English Words: L
16,425 words · Page 6 of 329
A portion of land or territory as defined by its landform, its geographical (and architectural) features.
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 body of words, and set of methods of combining them (called a grammar), understood by a community and used as a form of communication.
Language as a system rather than language in use, including the formal rules, structures, and limitations of language.
Of a person or animal, or their body functions: flagging from weakness, or inactive or weak, especially due to illness or tiredness; faint, listless.
In a languid manner, without force or effort, in a manner requiring little energy or exertion.
An Indianized kingdom centered in present-day Northern Thailand from the 13th to 18th centuries.
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 case of translucent or transparent material made to protect a flame, or light, used to illuminate its surroundings.
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 6. 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.