10-Letter Words Starting with L

LABIALIZE To modify by contraction of the lip opening.

Labialize

Lability

""Simultaneously labial and velar, as (kw) in quick.""

Tearing jaggedly

Tearing (of skin)

How much material you can get wound

Cut the material allowance

""Lacerating, or having the power to lacerate; as, lacerative humors. as, lacerative humors.""

Mahler 'cosy'? Wrong - sorrowful

Tearful (literary)

Rashly come out, getting weepy

Laciness

Bereft of brilliance

Lacking brilliance or vitality

Like a rookie bootblack's efforts (wordplay)

Lacquerer

Lacquer

Lacquey

Inducing lactation.

Of Erie, Huron, etc.

Found in lakes

Adjective meaning resembling

Noble dessert (wordplay)

Tirami su cake

Common item in a trifle's cake layer

Ladyfish

Single papa in difficulty? Offer some tips maybe

Gratuities

Lakefront

Lakeshore

Himalayan monasteries

Males arise to be trained for Buddhist institutions

Lambency

Decorative drapery

Valance.

Valance

Stumbling scholars

Chuckleheads

Lameness

Far from fortunate

Awful food given to the French servants

Awful ballet with name cast

LAMENT to cry out in grief

LAMENTED lament

Certain Harvard men

Satirizers.

Satirical writing ridiculing someone

Ridiculing bad Monroe play

Oral eponym, perhaps, suggesting personal satire

Lampshell

Tapering, as a leaf.

Tapering, as leaves

Lancewood

Landaulet

One who takes the field (wordplay)

Man of property

One with a lot

Women collecting rent

With no sea coast

Describing Paraguay and Bolivia

Cut off from the sea

Not a seafaring type!

Sea fearer (wordplay)

One with no experience of the sea

They're continent enough to get a thousand of the mokes ashore

They mind their manors

They may deal lots

Property-tax payers

(Of gardens) aesthetically altered

Like a golf course, with sand placed haphazardly

Lecturer and son, protected against weather, like some gardens

Moe (wordplay)

Job that involves cutting

He may make the earth move

Some J.M.W Turner paintings

Like many of Cezanne's paintings

Down-to-earth paintings

Hoped-for political results.

Massive election triumphs

Massive electoral victories

LANGLAUF a cross-country ski run

Lobsters sans large claws

At sea, eat no slugs as seafood

Pined; lay neglected

Left in agony, went into decline

Grew weak or feeble

One who languishes.

Droops

Lankness

Lanosity

Rare-earth series

I said pearl should be reset - by us (wordplay)

Gem cutters

Lapidify

Lapidify

Force enlists car thieves

Those wrongly taking clarinet solos, discontentedly playing

Feature of a certain bass

Kind of bass

Type of bass

Larghetto

Larvicide

Laryngeal

Plural or third person singular

Weary states

They may stand for something

Ten o'clock scholars.

Folks who weren't on time

Lateness

LATERAL to throw a sideward pass in football

LATERAL to throw a sideward pass in football

Laterize

Laticifer

Latinity

Money changing hands for cleaners

Housewife's chore.

Washing establishment

Perverts enter adult establishment for dirty material (wordplay)

High street concern as a French doctor with little energy tucked into coffee

LAUNDRY a place where clothes are washed and ironed

Laureate

""The act of crowning with laurel; the act of conferring an academic degree, or honorary title.""

Laurel

Jeweled pendants

Ornamental pendants.

Some microphones

Duchesse for whom a pendant was named

Hot stuff leading to blues in 2

Facilities offered by politicians after volcanic outpouring (wordplay)

Lavender

Extravagance or abundance

Prodigality in ladies, say, is displayed before hard head

Double-parker, for one.

One risking arrest

A crook or awl

Code word for Eliot (wordplay)

There's not as much about awful northern legality

Radioactive transuranic element

Element atomic number 103

Radioactive element dispersed warm nuclei

Lawyering

Adjective meaning resembling

Layperson

Lazarette

Lazaretto

Laziness

LEADEN to become {heavy=adj}

Generally missing (wordplay)

Lacking a commander

Nothing editorial without the boss

The Presidential yacht?

The Presidential yacht (wordplay)

Had replies (anagram)

Leadplant

Leadscrew

Plant pest.

LEAFLET to distribute printed sheets of paper

LEAFLET to distribute printed sheets of paper

Leaflet

Leafstalk

Leaguer

Leanness

Rental arrangements have a reduced impact in outskirts of Leeds

Let them stop their grip after half a century

Thrashing could make hate linger

Thrashing hit general badly

Doctor hit general for hiding

Leavening

Expansionist's slogan

Extra space deemed necessary

Elbow space a la Hitler.

