English Words: L
16,425 words · Page 18 of 329
USS Lexington (CV-2), Washington Navy Treaty interwar conversion U.S. Navy aircraft carrier.
Resembling or relating to Lady Macbeth in William Shakespeare's play Macbeth, a determined and unscrupulous woman who urges her husband to commit murder to advance his rank.
A lady who is affluent and thus able to have lunch with other such ladies in relatively expensive restaurants.
A lady, often a noblewoman, in the household of a queen, princess, or other woman of higher rank who attends her as a personal assistant, generally a role considered an honour.
Any of the Coccinellidae family of beetles, typically having a round shape and red or yellow spotted elytra.
A vacation or getaway specifically planned and enjoyed by a group of women, often as a form of bonding, relaxation, or celebration.
A coastal dwelling fish (Elops saurus), found throughout the tropical and sub-tropical regions.
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 18. 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.