(Buddhism) A monastery for lamas.

Causing sorrow, distress or regret; deplorable, pitiful or distressing.

A thin, plate-like structure. / (mycology) The gill of a mushroom.

Any long slender primitive eel-like freshwater and saltwater fish of the order Petromyzontiformes, having a sucking mouth with rasping teeth but no jaw.

(UK) Alternative form of lambaste

To scold, reprimand or criticize harshly. / (dated in UK English but not US English) To give a thrashing to; to beat severely.

Natural childbirth technique developed in the 1940s by French obstetrician Dr. Ferdinand Lamaze.

An amorphous form of carbon made from incompletely burned organic matter; used to make pigments and inks.

(transitive) To blacken (something) using this form of carbon.

(anatomy) either of two broad, flat plates of bone of a vertebra that is fused with and extends from the pedicle to the median line of the neural arch to form the base of the spinous process and that along with the pedicle forms the posterior part of the vertebral foramen