English Words: L
16,425 words · Page 135 of 329
Referring to a type of musical notation used by Shakers, based on letters instead of notes.
A form of postal stationery consisting of a folded card with a prepaid imprinted stamp, giving the writer more space than a postcard.
A person who is professionally employed to add writing to something (as a sign, shop window, etc.)
A telegram longer than an ordinary message and sent more cheaply and with a lower priority.
A portion of text at the top of a letter, identifying the sender and often giving their address etc., used for formal correspondence.
The securing of a letter without an envelope, by folding and cutting so that portions of the paper can be interlocked.
A student who has attained a specified level of participation in a sporting or other activity, and is awarded a cloth “letter” to be affixed to an item of clothing.
A system of grading student's work using letters (e.g. A, B, C, D, F), as opposed to another system such as "pass/fail" or numerical grades.
The occurrence of a letter at a specific place; a pair of values that includes one letter and one place.
The printing process in which ink is applied to the top surface of a raised image area, which is then pressed against paper to transfer the image.
A list of abbreviations, separated by commas, representing the academic qualifications and civil or military honors achieved by a person.
The process or authority by which a person, directed by the decree of a court of justice to pay or perform anything, is ordered to comply.
A type of legal document in the form of an open letter issued by an authority to direct that some action be taken; to grant a monopoly, right, status, or title to a person or organization; to record a contract.
A formal request from a court to a foreign court for some type of judicial assistance.
A business that provides custom printing services, typically for the purpose of direct marketing.
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 135. 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.