English Words: L
16,425 words · Page 53 of 329
An error that results from looking in the wrong place, especially one that occurs while copying or translating a body of text.
A pair of the old traditional East Slavic (especially Russian) bast shoes, an obsolete traditional footwear of forest areas of Northern Europe, formerly worn by poorer members of the Finnic peoples, Balts, and East Slavs.
A portable computer that is small enough and light enough to be used on one's lap, but large enough to have an integrated keyboard.
Musical output made with a laptop computer combined with electronic devices, portable enough for live performances.
Any of three species of Australian eucalypts, Eucalyptus ochrophloia, Eucalyptus thozetiana and Eucalyptus argophloia.
Any of several medium-sized wading birds belonging to the subfamily Vanellinae, within family Charadriidae.
Of or relating to an orogeny (period of mountain-building) in western North America, starting in the Late Cretaceous period.
An island continent, during the late Cretaceous period, that now makes up the west coast of North America.
In an ancient Roman home, the part of the house set aside as a shrine or chapel for the household gods.
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 53. 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.