English Words: L
16,425 words · Page 20 of 329
Gilbert du Motier, marquis de La Fayette (1757–1834), a French aristocrat who is considered a national hero in both France and the United States for his participation in the French and American revolutions.
One of 64 parishes in Louisiana, United States, the equivalent of a county in other states. Parish seat: Lafayette.
Of or relating to Arthur Laffer (born 1940), American economist best known for the Laffer curve.
A monoclinic-domatic dark red mineral containing arsenic, mercury, silver, and sulfur.
A monoclinic-prismatic brownish cream mineral containing lead, palladium, and sulfur.
One of 64 parishes in Louisiana, United States, the equivalent of a county in other US states. Parish seat: Thibodaux.
To fail to keep pace; to fail to keep up with one's peers; to achieve or impress less than one's peers; to move more slowly than one's peers.
Goods or materials found or left on the sea floor, attached to a floating marker that indicates ownership.
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 20. 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.