English Words: L
16,425 words · Page 100 of 329
A city, the administrative centre of Lebedyn urban hromada, Sumy Raion, Sumy Oblast, Ukraine.
Territories considered appropriate for German habitation, regarded as vital for the natural flourishing of the German race:
A medical device used in Baunscheidtism to pierce the skin with many fine needles, and used on skin treated with toxic oil, the resulting inflammation claimed to draw the body's attention away from various illnesses in other parts of the body.
The sum total of all immediate phenomena which constitute the world of an individual or of a corporate life; life-world.
An integral which has more general application than that of the Riemann integral, because it allows the region of integration to be partitioned into not just intervals but any measurable sets for which the function to be integrated has a sufficiently narrow range.
Of a set in some k-dimensional Euclidean space, That it is an element of the domain of the Lebesgue measure of the ambient Euclidean space.
A unique complete translation-invariant measure for the σ-algebra which contains all k-cells in a given Euclidean space, and which assigns a measure to each k-cell which is equal to that k-cell's volume (as defined in Euclidean geometry: i.e., the volume of the k-cell equals the product of the lengths of its sides).
An early industrial method of producing sodium carbonate. It involved two stages: production of sodium sulfate from sodium chloride, followed by reaction of the sodium sulfate with coal and calcium carbonate to produce sodium carbonate.
A proposed intermediate group of Bantu languages, with three branches: Lengola, Bodo, and the Nyali languages.
A loose collection of poems and prose narratives recounting the mythical origins and history of an Irish race from the creation of the world down to the Middle Ages.
Relating to, or reminiscent of, Jeffrey "The Dude" Lebowski in the 1998 US comedy film The Big Lebowski, a relaxed, Zenlike slacker character.
A humanized monoclonal antibody and immunosuppressive drug being investigated for the treatment of asthma.
Divination by interpreting the sound or effect of an object or substance (commonly a gem) falling into a body of water.
An organic acid obtained from several species of lichens (Lecanora, Roccella, etc.).
Of the fruiting parts of a lichen: shaped like a plate with a ring around them, and having that ring made of tissue similar to the main non-fruiting body part of the lichen.
A type of natural or artificial glass formed by the sudden melting of silica sand or sandstone by extreme heat (for instance, from a lightning strike, impact event, or nuclear explosion), followed by rapid cooling.
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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 100. 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.
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