English Words: L
16,425 words · Page 94 of 329
A spa town in Royal Leamington Spa parish, Warwick district, Warwickshire, England, also known as Royal Leamington Spa or just Leamington (OS grid ref SP3165).
To incline, deviate, or bend, from a vertical position; to be in a position thus inclining or deviating.
efficient because of having nothing in excess of what is needed, and single-minded in one's objective
A meat byproduct produced from otherwise unusable material such as skin and connective, spinal, and digestive tissues by heating and then mixing with ammonia in a centrifuge to produce a food additive.
A shelter with a sloped roof; also a building with a similar construction attached to the side of a building as an extension.
The lover of Hero who swam every night across the Hellespont to meet her, and finally was drowned.
The situation in which a quoted string expression becomes difficult to read because it contains a large number of escape characters, usually backslashes, to avoid delimiter collision.
An optical illusion where, given a pair of identical images of an object rising in perspective, the one on the right appears to be leaning more.
A famous bell tower in the Italian town of Pisa, known for its irregular lean.
An extra day intercalated into a year, especially the day intercalated into the Julian calendar every fourth year and into the Gregorian calendar every fourth year excepting centuries not divisible by 400, usually reckoned as February 29th.
The act of believing in something despite lack of proof of its truth or existence, or the attempt of something without being sure of its possible outcome.
A second of time added to the year occasionally to compensate for variation in the rate of Earth's rotation relative to the absolute standards of time.
A year in the Julian or Gregorian calendar with an intercalary day added to February (in the Gregorian calendar, February 29), used to adjust for the extra hours of the solar year; a 366-day year.
A game, often played by children, in which a player leaps like a frog over the back of another person who has stooped over. One variation of the game involves a number of people lining up in a row and bending over. The last person in the line then vaults forward over each of the others until they reach the front of the line, whereupon they also bend over. The process is then repeated.
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 94. 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.