English Words: L
16,425 words · Page 127 of 329
Of a distribution: having kurtosis greater than that of a normal distribution; equivalently, having positive excess kurtosis.
The property of having kurtosis greater than that of a normal distribution; equivalently, having positive excess kurtosis.
A substance found in the leptome of some plants, especially in the sieve tubes and laticiferous vessels, the presumed function being to convey oxygen.
A coin used since ancient times in Greece, serving in modern times as one hundredth of a phoenix, a drachma, and a euro (as the Greek form of the Eurocent).
The stage during meiosis Prophase 1 where the chromosomes condense after S-phase and interphase, resulting in the recombination of haploid chromosome pairs with sister chromatids held by a single non-dividing centromeres, and followed by the zygotene stage.
An acute, infectious, febrile disease of both humans and animals, caused by spirochetes of the genus Leptospira.
Having sporangia that were each formed from a single epidermal cell; of, pertaining to, or characteristic of ferns of this kind.
Refers to a fine-grained, typically light-colored metamorphic rock primarily composed of quartz and feldspar, often associated with high-grade metamorphic processes.
A winter constellation of the northern sky, said to resemble a rabbit. It lies south of the constellation Orion.
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 127. 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.