""A book, or a list, of lections, for reading in divine service.""

Lectotype

Hide shorts in Bierkellar (wordplay)

One's led her astray wearing this!

Shorts with braces

Legalise

Fussy about rules

Excessively adhering to the law

Formal to a fault

Make repairs to stillage: that is the law's obligations

Legalizer

Making O.K., in a way

The office of a legate.

Legendry

Legerity

The quality of being legible; legibleness.

Supporter I reprimanded settled a bill

Laid down law, it's alleged, improperly

Passed bills

What Congress does.

Member is taking credit passes

Makes laws

On trial, so perhaps I will make laws

Gorilla set to become an MP (wordplay)

Senator or representative

State of being valid

Conformity to the law or rules

Propriety of member having sex being nameless

Run away? I would, pal - it's allowed!

E-mail: get it encrypted, OK (wordplay)

Stage one - note friend is legal

Allow to make off up M1 with one's sweetheart

The principles or plans of legitimists.

""One who supports legitimate authority; esp., one who believes in hereditary monarchy, as a divine right.""

To legitimate.

Resembling a pulse, like a glow-worm, say, trapped

""(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Microbiology) any parasitic flagellate protozoan of the genus Leishmania : infects humans and animals and causes diseases ranging from skin lesions to potentially fatal organ damage [New Latin, named after Sir W.B. Leishman (1865-1926), Scottish bacteriologist]""

Leister

Clearly ideas worth repeating

Not weighty reasons, they say, for repeating the same old idea

Leitmotiv

""A curve in the form of the figure 8, with both parts symmetrical, generated by the point in which a tangent to an equilateral hyperbola meets the perpendicular on it drawn from the center.""

Herb in Thai cuisine

Fruit, drugs or herb

Asian cuisine staple

Altered, in a way

Drawn out

Drew out pin around noon - after that, read intermittently

Vacuum-cleaner pipe, for example

Most tediously protracted

Taking the most time

Extended as far as possible, steel thing broke

Gently wash out all the way along

In a direction along an object

Ghastly new craft from stem to stern

From one side to the other

Moving across

In the direction of the extent from end to end

Leniency

LENITIVE a soothing medicine

Slowly, on sheet music

Biconvex

Lenticule

Lentigo

Very slow; very slowly; -- of music tempo.

Pl. lentiviruses See slow virus .

Female in the wild

Jungle beast

Big cat.

""A species of mica, of a lilac or roseviolet color, containing lithia. It usually occurs in masses consisting of small scales. See Mica. Mica.""

Little green man (wordplay)

Og of "Finian's Rainbow," for example

Clean up her mess, little one

Pl. leprosariums or leprosaria (- - ) A hospital for the treatment of leprosy.

Leptosome

English word

Leptotene

Homosexual relations between women.

Lespedeza

Lethargy

The development or design of the shape of an alphabet letter.

For example, Y-front's logo (wordplay)

Piece of corporate stationery

Stationery feature from red endings

Lettering

English word

See Leucoplast. Leucoplast.

Leukaemia

Leukocyte

LEUKOCYTE

An abnormally low number of white blood cells in the circulating blood.

An abnormally low number of white blood cells in the circulating blood.

""A thick, whitish discharge from the vagina or cervical canal.""

At fifty, always getting older and taking advantage of

Huge, formidable things.

Humongous creatures

Monsters on the loose as teal vanish (wordplay)

Levigate

The act or operation of levigating.

Levitate

Illusion created by magicians

Raising of bodies by magical means

Medium's forte

Same as levorotatory.levorotatory.

Lewdness

LEXICAL pertaining to the words of a language

Add a word to a language's vocabulary

Study of word meanings

Study of words

Libecchio

Libellant

To loosen restrictions on ale? Risible, daft!

Enlighten with star sign around East, position covering Saviour's origin

What's not right (wordplay)

Generous political philosophy

Freedom from sickly Blair smile

A liberal.

Generous quality

Bounty

Hubert Humphrey's peepers (wordplay)

Releasing Gilbertian medley

Struggler's wish

Freedom for Queen to tuck into drink

Act of freeing

Free thinkers (wordplay)

U. S. planes in W. W. II

American B-24 bombers.

Seducers rebel in its being set free

Dissolute types given punishment at school, one boy included

Rakes

Abe Burrows, for instance

Writer in a special field.

Provider of opera's words

That can be licensed.

Licensure

Certificate of competence holder

Certificate holder

Authorized practitioner.

Infested with cooties (wordplay)

Abandoned insects move in to many states

Profligate client settled debts

Lidocaine

Lientery

In place of occupant becoming officer

UK rank below captain

Peculiar talent in EU officer