Law

What do we mean by law?

A rule of conduct or procedure established by custom, agreement, or authority. noun

The body of rules and principles governing the affairs of a community and enforced by a political authority; a legal system. noun

The condition of social order and justice created by adherence to such a system. noun

A set of rules or principles dealing with a specific area of a legal system. noun

A statute, ordinance, or other rule enacted by a legislature. noun

A judicially established legal requirement; a precedent. noun

The system of judicial administration giving effect to the laws of a community. noun

Legal action or proceedings; litigation. noun

An impromptu or extralegal system of justice substituted for established judicial procedure. noun

An agency or agent responsible for enforcing the law. Often used with the. noun

A police officer. Often used with the. noun

The science and study of law; jurisprudence. noun

Knowledge of law. noun

The profession of an attorney. noun

Something, such as an order or a dictum, having absolute or unquestioned authority. noun

The body of binding rules and regulations, customs and standards established in a community by its legislative and judicial authorities.

A binding regulation or custom established in a community in this way.

(more generally) A rule, such as:

The control and order brought about by the observance of such rules.

A person or group that act(s) with authority to uphold such rules and order (for example, one or more police officers).

The profession that deals with such rules (as lawyers, judges, police officers, etc).

Jurisprudence, the field of knowledge which encompasses these rules.

Litigation, legal action (as a means of maintaining or restoring order, redressing wrongs, etc).

An allowance of distance or time (a head start) given to a weaker (human or animal) competitor in a race, to make the race more fair.

One of two metaphysical forces ruling the world in some fantasy settings, also called order, and opposed to chaos.

An oath sworn before a court, especially disclaiming a debt. (Chiefly in the phrases "wager of law", "wage one's law", "perform one's law", "lose one's law".)

Words that are spelled similarly to law:
law.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word law:
enforcement, firm, litigation, practiced, admitted, clerk, enacted, bar, firms, lawyers, legal, statute, attorney, counsel, judicial, criminal, constitutional, laws, practice, courts, agencies, lawyer, copyright, commenced, amendment, judge, appeals, provisions, supreme, faculty, justice, jurisdiction, degree, legislation, harvard, procedure, yale, constitution, university, school.

Words that rhyme with law:
draw, saw, withdraw, awe, raw, bourgeois, la, paw, flaw, spa, straw, claw, thaw, haw, outlaw, schwa, maw, jaw, chutzpah, ra, voila, ya, qua, dada, ta, aha, da, gnaw, guffaw, yaw, pa, pasha, aw, ha, ma, cha, ah, ka, daw, shaw, bra, macaw, chihuahua, craw, redraw, seesaw, blah, na, coleslaw, caw, esau, gras, hoopla, nah, yah, sa, hurrah, ottawa, overdraw, bylaw, squaw, panama, utah, ga, slaw, pshaw, omaha, sha, chainsaw, jigsaw, ja, baccarat, whipsaw, wa, arkansas, rah, shah, moi, ona, xio, naw, bah, chaw, scrimshaw, hacksaw, dumas, grandpa, draugh, bois, ahh, doha, trois, faw, fermata, rawe, wah, gaw, hah, baja, mackinaw.

Adjectives that are often used to describe law:
international, common, natural, father, criminal, civil, english, martial, moral, federal, roman, general, constitutional, customary, divine, fundamental, national, mother, islamic, universal, positive, sister, french, supreme, administrative, municipal, domestic, applicable, substantive, unwritten, eternal, son, statutory, electoral, environmental, square, organic, maritime, penal, humanitarian, ecclesiastical, copyright, power, muslim, antitrust, feudal, agrarian, corporate, dutch, called, strict, ceremonial.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective law:
making, suits, makers, breakers, courts, giver, books, order, givers, breaking, enforcement, giving, school, maker, suit, court, book, breaker, abidingness, students, officers, degree, creating, medicine, papers, codes, enforcers, related, observance, abiding, reform, economics, student, french, keeping, tamar, agitation, enforcing, fuits, the, code, proceedings, statements, agent, writers, speaker, flower, merchant, creation, marriage, abidin, latin, officer, abiders, league, enforcer, partner, finding, keepers, andorder, norms, arts, mount, elect, yone, burrows, wife, tracts, based, finders, violation, learning, reports, office, lords, sea.

Consonant match to law:
lie, lay, low, lee, lieu, la, lo, loo, lye, lea, lei, ley, ly, le, li, lou, lough, lew, lai, lao, lait, lue, leigh, lu, leu, lowe, loe, loy, lau, loewe, laigh, loh, leh, loew, loux, laye, louw, luhr, le a, leyh, loye.

Words that sound like law:
law, lawe, la, lah, lough, lau, lla, lao, laa, llaw, lha, lauw, lie, low, lee, lay, ly, loo, lou, le, les, lo, ley, li, lea, leigh, lye, lu, loe, lly, lue, lei, lieu, lew, loy, lowe, -ly, lae, lai, luh, lugh, laye, lait, leh, laigh, leu, llo, loh, loi, liew, loew, lli, loie, louw, luy, loux, laie, lih, leau, llu, loewe, logh, lwe, lewe, lww, l-a, lhi, llew, lho, leih, lieh, lhu, lieue, lyh, luw, hli, lth, lls, lhs, lze, llw, llz, flaw, claw, laud, laude, laun, lall, blaw, lauge, lauf, -le, laub, glaw, -led, klaw, lauck, laube, lauk, a law.