English Words: L
16,425 words · Page 131 of 329
Selaginella selaginoides, a vascular plant of the family Selaginellaceae that resembles moss and is widely distributed in the Northern Hemisphere.
A crime the elements of which coincide with the elements of a more serious crime, from which the prosecutor is therefore precluded from separately charging a criminal defendant.
A historic region of Poland, stretching from Bielsko-Biała in the south-west to Siedlce in the north-east.
Part of the name of some (often fictional) species of animal, used as a placeholder for some obscure species that is of little interest or importance.
Any of species Dryobates minor of woodpeckers, principally of cooler regions of Eurasia.
An archipelago in Indonesia, composed of number of islands, including Bali, Lombok, Sumbawa, Flores, and Timor.
Of or relating to Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729–1781), German writer, philosopher, dramatist, publicist and art critic of the Enlightenment era.
Used in Remembrance Day ceremonies as a caution against forgetting those who died in war.
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 131. 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.