English Words: L
16,425 words · Page 89 of 329
A heavy, pliable, inelastic metal element, having a bright, bluish color, but easily tarnished; both malleable and ductile, though with little tenacity. It is easily fusible, forms alloys with other metals, and is an ingredient of solder and type metal. Atomic number 82, symbol Pb (from Latin plumbum).
A failure, especially something that fails to have the intended resonance with an audience.
To show the way or demonstrate a technique to individuals or a group by going ahead or doing something before the others.
A blank or unempathetic stare associated with baby boomers facing people in younger generations (implied to be caused by prolonged lead exposure).
The tenant nominated to be the primary point of contact for a managed residential joint tenancy.
The amount of time between the initiation of some process and its completion, e.g. the time required to manufacture or procure a product; the time required before something can be provided or delivered.
Describing a battery having lead electrodes and an electrolyte of sulfuric acid solution; used in motor vehicles
A cross-correlation of one leading variable with the values of another lagging variable at later times.
An event, or sequence of events, that leads up to something; the period during which these events occur.
A tetragonal-ditetragonal dipyramidal silver white mineral containing lead and mercury.
A hamlet in Midlothian council area and Scottish Borders council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NT2355).
That portion of a firearm's barrel immediately in front of the chamber where the bullet travels prior to contacting the rifling.
Printed type which is set with extra leading in such a way as to give the text greater emphasis.
A suburban area in Milton Keynes borough, Buckinghamshire, England (OS grid ref SP8637).
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 89. 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.