5-Letter Words Starting With LA

Here's the list of all the 130 5-Letter Words Starting With LA in the English Language.

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large
1. a garment size for a large person
2. fairly large or important in effect; influential
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later
1. coming at a subsequent time or stage
2. at or toward an end or late period or stage of development
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label
1. assign a label to; designate with a label
2. attach a tag or label to
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labor
1. a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages
2. productive work (especially physical work done for wages)
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laser
1. an acronym for light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation; an optical device that produces an intense monochromatic beam of coherent light
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layer
1. single thickness of usually some homogeneous substance
2. a relatively thin sheetlike expanse or region lying over or under another
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latex
1. a milky exudate from certain plants that coagulates on exposure to air
2. a water-base paint that has a latex binder
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laugh
1. produce laughter
2. the sound of laughing
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laden
1. remove with or as if with a ladle
2. fill or place a load on
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lance
1. move quickly, as if by cutting one's way
2. pierce with a lance, as in a knights' fight
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largo
1. (music) a composition or passage that is to be performed in a slow and dignified manner
2. very slow in tempo and broad in manner
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latch
1. fasten with a latch
2. spring-loaded doorlock that can only be opened from the outside with a key
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layup
1. a basketball shot made with one hand from a position under or beside the basket (and usually banked off the backboard)
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lapse
1. pass into a specified state or condition; sink into
2. end, at least for a long time
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lapel
1. lap at the front of a coat; continuation of the coat collar
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lathe
1. machine tool for shaping metal or wood; the workpiece turns about a horizontal axis against a fixed tool
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lager
1. a camp defended by a circular formation of wagons
2. a general term for beer made with bottom fermenting yeast (usually by decoction mashing); originally it was brewed in March or April and matured until September
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laird
1. a landowner
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laced
1. closed with a lace
2. edged or streaked with color
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lanai
1. a veranda or roofed patio often furnished and used as a living room
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latte
1. strong espresso coffee with a topping of frothed steamed milk
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labia
1. a liplike structure that bounds a bodily orifice (especially any of the four labiate folds of a woman's vulva)
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lasso
1. catch with a lasso
2. a long noosed rope used to catch animals
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larva
1. the immature free-living form of most invertebrates and amphibians and fish which at hatching from the egg is fundamentally unlike its parent and must metamorphose
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ladle
1. put (a liquid) into a container by means of a ladle
2. remove with or as if with a ladle
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laity
1. in Christianity, members of a religious community that do not have the priestly responsibilities of ordained clergy
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lazar
1. a person afflicted with leprosy
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larch
1. wood of a larch tree
2. any of numerous conifers of the genus Larix all having deciduous needlelike leaves
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laver
1. edible red seaweeds
2. seaweed with edible translucent crinkly green fronds
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lapin
1. the fur of a rabbit
2. castrated male rabbit
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lanky
1. tall and thin and having long slender limbs
2. tall and thin
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lagan
1. goods (or wreckage) on the sea bed that is attached to a buoy so that it can be recovered
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5-Letter Words Starting With LA