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lac¹

  • /læk/

Rhymes with -æk

Where it comes from

From Portuguese laca, from Hindi लाख (lākh)/Urdu لاکھ (lākh) or cognates in other Indo-Aryan languages, from Sanskrit लाक्षा (lākṣā). Doublet of lacquer.

noun lacs

  1. countable, uncountable A resinous substance or lacquer produced mainly on the banyan tree by the female of Kerria lacca, a scale insect. At the turn of the century, the ever-expanding electrical industry was running low on shellac, a resin secreted by the female lac bug which could be used as an insulating material.

lac²

  • /læk/

Rhymes with -æk

noun lacs

  1. Dated spelling of lakh. […] Lake [i.e., Gerard Lake, 1st Viscount Lake] should not have leisure to breathe for a moment, and calamities would fall on lacs of human beings in continued war by the attacks of his army, which would overwhelm like the waves of the sea.

lac³

  • /læk/

Rhymes with -æk

Where it comes from

From Cadillac.

noun lacs

  1. abbreviation, clipping, slang Clipping of Cadillac Last night I was driving around in my lac.

    Similar: caddie, caddy

lac⁴

  • /læs/
  • /læk/

Rhymes with -æs, -æk

Where it comes from

From laceration.

noun lacs

  1. colloquial, countable, uncountable Laceration. hand lac

Lac⁵

proper noun

  1. A province of Chad.

Lac⁶

proper noun Lacs

  1. A surname.

LAC⁷

noun

  1. UK, abbreviation, initialism, plural, plural only Initialism of looked-after children

noun LACs

  1. abbreviation, acronym, uncountable Acronym of L-acetylcarnitine (“acetylated L-carnitine”).

    Similar: ALC, ALCAR

  2. abbreviation, countable Abbreviation of leading aircraftman

proper noun

  1. abbreviation, initialism Initialism of Line of Actual Control Thousands of soldiers have been facing off since April on the Line of Actual Control (LAC), or the de facto border, including at the glacial Pangong Tso lake.
  2. abbreviation, initialism Initialism of Los Angeles, California.
  3. Canada, US, abbreviation, initialism Initialism of Los Angeles Clippers
  4. abbreviation, initialism Initialism of Liberal Arts College

LAc⁸

noun LAcs

  1. abbreviation, initialism Initialism of licensed acupuncturist

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: resin, oca, cochineal, planter, alc, permease, tub, operon, bucket, tray, coteau, pond, lake, lagoon, lakeshore, mnd

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noun a resinous substance

Españollaca
한국어래커 raekeo
日本語ラッカー rakkā
Portuguêslaca
Françaislaque
DeutschLack
Italianolacca
Ελληνικάλάκη láki
Русскийлак lak
العربيةلُكّ lukk, لَكّ lakk
עבריתלַכָּה láka

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@misc{lac_2026,
  title = {lac},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/lac},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}