English Words: L
16,425 words · Page 47 of 329
Falco biarmicus, a large bird of prey found in Africa, southeast Europe, and southwest Asia.
Related to or characteristic of House Lannister from A Song of Ice and Fire/Game of Thrones.
A tetragonal white mineral containing aluminum, calcium, fluorine, hydrogen, magnesium, oxygen, and sulfur.
A greasy yellow substance chemically akin to wax that is secreted from wooly animals, with a variety of uses from rust prevention, lubrication and waterproofing to cosmetics and skin ointments.
A medication used in the management of acromegaly and symptoms caused by neuroendocrine tumors.
A particular proton pump inhibitor C₁₆H₁₄F₃N₃O₂S (trademark Prevacid) similar to omeprazole that prevents the stomach from producing acid.
Any of a class of German mercenaries of the 15th and 16th centuries, most of whom were pikemen and foot soldiers.
Aged urine, historically used by the Anglo-Saxons and others as fertilizer for high nitrogen content.
A nitrogenous organic acid of the uric acid group, obtained by decomposition of allantoin.
A case of translucent or transparent material made to protect a flame, or light, used to illuminate its surroundings.
A festival marking the end of the Chinese New Year period, celebrated on the fifteenth day of the first month in the Chinese calendar when the first full moon of the year is seen (in February or early March).
A tower with a series of openings, built over the junction of the nave and transept of a cruciform church.
A pinion with cylindrical staves, instead of teeth, inserted at their ends in two parallel disks or plates.
The competitor in last place in a competition; the person or entity at the bottom of a ranking
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 47. 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.