English Words: L
16,425 words · Page 5 of 329
The pole that holds up a light so it can illuminate a wide area, such as holds up a streetlight.
Any long slender primitive eel-like freshwater and saltwater fish of the order Petromyzontiformes, having a sucking mouth with rasping teeth but no jaw.
A cover over a lamp to either diffuse the light or to block it in certain directions to avoid glare in the eyes.
A town in South Lanarkshire council area, Scotland, which was the county town of the historic county of Lanarkshire (OS grid ref NS8843).
A maritime county in the north-west of England bordered by the Irish Sea, Cumbria, Greater Manchester, West Yorkshire, North Yorkshire and Merseyside.
A weapon of war, consisting of a long shaft or handle and a steel blade or head; a spear carried by horsemen.
Having the general shape of a lance; much longer than wide, with the widest part lower than the middle and a pointed apex.
A sharp, pointed, two-edged surgical instrument used in venesection and for opening abscesses etc.
A type of lightweight, four-wheeled carriage in which the front and back passenger seats face each other.
A fixed telephone communications cable; originally, one run over land, as opposed to a submarine cable.
An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Prince George's County, Maryland, United States.
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 5. 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.