English Words: L
16,425 words · Page 71 of 329
Of or relating to Pierre André Latreille (1762–1833), French zoologist specialising in arthropods.
A form of stove set into a fireplace, heating the room by radiation and the rooms above by hot air.
Any of a family of natural products and toxins produced by certain sponges, including the genus Latrunculia.
The phenomenon whereby many small purchases add up to a significant expenditure over time.
A proposed tax on disposable coffee cups or paper cups in general, with the purpose of reducing waste.
A coffee-based beverage, prepared by "staining" the steamed "pure" white milk by the addition of espresso, using half or less of the espresso shot of caffè macchiato.
An upscale liberal town or community associated with bourgeois-bohemian (bobo) values; a place inhabited primarily by latte liberals.
An alloy of copper and tin, similar to bronze, with a sufficient portion of tin to make it a pewter-like color with yellowish tinge (rather than the brownish-gold color of bronze of higher copper content), once used in thin sheets and for domestic utensils and light-duty tools.
A member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints or other Latter-day Saint churches.
A flat panel constructed with widely-spaced crossed thin strips of wood or other material, commonly used as a garden trellis.
Any of a class of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) methods for fluid simulation. Instead of solving the Navier-Stokes equations directly, a fluid density on a lattice is simulated with streaming and collision (relaxation) processes.
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 71. 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.