English Words: L
16,425 words · Page 60 of 329
An instrument used to observe the vibration of the vocal chords during speech or singing
A hollow muscular organ of the neck of mammals situated just below where the tract of the pharynx splits into the trachea and the oesophagus. It is involved in breath control and protection of the trachea, and, as it houses the vocal cords, sound production.
The largest city and co-capital of the Canary Islands, along with Santa Cruz de Tenerife; the capital and largest city of the island of Gran Canaria; the capital and largest city of the province of Las Palmas, Canary Islands.
A desert city, the county seat of Clark County, Nevada, United States, known for its large hotels, extravagant entertainment and dining, and gambling.
A randomized algorithm that always gives a correct result rather than merely giving a probably correct result.
A distracting effect on the user resulting from overuse of colour in a user interface.
Computer program code characterized by several well-defined and separable layers forming a hierarchy of subsystems.
One of 64 parishes in Louisiana, United States, the equivalent of a county in other US states. Parish seat: Jena.
Of or relating to the De La Salle Brothers, formerly named The Brothers of the Christian Schools, a Roman Catholic religious teaching congregation.
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 60. 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.