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.""

You can get lost in them

Greek archons offer cattle farms

Settings for old stories with misleading passages

Laccolith

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.""

Laciness

Lacquer

Lacquey

A chemical substance that causes tears to flow; same as lachrymator.lachrymator.

Lactation

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

Himalayan monasteries

Males arise to be trained for Buddhist institutions

Thrashing: Slang.

Dressing down

Thrashing Slang.

Lambency

Decorative drapery

Valance.

Valance

Stumbling scholars

Chuckleheads

""Pertaining to seaweeds of the genus Laminaria, or to that zone of the sea (from two to ten fathoms in depth) where the seaweeds of this genus grow.""

Laminaria

Laminarin

Laminate

Layered structure

Laminator

Certain illuminations.

Satirist's work

Women collecting rent

Disembarking without personal property? Anything but!

Hoped-for political results.

Massive election triumphs

Massive electoral victories

English word

Pined; lay neglected

Left in agony, went into decline

Grew weak or feeble

One who languishes.

Droops

Lanosity

Rare-earth series

""Covered with down, or fine soft hair; downy.""

Like the cutting of gemstones

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

Gem cutters

Lapidate

Lapidify

Lapidify

Force enlists car thieves

Those wrongly taking clarinet solos, discontentedly playing

LARVICIDE

Larvicide

Plural or third person singular

Disease and Illness

An impediment to free speech (wordplay)

Inflammation of the windpipe

Sit angrily suffering sore throat

Driven by lust

So USA civil administration is wanton (wordplay)

Lewd

Weary states

LATERAL to throw a sideward pass in football

LATERAL to throw a sideward pass in football

Laterize

Lathyrism

Adjective (-ic)

Laticifer

""Pl. latifundia (-d - ) A great landed estate, especially of the ancient Romans.""

Pl. latifundios A large landed estate in Spain or Latin America.

Latinity

Latinize

Laudation

With laughter or merriment.

Housewife's chore.

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)

Extravagance or abundance

Prodigality in ladies, say, is displayed before hard head

Lawmaking

Radioactive transuranic element

Element atomic number 103

Radioactive element dispersed warm nuclei

Lawyering

Adjective meaning resembling

Laziness

The Presidential yacht?

The Presidential yacht (wordplay)

Had replies (anagram)

LEAFLET to distribute printed sheets of paper

Leaguer

Thrashing could make hate linger

Thrashing hit general badly

Doctor hit general for hiding

Leavening

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

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.""

Most tediously protracted

Taking the most time

Extended as far as possible, steel thing broke

From one side to the other

Moving across

In the direction of the extent from end to end

Leniency

LENITIVE a soothing medicine

Biconvex

Lenticule

Lentigo

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

Pl. lentiviruses See slow virus .

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

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

English word

Homosexual relations between women.

Lethargy

Lettering

English word

Leukaemia

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.

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

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

Lustful Liberal Democrat restrained by pair with common sense

Student couple, tender intimately, sense it's lustful

Lewd

Ones turning up the volume (wordplay)

Reference-desk workers

Bookkeepers (wordplay)

Libration

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

Lifeblood

Workers who keep an eye on swimmers

Workers in towers

Pool attendants

LIFELESS no life

They go overboard in some emergencies

Brand whose first flavor was Pep-O-Mint

They're in a roll

Like CPR, often

Working on the beach, in a sense

Ways to be

Ligature

Lightbulb

Lightener

Getting brighter in a flash, by the sound of it

Unloading charge for ships.

Arsonist maybe taking time in dockside activity (wordplay)

Interrupting rest, boy beginning to get up for work in harbour

Lighter

LIGHTFACE

Lightface

Flashing coastal tower

Seafarer's beacon

Cape Hatteras structure.

Lightning

Piper product

Hard-to-read preliminary print (wordplay)

Navigation aids

Like film canisters

Lightwood

Lignify

Variant of likable .

Probability

Chance meeting of priest and criminal after murder almost backfired

Semblances

Ballerina's trait

Flexibility of wings, say, wrapped around seabirds

Places of excessive public attention

Conspicuous positions.

Prominent positions

Mammoth Cave rocks

Great Pyramid of Giza material

Some fossil bases

Limewater

Liminess

Defect from Left, dummy!

Rule restricting extent

Left impression of circumscription

""The point, edge, or line beyond which something cannot or may not proceed.""

LIMITING the act of limiting

""(Earth Sciences / Physical Geography) (of a country or region) on or near a frontier [via French from Late Latin limitrophus, from limit- limit + Greek -trophus supporting; originally referring to borderland that supported frontier troops]""

Adjective (-ic)

Long rides (wordplay)

Emulsion is sprayed on automobiles

They stretch out in Broadway

Quality of being limpid; limpidity.

Limpness