English Words Starting With L

• leland

  nounVery Low (As a common noun, it is non-existent. As a proper noun, its frequency is tied to specific referents.)
  /ˈliːlənd/A proper noun; primarily a given name and surname of Old English origin.
• leloir

  nounVery Low
  /ləˈlwɑː/A highly specific and established surname, most famously associated with Argentine biochemist Luis Federico Leloir.
• lely

  nounExtremely Rare / Obsolete
  /ˈlɛli/An obsolete or archaic spelling variant of 'lily', a type of flowering plant.
• lem

  acronymnounC2
  /lɛm/An abbreviation for 'lemon', 'lemur', or a colloquial contraction for 'let me'.
• lemaitre

  nounVery low
  /lə(ʊ)ˈmɛtr(ə)/A proper noun, originally a French surname meaning "the master" or "the teacher" (from Old French "le maistre"). It is often associated with the Belgian astronomer and Catholic priest Georges Lemaître, who proposed the Big Bang theory.
• lemalu

  nounVery Low
  /leɪˈmɑːluː/A Samoan chiefly title meaning 'the family of Malo' or 'the house of Malo', used as a surname and honorific.
• leman

  nounVery Low (Archaic/Literary)
  /ˈlɛmən/An archaic or poetic term for a lover or sweetheart, often implying an illicit or secret romantic partner.
• lemass

  nounVery Low
  /ˈlɛməs/A proper noun referring to Seán Lemass, an Irish politician who served as Taoiseach (Prime Minister) of Ireland from 1959 to 1966.
• lemay

  nounVery Low
  /ləˈmeɪ/A proper noun, typically a surname of French origin, or a place name.
• lemberg

  nounC2/Rare
  /ˈlɛmbɜːɡ/The historical German name for the city of Lviv in modern-day Ukraine.
• lemessus

  nounVery Rare
  /lɪˈmɛsəs/(noun) A city of ancient Crete, mentioned in Greek mythology and historical texts.
• lemieux

  nounVery Low
  /ləˈmjɜː/A French and French-Canadian surname, most famously associated with Canadian ice hockey legend Mario Lemieux.
• lemma

  nounC2
  /ˈlɛmə/The dictionary form or base form of a word, the one used as the heading for an entry (e.g., the infinitive for verbs, singular for nouns).
• lemmatize

  verbverb-transitiveC2
  /ˈlem.ə.taɪz/To identify or reduce a word to its lemma or citation form (e.g., 'ran' becomes 'run').
• lemming

  nounB2
  /ˈlem.ɪŋ/A small, short-tailed rodent found in arctic regions, known for periodic population explosions and mass migrations.
• lemminkainen

  nounExtremely Rare (Outside Finland/Studies of Finnish Mythology)
  /ˈlɛm.ɪnˌkaɪ.nən/A central hero figure in the Finnish national epic, the Kalevala, known as a handsome, adventurous, and somewhat reckless adventurer.
• lemnian

  adjectivenounC2
  /ˈlɛmnɪən/Relating to the Greek island of Lemnos.
• lemniscate

  nounC2
  /lɛmˈnɪs.kət/A closed, figure-eight-shaped curve that is the symbol for infinity (∞) in mathematics.
• lemniscus

  nounC2 / Extremely low-frequency, specialist term
  /lɛmˈnɪs.kəs/A ribbon-like band of nerve fibres in the brain, often involved in sensory pathways.
• lemnitzer

  nounVery Low
  /ˈlɛmnɪtsə/Not applicable (Proper Noun). The word is not a standard English lexical item but an eponymous surname.

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