English Words: L
16,425 words · Page 95 of 329
To quit or transfer from a major professional sports league, suggesting a player does not deserve their current place.
Before one can perform a complicated task, one has to learn how to perform more simple tasks.
A psychological state arising after an individual is repeatedly exposed to uncontrollable negative events, leading them to perceive their actions as ineffective in altering their adverse circumstances.
A word acquired through formal education rather than through childhood language acquisition.
A work-based learning program that sometimes leads to some form of formal recognition of acquired skills; a scholarship.
A welfare system in which a person must attend college etc. in order to receive payment.
The shift in discourses around and understandings of education to focus entirely or almost entirely on learning.
To shift discourses around and understandings of education to focus entirely or almost entirely on learning.
A series of mistakes, sometimes also with successes, that help to educate a person
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 95. 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.