English Words: L
16,425 words · Page 3 of 329
A province of the Ilocos Region, Luzon, Philippines. Capital and largest city: San Fernando.
The fictional place where wandering, sleeping, or dreaming minds are metaphorically said to end up.
A brown monoclinic mineral containing calcium, iron, manganese, niobium, oxygen, titanium and zirconium
A white coat worn by laboratory workers to protect day clothes from damage by spillage etc.
a genre of fiction, distinct from science fiction, that centers on realistic portrayals of scientists and science as a profession.
Grown from animal cells in a laboratory environment, as opposed to harvested from an animal.
A moveable Chinese festival day occurring between December 30th and January 28th on the Gregorian calendar, historically variously associated with propitiatory end-of-year sacrifices, ancestral veneration, and the Enlightenment of the Buddha, now chiefly observed by the consumption of Laba porridge.
A kind of congee traditionally made with 8 variable vegetarian flavorings and consumed during the Laba Festival.
A solution of an alkaline hypochlorite, such as sodium hypochlorite, used in bleaching and as a disinfectant.
The Roman military standard adopted by Constantine I. The banner was known for its Christian chi-rho sign - ☧.
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 3. 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.