2-Letter Words Ending in L

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

Suspect online assent is unimportant

Not totally necessary

Not absolutely necessary

""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""

Inflected form of STEROIDAL Inflected form of STEROID a type of chemical compound

""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.""

""UNIVERSAL Of or pertaining to the universe; extending to, including, or affecting, the whole number, quantity, or space; unlimited; general; allreaching; allpervading; as, universal ruin; universal good; universal benevolence or benefice. as, universal ruin; universal good; universal benevolence or benefice.""

Relating to one's job or profession

Rehabilitation via practical activities

To do with work

""OPPOSITION The act of opposing; an attempt to check, restrain, or defeat; resistance.""

""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)

""PERORATION The concluding part of an oration; especially, a final summing up and enforcement of an argument.""

Causing infectious diseases

A little snipe playing up causing trouble

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

PHENOTYPIC

Of or pertaining to phonology.

Any of innumerable small bodies thought to have orbited the sun during the formation of the planets.

""PLATITUDE The quality or state of being flat, thin, or insipid; flat commonness; triteness; staleness of ideas of language.""

""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.""

POPULATION The act or process of populating; multiplication of inhabitants.

""POSSESSION The act or state of possessing, or holding as one's own.""

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

Adjective (-al)

Immediately after a meal

Occurring after a meal

After dinner

Adjective (-al)

PRECENTOR A leader of a choir; a directing singer.

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

Privileged parking requiring references

Discriminating in favour of one side

Alpine ferret running better

""INAUGURAL Pertaining to, or performed or pronounced at, an inauguration; as, an inaugural address; the inaugural exercises. as, an inaugural address; the inaugural exercises.""

""MENSTRUAL 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.""

Relating to a head of state

Leader's power, dealing with occupation

Conjure up Palestine rid of Arafat (wordplay)

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.""

Expert - one paid in sport etc

Experienced person if also retrained

Pair of sea lions poorly trained

PROJECTION The act of throwing or shooting forward.

Corresponding in size

Commensurate

Balanced

PROTONEMATA

Lucky devil on a trip abroad

Unexpectedly fortunate (as if arranged by God)

Very opportune

Coarse dark ryebread

German coarse rye bread

Coarse dark rye bread

Causing criminal damage, a rail company at fault

Match in knockout tournament

Match between two sides in the last eight of knockout competition

Of a lustrum

Happening once every five years

Recurring every five years

Of drugs taken for enjoyment

(Of drugs) used for kicks

Like some drugs

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

Note: reptilia evolved like parrots

""REPUTATION The estimation in which one is held; character in public opinion; the character attributed to a person, thing, or action; repute.""

Adjective (-al)

""SALUTATION The act of saluting, or paying respect or reverence, by the customary words or actions; the act of greeting, or expressing good will or courtesy; also, that which is uttered or done in saluting or greeting.""

COLONIAL a citizen of a colony

SPECIATION

STENOTHERM

""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 substantive; of the nature of substantive.

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

Changing usual partner is weird

Turns up a real oddity - it's uncanny

Psychic upset usual partner

Spare plastic potty

Additional to what is required

Flexible in the mind, providing what's missing

Being above the threshold of consciousness or of sensation. Used of stimuli.

SYNAPTOSOME

Happening at the same time; synchronous.

TEASPOONS teaspoon

In process of change

In process of changing

In the process of change

NATURAL a type of musical note

Of or pertaining to a triphthong; consisting of three vowel sounds pronounced together in a single syllable.

""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.""

""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

""Pertaining to the urinary and genital organs; genitourinary; urogenital; as, the urinogenital canal. as, the urinogenital canal.""

""VEGETATION The act or process of vegetating, or growing as a plant does; vegetable growth.""

Both ventral and medial; extending toward the ventral surface and the median line.

""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

""AGGREGATION The act of aggregating, or the state of being aggregated; collection into a mass or sum; a collection of particulars; an aggregate.""

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 DIARRHEAL Inflected form of DIARRHEA looseness of the bowels

Inflected form of MICROBIAL Inflected form of MICROBE a microscopic organism

Land-mine type

Like certain weapons sent in plane or distributed some other way

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

Relating to or resulting from arbitration.

Of or pertaining to an archdeacon.

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

Like Armstrong or Glenn

""ATTRIBUTION The act of attributing or ascribing, as a quality, character, or function, to a thing or person, an effect to a cause.""

""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

""(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.""

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

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

Arranged on order of occurrence

Arranged in order of occurrence

In time order

Like mixed schools

Certainly not of the class of Eton, for instance

Instructing boys and girls, commander wrongly cautioned a learner

COLLOCATION The act of placing; the state of being placed with something else; disposition in place; arrangement.

Of or relating to combinations.

COMBINATE United; joined; betrothed.

Divided into sections

Commander, somewhat mad, is sectioned

Commander, a bit crazy, is sectioned

Relating to creation of a musical work

""COMPRESSION The act of compressing, or state of being compressed.""

Of or pertaining to computation (definition 3).

Of the Senate and House of Representatives

___ Record

Relating to conjugation.

Relating to a conjunction.

Having the power of implying or suggesting something in addition to what is explicit. Contrasted with denotative.denotative.

