English Words: L
16,425 words · Page 1 of 329
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A Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short: a widely-used Latin English dictionary.
A village on the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, United States, which is the county seat of Baraga County.
An archaeological site on the northernmost tip of the island of Newfoundland, once a Norse settlement.
The phenomenon when a conversational rejoinder or remark only occurs to someone after the opportunity to make it has passed.
A village north-west of Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône department, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region, France.
The rule that the limit of the ratio of two functions equals the limit of the ratio of their derivatives, usable when the former limit is indeterminate and the latter limit exists.
Indicates that the following movement should be played at the same tempo as the last, often employed when switching from simple to compound metres or vice versa, to clarify that the tempo stays the same in reference to the beats felt, not the time signature.
A village in Champlain township, the county seat of United Counties of Prescott and Russell, Ontario, Canada.
Used to signify one's exercise of power in a dictatiorial, repressive and/or charismatic manner.
The word love, or an expression of love, usually one that provokes a significant change in a relationship.
Any of the identification numbers used in an informal system for classifying catfish before they have a scientific name.
A plastic square consisting of a large letter L, placed on the front and rear of a vehicle to indicate that the driver is a learner.
A parallel rewriting system; a rewriting system in which as many rewrite rules as possible are applied at each step.
An enzyme that catalyzes ATP (adenosine triphosphate) and L-xylulose, producing ADP (adenosine diphosphate) and L-xylulose 5-phosphate. It's a phosphotransferase used in metabolism.
Initialism of learn to play; used in Internet games as a slur against weak or inexperienced players.
A paradoxical lack of emotional distress or concern despite the presence of an illness or serious physical symptoms.
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English alphabetical index for the letter L contains 16,425 headwords drawn from our Wiktionary-derived dictionary table. At 50 entries per page the browse splits into 329 pages, and you are currently viewing page 1. Every row above is a dictionary-backed entry with a canonical slug, and each links through to a full definition page with pronunciation, senses, etymology, and related-word data where available.
On this page 50 of 50 entries carry a part-of-speech tag and 50 carry at least one stored definition. Coverage varies across letters because Wiktionary volunteers build entries at different speeds for different parts of the alphabet, letters with common starting sounds (S, C, T, P) usually have the densest coverage, while less frequent starters (X, Q, Z) tend to have shorter but more specialised lists. PlainSpell surfaces whatever data is present and links back to the source when a definition is not yet recorded.
For readers using this index as a spelling reference, the guarantee is that every form you see on the list is a documented English headword, not a guess, not a derived inflection lacking a lemma row. If a word you expected to find is absent from the "L" list, it usually means the form exists only as an inflection of another lemma (e.g. a past participle stored under the infinitive) or the entry has not yet been imported from Wiktionary. Use the search bar or the misspelling lookup to resolve these cases.