English Words: L
16,425 words · Page 88 of 329
A principle stating that, if a chemical system at equilibrium experiences a change in concentration, temperature, or total pressure, the equilibrium will shift in order to minimize that change.
Of or relating to Ursula K. Le Guin (1929–2018), American author of mainly fantasy and science fiction.
A city and major port beside the mouth of the River Seine in Seine-Maritime department, Normandy, northern France.
A commune in Val-de-Marne department, Île-de-France, France, southwest of Paris.
Synonym of Southwest (“a borough and region of Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada”).
A town and commune in the French overseas department and region, and island, of Martinique.
The blue-winged kookaburra, Dacelo leachii, of northern Australia and New Guinea.
Of or relating to Stephen Leacock (1869–1944), Canadian teacher, political scientist, writer, and humorist.
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 88. 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.