10-Letter Words Starting with L

An antibacterial antibiotic obtained from the bacterium Streptomyces lincolnensis and used in the treatment of certain penicillin-resistant infections.Streptomyces lincolnensis and used in the treatment of certain penicillin-resistant infections.

Facial features

Features

LINEARISE

Linearise

LINEARIZE

Makes horizontal

Lineation

Customer service agent (wordplay)

Ray Lewis, for one

Party policy enthusiast (wordplay)

Printing A machine for casting metal type in lines.

A type of paperboard used in making corrugated cartons.

Related to speech

Belonging to language.

Relating to language

Linoleate

Small finches that feed on flaxseed

Lionfish

LIPOMA a tumor of fatty tissue

Having an affinity for lipids; -- of chemical substances or parts of molecules. Contrasted to lipophobic or polar.lipophobic or polar.

Having an affinity for lipids.

A hormone produced by the anterior pituitary gland that promotes the utilization of fat by the body and is a precursor to the endorphins.

Genial drip (anagram)

Hearing by seeing (wordplay)

Hearing visually (wordplay)

Made up speakers performed as a watch

Liquation

Liquefier

Liquefy

Tending to become liquid; inclined to melt to melt; melting.

Sold off quickly

Sold off, as assets

Converted to cash

Pays off one pound during evening shifts

Settler of an estate.

Property settler.

LIQUIDIZE To render liquid.

Thaws

The quality or state of being liquid; liquidity; fluency.

Liquify

Liquorice

LISTEN to try to hear

Not how Ko-Ko operates, lacking spirit

With little enthusiasm

In lackadaisical manner.

Literacy

Fidelity to observable fact.

Sadly, I still rate him a pedant

Rigid person of the word, a little sir being silly

The state or quality of being literal.

""To make literal; to interpret or put in practice according to the strict meaning of the words; opposed to spiritualize; as, to literalize Scripture. spiritualize; as, to literalize Scripture.""

""Of, relating to, or dealing with literature: literary criticism.""

LITERATE one who can read and write

The act or process of representing by letters.

Literator

What bookshops retail? True, perhaps

Novels, essays, etc.

Written works of artistic merit

Lithify

25 illuminated by beast, part angel

Print from a plate using a flat surface

Type of print

Rocky, light and cool, I suspect

""Porcelain impressed with figures which are made distinct by transmitted light, as when hung in a window, or used as a lamp shade.""

Coral, for one

Lithopone

Making a suit (wordplay)

Tailor got initial work for barrister

Lawsuit, legal action

Process at work in court

Litigator

Freebies at the car wash

Keep America Beautiful concerns

They ignore trash cans

Non-users of trash cans

The one puppy that can read (wordplay)

Any in a group of puppies

One puppy to another

Young of the quahog.

Kind of clam

Young quahog

""The state or quality of being little; as, littleness of size, thought, duration, power, etc. as, littleness of size, thought, duration, power, etc.""

Relating to public worship

Medical head going to follow books of worship

Liturgist

Variant of livable .

Bread and butter

Bread and butter, so to speak

Job or career

State of energetic activity

Sparkle

Brio

Liveness

Liverwort

Braunschweiger, for example

Certain sausage

Delicatessen purchase.

Livestock

Lividity

The state or quality of being alive; possession of energy or vigor; animation; quickening.

""LIXIVIATE To subject to a washing process for the purpose of separating soluble material from that which is insoluble; to leach, as ashes, for the purpose of extracting the alkaline substances.""

Lixiviate

Loblolly

Surgeries that affect mental ability

Change the mind of old boy in toilsome clashing

LOBOTOMIZE

Lobster

LOBULATE resembling a {lobule=n}

Pub has one, and I confess to being put in place

Spots socialite reeling after end of ball

Places

Settings

Localize

LOCATION the position in a particular place

Key figures (wordplay)

Key workers (wordplay)

What love laughs at.

""A peculiar sort of stitch formed by the locking of two threads together, as in the work done by some sewing machines. See Stitch.Stitch.""

Locomote

Crazy movement (wordplay)

Power of moving crazy proposal

Movement from place to place

Crazy reason for doing something?

A crazy cause (wordplay)

Steam roller (wordplay)

Locutory

Logaoedic

Shortcuts for complex multiplication

Numbers on slide rules

High-school math subject

Logicalness.

Reason I make notes whilst arguing

Logicize

Loginess

Like some nightmares (wordplay)

Of goods delivery

Point of story I found in pub regarding men's movement (wordplay)

Puzzles using anagrams

""Excessive, uncontrollable, or incoherent talkativeness""

Logotypy

Political back scratching

Politicians' quid pro quo

Back-scratchers' activity

Tarzan's wardrobe

Inducer of the blues.

Exotic illness? One's held in isolation

State of being cheerlessly solitary

Devoted to classical music.

Devoted to classical music

Not buzz-cut

Longicorn

Longitude

Loophole

LOPSIDED leaning to one side

Giving many words to the wise

Gabby to see dodgy doctor shortly to get recovery notes

Chatty

Snobbery concerning strokes seen in cricket ground

Superiority of policies adopted by cricket ground

In a test venue, a punishment for pupils displaying arrogance

Having characteristics that attract love or affection.

""A statin, C 24 H 36 O 5 , that blocks the body's synthesis of cholesterol and is administered especially to individuals at risk for heart disease.""

Beauty

Courtship

Affection; kind regard.

Understating on purpose

Lowlihead

Raving lunatics stockpiling 24 oils (wordplay)

Dealt with friction, say

Prepped for an ultrasound, say

Treated with oil

Having produced articles about social security, makes things run smoothly

""One who, or that which, lubricates.""

""LUBRIC slippery, also LUBRICAL""

Lucidity

""An enzyme which catalyzes the oxidation of luciferin, thereby producing bioluminescence.""

Luciferin

Giving light; affording light or means of discovery.

Sad, mournful

Mournful guru catches bus with oil sprinkled around

Dismal

Lullaby

Luminaire

Luminance

Luminaria

Prominent or expert people

Influential famous folk

Famous people

Shone, as from a chemical reaction

Luminesce

Strength of light

LUMINOUS giving off light

Lumpfish

Not when to break fast

Midday breaks

Lungfish

In a pleasingly rich manner

Lustihood

Lustrate

The act of lustrating or purifying.

LUTEINIZE

Luteinize

It is tempting without evaluation to pluck it

Essay in enticement at Orpheus' fingertips (wordplay)

Lushness

LUXURIATE To grow exuberantly; to grow to superfluous abundance.

Luxuriate

Company duo imply upset in the plant

Lymphatic

""Any of various substances released by T cells that have been activated by antigens. They function in the immune response through a variety of actions, including stimulating the production of nonsensitized lymphocytes and activating macrophages.""

Same as lyophilize.lyophilize.

""To freeze-dry; -- a technique used to dry serum, tissue, unstable chemicals and other sensitive materials.""

Lyricise

Lyricize

Lysimeter

Adjective (-ic)

Lysogeny

LYSOGEN a type of {antigen=n}

LYSOGEN a type of {antigen=n}