2-Letter Words Ending in L

""Pl. epitaxies The growth of the crystals of one mineral on the crystal face of another mineral, such that the crystalline substrates of both minerals have the same structural orientation.""

Ambiguous,can be interpreted in two ways

Uncertain note on Queen single's sung

Of uncertain nature or significance

Controversial

Controversial

Affected by wind or water, say

Relating to a process of wearing away

Like wind and rain

Erratic.

Tails seen, perhaps, as necessary

In Germany it 29 down a twisted tail

In Germany 19 across with a twisted tail

""An estrogenic hormone, C 18 H 24 O 2 , produced by the ovaries and used in treating estrogen deficiency.""

Like an arm of the sea

Of large river mouths.

Like a sieve; cribriform.

Pertaining to a party split.

Fan, a clot I suspect that's liable to be disruptive

Mathematical product indicated by "!"

""A folding stool, or portable seat, made to fold up in the manner of a camo stool. It was formerly placed in the choir for a bishop, when he offciated in any but his own cathedral church.""

Extremist is crushed in a final act

Overenthusiastic facial tan going wrong

Over-zealous

""Having power to foretell future events; prophetic; fatiloquent; as, the fatidical oak. as, the fatidical oak.""

Pertaining to a window or to windows.

Imaginary spillage of oil in fact

Describing imaginary happenings

Like Mr. Darcy

Dough-y (wordplay)

Number of spies in last money matters

To do with money

FISSION to split into parts

Likely to evoke yums

Yummy

Tasty

""Pertaining to, or having the nature of, fluxion or fluxions; variable; inconstant.""

FORAMINA foramen

Gets in first with nothing but woodland!

Everybody would, say, first anticipate

Get ahead of.

FOREST to convert into a densely wooded area

""Fitted for digging, adapted for burrowing or digging; as, a fossorial foot; a fossorial animal. as, a fossorial foot; a fossorial animal.""

Like some twins

Kind of twin

Infernal pest of a brother

""Pertaining to, or containing, galena.""

GARDEN to cultivate a plot of land

Fixie's turner

Wager about cad using mechanism

Ten-speed bike component

Mendelian (var.)

Hereditary

""Possessing genitive from; pertaining to, or derived from, the genitive case; as, a genitival adverb. as, a genitival adverb.""

Terribly eager to finish race (wordplay)

CO leading battles being very murderous

Relating to visual art

Vivid chap a girl recollects

(K) Like many charts

Anti-takeover maneuver

Antitakeover maneuver

Eg mineral production company could be victim of this

Jersey barrier, for one

Highway safety barrier

Freeway safety barrier

Workers' meeting place

Lots of room there for a corporation

City of London building

""Any wheel worked by hand; esp., one the rim of which serves as the handle by which a valve, car brake, or other part is adjusted.""

""HARBOR to shelter, also HARBOUR""

Tropical turtle with hooked jaws

Turtle type

Seems the top's right up in the bridle

Head is high in harness

Part of a bridle.

Salubrious

Unorthodox (in religion)

Worthy of beheadment (wordplay)

Like a misbeliever

Shaped like the cells in a honeycomb

Like typical snowflakes

Six-sided like geometric figure

Wanting to kill someone else (wordplay)

Murderous loch maid I upset

Like Bluebeard

HORIZON the line where earth and sky seem to meet

It swishes on the racetrack

It swishes in the parade ring

Flyswatter on a farm

""A household servant; also, one of the bodyguard of King Canute.""

HYPNOID pertaining to hypnosis or sleep

Not even slightly different

The very same dialect in broadcast

Indicate revised figure all the same

Not making sense

The Italian politician is narrow-minded

One student politician is reactionary

Stingy liar be ill, suffering

What Spock is not

Lacking sound reasoning

Making no sense

It's fair to say I'm not all there

Just a mail trip that went wrong!

To be fair, I'm not all there!

Introductory speech, perhaps

Of a speech made on taking office

Address by Truman, Jan. 20, 1949.

""Of, pertaining to, or like, an index; having the form of an index.""

ISOHYET a map line indicating points of equal rainfall

ISOPHOTE a curve joining points of equal light intensity

JUNCTURE the act of joining

""Pertaining to a judge or to jurisprudence; acting in the distribution of justice; used in courts of law; according to law; legal; as, juridical law.as, juridical law.""

KHEDIVE a Turkish viceroy

Of tears or weeping

Charm ally with tears

'E's out to leach rye meal of drops

Sea creature hit police sergeant? He will!

