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Spell Bee Word: Laboratory


What does laboratory mean?

Word: Laboratory

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Laboratory means a room or building with special equipment where experiments, tests and research are carried out.

Synonyms: lab

How do you spell laboratory?

Syllables: lab - o - ra - to - ry

Tricky part: The o after lab is often left out because it is hardly heard, giving labratory.

Watch out for: labratory, labortory

Memory tip: A laboratory is a place of labour, or hard work, and both words begin with the same four letters, l-a-b-o.

Laboratory in a sentence

Example 1: Our school laboratory has a big chart of the planets on one wall.

Example 2: Wear goggles in the laboratory when you heat anything.

Example 3: The water sample from our well was sent to a laboratory for testing.

Fun Fact

Lab, the short form of laboratory, came into everyday use in English in the late 1800s.

Practise the CREST Way

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

rotarboyal

a) laboratory
b) observatory
c) lavatory
d) oratory

Show answer

a) laboratory. Lavatory has a v, and observatory and oratory have the wrong number of letters.

Word Cookie

Insert the correct pair of letters to form a word:

laborat_r_

a) a, y
b) a, i
c) o, y
d) o, i

Show answer

c) o, y. The word ends in tory, with an o and then a y.

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the incorrectly spelt word:

a) microscope
b) experiment
c) chemical
d) laboretory

Show answer

d) laboretory. After labor comes an a: lab-o-ra-to-ry.

Word Cookie

Find the extra letter in the word:

laborratory

a) a
b) o
c) r
d) t

Show answer

c) r. Neither r in laboratory is doubled.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who spends most of the working day in a laboratory?

a) a farmer ploughing a field
b) a pilot flying a plane
c) a driver on a bus route
d) a scientist testing samples

Show answer

d) a scientist testing samples

2. Which of these would you find in a school laboratory?

a) library cards
b) goal posts
c) test tubes
d) stage curtains

Show answer

c) test tubes

Associated Words

Words that end in -tory: dormitory, territory, satisfactory, desultory

More words from this list

overhear, reject, strange, vibrate, association, conclude, drone, gingerbread

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