| 拉纳卡 | lā nà kǎ | Larnaca (city in Cyprus); Larnaka |
| 拉丝模 | lā sī mó | die (i.e. tool for cutting wire to a given diameter) |
| 拉紧 | lā jǐn | to pull tight; tensioning |
| 拉美 | Lā Měi | Latin America; abbr. for 拉丁美洲 |
| 拉美西斯 | Lā měi xī sī | Rameses (name of pharaoh) |
| 拉肚子 | lā dù zi | diarrhea |
| 拉脱维亚 | Lā tuō wéi yà | Latvia |
| 拉兹莫夫斯基 | Lā zī mò fū sī jī | Razumovsky (name); Prince Andrey Kirillovich Razumovsky (1752-1836), Russian diplomat |
| 拉茶 | lā chá | teh tarik, an Indian-style tea with milk (GM) |
| 拉莫斯 | Lā mò sī | (Philippine President Fidel) Ramos |
| 拉菲草 | lā fēi cǎo | raffia (loanword) |
| 拉盖尔 | Lā gài ěr | Laguerre (name); Edmond Laguerre (1834-1886), French mathematician |
| 拉萨市 | Lā sà shì | Lhasa, Tibetan: Lha sa grong khyer, capital of Tibet autonomous region 西藏自治区 |
| 拉萨条约 | Lā sà tiáo yuē | Treaty of Lhasa (1904) between British empire and Tibet |
| 拉贝 | Lā bèi | (John) Rabe (German eyewitness to Nanjing massacre) |
| 拉贾斯坦邦 | Lā jiǎ sī tǎn bāng | Rajasthan (state in India) |
| 拉赫曼尼诺夫 | Lā hè màn ní nuò fū | Rachmaninoff; Rachmaninov |
| 拉辛 | Lā xīn | Jean Racine (French dramatist) |
| 拉达克 | lā dá kè | Ladakh, the eastern part of Jammu and Kashmir in northwest India, adjacent to Kashmir and Tibet, know as "Little Tibet" |
| 拉那烈 | lā nà liè | (Prince) Ranariddh (son of King Sihanouk of Cambodia) |
| 拉里 | lā lǐ | lari (currency of Georgia) |
| 拉钩 | lā gōu | pinky swear |
| 拉锯 | lā jù | a two-man saw; fig. to-and-fro between two sides |
| 拉锯战 | lā jù zhàn | to-and-fro tussle; closely-fought contest |
| 拉锁 | lā suǒ | zipper |
| 拉链 | lā liàn | zipper |
| 拉长脸 | lā cháng liǎn | to pull a long face; to scowl |
| 拉杂 | lā zá | disorganized; rambling; incoherent |
| 拉青格 | Lā qīng gé | Ratzinger (German surname of Pope Benedict XVI) |
| 拉顿 | Lā dùn | Rodan (Japanese ラドン Radon), Japanese movie monster |
| 拉马特甘 | lā mǎ tè gān | Ramat Gan, city in Israel, location of Bar-Ilan University |
| 拉高 | lā gāo | to pull up |
| 拉鲁 | Lā lǔ | Lhalu, Tibetan name and place name; Lhalu Tsewang Dorje (1915-), Tibetan pro-Chinese politician; Lhalu suburb of Lhasa |
拉鲁湿地国家自然
保护区 | Lā lǔ shī dì guó jiā zì rán bǎo hù qū | Lhalu Wetland National Nature Reserve in Lhasa |
| 拉面 | lā miàn | pulled noodles; ramen |
| 拉齐奥 | Lā qí ào | Lazio (region in Italy) |
| 拖拖拉拉 | tuō tuō lā lā | to procrastinate |
| 推拉门 | tuī lā mén | sliding door |
| 提拉米苏 | tí lā mǐ sū | tiramisù (loanword from Italian meaning "pull-me-up"); dessert made of ladyfingers dipped in coffee and mascarpone cream |
| 摩托罗拉 | Mó tuō luó lā | Motorola |
| 摩斯拉 | Mó sī lā | Mothra (Japanese モスラ Mosura), Japanese movie monster |
| 撒哈拉 | Sā hā lā | Sahara |
| 撒哈拉以南 | Sā hā lā yǐ nán | sub-Saharan |
| 撒哈拉以南非洲 | sā hā lā yǐ nán Fēi zhōu | Sub-Saharan Africa |
| 撒哈拉沙漠 | Sǎ hā lā shā mò | Sahara desert |
| 撒拉 | Sā lā | Salar ethnic group of Qinghai province |
| 撒拉语 | Sā lā yǔ | Salar, language of Salar ethnic group of Qinghai province |
| 撒拉铁 | Sǎ lā tiě | Shealtiel (son of Jeconiah) |
| 叙拉古 | Xù lā gǔ | Syracuse, Sicily; also written 锡拉库萨 |
| 斯拉夫 | Sī lā fū | Slavic |
