10-Letter Words Starting with L

Lability

*Coat room (wordplay)

Coat room (wordplay)

Where to go to get results (wordplay)

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.""

Bereft of brilliance

Lacking brilliance or vitality

Like a rookie bootblack's efforts (wordplay)

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

Lactation

Inducing lactation.

Of Erie, Huron, etc.

Found in lakes

Lakefront

Thrashing: Slang.

Dressing down

Thrashing Slang.

Far from fortunate

Awful food given to the French servants

Awful ballet with name cast

LAMENT to cry out in grief

LAMENTED lament

Laminate

Layered structure

Laminator

Certain illuminations.

Tapering, as a leaf.

Tapering, as leaves

Landaulet

English word

Lobsters sans large claws

At sea, eat no slugs as seafood

Lanosity

Rare-earth series

Lanthanum

Opening to examine innards of engine, a mate having reversed battery terminal

Lapidate

Force enlists car thieves

Those wrongly taking clarinet solos, discontentedly playing

Feature of a certain bass

Kind of bass

Type of bass

Larghetto

Plural or third person singular

Disease and Illness

An impediment to free speech (wordplay)

Inflammation of the windpipe

Sit angrily suffering sore throat

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

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

Washing establishment

Perverts enter adult establishment for dirty material (wordplay)

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

Laureate

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

Hot stuff leading to blues in 2

Facilities offered by politicians after volcanic outpouring (wordplay)

Lazarette

Lazaretto

Leadplant

LEAFLET to distribute printed sheets of paper

LEAFLET to distribute printed sheets of paper

Leaflet

Leafstalk

Thrashing could make hate linger

Thrashing hit general badly

Doctor hit general for hiding

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

Lectotype

Fussy about rules

Excessively adhering to the law

Formal to a fault

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

The office of a legate.

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.

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.""

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

LENITIVE a soothing medicine

Slowly, on sheet music

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.""

Leptosome

English word

Leptotene

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

See Leucoplast. Leucoplast.

Leukocyte

LEUKOCYTE

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.

LEXICAL pertaining to the words of a language

Libellant

A liberal.

Generous quality

Bounty

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

Libration

Abe Burrows, for instance

Writer in a special field.

Provider of opera's words

Certificate of competence holder

Certificate holder

Authorized practitioner.

Infested with cooties (wordplay)

Abandoned insects move in to many states

Profligate client settled debts

Lientery

In place of occupant becoming officer

UK rank below captain

Peculiar talent in EU officer

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

Variant of likable .

Places of excessive public attention

Conspicuous positions.

Prominent positions

Mammoth Cave rocks

Great Pyramid of Giza material

Some fossil bases

Limewater

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]""

Facial features

Features

Lineation

Printing A machine for casting metal type in lines.

Related to speech

Belonging to language.

Relating to language

Linoleate

Small finches that feed on flaxseed

LIPOMA a tumor of fatty tissue

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.

Made up speakers performed as a watch

Liquation

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.

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 .

Liverwort

Braunschweiger, for example

Certain sausage

Delicatessen purchase.

Livestock

Lividity

""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

An aircraft crew member in charge of loading and unloading cargo or heavy weapons.