2-Letter Words Ending in L

CYBERNETIC

Cells ()

""Of or pertaining to the cytoskeleton; as, cytoskeletal microtubules.as, cytoskeletal microtubules.""

Belonging to declension.

""DIAGNOSTIC Pertaining to, or furnishing, a diagnosis; indicating the nature of a disease.""

(Chemistry) a compound having two sites in the molecule that are highly reactive

""Pertaining to, or like, a dodecahedion; consisting of twelve equal sides.""

""Pertaining to, containing, or consisting in, an emblem; symbolic; typically representative; representing as an emblem; as, emblematic language or ornaments; a crown is emblematic of royalty; white is emblematic of purity.as, emblematic language or ornaments; a crown is emblematic of royalty; white is emblematic of purity.""

Growing or developing within cartilage; applied esp. to developing bone.

Within or passing through the trachea: an endotracheal tube.

""Pl. enterococci (-k k s , -k k ) A usually nonpathogenic streptococcus that inhabits the intestine.""

Relating to epexegesis; explanatory; exegetical.

""Pertaining to the epicycloid, or having its properties.""

""Of or pertaining to epigraphs or to epigraphy; as, an epigraphic style; epigraphical works or studies.as, an epigraphic style; epigraphical works or studies.""

Of or pertaining to ethnology.

Dealing with word origins

Relating to word origins

""EXCAVATION The act of excavating, or of making hollow, by cutting, scooping, or digging out a part of a solid mass.""

EXORCISTIC

Located or occurring outside the cranium.

Lying outside of the domain of logic.

Adjective (-ical)

""An antineoplastic agent, C 4 H 3 FN 2 O 2 , used especially in the treatment of cancers of the skin, breast, and digestive system.""

Concerned with tracing a tree (wordplay)

Upset college again concerning family history

GEOBOTANIC

Of the earth.

Relating to the effect of physical features on international relations

""The downward bend or subsidence of the earth's crust, which allows of the gradual accumulation of sediment, and hence forms the first step in the making of a mountain range; opposed to geanticlinal. geanticlinal.""

GEOTECHNIC

One gets hammered, making a noise!

Bell-like instrument

Percussion instrument with metal bars

HAGIOLOGIC

""Combining the heroic and the ludicrous; denoting high burlesque; as, a heroicomic poem.as, a heroicomic poem.""

""Having the vertebral column evidently continued into the upper lobe of the tail, which is usually longer than the lower one, as in sharks.""

Arranged in order of rank

Classified by rank

""Pertaining to histology, or to the microscopic structure of the tissues of living organisms.""

Of or pertaining to hydrology.

Belonging to the hyperbola; having the nature of the hyperbola.

TYPICAL representative of the species

Professing virtues one does not have

Insincere pachyderm said to be seriously ill

Two-faced

Supposed (but not necessarily) real

Supposed but not necessarily real

Supposititious

""Images the description, history, and analysis of symbolic art or artistic symbolism, especially that of the late medieval and Renaissance periods. Also called iconography . ; iconologist, n . ; iconological,""

Not methodical; without method or systematic arrangement; without order or regularity; confused.

INDICATION Act of pointing out or indicating.

""Of or pertaining to infanticide; engaged in, or guilty of, child murder.""

""Of or pertaining to inflection; having, or characterized by, inflection.""

INSECTICIDE An agent or preparation for destroying insects; an insect powder.

Egghead uncle a little upset

Related to rational thought processes

Philosopher, for example.

CHANNEL to direct along a course

Altercations getting out of hand between New York and California, perhaps

Period between Ice Ages

Of or pertaining to an internuncio.

Adjective (-al)

Within the cranium or skull.

""INVOCATION The act or form of calling for the assistance or presence of some superior being; earnest and solemn entreaty; esp., prayer offered to a divine being.""

KARYOLOGIC

LIMNOLOGIC

""Of or pertaining to language; relating to linguistics, or to the affinities of languages.""

""Of or pertaining to the character of a rock, as derived from the nature and mode of aggregation of its mineral contents.""

Male at match, I get confused by numbers

(Of proof) very accurate

Like magic squares

Like a figure of speech

Symbolic of something else

Figurative

A cheat simply becomes abstruse

Very abstract.

Of or pertaining to metathesis.

METEORITIC

Of or pertaining to metrology.

METRONOMIC

Having a crystalline structure visible only under a microscope.

MONOCULTURE

Obsessed with one thing

SINGLE-MINDED

Word with prefix multi-

""The discipline of museum design, organization, and management.""

Relating to ancient stories

Pertaining to ancient stories

Relating to traditional stories

""Of or pertaining to necrology; of the nature of necrology; relating to, or giving, an account of the dead, or of deaths.""

20th century music style

In a revived style from the past

Type of art, perhaps one form to one state

Of or pertaining to neurolgy.

BACTERIAL Of or pertaining to bacteria.

