English Words: L
16,425 words · Page 109 of 329
The purpose for which a legate is sent; a legate's mission or commission. Now rare (cf. OED)
A rare British autosexing breed of chicken, a crossbreed of American barred Plymouth Rock birds and brown leghorns.
Acronym of Legislative Council, the unicameral legislature of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China.
A fastening consisting of two metal rings, designed to go around a person's legs, and connected by a chain or hinge.
The life story of a saint (such stories are often embellished, but any kind is called a legend).
Any of a certain system of complete and orthogonal polynomials, with numerous mathematical properties and applications.
A mathematical function of an integer and a prime number, written (a/p), which indicates whether a is a quadratic residue modulo p.
Given a function f(x,y,z,...) which is concave up with respect to x (i.e., its second derivative with respect to x is greater than zero), an involutive procedure for replacing x with another variable, say p=∂f/∂x thus yielding another function, say F=F(p,y,z,...). This new function contains all of the information of the original f encoded, as it were, within it so that ∂F/∂p=x and applying a similar transformation to F yields the original f. The formula is: F(p,y,z,...)=p·x(p)-f(x(p),y,z,...) where x must be expressed as a function of p. (Note: The concave upwardness means that ∂f/∂x is monotonically increasing, which means that p as a function of x is invertible, so x should be expressible as a function of p.)
A conjecture stating that there is a prime number between n² and (n+1)² for every positive integer n.
A mathematical constant occurring in a formula to approximate the behavior of the prime-counting function π(x), originally chosen to be 1.08366 but now known to be exactly 1.
The equation that defines the Legendre polynomials: d/dx[(1-x²)d/dxP_n(x)]+n(n+1)P_n(x)=0.
A childhood hip disorder initiated by a disruption of blood flow to the ball of the femur, which subsequently stops growing.
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 109. 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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