Relating to the voice box

A yell rang out, coming from the throat

Developing an allergy of the throat

Adjective (-al)

Having a vital urge

LIPOSOME a microscopic globule composed of lipids

Type of statistical distribution

LYSOSOME a saclike part of a cell

Expert on wind securing silver

On the staff, devised by a physician

Authoritative point? Annoying alarm's ringing

In mountain and sea, increasingly stony

Cause further damage to a line of stone

Like marble in smoothness

Wallaby, for one.

Koala, for one

Pocket protector (wordplay)

Imperious males involved with turf

Expert fusses over dividing batter

Having dominating quality

Of the morning

Of the morning.

Pharaoh dips into sea and a lake in the morning

Leave maid to work, being old-fashioned!

Made a live broadcast of the Middle Ages

Leave Da? I'm not modern enough for that

Lily 15's invention

Having healing properties

Good for you

Of brain membrane

""Recurring once a month; monthly; gone through in a month; as, the menstrual revolution of the moon; pertaining to monthly changes; as, the menstrual equation of the sun's place. as, the menstrual revolution of the moon; pertaining to monthly changes; as, the menstrual equation of the sun's place.""

Lively blackbird circling court

Prone to sudden mood swings

Like a liquid metallic element

""A synthetic estrogen, C 21 H 26 O 2 , used in combination with a progestin in oral contraceptive preparations.""

MICROBE a microscopic organism

Adjective (-al)

MILIARIA a skin disease

MITICIDE a substance used to kill mites

Sovereign.

At start of week, Henry follows a religion to do with head of state

Belonging to a monody.

Like the Asian rainy period

Word with prefix multi-

Like Bonds in San Francisco (wordplay)

German city cut one friend of the town

Run by the council

""Of or relating to both muscles and nerves, especially to nerve endings in muscle tissue.""

Adjective (-al)

When Eve came (wordplay)

Nearly time to crash (wordplay)

Dark autumn evening

No-go in state, no-go by day (wordplay)

That's no light matter

Active by night

ANIMAL a living organism with voluntary motion and sensation

CASUAL one who works according to demand

Not causal.

COITAL relating to coitus

FORMAL a social event that requires evening dress

Not causing death

Like pepper spray

Adjective for tear gas

LINEAL being directly descended from ancestor

MANUAL a small reference book

MENTAL pertaining to the mind

Unrivalled in Nepal - or different!

Matchless - enrol pain (anagram)

Iron panel (anagram)

RACIAL pertaining to an ethnic group

Platonic

Like a nerd, stereotypically

Like wallflowers

New and novel bar, changed beyond words

Somehow ban novel about resistance using signals to communicate

Pictorial

Not able to be seen

Muriel can (anagram)

Cruel man, one out for the count

'By way of no, in short (9)'

Relating to the back of the head

Bone forming back of skull

Pertaining to the lower skull bone

Like the Dome of the Rock

With eight sides and angles

Having eight sides and angles

From last game, staying in charge for medical treatment

""ORIFICE a mouth-like opening, also ORIFEX""

PEDAL to operate by means of foot levers

OVIDUCT a tube through ova travel from an ovary

Of or pertaining to the eyelids.

One attracted to people of all genders

Potentially attracted to anyone

Into anyone, potentially

Resembling a famous garden.

Like heaven or Eden

Edenic

Deposition summarizer, perhaps

Lawyer wannabe, maybe

Erin Brockovich, for one

Related to local area - narrow

Relating to a church parish

Of narrow scope

A book of the saints and martyrs

PENUMBRA a partial shadow

Lily, for one

Lasting a long time

Daffodil or tulip, for example

Around the time of birth

Pain alert issued around the delivery time

Continuous (motion impossible!)

Like a sort of check on patterned board

Never ending or changing

""Characterized by, or pertaining to, petechi\'91; spotted.""

Graphic clip to air must be edited

Well-illustrated magazine

Clip a riot (anagram) - graphic

Portion the food bit by bit (wordplay)

Sample tea, perhaps, a little at a time

Bit at a time for smorgasbord (wordplay)

""A white crystalline substance obtained by oxidation of piperic acid, and regarded as a complex aldehyde.""

Reminiscent of Kidd.

Like corporate raiders' behavior

Engaged in pelagic depredation.

Like a category of mammals

Containing a plaint; complaining; expressing sorrow with an audible voice.

""A jellylike state of cytoplasm, characteristically occurring in the pseudopod of the amoeba.""

A state of cytoplasm that is more liquid than plasmagel.

