English Words: L

16,425 words · Page 124 of 329

Leopoldname

A male given name from the Germanic languages. Used in the 19th century but rare today.

Leopoldianadj

Of or relating to a sequence of descent in the Habsburg dynasty begun by Duke Leopold III of Austria.

Leopoldt's conjecturename

A conjecture stating that the p-adic regulator of a number field does not vanish.

Leopoldvillename

Former name of Kinshasa: the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Leopolisname

Former name of Lviv, Lviv (a city in Lviv Oblast, Ukraine).

leoponnoun

A hybrid animal, the offspring of a lion and a leopard.

Leoraname

A female given name from Hebrew.

Leordeniname

A commune of Argeș County, Romania.

leotardnoun

A one-piece skintight garment with or without sleeves and without legs (often worn by gymnasts, acrobats, wrestlers, female swimmers, etc.)

leotardedadj

Clad in a leotard.

leotardlikeadj

Resembling or characteristic of a leotard.

leotiaceousadj

Of or relating to the Leotiaceae.

Leovaname

A city and district of Moldova.

Leovillename

An unincorporated community in Kansas.

Leowname

A surname.

lepnoun

A butterfly or moth.

lepadoidnoun

A stalked barnacle of the genus Lepas or family Lepadidae; certain goose barnacles.

Lepagename

A surname from French, equivalent to English Page.

lepakverb

To loiter about casually or idly, to hang around unproductively, to laze around or relax.

lepakkingverb

Alternative form of lepaking.

lepalnoun

A sterile transformed stamen.

Lepantoname

A former Spanish commandancy.

Lepanto-Bontocname

A short-lived province of the Philippines, created by the merger of three Spanish commandancies Amburayan, Bontoc, and Lepanto.

Leparmentiername

A surname from French.

lepasnoun

Any of the genus Lepas of pedunculated barnacles found attached to floating timber, bottoms of ships, etc.; a goose barnacle.

lepayverb

To smear a mixture of mud, dung and water by hand to make walls or floors.

Lepelname

A surname.

lepernoun

A person who has leprosy, a person suffering from Hansen's disease.

leper colonynoun

An isolated community used to house lepers, usually in permanent quarantine from the rest of society.

leper's squintnoun

A hagioscope.

Leperaname

A surname from Italian.

leperdomnoun

The realm or sphere of lepers.

leperedverb

simple past and past participle of leper

leperousadj

Alternative spelling of leprous.

lepersnoun

plural of leper

lepetodrilidnoun

Any gastropod of the superfamily Lepetodriloidea.

lepetopsidnoun

Any in the extinct family †Lepetopsidae of gastropods.

lepidadj

pleasant; amusing

lepidicadj

scaly; growing as a scaly covering

lepidiumnoun

Any cruciferous plant of the genus Lepidium, often called garden cresses or pepperworts.

lepido-prefix

Scaly.

lepidochronologicaladj

Relating to lepidochronology

lepidochronologynoun

dating (of plants) by means of leaf scales

lepidodendroidadj

Belonging to Lepidodendron.

lepidolitenoun

A pale lilac mica mineral that is a mixed basic fluoride and aluminosilicate of potassium, lithium and aluminium.

lepidomelanenoun

A black iron-potash mica, usually found in granitic rocks in small six-sided tables, or as an aggregation of minute opaque scales.

lepidophagynoun

The feeding on scales (of other fish).

lepidopterannoun

Any insect of the order Lepidoptera, the butterflies and moths.

lepidopterariumnoun

A facility which is specifically intended for the breeding and display of butterflies with an emphasis on education.

lepidopterismnoun

A form of dermatitis caused by irritating caterpillar or moth hairs coming into contact with the skin or mucosa.

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 124. 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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