English Words: L
16,425 words · Page 117 of 329
A program or function that attempts to find the lemma that corresponds to an inflected word
Resembling or characteristic of a lemming, especially in having a propensity to follow blindly after a leader.
Lemminkäinen of Kalevala; the young, handsome, charming, but aloof legendary hero of the Finnish national epic, the Kalevala.
Any closed curve described by a Cartesian equation of the form (x²+y²)²=2a²(x²-y²).
One of two oval bodies hanging from the interior walls of the body in the Acanthocephala.
A cyclic hexagon with vertices given by the six intersections of the edges of a triangle and the three lines that are parallel to the edges that pass through its symmedian point.
A cocktail typically made with vodka, lemon juice, and syrup, usually served in a martini glass with a sugared rim.
The liquid extract of lemon fruit, notably sour and often condensed, as used especially in food preparation.
A law dealing with defective items, especially automobiles, and the rights of consumers.
Lemon-flavoured sugar confection (candy, sweets, similar to barley sugar) in a plaited form.
A shark of species Negaprion brevirostris, growing up to 10 feet long and found along the Atlantic coast of North and South America.
The practice in otherwise free market capitalist economies in which the government steps in to bail out or otherwise subsidize weak or failing firms. A government attempting to transition from capitalism to socialism by this method takes control of the worst industries — the "lemons" — first, which undermines such an approach.
A device used to extract juice from lemons by crushing the lemon using the sharp middle part.
The test for whether a government action violates the Establishment Clause of the United States' constitution: it does so if it lacks a secular purpose, has its primary effect as promoting or inhibiting religion, or fosters an excessive entanglement of government with religion.
A flavoured beverage consisting of water, lemon, and sweetener, sometimes ice, served mainly as a refreshment.
An Afro-textured hairstyle consisting of braids that start at the front and are woven and swept to one side.
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 117. 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.