Spoil salt when stirring in resinous liquid

Plateful

Tending to cause an argument

Controversial mineral left under post

I call poem terribly controversial

Getting into the party spirit (wordplay)

Like some platforms

Having to do with government.

Shapely (wordplay)

Many-sided

Using more than one key

Of music, using two or more keys simultaneously

""Of or pertaining to the ham; in the region of the ham, or behind the knee joint; as, the popliteal space. as, the popliteal space.""

Beam in doorway needed painting

Ray is in the doorway of study

New, royal part in artistic delineation

""Situated behind any transverse axis in the body of an animal; caudal; posterior; especially, behind, or on the caudal or posterior (that is, ulnar or fibular) side of, the axis of a vertebrate limb.""

POSTCAVA a vein in higher vertebrates

In period after birth

Kind of pediatric care

Immediately after birth

Adjective (-al)

It's currently latent

Latent qualities that may develop

Something to live up to

Pragmatic, hard-nosed

Applied, being sensible

Did not turn out as intended

Speaking up (wordplay)

Very devout

Devout

""Of or pertaining to a prebend; holding a prebend; as, a prebendal priest or stall. as, a prebendal priest or stall.""

CANCEL to {annul=v}

Covered with down and capable of moving about when hatched. Used of wading birds and domestic fowl.

COITAL relating to coitus

FEUDAL pertaining to an ancient political and economic system

Of or pertaining to the prepuce.

Having a garrison

Of Truman's office.

TRAVEL to go from one place to another

Pleb raver wildly preceding action

Primatical.

5 across moral, say (wordplay)

Mr. Belding, for one

Class action suit (wordplay)

""Of or pertaining to prodromes; as, the prodromal stage of a disease. as, the prodromal stage of a disease.""

PROTOZOA the lowest and simplest of animals

Having a sixth sense

""Of or pertaining to childbirth; as, a puerperal fever. as, a puerperal fever.""

Just the thing for the pugilists' dance!

Kids' outdoor game played with fists

Urban kids' sport

PYCNIDIA pycnidium

Like a Ponzi scheme

Pointed down to square

From three sides, pointed at monument to Albert

""An aldehyde, C 8 H 9 NO 3 , one of several active forms of pyridoxine, important in amino acid synthesis.""

Questioning, look say

Questioning - teasing

Mildly perplexed

Of birds of prey.

Praying, by the sound of it, to get back to par to twisted rail

Type of auk

Zorba, swimming in stream, finds bird

Black-and-white seabird

Further stirring

Renewed stimulation

CHANNEL to direct along a course

Trojan 'ero in retreat returned like Stephen Fry at Dundee

Bully losing face in backward haunt connected with academic authority

Heedful; attentive; observant.

True about soldier and police assassinating head of state

Characteristic of Hamlet and Macbeth, Claudius and Macduff

Murderous soldier detectives caught in old Spanish capital

Dress, for one

Time to set the stage (wordplay)

Prepared for a premiere

Task after a severe crash (wordplay)

Again establish checks unlikely

Two stops to station again

Reprieve.

Saving for action in court (wordplay)

Action of recovery

Fetching of something

Supply a ship or army with food again.

Suppy a ship or army with food again.

RHIZOBIA rhizobium

RHIZOID a rootlike structure

RIBOSOME a particle composed of protein and RNA

I sell rags, maybe!

She sells a rig-out, maybe

Department store worker, sometimes

Pertaining to the tailor's art

Re men's clothes

Relating to tailoring

Like Mad (wordplay)

Like "Utopia" or "Gulliver's Travels"

Juvenalian in style

Unwilling to give credit

Inclined to doubt accepted opinions

Inclined to disbelieve, not convinced

""Pertaining to, or producing, science.""

Beantown pitch (wordplay)

Tommy's word for his opponent (wordplay)

Hubbell's famed pitch.

Partial collapse of coastline

Like a prefabricated house

It is stirred into barbiturate in parts

Adapted for cutting.

Gent's meal chopped up in pieces

Gleam sent out when divided into parts

In pieces son, for example, kept in mind

Of a school period

Of a school term

Every six months or less, a term that's flexible

Culmination of a truck race (wordplay)

Not a fully detached game!

A red and blue one approaches!

Arsenic is one

Arsenic or antimony

Like some suburbs

Slightly built-up

Between urban and country

TONAL pertaining to tone

She cleans out for the steward

Clash seen to be dealt with by steward

Figure in authority.

Of the center of feeling.

SEROTINE a European bat

A lesson is revised termly

Of a court sitting.

Pertaining to a meeting.