English Words: L
16,425 words · Page 118 of 329
Rhus trilobata, a species of Rhus, common in the Western United States and Baja California, used in traditional medicine and for making baskets.
One of various species of grass of the genus Cymbopogon, especially Cymbopogon citratus, which have a lemon-like taste and aroma, and are used in cooking, for tea, and for fragrance.
A cocktail typically made with vodka, lemon juice, an orange liqueur, and simple syrup.
Lithospermum ruderale, a flowering plant in the borage family, native to western North America.
A small evergreen tree, Pittosporum eugenioides, from New Zealand, whose leaves smell like lemon when crushed.
A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing calcium, hydrogen, iron, niobium, oxygen, potassium, silicon, sodium, and zirconium.
Any strepsirrhine primate of the superfamily Lemuroidea, native only to Madagascar and some surrounding islands.
A religious feast of Ancient Rome during which rites were performed to exorcise the malevolent ghosts of the dead from their homes.
A member of a group of aboriginal Americans who were living in what is now New Jersey and along the Delaware River in Pennsylvania, the coast of Delaware, and the lower Hudson Valley and New York Harbor in New York, at the time of the arrival of the Europeans in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
The traditional region of the Lenape people, mostly in modern-day New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and New York, in the United States.
The separation of electric charges (and ionization) accompanying the aerodynamic breakup of water droplets.
One of the rays that emanate from the outer surface of a plate composed of any material permeable by cathode rays, such as aluminium, which forms a portion of a wall of a vacuum tube, or which is mounted within the tube and exposed to radiation from the cathode.
To allow to be used by someone temporarily, on condition that it or its equivalent will be returned.
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 118. 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.