English Words: L
16,425 words · Page 70 of 329
An artificial language based on a simplified version of Latin without inflections; also known as Interlingua
A group of methods of Chinese romanization that uses a set of 28 characters and does not include tone markers.
A large, flat, dorsolateral muscle on the trunk, posterior to the arm, and partly covered by the trapezius on its median dorsal region.
Having a broad breastbone, or sternum (said of Pithecina, a former taxonomic classification that is now probably Pitheciidae or Pithecia)
The angular distance north or south from a planet's equator, measured along the meridian of that particular point.
A historical region of central Italy, in which the city of Rome was founded and grew to be the capital city of the Roman Empire.
A case of verbs, found in the Uralic and Northern Caucasian languages, used to indicate motion to a location; in the Northern Caucasian languages, the lative also takes up functions of the dative case.
A pancake fried in oil, usually made from potatoes and sometimes also onions, traditionally served on Hanukkah.
A female given name originating as a coinage, of latter 20th-century African-American usage.
A female given name originating as a coinage, of latter 20th-century African-American usage.
An orthorhombic-dipyramidal black mineral containing calcium, iron, magnesium, niobium, oxygen, sodium, and titanium.
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 70. 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.