English Words: L
16,425 words · Page 34 of 329
A chemical used as a pheromone to release sperm by kelp; cis-2-cyclohepta-2',5'-dienyl-3-vinyloxirane.
A slave who carried torches before consuls, emperors and other high officials both during the later Roman Republic and under the Empire.
Extracted by mechanical methods; suitable for lighting, but not suitable for human consumption without further refining
An amorphous form of carbon made from incompletely burned organic matter; used to make pigments and inks.
The largest island of the Italian Pelagie Islands, located in the Mediterranean Sea between Malta and Tunisia.
The growth of light-dependent organisms, especially plants, in naturally unlit cave systems due to artificially installed electric lighting.
A form of hunting at night, during which bright lights or lamps are used to dazzle the hunted animal or to attract insects for capture.
A village and civil parish in Cumberland, Cumbria, England, previously in Copeland borough (OS grid ref NY0820).
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 34. 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.