English Words: L
16,425 words · Page 120 of 329
Former name of Saint Petersburg: a major city in Russia, from the time of Lenin's death in 1924 until 1991.
An orthorhombic-dipyramidal mineral containing chlorine, copper, lead, oxygen, and vanadium.
A political ideology developed by Vladimir Lenin that proposes the establishment of the dictatorship of the proletariat led by a revolutionary vanguard party, as the political prelude to the establishment of communism.
Of or relating to Vladimir Lenin (Russian: Влади́мир Ильи́ч Ле́нин), a Russian revolutionary and politician.
Relatively weakly articulated, hence unaspirated and possibly voiced; especially as compared to the others of a group of homorganic consonants.
A simple mathematical approximation of the interaction between a pair of neutral atoms or molecules.
A triclinic mineral containing aluminum, barium, hydrogen, iron, magnesium, manganese, oxygen, potassium, silicon, sodium, and zinc.
Of or relating to the English musician John Lennon (1940–1980), a member of the Beatles.
The beliefs and attitudes of English musician John Lennon (1940–1980), a member of the Beatles; especially peace activism.
A difficult-to-treat form of childhood-onset epilepsy, characterized by frequent seizures of different types and often accompanied by mental retardation and psychological and behavioural problems.
The kaomoji-style emoticon ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) or any of its variations, mostly used to suggest mischief, imply sexual innuendo or a second hidden meaning behind a sentence, or pasted over and over to spam online discussions.
The gore delineated by the Bellevue-, Ebert-, and Lennéstraßen which, between 1961 and 1988, was part of the German Democratic Republic de jure, but was separated from it by the Berlin Wall, which ran along the Ebertstraße.
An internal combustion engine that burned a mixture of coal gas and air ignited by a "jumping sparks" ignition system by Ruhmkorff coil.
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 120. 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.