English Words: L
16,425 words · Page 79 of 329
Of or pertaining to Anton Szandor LaVey (1930–1997), the American founder and High Priest of the Church of Satan, or to his school of Satanism.
The atheistic religion of the Church of Satan, which is characterized by materialism and rejects all things supernatural, such as body and soul dualism and the concept of life after death.
Of or relating to Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier (1743–1794), French nobleman and chemist central to the 18th-century Chemical Revolution.
(obsolete) A supposed silvery-white, malleable, metallic chemical element, said to have been discovered in pyrites and some other minerals.
An ancient dance of the Renaissance which incorporated many challenging twists and skips.
A rural locality and the administrative center of Chukotsky District of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Russia, located on Lavrentiya Bay, close to the Bering Strait.
A temporary dwelling used by the Sami people of Northern Europe, similar in design to Native American tipis but less vertical and more stable in high winds.
The body of binding rules and regulations, customs, and standards established in a community by its legislative and judicial authorities.
A day when a local court meets, especially the court for each of the hundreds (administrative divisions)
A physical law describing how bodies attract one another, as by gravitation or electromagnetism.
The statistical tendency toward a fixed proportion in the results when an experiment is repeated a large number of times.
The ability of one or few people to win fights against many opponents.
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 79. 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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