English Words: L
16,425 words · Page 75 of 329
A place that has facilities for washing and drying clothes that the public may pay to use.
A device with rotating cylinders for measuring the cleanability or colorfastness of cloth in a given liquid.
A self-service laundry facility with (traditionally) coin-operated (which now may use other per-load payment methods) washing machines, dryers, and sometimes ironing or pressing machines, open to the public for washing clothing and household cloth items.
A ball-shaped object used to clean clothes by mechanical action in a washing machine, as a substitute for laundry detergent.
A container, often made of plastic, for holding and transporting clothing and household textiles, especially before and after being laundered.
An egg-shaped object used to clean clothes, using mineral pellets, as a substitute for laundry detergent.
An identifying marking, usually in coded form and handwritten in indelible ink on an inconspicuous area of a garment, widely used until the mid-20th century as an organizing aid by merchants who cleaned and pressed clothing.
On certain cloth diapers, a tab (usually made from Velcro itself) to which the Velcro straps of the diaper can be sticked (attached) during washing to prevent damaging the straps or hooking onto other pieces of clothing in the washing machine.
A traditional Sardinian polyphonic woodwind instrument made of three pipes, each of which has an idioglot single reed.
A flowering plant in the mallow family, commonly grown for its edible leaves, Abelmoschus manihot.
Belonging to, or resembling, a natural order (Lauraceae) of trees and shrubs having aromatic bark and foliage, and including laurel, sassafras, cinnamon, true camphor, etc.
A supercontinent which included most of the landmasses making up today's continents of the Northern Hemisphere.
The act of crowning with laurel; the act of conferring an academic degree, or honorary title.
An evergreen shrub of species Laurus nobilis, having aromatic leaves of a lanceolate shape, with clusters of small, yellowish white flowers in their axils.
A hexagonal-trigonal dipyramidal colorless mineral containing chlorine, fluorine, and lead.
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 75. 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.