""CLASSICAL Of or relating to the first class or rank, especially in literature or art.""

Guarded in speech

Guarded, but without being locked up (wordplay)

On the fence, not a prison sentence (wordplay)

CUSTODIAL Relating to custody or guardianship.

""EMPIRICAL Pertaining to, or founded upon, experiment or experience; depending upon the observation of phenomena; versed in experiments.""

""FICTIONAL Pertaining to, or characterized by, fiction; fictitious; romantic.""

FINANCIAL Pertaining to finance.

""IDENTICAL The same; the selfsame; the very same; not different; as, the identical person or thing. as, the identical person or thing.""

""MERCURIAL Having the qualities fabled to belong to the god Mercury; swift; active; sprightly; fickle; volatile; changeable; as, a mercurial youth; a mercurial temperament. as, a mercurial youth; a mercurial temperament.""

Inflected form of MICROBIAL Inflected form of MICROBE a microscopic organism

""MUNICIPAL Of or pertaining to a city or a corporation having the right of administering local government; as, municipal rights; municipal officers. as, municipal rights; municipal officers.""

Inflected form of NUMERICAL Inflected form of NUMERIC a {numeral=n}

Not political. Opposite of political.political.

PRACTICAL Of or pertaining to practice or action.

""Inflected form of SPHERICAL Inflected form of SPHERIC having the form of a sphere, also SPHERAL""

""Not characteristic of or skilled in applied arts and sciences; as, nontechnical aspects of the job; nontechnical training. Opposite of technical.as, nontechnical aspects of the job; nontechnical training. Opposite of technical.""

Relating to one's job or profession

Rehabilitation via practical activities

To do with work

OLIGARCHIC

Relating to the description of mountains

Of or pertaining to osteology.

A civil rector sadly becoming too judgmental

Casanova loses the head with serious type that's hard to please

""Of or pertaining to, or resembling, paradise; paradisiacal; as, paradisaical innocence; an age of paradisaical happiness.as, paradisaical innocence; an age of paradisaical happiness.""

""Of or pertaining to paradise; suitable to, or like, paradise; paradisaic.""

""PARATACTIC Of pertaining to, or characterized by, parataxis.""

Relating to or exhibiting disease

(adj.) adept at doing mazes

Relating to a disease

""PERCEPTION The act of perceiving; cognizance by the senses or intellect; apperhension by the bodily organs, or by the mind, of what is presented to them; discernment; apperhension; cognition.""

Adjective (-al)

PERSPECTIVE Of or pertaining to the science of vision; optical.

Of or pertaining to petrology.

""Time the study of the effects of climate on animal and plant life. ; phenologist, phaenologist, ; phenologic, phaenologic, phenological, phaenological,""

PHENOTYPIC

PHILOLOGIC Of or pertaining to philology.

Of or pertaining to phonology.

The branch of botany that deals with algae. Also called algology .

""Pl. pneumococci (-k k s , -k k ) A nonmotile, gram-positive bacterium (Streptococcus pneumoniae) that is the most common cause of bacterial pneumonia, associated with meningitis and other infectious diseases.""

Adjective (-ical)

""Of, relating to, or being the time following the establishment of independence in a colony: postcolonial economics.""

(Of research) done after a second degree

Type of study after getting an advanced degree (2 words)

Adjective (-ical)

Adjective (-al)

PRECENTOR A leader of a choir; a directing singer.

Of or pertaining to a preceptor.

""Of or pertaining to pression; as, the precessional movement of the equinoxes. as, the precessional movement of the equinoxes.""

(Christianity / Ecclesiastical Terms) a church serving as a cathedral

Hymn with a line that comes after parade

Hymn used during entry or exit in church

Paid arranger perhaps to accept key change to create moving hymn

""PRODUCTION The act or process or producing, bringing forth, or exhibiting to view; as, the production of commodities, of a witness. as, the production of commodities, of a witness.""

PROJECTION The act of throwing or shooting forward.

*Like Disneyland, vis-a-vis theme parks

Like some Freudian stages

Party at the Bates Motel (wordplay)

Coarse dark ryebread

German coarse rye bread

Coarse dark rye bread

(Chemistry / Elements & Compounds) another name for catechol QUARTERLIGHT (Engineering / Automotive Engineering) Brit a small pivoted window in the door of a car for ventilation

Causing criminal damage, a rail company at fault

RADIOLOGIC

Of drugs taken for enjoyment

(Of drugs) used for kicks

Like some drugs

""FLECTIONAL Capable of, or pertaining to, flection or inflection.""

Adjective (-al)

""Resembling sugar, as in taste, appearance, consistency, or composition; as, saccharoidal limestone.as, saccharoidal limestone.""

Preoccupied with excrement

Same as Schismatic. Schismatic.

SCHISTOSOME

""A white odorless barbiturate, C 12 H 18 N 2 O 3 , used in the form of its sodium salt as a sedative and hypnotic.""

