English Words: L
16,425 words · Page 85 of 329
The practice of using touch to communicate spiritual energy from one person to another, especially as an act of healing.
A night during Ramadan that commemorates the initial revelation of the Qur'an, usually on the 27th of Ramadan.
To make a topic or subject accessible to a layman; to simplify to the point where people without an advanced knowledge of the subject will be able to understand it.
A dismissal of employees from their jobs because of tightened budgetary constraints or work shortage (not due to poor performance or misconduct).
In commercial shipping, the amount of time specified in a charter party for a vessel's loading and unloading.
A close-range shot in which the shooter banks the ball off the backboard from a few feet away.
A woman who is a layperson, one who has not taken a religious oath (such as becoming a nun).
A Kartvelian language of Turkey and Caucasian Georgia, related to Georgian, Mingrelian, and Svan.
Synonym of leper: a person suffering from Hansen's disease; a person suffering any contagious disease requiring similar isolation.
Synonym of leprosery: A building used to house lepers, usually in permanent quarantine from the rest of society.
An orthorhombic light orange mineral containing arsenic, calcium, hydrogen, iron, and oxygen.
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 85. 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.