English Words: L
16,425 words · Page 42 of 329
A natural disaster that involves the breakup and downhill flow of rock, mud, water and anything caught in the path.
A person who does not go to sea, who lacks the skills of a sailor or who is uncomfortable on ships or boats.
A mutual aid society or benefit society of Jewish immigrants from the same European town or region.
A written standard for Norwegian created by Ivar Aasen in the mid-1800s; predecessor to Nynorsk.
The spreading of waste across land in order to reintroduce it into the environment.
A representative assembly or parliament in German-speaking countries, with some legislative authority.
A segment of the armed forces of Germany, Austria, or Switzerland, often made up of older people, used for defense of the homeland.
A camera-based system that allows a vehicle to detect when it is drifting out of a lane of the road, and compensate accordingly.
In MOBA (multiplayer online battle arena) games, a player who focuses on enemy characters traversing a particular "lane" or path on the map.
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 42. 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.