English Words: L
16,425 words · Page 29 of 329
Lamb offal prepared as food, such as the testicles, liver, sweetbreads, heart, kidneys, and sometimes the brain and abdominal fat.
The traditional garment worn by men and women in Madagascar, consisting of a rectangular length of cloth wrapped around the body.
A fast-paced, erotic Brazilian dance in which couples dance with their stomachs touching.
a feeder for young mammals, particularly goats, consisting of a bucket ringed by a number of artificial nipples, each of which is connected to a tube inside the bucket that conveys milk from the bucket to feeding animals
The eleventh letter of the Classical and Modern Greek alphabet, the twelfth of the Old Greek alphabet.
Any of a family of functionally complete algebraic systems in which lambda expressions are evaluated according to a fixed set of rules to produce values, which may themselves be lambda expressions.
A pronunciation shift whereby /l/ or other closely related phonemes are substituted for other sounds (typically /r/), as Sally for Sarah or Molly for Mary.
A touchdown celebration in which a player leaps into the bleachers behind the end zone after scoring.
A male given name from the Germanic languages; in modern use partly transferred back from the surname.
sugar pine, found on the west coast of North America from Baja California to Oregon (Pinus lambertiana).
A multivalued function, namely the branches of the converse relation of the function f(w) = weʷ, where w is any complex number and eʷ is the exponential function.
A law stating that the radiant intensity or luminous intensity observed from an ideal diffusely reflecting surface or ideal diffuse radiator is directly proportional to the cosine of the angle between the direction of the incident light and the surface normal.
A rare autoimmune disorder characterized by muscle weakness of the limbs.
Relating to any of several people named Lambert, but especially to the French Trotskyist Pierre Lambert
A dance popular in the late 1930s in which the dancer imitates the exaggerated jaunty walk of a comic Cockney character of theatrical shows.
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 29. 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.