English Words: L
16,425 words · Page 7 of 329
Support for the labour movement, the development of a collective organization of working people to campaign for better working conditions and treatment.
a member or supporter of the British Labour Party, the left wing party of Great Britain
Of or relating to William Labov (1927–2024), American linguist, widely regarded as the founder of variationist sociolinguistics.
A geographic region, the mainland portion of the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, in eastern Canada.
Camptorhynchus labradorius, an extinct sea duck that was never common, believed to be the first bird to become extinct in North America after 1500.
A form of pneumoconiosis caused by inhalation of mixed dust containing silica, iron, and anthophyllite.
Any member of Rhododendron sect. Ledum, widely disttibuted in the northern hemisphere, in temperate to arctic environments.
A form of iridescence or reflectance, seen in labradorite feldspar and spectrolite, arising from submicroscopical planes orientated in one or more directions.
Of, from or relating to Labrador, the mainland portion of the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
A plagioclase feldspar mineral, calcium sodium aluminum silicate, often very coarsely crystalline, used as a decorative stone for carvings and building façades.
Describing a method of swimming in which fish make oscillatory movements of their pectoral fins.
Like or belonging to the suborder Labroidei of marine perciform fishes, often brilliantly coloured, and very abundant in the Indian and Pacific Oceans.
The uppermost of the mouthparts (trophi) of a typical insect, such as a cockroach. Typically resembles an upper lip and forms part of the roof of the mouth in such insects.
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 7. 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.
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