COLONIAL a citizen of a colony

MYSTICAL spiritually significant

""Half official; having some official authority or importance; as, a semiofficial statement. as, a semiofficial statement.""

""Same as Semeiography, Semeiology, Semeiological.Semeiography, Semeiology, Semeiological.""

Warm, as a climate

SERICULTURE The raising of silkworms.

""Of or pertaining to sociology, or social science.""

SPECIATION

Of or pertaining to a spectator.

English word

""Of or pertaining to the sternum and the ribs; as, the sternocostal cartilages. as, the sternocostal cartilages.""

""PRINCIPAL Highest in rank, authority, character, importance, or degree; most considerable or important; chief; main; as, the principal officers of a Government; the principal men of a state; the principal productions of a country; the principal arguments in a case. as, the principal officers of a Government; the principal men of a state; the principal productions of a country; the principal arguments in a case.""

Of or pertaining to a succession; existing in a regular order; consecutive.

""Pl. superhelixes or superhelices (h l -s z , h l -) A molecular structure in which a helix is itself coiled into a helix, as of overwound circular DNA.""

Adjective (-al)

Happening at the same time; synchronous.

Verbally superfluous

Tight circle is methodical in giving too much repeat information

""Of or pertaining to teleology, or the doctrine of design.""

""Of or pertaining to a theocracy; administred by the immediate direction of God; as, the theocratical state of the Israelites.as, the theocratical state of the Israelites.""

Like Blavatsky's society

""TIMOCRATIC Belonging to, or constituted by, timocracy.""

Of or pertaining to tragi-comedy; partaking of grave and comic scenes.

""The science of the mechanisms of friction, lubrication, and wear of interacting surfaces that are in relative motion.""

""Consisting of, or pertaining to, triglyphs.""

""TROCHANTER One of two processes near the head of the femur, the outer being called the great trochanter, and the inner the small trochanter. great trochanter, and the inner the small trochanter.""

Characterized by tropes; varied by tropes; tropical.

CAREFUL {cautious=adj}

RADICAL a group of atoms that act as a unit in chemical compounds

""COMMERCIAL Of or pertaining to commerce; carrying on or occupied with commerce or trade; mercantile; as, commercial advantages; commercial relations. as, commercial advantages; commercial relations.""

""ECOLOGICAL of or pertaining to ecology; as, an ecological disaster.as, an ecological disaster.""

Wasteful of money

Lossmaking

""HISTORICAL Of or pertaining to history, or the record of past events; as, an historical poem; the historic page.as, an historical poem; the historic page.""

HYSTERICAL Of or pertaining to hysteria.

""RHETORICAL Of or pertaining to rhetoric; according to, or exhibiting, rhetoric; oratorical; as, the rhetorical art; a rhetorical treatise; a rhetorical flourish. as, the rhetorical art; a rhetorical treatise; a rhetorical flourish.""

""SCRIPTURAL Contained in the Scriptures; according to the Scriptures, or sacred oracles; biblical; as, a scriptural doctrine. as, a scriptural doctrine.""

Not achieving one's aim

Not accomplishing aim

Not achieving

Of or pertaining to viticulture.

""The domestication, breeding, and improvement of animals; the technology of animal husbandry.""

Pertaining to abstraction.

ACQUISITION The act or process of acquiring.

Like sleek airplanes and sports cars

Relating to or practicing alchemy.

Protective, in a way

Like a drug that's intricate a lab developed

""CLASSICAL Of or relating to the first class or rank, especially in literature or art.""

Inflected form of MICROBIAL Inflected form of MICROBE a microscopic organism

""POLITICAL Having, or conforming to, a settled system of administration.""

Exciting venereal desire; stimulating the desire for sexual gratification.

Of the final catastrophe

Of or pertaining to an archdeacon.

Relating to building design

Of design

Bow struck the City with the first flower of building design

""Of or pertaining to association, or to an association.""

Like Armstrong or Glenn

Relating to the nature of stars

AUTECOLOGIC

""Pertaining to bathymetry; relating to the measurement of depths, especially of depths in the sea.""

""CONDITIONAL Containing, implying, or depending on, a condition or conditions; not absolute; made or granted on certain terms; as, a conditional promise. as, a conditional promise.""

Going both ways

Functioning two ways

BIOELECTRIC

""(used with a sing. verb) The study of the mechanics of a living body, especially of the forces exerted by muscles and gravity on the skeletal structure.""

""CACOGRAPHIC Pertaining to, or characterized by, cacography; badly written or spelled.""

""CALCULATION The act or process, or the result, of calculating; computation; reckoning, estimate.""

""The medical study of the structure, function, and disorders of the heart.""

Of or pertaining to the central nervous system consisting of the brain and spinal cord.

""Selective destruction of tissue by use of chemicals, as for removing malignant skin lesions.""

Arranged on order of occurrence

Arranged in order of occurrence

In time order