English Words: L

16,425 words · Page 105 of 329

leesyadj

Rich in a way that indicates, and results from, long contact with lees.

leetnoun

A portion or list, especially a list of candidates for an office; also the candidates themselves.

Leetename

A surname.

leetleadj

Pronunciation spelling of little.

leetmannoun

One subject to the jurisdiction of a court-leet.

leetnessnoun

The quality of being leet or elite: excellence, superiority, or skill.

Leetonname

A town in the Riverina region, New South Wales, named after Charles Alfred Lee.

leetspeaknoun

A form of chatspeak characterized most strongly by its alphanumeric substitutions.

Leeuwardenname

A city and capital of Friesland, Netherlands.

Leeuwarderadeelname

A former municipality of Friesland, Netherlands.

leeuwendaaldernoun

A silver coin minted from 1575 by the rebelling Dutch provinces and subsequently the Dutch Republic with a nominal value varying between 32 and 42 stivers, also used for trade in the American colonies and the Levant, in use until the 18th century.

Leeuwenhoekianadj

Of or relating to Antonie van Leeuwenhoek (1632–1723), Dutch microbiologist and microscopist.

Leevillename

A locality in the Richmond Valley council area, north eastern New South Wales, Australia.

leewardadj

On the side sheltered from the wind; in that direction.

Leeward Islandsname

The northern of the Lesser Antilles, consisting of the islands or nations of the Virgin Islands, Anguilla, Saint Martin, Saint-Barthélemy, Saba, Sint Eustatius, Saint Kitts, Nevis, Barbuda, Antigua, Montserrat and Guadeloupe.

leewardlyadv

In a leeward direction.

leewardnessnoun

Quality of being leeward.

leewardsadv

Synonym of leeward.

leewaynoun

The drift of a ship or aeroplane in a leeward direction.

Lefavename

A surname from French.

Lefebvrename

A French ethnic surname from French.

Lefebvrianadj

Of or relating to Henri Lefebvre (1901–1991), French Marxist philosopher and sociologist.

Lefebvrismnoun

Lefebvrist beliefs or attitudes.

Lefebvristnoun

A member of the Society of Saint Pius X, an international traditionalist Catholic organisation.

Lefebvritenoun

A Lefebvrist.

Lefevername

A surname.

Lefevrename

A surname from French. (Smith)

Leffertname

A surname.

Leffertsname

A surname from Dutch.

Leffewname

A surname.

Leffingwellname

A surname from Old English.

Lefflername

A surname from German, variant of Loeffler.

Lefkadaname

An island of the Ionian Islands, Greece.

Lefkasname

A town in Greece located in the Lefkada prefecture.

Lefkosianame

Synonym of Nicosia, the capital city of Cyprus and Northern Cyprus.

Lefkosianadj

Synonym of Nicosian: of, from, or pertaining to Nicosia, the capital of Cyprus and Northern Cyprus.

Lefkowitzname

A surname.

Leflore Countyname

One of 82 counties in Mississippi, United States. County seat: Greenwood.

leflunomidenoun

An inhibitor of pyrimidine synthesis, used to treat some forms of arthritis.

Lefortname

A surname from French.

Lefortianadj

Of or relating to Claude Lefort (1924–2010), French philosopher and activist.

lefradafibannoun

An antiplatelet drug.

lefsanoun

Alternative form of lefse.

Lefschetz fixed-point theoremname

A formula that counts the fixed points of a continuous mapping from a compact topological space X to itself by means of traces of the induced mappings on the homology groups of X.

lefsenoun

A traditional soft Norwegian flatbread made from potato, flour, and milk or cream (or sometimes lard) and cooked on a griddle.

leftadj

Designating the side of the body toward the west when one is facing north; the side of the body on which the heart is located in most humans; the opposite of right. This arrow points to the reader's left: ←

left and rightnoun

Two rapid successful shots from a double-barrelled gun.

left arm orthodoxnoun

A style of bowling used by a left-handed bowler in which finger spin is used to move the ball from leg to off (for a right-handed batsman).

left banknoun

The bank to the left of a river when facing downstream.

Left Behindnoun

A usually socially conservative member of the working class whose income is stagnating or falling in purchasing power.

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 105. 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.