| 拉夫罗夫 | lā fū luó fū | Lavrov (name); Sergey Viktorovich Lavrov (1950-), Russian diplomat and politician, Foreign minister from 2004 |
| 拉奎拉 | Lā kuí lā | L'Aquila, Italy |
| 拉姆安拉 | Lā mǔ ān lā | Ramallah |
| 拉姆斯菲尔德 | Lā mǔ sī fēi ěr dé | (Donald) Rumsfeld, secretary of Defense |
| 拉孜 | Lā zī | Lhazê county, Tibetan: Lha rtse rdzong, in Shigatse prefecture, Tibet |
| 拉孜县 | Lā zī xiàn | Lhazê county, Tibetan: Lha rtse rdzong, in Shigatse prefecture, Tibet |
| 拉家带口 | lā jiā dài kǒu | to bear the burden of a household (idiom); encumbered by a family; tied down by family obligations |
| 拉尼娜 | Lā Ní nà | La Niña, equatorial climatic variation over the Eastern Pacific, as opposed to El Niño 厄尔尼诺 |
| 拉尼娅 | lā ní yà | Rania (name) |
| 拉冈 | Lā gāng | Lacan (psychoanalyst) |
| 拉布拉多 | Lā bù lā duō | Labrador, Canada; Labrador (a breed of dog) |
| 拉帕斯 | Lā pà sī | La Paz, administrative capital of Bolivia, usually written as 拉巴斯 |
| 拉拉 | lā lā | lesbian (net slang); Lala, Philippines |
| 拉拉队 | lā lā duì | support team; cheering squad; cheerleader; also written 啦啦队 |
| 拉撒路 | Lā sǎ lù | Lazarus (Protestant transliteration) |
| 拉文克劳 | Lā wén kè láo | Ravenclaw (Harry Potter) |
| 拉文纳 | Lā wén nà | Ravenna on the Adriatic coast of Italy |
| 拉斐尔 | Lā fěi ěr | Raphael |
| 拉斐特 | Lā fěi tè | Lafayette |
| 拉斯帕尔马斯 | Lā sī pà ěr mǎ sī | Las Palmas, Spain |
| 拉斯穆森 | Lā sī mù sēn | Rasmussen (name) |
| 拉斯维加斯 | Lā sī Wéi jiā sī | Las Vegas, Nevada |
| 拉普拉斯 | Lā pǔ lā sī | Pierre Simon Laplace (1749-1827), French mathematician |
| 拉普兰 | Lā pǔ lán | Lapland (northern Europe) |
| 拉架 | lā jià | to try to stop a fight; to intervene in a fight |
| 拉格朗日 | Lā gé lǎng rì | Lagrange (name); Joseph-Louis Lagrange (1735-1813), French mathematician and physicist |
| 拉格比 | Lā gé bǐ | Rugby (game); Rugby school in England |
| 拉比 | lā bǐ | rabbi |
| 拉沙病毒 | lā shā bìng dú | Lassa virus |
| 拉法格 | lā fǎ gé | Lafargue (name); Paul Lafargue (1842-1911), French socialist and revolutionary activist, son-in-law of Karl Marx |
| 拉法兰 | Lā fǎ lán | Raffarin, prime minister of France under Jacques Chirac |
| 拉法赫 | Lā fǎ hè | Rafah |
| 拉尔维克 | Lā ěr wéi kè | Larvik (city in Vestfold, Norway) |
| 拉特格斯大学 | Lā tè gé sī dà xué | Rutgers University (Newark, New Jersey) |
| 拉狄克 | Lā dí kè | Karl Bernardovich Radek (1995-1939), bolshevik and Comintern leader, first president of Moscow Sun Yat-sen university, died in prison during Stalin's purges |
| 拉环 | lā huán | ring pull (can); strap handle (on bus or train); circular door handle |
| 拉登 | Lā dēng | (Osama) bin Laden (1957-), leader of Al Qaeda |
| 拉皮 | lā pí | to have a facelift; facelift |
| 拉皮条 | lā pí tiáo | to procure; to act as pimp |
| 拉祜族 | Lā hù zú | Lahu ethnic group of Yunnan |
| 拉票 | lā piào | to campaign for votes; to ask voters for support |
| 拉科鲁尼亚 | Lā Kē lǔ ní yà | La Coruña or A Coruña (city in Galicia, Spain) |
| 拉米夫定 | Lā mǐ fū dìng | Lamivudine, reverse transcriptase inhibitor marketed by GlaxoSmithKline and widely used in the treatment of hepatitis B and AIDS; brand names include Zeffix, Heptovir, Epivir and Epivir-HBV |
| 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 |
