2-Letter Words Ending in L

""Situated behind the orbit; as, the postorbital scales of some fishes and reptiles. as, the postorbital scales of some fishes and reptiles.""

Of or pertaining to business or to affairs; of the nature of business; practical; material; businesslike in habit or manner.

BIBLICAL pertaining to the bible

CLINICAL pertaining to a {clinic=n}

COLONIAL a citizen of a colony

CRITICAL {crucial=adj}

DOCTORAL pertaining to a doctor

""PREFECTURE The office, position, or jurisdiction of a prefect; also, his official residence.""

Harmful, detrimental

Detrimental

MEDIEVAL a person belonging to he Middle Ages

Taken before dinner

Before dinner

Quiet agent managed to phone up once before meal

PUBERTAL of puberty

""PRESTIGE charm, magic or glamour in the eyes of other people""

TERMINAL an end

VISIONAL imaginary

Probationary.

Serving to publicise a product

Encouraging publicity

Of publicity.

""Containing, or pertaining to, prophecy; foretelling events; as, prophetic writings; prophetic dreams; -- used with of before the thing foretold.as, prophetic writings; prophetic dreams; -- used with of before the thing foretold.""

""A drug, C 16 H 21 NO 2 , that blocks beta-adrenergic activity, used to treat hypertension, angina pectoris, and cardiac arrhythmia and to prevent migraine headaches.""

""Of or pertaining to a protector; protectorial; as, protectoral power. as, protectoral power.""

Temporary - viral poison (anagram)

Pending subsequent decision

Temporary - conditional

""PSEUDOPOD Any protoplasmic filament or irregular process projecting from any unicellular organism, or from any animal or plant call.""

Late Jurassic flyer

Extinct flying reptile

Flier of long ago

Serving to purify of sin; expiatory.

Marked by stern morality

Very strict or censorious

Strictly moral in conduct

Of or pertaining to a pyramid; having the form of a pyramid; pyramidal.

Having four feet; of or pertaining to a quadruped.

Further assessment

Assessing differently

Modified opinion about artist is received in shock

Like a legman's work

Critical agent, right, has all possible tour bus passengers going topless

Expressing ecstatic feeling

Rapt

Endless rest in maple syrup

Of or pertaining to a sophist; embodying sophistry; fallaciously subtile; not sound.

SPERMICIDE

SPIROCHETE

PARALLEL to be extended in the same direction

Like zones that support many deserts

Of a particular climate zone

Like a region whose climate is between temperate and torrid

Far from thorough

Not profound

Not significant.

Exceeding the average

English word

Like a whodunit

Creating uncertainty

Dosage amount, perhaps

Small volume

Adjective (-ical)

Of a branch of geometry

TOPONYMIC

Four-sided with none parallel

Shaped like a quadrilateral with one pair of parallel sides

TYPOLOGIC

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

Adjective (-al)

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

Not practical; impractical.

""SPIRITUAL Consisting of spirit; not material; incorporeal; as, a spiritual substance or being. as, a spiritual substance or being.""

Pigment causing autumn colours

Having a capacity for adaptation. Opposed to maladaptive.maladaptive.

One sort of order

Related to 26 characters

Like letters in CHIMPS and BIJOUX

Running in a contrary direction.

Pertaining to an apparition or to apparitions; spectral.

Pertaining to apposition; put in apposition syntactically.

Of or pertaining to an archespore.

Perfectly representative

Very representative

Chap involved with literacy in original form

Characterised by hope or ambition

Like those trying to succeed

Relating to hope, since religious and sensible

Of or pertaining to biography; containing biography.

""Supplying, or tending to supply, a deficiency; fully completing.""

Of or pertaining to constitutional complexion.

""COMPONENT Serving, or helping, to form; composing; constituting; constituent.""

Pertaining to conception.

Of music with more than one melody

Polyphonic

Singing voice wanting to hedge a bet with more than one melody

English word

A systemic infection caused by the fungus Cryptococcus neoformans that can affect any organ of the body but most often occurs in the central nervous system.

Go mad and get sectioned

Organised in units, go crazy

Go mad from division

POSITIONAL Of or pertaining to position.

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.""

"". Governed by expediency; seeking advantage; as an expediential policy. "Calculating, expediential understanding." Hare. expediential policy. "Calculating, expediential understanding." Hare.""

""Derived from, or pertaining to, experience.""

Data-based - inexpert male (anagram)

Tentative mixture - for example nitre

Based on untested ideas

EXPOSITION The act of exposing or laying open; a setting out or displaying to public view.

""Of, or relating to, expression; phraseological; also, vividly representing or suggesting an idea sentiment.""

Of the earth.

Relating to the effect of physical features on international relations

One gets hammered, making a noise!

Bell-like instrument

Percussion instrument with metal bars

AROUSAL the act of {arousing=v}

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

Commanding; imperative; authoritative.

PLUVIAL a prolonged period of wet climate

Like a figure of speech

Symbolic of something else

Figurative

A cheat simply becomes abstruse

Very abstract.

APPRAISAL A valuation by an authorized person; an appraisement.

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

""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.""

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""

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.""

Relating to the description of mountains

""Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a paraboloid.""

""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)

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

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

Causing infectious diseases

A little snipe playing up causing trouble

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.

English word

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

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.""

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 (-al)

Adjective (-al)

Adjective (-al)

Adjective (-al)

Immediately after a meal

Occurring after a meal

After dinner

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.""

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.""

""REHEARSAL The act of rehearsing; recital; narration; repetition; specifically, a private recital, performance, or season of practice, in preparation for a public exhibition or exercise.""

Presbyterian.

Relating to a head of state

Leader's power, dealing with occupation

Conjure up Palestine rid of Arafat (wordplay)

(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.""

Expert - one paid in sport etc

Experienced person if also retrained

Pair of sea lions poorly trained

Characteristic of an academic

PROJECTION The act of throwing or shooting forward.

Corresponding in size

Commensurate

Balanced

PROTONEMATA

*Like Disneyland, vis-a-vis theme parks

Lucky devil on a trip abroad

Unexpectedly fortunate (as if arranged by God)

Very opportune

""Of or pertaining to a pseudopod, or to pseudopodia. See Illust. of Heliozoa. Illust. of Heliozoa.""

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

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.""

Warm, as a climate

SPECIATION

Of or pertaining to a spectator.

SPERMATOZOA

English word

Situated immediately below the epidermis.

""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.""

""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.""

Changing usual partner is weird

Turns up a real oddity - it's uncanny

Psychic upset usual partner

Adjective (-al)

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.

Located above the orbit of the eye: the supraorbital ridge.

SYNAPTOSOME

TEASPOONS teaspoon

Like Blavatsky's society

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

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

Characterized by tropes; varied by tropes; tropical.

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

North American goatsucker

North American nightjar

Nocturnal bird with an onomatopoeic name

Land-mine type

Like certain weapons sent in plane or distributed some other way

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

Exciting venereal desire; stimulating the desire for sexual gratification.

Of the final catastrophe

Relating to the nature of stars

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

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

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).

Like much GCHQ work

Code-based

""DEMOGRAPHIC of or pertaining to demography; as, demographic surveys.as, demographic surveys.""

""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.

Lacking in courtesy

Lacking courtesy

Impolite

EPIPHENOMENA

An equipotential line or surface