English Words: L
16,425 words · Page 38 of 329
In a condition of poverty as a result of inability to meet tax payments or other financial requirements for one's land holdings.
A simple smock-style dress or garment worn by women for working or dressing casually around the house or garden.
The legal regime in which land "owned" by an individual is possessed by someone else who is said to "hold" the land, based on an agreement between both individuals.
The United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, or another Northern Hemisphere country, from the perspective of Australia and New Zealand.
A salamander (Order Caudata) that habitually or permanently lives its life on land.
The speculative purchase of large amounts of land for the sole purpose of selling it at a profit.
A chief magistrate in certain cantons or other administrative districts in Switzerland.
A type of lightweight, four-wheeled carriage in which the front and back passenger seats face each other.
Any of the discrete energy values that represent the only cyclotron orbits that a charged particle can occupy in a magnetic field, as a result of Landau quantization.
Four basic unsolved problems about prime numbers: (i) is Goldbach's conjecture true?; (ii) is the twin prime conjecture true?; (iii) is Legendre's conjecture true?; (iv) are there infinitely many primes p such that p − 1 is a perfect square?
A rare childhood neurological syndrome, characterized by the sudden or gradual development of aphasia and an abnormal electroencephalogram.
A stress–energy–momentum pseudotensor for combined matter (including photons and neutrinos) plus gravity, allowing the energy–momentum conservation laws to be extended into general relativity.
The constant of proportionality (approximately 0.7642) in the relationship between the number of positive integers less than x that are the sum of two square numbers, for large x, and the expression x/√.
A theoretical lower limit on the energy consumption of a computation, derived from Landauer's principle.
The principle that any logically irreversible manipulation of information must entail an increase in the entropy of the information-processing apparatus or its environment.
A trigonal-rhombohedral black mineral containing iron, lead, manganese, oxygen, potassium, sodium, titanium, and zinc.
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 38. 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.