantanas | 8 | - | - |
| lanterns | 8 | - | - |
| lanthorn | 11 | - | - |
| lantskip | 14 | - | - |
| lanyards | 12 | - | - |
| lapboard | 13 | writing board used on the lap as a table or desk | - |
| lapelled | 11 | - | - |
| lapidary | 14 | a skilled worker who cuts and engraves precious stones | - |
| lapidate | 11 | kill by throwing stones at | - |
| lapidify | 17 | change into stone | - |
| lapidist | 11 | a skilled worker who cuts and engraves precious stones | - |
| lapillus | 10 | - | - |
| lappered | 13 | - | - |
| lappeted | 13 | - | - |
| lappings | 13 | - | - |
| lapsable | 12 | - | - |
| lapsangs | 11 | - | - |
| lapsible | 12 | - | - |
| lapstone | 10 | - | - |
| laptrays | 13 | - | - |
| lapwings | 14 | - | - |
| lapworks | 17 | - | - |
| larcener | 10 | a person who commits larceny | - |
| larderer | 9 | - | - |
| lardiest | 9 | - | - |
| lardlike | 13 | - | - |
| lardoons | 9 | - | - |
| largando | 10 | - | - |
| largened | 10 | - | - |
| lariated | 9 | - | - |
| larigans | 9 | - | - |
| larkiest | 12 | - | - |
| larksome | 14 | - | - |
| larmiers | 10 | - | - |
| larnakes | 12 | - | - |
| larniest | 8 | - | - |
| larrigan | 9 | - | - |
| larrikin | 12 | - | - |
| larruped | 11 | - | - |
| larruper | 10 | - | - |
| larvated | 12 | - | - |
| laryngal | 12 | - | - |
| larynges | 12 | - | - |
| larynxes | 18 | - | - |
| lasagnas | 9 | - | - |
| lasagnes | 9 | - | - |
| lasering | 9 | - | - |
| lashkars | 15 | - | - |
| lashless | 11 | - | - |
| lasslorn | 8 | - | - |
| lassocks | 14 | - | - |
| lassoers | 8 | - | - |
| lastages | 9 | - | - |
| lastborn | 10 | - | - |
| lastings | 9 | - | - |
| latakias | 12 | - | - |
| latchets | 13 | - | - |
| lateener | 8 | - | - |
| latences | 10 | - | - |
| latening | 9 | - | - |
| latently | 11 | - | - |
| laterals | 8 | - | - |
| laterise | 8 | - | - |
| laterite | 8 | a red soil produced by rock decay; contains insoluble deposits of ferric and aluminum oxides | - |
| laterize | 17 | - | - |
| latewake | 15 | - | - |
| latewood | 12 | - | - |
| lathered | 12 | - | - |
| latherer | 11 | - | - |
| lathiest | 11 | - | - |
| lathings | 12 | - | - |
| lathlike | 15 | - | - |
| lathwork | 18 | - | - |
| lathyrus | 14 | genus of climbing herbs of Old World and temperate North and South America: vetchling; wild pea | - |
| latigoes | 9 | - | - |
| latillas | 8 | - | - |
| latinise | 8 | write in the Latin alphabet | - |
| latinity | 11 | - | - |
| latinize | 17 | write in the Latin alphabet | - |
| latitant | 8 | - | - |
| latitats | 8 | - | - |
| latosols | 8 | - | - |
| latrines | 8 | - | - |
| latterly | 11 | in the recent past | the spelling was first affected, but latterly the meaning also |
| lattices | 10 | - | - |
| lauching | 14 | - | - |
| laudably | 14 | in an admirable manner | - |
| laudator | 9 | someone who communicates high praise | - |
| laughers | 12 | - | - |
| laughful | 15 | - | - |
| laughier | 12 | - | - |
| launched | 14 | - | - |
| launches | 13 | - | - |
| launcing | 11 | - | - |
| launders | 9 | - | - |
| laureled | 9 | crowned with or as if with laurel symbolizing victory | - |
| lauwines | 11 | - | - |
| lavaboes | 13 | - | - |
| lavaform | 16 | - | - |
| lavalava | 14 | a skirt consisting of a rectangle of calico or printed cotton; worn by Polynesians (especially Samoans) | - |
| lavalier | 11 | jeweled pendant worn on a chain around the neck | - |
| lavalike | 15 | - | - |
| lavandin | 12 | - | - |
| lavashes | 14 | - | - |
| lavatera | 11 | widespread genus of herbs or softwood arborescent shrubs cultivated for their showy flowers | - |
| lavation | 11 | the work of cleansing (usually with soap and water) | - |
| laveered | 12 | - | - |
| lavement | 13 | - | - |
| laverock | 17 | - | - |
| lavished | 15 | - | - |
| lavisher | 14 | - | - |
| lavishes | 14 | - | - |
| lavoltas | 11 | - | - |
| lavolted | 12 | - | - |
| lavrocks | 17 | - | - |
| lawbooks | 17 | - | - |
| lawcourt | 13 | a tribunal that is presided over by a magistrate or by one or more judges who administer justice according to the laws | - |
| lawfares | 14 | - | - |
| lawgiver | 15 | a maker of laws; someone who gives a code of laws | - |
| lawlands | 12 | - | - |
| lawniest | 11 | - | - |
| lawsuits | 11 | - | - |
| lawyered | 15 | - | - |
| lawyerly | 17 | - | - |
| laxation | 15 | the elimination of fecal waste through the anus | - |
| laxators | 15 | - | - |
| laxities | 15 | - | - |
| layaways | 17 | - | - |
| laybacks | 19 | - | - |
| layerage | 12 | - | - |
| layettes | 11 | - | - |
| laylocks | 17 | - | - |
| layovers | 14 | - | - |
| layshaft | 17 | - | - |
| laystall | 11 | - | - |
| laytimes | 13 | - | - |
| laywoman | 16 | - | - |
| laywomen | 16 | - | - |
| lazarets | 17 | - | - |
| lazulite | 17 | - | - |
| lazurite | 17 | - | - |
