English Words: L
16,425 words · Page 25 of 329
An Ancient Greek pottery drinking vessel: a high two-part cup with a rim and two handles.
Of or relating to Imre Lakatos (1922–1974), Hungarian philosopher of mathematics and science.
A reddish aromatic heartwood obtained from various plants and used as incense in China, India and South East Asia. It was also historically used as a dye and in medicine.
A north–south running lake surrounded by the Champlain Valley, in upstate New York, Vermont and southern Quebec, spanning the United States and Canada, mostly lying within the U.S.; separating the Adirondacks from the Green Mountains and Appalachians.
Synonym of Lake Chaubunagungamaug in Massachusetts, USA.
A geographic area and national park in Cumbria, north-western England, characterised by its many lakes.
A reservoir formed by the Parker Dam on the Colorado River, on the border between California and Arizona.
One of the Great Lakes of North America. Hydrologically, a bay of Lake Michigan–Huron.
One of the Great Lakes of North America. Hydrologically a single lake, its two basins are traditionally counted as separate lakes, Lake Huron and Lake Michigan.
A lake on the border between Mishan, Jixi, Heilongjiang, China and Primorsky Krai, Russia.
One of the Great Lakes of North America, and the only one located entirely within the United States. Hydrologically, a bay of Lake Michigan–Huron.
One of the Great Lakes of North America. Hydrologically a single lake, its two basins are traditionally counted as separate lakes, Lake Michigan and Lake Huron.
A lake in north-west Switzerland, on which the city of Neuchâtel is situated; it is the largest lake entirely within Switzerland.
The northernmost of the 87 counties in Minnesota, United States. County seat: Baudette. The northernmost part of the county is an exclave (Northwest Angle) on the west side of the lake, accessible by land via Manitoba in Canada.
Any of three disjoint connected open sets of the plane or open unit square with the counterintuitive property that they all have the same boundary.
The largest lake in the Balkans, located in the west of the peninsula on the border of Albania and Montenegro between the mountain of Rumija (and further aback the Adriatic Sea) to the southwest and marshland (and further aback the Prokletije) to the northeast.
A lake in North America: the largest of the Great Lakes, the largest freshwater lake in the world by area, and the third largest freshwater lake in the world by volume.
The largest lake in Africa, with shoreline in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania; one of the African Great Lakes.
A long zigzag-shaped finger lake in Queenstown-Lakes District, Otago, New Zealand; its outlet is the Kawarau River.
A fictional place in the radio show A Prairie Home Companion, “where all the women are strong, all the men are good looking, and all the children are above average”. Serves as a proxy for the American small town, particularly the American small town of the Upper Midwest.
Illusory superiority, that is, the belief that a majority of people are or can be above average.
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 25. 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.
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