English Words: L
16,425 words · Page 91 of 329
a tall deciduous shrub of species Amorpha canescens, in the pea family, native to North America, with very small purple flowers grouped in racemes.
The usually green and flat organ that represents the most prominent feature of most vegetative plants.
A motorized garden tool that propels air out of a nozzle to move leaves and other debris.
In liverworts, the angle and orientation of the plane of the leaves with respect to the axis of the stem.
Any of various leaf-eating, arboreal Asian monkeys of the subfamily Colobinae of family Cercopithecidae, related to and including the langurs.
The sacoglossan sea slug Costasiella kuroshimae. It has green cerata across it's body and can indirectly perform photosynthesis via kleptoplasty.
A specialized vehicle, often a truck equipped with a vacuum system, used for collecting loose leaves from streets, sidewalks, and other areas.
A fly in the family Agromyzidae, most larvae of which are leaf miners on various plants.
Any of the genus Chloropsis of small passerine birds, native to India and southeast Asia.
A means of strengthening paper so as to preserve it, covering existing pieces of weak paper with stronger sheets using mechanical equipment.
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 91. 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.