English Words: L
16,425 words · Page 87 of 329
A rotating tray (turntable) used on tables and counters for serving condiments or food.
a ridge of ground generally used for growing potatoes and sometimes also for raising corn, the seed being laid on the surface and covered with earth dug out of trenches along both sides
The Internet, personified as a being that will answer the questions of those who are too lazy to do their own research.
A stock comedic routine or physical action, traditionally associated with commedia dell'arte.
Secularism and strict separation of church and state characteristic of France since the Third Republic and of Quebec since the Quiet Revolution.
Initialism of little brown mushroom: any of a large number of small, dull-coloured agaric species that are difficult to tell apart.
Initialism of littoral combat ship: a specialized type of corvette for green water and coastal combat and transoceanic capability designated by the US Navy.
A gene responsible for encoding lactase; mutations in this gene are responsible for adults' ability to digest lactose.
The amount of a substance required to kill half of a given population; a measure of toxicity.
Initialism of lie down/lay down and rot (“to resign oneself to the hopelessness and unchangeability of one's circumstances, especially as a single, unattractive male”).
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 87. 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.