English Words: L
16,425 words · Page 36 of 329
A province of Northern Mindanao, Mindanao, Philippines. Capital: Tubod. Largest city: Iligan.
A town in South Lanarkshire council area, Scotland, which was the county town of the historic county of Lanarkshire (OS grid ref NS8843).
A mineral form of lead sulfate with the chemical formula Pb₂(SO₄)O, an oxidation product of galena, whose acicular monoclinic prismatic crystals are white or light green.
A maritime county in the north-west of England bordered by the Irish Sea, Cumbria, Greater Manchester, West Yorkshire, North Yorkshire and Merseyside.
A steam boiler with two flues that contain the furnaces and extend through the boiler from one end to the other.
A channel between Baffin Island and Devon Island, the eastern end of the Parry Channel and thus the Northwest Passage, leading into Baffin Bay to the east (the body of water separating Baffin Island from Greenland), and Viscount Melville Sound to the west.
Of or pertaining to the monitorial system of instruction followed by Joseph Lancaster (1778–1838), in which the advanced pupils in a school teach the pupils below them.
A weapon of war, consisting of a long shaft or handle and a steel blade or head; a spear carried by horsemen.
An enlisted rank of grade E-3 in the United States Marine Corps, ranking above private first class and below corporal. Abbreviated as LCpl.
A slender marine fish of the genus Ammodytes, especially Ammodytes tobianus, found in British waters.
Having the general shape of a lance; much longer than wide, with the widest part lower than the middle and a pointed apex.
A grade within the rank of private, either assigned as assistants to corporals or performed the duties of corporals themselves.
Any of the plant genus Lonchocarpus, whose fruit resembles an ornate lance tip or a few beads on a string.
A sharp, pointed, two-edged surgical instrument used in venesection and for opening abscesses etc.
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 36. 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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