English Words: L
16,425 words · Page 39 of 329
The practice of house-building firms holding areas of land in reserve rather than immediately developing them.
birdwatching in order to see birds that are active on land (as opposed to waterbirding)
An atmospheric brightness seen from sea over distant snow-covered land in arctic regions.
A community scheme for taking care of agricultural land, preventing soil degradation, etc.
A person who is not a citizen of Canada but who has been legally admitted to Canada as a permanent resident.
A British socio-economic class of landowners, socially just below the aristocracy or peerage, who could live entirely from rental income.
A mapping of the parameters of an elliptic integral, useful for the efficient numerical evaluation of elliptic functions.
The gubernatorial title of the head of government of an Austrian state and the Italian autonomous provinces of South Tyrol and Trentino, corresponding to the title of minister-president or premier.
An orthorhombic-dipyramidal brown mineral containing hydrogen, iron, magnesium, manganese, oxygen, and phosphorus.
A bioremediation treatment process in which contaminated soils, sediments, or sludges are incorporated into the soil surface and periodically tilled to aerate the mixture.
A genre of British indie rock music in the late 2000s and early 2010s, typically defined by high-energy guitars, realist lyrics and use of regional accents; indie rock music perceived as unambitious, stale and commercial.
Any of the heavy-bodied ground-feeding birds in the order Galliformes, which includes chickens, turkeys, peafowl, pheasants, grouse, quail, and other related species.
One in the possession or occupancy of land from which another has been evicted; one who engages in a landgrab.
One holding a specific nobiliary title ranking as count in certain feudal countships in the Holy Roman Empire, in present Germany.
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 39. 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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