Following as a result

Important; following on

Of importance

""CONTRACTION The act or process of contracting, shortening, or shrinking; the state of being contracted; as, contraction of the heart, of the pupil of the eye, or of a tendion; the contraction produced by cold. as, contraction of the heart, of the pupil of the eye, or of a tendion; the contraction produced by cold.""

Taking place or originating in a corresponding part on an opposite side.

Causing heated debate

Likely to cause disagreement

Is Rev. a control freak? It's debatable

Of or pertaining to a convocation.

""RESIDENTIAL Of or pertaining to a residence or residents; as, residential trade. as, residential trade.""

""CORRELATION Reciprocal relation; corresponding similarity or parallelism of relation or law; capacity of being converted into, or of giving place to, one another, under certain conditions; as, the correlation of forces, or of zymotic diseases. as, the correlation of forces, or of zymotic diseases.""

CYTOGENETIC Of or pertaining to cytogenesis or cell development.cytogenesis or cell development.

""DECLINATION The act or state of bending downward; inclination; as, declination of the head. as, declination of the head.""

Of or pertaining to deformation (in all senses).

Of or pertaining to demonology.

DENDROLOGIC

Pertaining to deontology.

DETERMINANT Serving to determine or limit; determinative.

""Pertaining to, or characteristic of, the process of development; as, the developmental power of a germ. as, the developmental power of a germ.""

English word

Of or pertaining to dipsomania.

Pertaining to disposition.

Broken, soundly, in fact (wordplay)

Not operating properly

Like George or Kramer on "Seinfeld"

Specialising in science of insect

Of the study of insects

Colonial got me excited in terms of studying cricket maybe

Pertaining to the surrounding world

To do with one's surroundings

A number of very harsh chaps coming in late, turning green

EPIPHENOMENA

An equipotential line or surface

""EXAMINATION The act of examining, or state of being examined; a careful search, investigation, or inquiry; scrutiny by study or experiment.""

EXPECTATION The act or state of expecting or looking forward to an event as about to happen.

""EXPLORATION The act of exploring, penetrating, or ranging over for purposes of discovery, especially of geographical discovery; examination; as, the exploration of unknown countries as, the exploration of unknown countries""

""FLUCTUATION A motion like that of waves; a moving in this and that direction; as, the fluctuations of the sea. as, the fluctuations of the sea.""

""FORAMINIFERA An extensive order of rhizopods which generally have a chambered calcareous shell formed by several united zooids. Many of them have perforated walls, whence the name. Some species are covered with sand. See Rhizophoda. Rhizophoda.""

Grand, having immensity of good food

To do with fine eating

Relating to the art of good eating

GRANDPARENT

Relating to bodily attraction

Relating to attraction

Kind of field changed to a vital grain

Relating to a governor

Of or pertaining to gynecology.

""Unfolding the signification; of or pertaining to interpretation; exegetical; explanatory; as, hermeneutic theology, or the art of expounding the Scriptures; a hermeneutic phrase.as, hermeneutic theology, or the art of expounding the Scriptures; a hermeneutic phrase.""

RATIONAL a number that can be expressed as a quotient of integers

ICHTHYOFAUNA

IMMIGRATION The act of immigrating; the passing or coming into a country for the purpose of permanent residence.

Of or pertaining to immunology.

""INCANTATION The act or process of using formulas sung or spoken, with occult ceremonies, for the purpose of raising spirits, producing enchantment, or affecting other magical results; enchantment.""

INCLINATION

Small and barely discernible

Very, very small

Start of the commentary

Relating to knowledge or data

""Relating to inquiry or inquisition; inquisitorial; also, of or pertaining to, or characteristic of, the Inquisition.""

Searchingly questioning

Prying

INSCRIPTION The act or process of inscribing.

Iranian plot is strangely stirring

(Of idea) sudden, brilliant

Generating an elevated feeling

Unappealing or monotonous

Impersonal, unappealing

Providing education

Educative

Taliban is nuts blowing up weak

Lacking solidity

Tenuous

INTERACTION Intermediate action.

Among certain regions.

COMMUNAL belonging to the community

CORTICAL pertaining to a {cortex=n}

CULTURAL relating to culture

FAMILIAL pertaining to a {family=n}

MARGINAL anything in or on a margin

Cover race between countries

Rallying song since 1871.

Game played between countries

NEURONAL pertaining to a {neuron=n}

Relating to relationships

Relating to relationships between people

PROXIMAL located near the point of origin

REGIONAL something that serves as a region

SOCIETAL pertaining to a {society=n}

TERMINAL an end

Practitioner travelling by lake between two hot lines

Occurring or situated within the cerebrum: an intracerebral hemorrhage.

Existing or occurring within the individual self or mind.

English word

""Pl. meningococci (-k k s , -k ) A bacterium (Neisseria meningitidis) that causes cerebrospinal meningitis.""

METAFICTION

Underground worker, ace thinking properly about study of ores

MITOCHONDRIA

""Consisting of, or pertaining to, a monophthong.""

Crossing country borders

Large company

Huge corporation

Adjective (-al)

Adjective (-al)

The branch of zoology that deals with nematodes.

The study of the chemical composition and processes of the nervous system and the effects of chemicals on it.

NEUROHORMONE

Pl. neurosurgeries Surgery on any part of the nervous system.

Pertaining or according to a nomenclature.

BEHAVIORAL of or pertaining to behavior.

Adoptive, perhaps, without extra enzymes (wordplay)