10-Letter Words Starting with L

You can get lost in them

Greek archons offer cattle farms

Settings for old stories with misleading passages

Tearing jaggedly

Tearing (of skin)

How much material you can get wound

Cut the material allowance

Laciness

Lacquer

Lacquey

Lactation

Inducing lactation.

Of Erie, Huron, etc.

Found in lakes

Noble dessert (wordplay)

Tirami su cake

Common item in a trifle's cake layer

Single papa in difficulty? Offer some tips maybe

Gratuities

Lakefront

Thrashing: Slang.

Dressing down

Thrashing Slang.

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

""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 Harvard men

Satirizers.

Satirical writing ridiculing someone

Ridiculing bad Monroe play

Oral eponym, perhaps, suggesting personal satire

Satirist's work

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

Disembarking without personal property? Anything but!

(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

English word

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

Dreamy - our UN goals (anagram)

Full of dreamy inertia

Lankness

Lanosity

Rare-earth series

Lanthanum

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

Like the cutting of gemstones

Lapidate

Force enlists car thieves

Those wrongly taking clarinet solos, discontentedly playing

Laryngeal

Plural or third person singular

Disease and Illness

An impediment to free speech (wordplay)

Inflammation of the windpipe

Sit angrily suffering sore throat

Lateness

LATERAL to throw a sideward pass in football

Laterize

""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.

First digs (wordplay)

Space-shot structures

What shuttles leave from

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

"What's My Line?" candidate.

What's My Line? candidate.

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

Lavender

Extravagance or abundance

Prodigality in ladies, say, is displayed before hard head

Code word for Eliot (wordplay)

There's not as much about awful northern legality

Lawmaking

Radioactive transuranic element

Element atomic number 103

Radioactive element dispersed warm nuclei

Lawyering

Layperson

Laziness

LEADEN to become {heavy=adj}

Leadplant

LEAFLET to distribute printed sheets of paper

Leaguer

Leanness

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.""

Hide shorts in Bierkellar (wordplay)

One's led her astray wearing this!

Shorts with braces

Legalise

Making O.K., in a way

Legendry

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

""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 .

Little green man (wordplay)

Og of "Finian's Rainbow," for example

Clean up her mess, little one

Leptotene

Homosexual relations between women.

Lettering

English word

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

Lewdness

Libellant

Releasing Gilbertian medley

Struggler's wish

Freedom for Queen to tuck into drink

Act of freeing

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

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

Like CPR, often

Working on the beach, in a sense

Ligature

Lightener

Getting brighter in a flash, by the sound of it

Lighter

Lightning

Piper product

Lignify

Semblances

Ballerina's trait

Flexibility of wings, say, wrapped around seabirds

Mammoth Cave rocks

Great Pyramid of Giza material

Some fossil bases

Liminess

Defect from Left, dummy!

Rule restricting extent

Left impression of circumscription

LIMITING the act of limiting

Adjective (-ic)

Long rides (wordplay)

Emulsion is sprayed on automobiles

They stretch out in Broadway

Quality of being limpid; limpidity.

Limpness

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

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)

Liquation

Liquefy

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

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

Liquify

LISTEN to try to hear

The act or process of representing by letters.

Lithify

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

Lithopone

Making a suit (wordplay)

Tailor got initial work for barrister

Lawsuit, legal action

Process at work in court

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.""

State of energetic activity

Sparkle

Brio

Liveness

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

Loadstone

Lobster