English Words: L
16,425 words · Page 103 of 329
Fishing bait attached to a floating line fastened to the bank of a stream, pond, etc.
A narrative drawing or painting on paper or cloth, as executed by Native Americans, principally of the Great Plains.
A type of building or decorative stone veneer consisting of thin, flat, rectangular pieces of natural or manufactured stone, typically stacked in horizontal courses (often dry-stacked or mesh-mounted) to create a rugged, layered appearance with pronounced horizontal lines and textured shadows.
The act or process of creating or developing a ledge (in mining, building, etc), or the ledge so created.
A stringcourse or horizontal suit of mouldings, such as the base mouldings of a building.
A fried sweetmeat of West Bengal, made from chhena and flour and filled with sugar syrup.
Intermontane depressions which might get completely filled by glaciers from the surrounding mountains at the maxima of glaciation, creating esker-like depressions under the ice.
A breadth-first search algorithm that finds optimal solutions for maze routing problems, used in the design of electronic components etc.
The position of a sailing vessel leeward of another in battle, often restricting manoeuvrability and gunnery.
A city in the U.S. state of Missouri and a suburb in the Kansas City metropolitan area.
A phenomenon concerning the suppression or prolongation of estrous cycles of mature female mice (and other rodents), when females are housed in groups and isolated from males.
A technique for estimating the saturated vapor pressure at a given temperature for all components for which the critical pressure, the critical temperature, and the acentric factor are known.
A heavy club, with a sharp point at right-angles at its end, once used by Australian Aborigines
An even unimodular lattice Λ₂₄ in 24-dimensional Euclidean space, which is one of the best models for the problem of finding the maximum possible kissing number for n-dimensional spheres in (n + 1)-dimensional Euclidean space.
A line for tightening the leech of a triangular mainsail to prevent it from fluttering.
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 103. 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.