Index of English words, starting with "la"

(1) - Laughing (a. & n.) from Laugh, v. i.
(2) - Laughing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Laugh

(1) - Laughingly (adv.) With laughter or merriment.

(1) - Laughter (v. i.) A movement (usually involuntary) of the muscles of the face, particularly of the lips, with a peculiar expression of the eyes, indicating merriment, satisfaction, or derision, and usually attended by a sonorous and interrupted expulsion of air from the lungs. See Laugh, v. i.

(1) - Launce (n.) See Lant, the fish.
(2) - Launce (n.) A balance.
(3) - Launce (n.) A lance.

(1) - Launch (n.) The boat of the largest size belonging to a ship of war; also, an open boat of any size driven by steam, naphtha, electricity, or the like.
(2) - Launch (n.) The movement of a vessel from land into the water; especially, the sliding on ways from the stocks on which it is built.
(3) - Launch (n.) The act of launching.
(4) - Launch (v. i.) To move with force and swiftness like a sliding from the stocks into the water; to plunge; to make a beginning; as, to launch into the current of a stream; to launch into an argument or discussion; to launch into lavish expenditures; -- often with out.
(5) - Launch (v. i.) To send out; to start (one) on a career; to set going; to give a start to (something); to put in operation; as, to launch a son in the world; to launch a business project or enterprise.
(6) - Launch (v. i.) To cause to move or slide from the land into the water; to set afloat; as, to launch a ship.
(7) - Launch (v. i.) To strike with, or as with, a lance; to pierce.
(8) - Launch (v. i.) To throw, as a lance or dart; to hurl; to let fly.