English Words: L
16,425 words · Page 10 of 329
Any of a number of gauzy-winged insects of certain families within the order Neuroptera.
Any of several types of wood with a coarse texture, but especially that from several varieties of sycamore.
One of the three Fates (Moirae), daughter of Zeus and Themis; the measurer of each thread of life. Her Roman equivalent is Decima.
A town and district of Azerbaijan, under Armenian occupation between the two Nagorno-Karabakh wars.
An ancient Canaanite and Israelite city in the Shephelah region of Israel, now an archeological site and national park.
A male given name from Scottish Gaelic mainly used in Scotland, recently also popular in Australia.
A clinical test used to diagnose injury of the anterior cruciate ligament. The knee is flexed at 20–30 degrees with the patient supine, and the tibia is pulled forward to assess the its anterior motion in comparison with the femur.
Of or relating to Karl Lachmann (1793–1851), German philologist and critic, noted for his foundational contributions to the field of textual criticism.
relating to, or connecting the tear duct and jugal bone in reptiles and some primitive fish
One of the narrow, jagged, irregular pieces or divisions which form a sort of fringe on the borders of the petals of some flowers.
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 10. 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.