English Words: L
16,425 words · Page 106 of 329
The part of a baseball field which is beyond the infield and to the left of a person standing on home plate and facing the pitcher.
The outfield defensive player that stands to the left of the center fielder as viewed from home plate.
A subset of a ring which is closed under left-multiplication by any element of the ring.
A related function that, given the output of the original function, returns the input that produced that output.
The part of a syntactic tree above the inflectional phrase(s) (expressing tense, aspect, and/or mood), where topic, focus, illocutionary force, etc. are expressed.
Such that every element of the domain is related to at least one element of the codomain: such that ∀a∈A;;∃b∈B:(a,b)∈R
A series of three hits (typically punches): one with the left hand, then one with the right hand, then one which knocks the recipient out.
Of one who plays sports with their left foot in preference to, or more skillfully than their right.
A complimentary remark which is ambiguous or ineptly worded, so that it may be interpreted as having an unflattering or dismissive sense.
A type of libertarianism that stresses both individual freedom and social equality, and advocates shared ownership of natural resources.
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 106. 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.