In LabLisp, there are several commands treated as special forms. Some are identical to Common LISP special forms, some are actually macros in Common LISP, but LabLisp emulates them as special forms.

• QUOTE '
• BACKQUOTE `
• UNQUOTE , (comma)
• SPLICE-UNQUOTE ,@ (comma-at)
• HARD-SPLICE ,. (comma-dot)
• FUNCTION #' (sharp-quote)
• DEFUN
• LAMBDA
• DEFMACRO
• DEFVAR
• DEFPARAMETER
• DEFCONSTANT
• SETQ
• SETF
• IF
• COND
• PROGN
• WHEN
• UNLESS
• AND
• OR
• DOTIMES
• DOLIST
• RETURN
• LET
• LET*
• FLET
• LABELS
• MACROLET
• SYMBOL-MACROLET (in future version)
• WAIT
• SLEEP