English Words: L
16,425 words · Page 104 of 329
A medical text of the Anglo-Saxon era; a compilation of medicinal cures and remedies used by leeches.
A line attached to the leech ropes of sails, passing up through blocks on the yards, to haul the leeches by.
A vegetable of variety Allium ampeloprasum, having edible leaves and an onion-like bulb but with a milder flavour than the onion.
One of 83 counties in Michigan, United States. County seat: Suttons Bay Township.
Cautious, suspicious, wary, hesitant, or nervous about something; having reservations or concerns.
The sediment that settles during fermentation of beverages, consisting of dead yeast and precipitated parts of the fruit.
The side of something that provides the most shelter from some prevailing force such as wind, rain, waves, etc.
A community (civil parish) in Flintshire, Wales, that includes the named places.
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 104. 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.