English Words: L
16,425 words · Page 4 of 329
A member of a Native American tribe, also known as the Sioux, now living primarily on the Rosebud, Pine Ridge, Lower Brule, Standing Rock and Cheyenne River Reservations.
The Hindu goddess of wealth, the consort of Vishnu and married to Rāma (in her incarnation as Sita) and Krishna (as Radha and Rukmini).
A style of Art Nouveau glassware and jewelry/jewellery; properly, that from the Lalique factory.
The traditional garment worn by men and women in Madagascar, consisting of a rectangular length of cloth wrapped around the body.
The eleventh letter of the Classical and Modern Greek alphabet, the twelfth of the Old Greek alphabet.
A male given name from the Germanic languages; in modern use partly transferred back from the surname.
The skin of a very young sheep, especially prepared with the fleece still attached. A very fine form of leather.
A monster preying upon human beings, who sucked the blood of children, often described as having the head and breasts of a woman and the lower half of a serpent.
Any of a class of fibrous proteins that provide structure, and regulate transcription in a cell nucleus
The largest island of the Italian Pelagie Islands, located in the Mediterranean Sea between Malta and Tunisia.
A written attack or other work ridiculing a person, group, or institution; especially, a satirical one.
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 4. 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.