2-Letter Words Ending in L

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""

Tending or serving to expurgate; expurgatory.

GRANDPARENT

GRAPHOLOGIC

Of half a globe

Of half the globe

Domed

""HYPERBOLOID A surface of the second order, which is cut by certain planes in hyperbolas; also, the solid, bounded in part by such a surface.""

Inclined to judge too severely

Pedantic phoney's love dismissed by the Queen

Having a redundant syllable; exceeding the common measure.

Above or transcending physical laws; supernatural.

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

INSCRIPTION The act or process of inscribing.

Iranian plot is strangely stirring

(Of idea) sudden, brilliant

Generating an elevated feeling

Relating to relationships

Relating to relationships between people

PROXIMAL located near the point of origin

Practitioner travelling by lake between two hot lines

Existing or occurring within the individual self or mind.

English word

""(used with a sing. verb) The physics of molecular, atomic, nuclear, and subnuclear systems.""

MICROSCOPIC

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

""Of, pertaining to, or according to, the principles of morphology.""

Adjective (-al)

Adjective (-al)

MYTHOPOETIC Making or producing myths or mythical tales.

CONCEPTUAL Pertaining to conception.

RECIPROCAL Recurring in vicissitude; alternate.

Pl. oropharynges (-f -r n j z) or oropharynxes The part of the pharynx between the soft palate and the epiglottis.

""OVIPOSITION The depositing of eggs, esp. by insects.""

PALYNOLOGIC

""Of or pertaining to pantheism; founded in, or leading to, pantheism.""

""Capable of destroying parasites, especially capable of expelling or destroying parasitic worms.""

(Word or phrase) in brackets

Like some remarks

Using brackets

Adjective (-al)

Maybe horse destroyed 8 crops

PERMUTATION The act of permuting; exchange of the thing for another; mutual transference; interchange.

Such as paraffin or fuel oil

PHARMACOPEIA

""A crystalline barbiturate, C 12 H 12 N 2 O 3 , used medicinally as a sedative, a hypnotic, and an anticonvulsant.""

Stoical in defeat

Uncomplaining in defeat

Calm and stoical in the face of setbacks

""Of or pertaining to chemical action of light, or produced by it; as, the photochemical changes of the visual purple of the retina. as, the photochemical changes of the visual purple of the retina.""

Of or pertaining to phrenology.

Relating to normal, healthy functioning

Relating to normal healthy functioning

Relating to study of organisms and their functions

Relating to phytochemistry.

Inflected form of RIBOSOMAL Inflected form of RIBOSOME a particle composed of protein and RNA

Era of history

Of a more recent artistic period

Later period in, eg, art

Adjective (-al)

Adjective (-al)

""POSTULATION The act of postulating, or that which is postulated; assumption; solicitation; suit; cause.""

Behavior ()

BIOLOGICAL Of or relating to biology.

""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.""

""INDUSTRIAL Consisting in industry; pertaining to industry, or the arts and products of industry; concerning those employed in labor, especially in manual labor, and their wages, duties, and rights.""

""Inflected form of MENOPAUSAL Inflected form of MENOPAUSE The period of natural cessation of menstruation. See Change of life, under Change. Change of life, under Change.""

"", Previous to the millennium.""

Of or pertaining to a preposition; of the nature of a preposition.

Out of the ordinary.

Beyond what is normal

Extraordinary and unexplainable

""Inflected form of VOCATIONAL Inflected form of VOCATION one's profession, business or occupation""

Open to doubt or debate

Difficult; doubtful

Presenting difficulties

PROCTOLOGIC

""Of or pertaining to a procurator, or proctor; made by a proctor.""

""Of or pertaining to progression; tending to, or capable of, progress.""

""Pertaining to, or in the nature of, a proposition; considered as a proposition; as, a propositional sense. as, a propositional sense.""

Possessive

""PROSECUTOR One who prosecutes or carries on any purpose, plan, or business.""

Relating to the study of elections

All in the mind

Affecting the mind

Type of warfare

Relating to fireworks

Like firework display going off in a holy precinct

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

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

Of or pertaining to the north; northern.

Caves

Conventionalised novel operatic style

Operatic style devised in keeping with stock character

Hackneyed

""Of, relating to, or caused by a streptococcus.""

Adjective (-al)

Adjective (-al)

""1. (Physics / General Physics) Physics (of a fluid) brought to a temperature and pressure higher than its critical temperature and pressure, so that its physical and chemical properties change""

SUPERNATION

SUPERPERSON

Above or beyond physics; not explainable by physical laws.

SUPERPOWER

Adjective (-al)

Standing after drink? Ale not finished, it's presumed

With power or influence transcending borders

Adjective (-al)

Heaped measure used in recipes

Measure in cookery

A small amount fell upon boats at sea

Given to mood changes

Unstable, so mind the end of it

Having a volatile disposition

Kind of map

Relating to the features of an area

Relating to layout of an area's natural features

""PERSONAL a brief, private notice in a newspaper""

Kind of error

PHYSICAL a medical examination of the body

POWERFUL full of power

Commonplace.

Usual

""Of or pertaining to xylography, or wood engraving.""

Consisting of both letters and figures

Is pi chap out with oracle from Canterbury (wordplay)

Of or pertaining to cartography.

Of or pertaining to chirography.

COMPENSATION The act or principle of compensating.

CONSPIRATION Agreement or concurrence for some end or purpose; conspiracy.

Scheming corsair in a plot that's gone wrong

Criminal is in patrol car, admitting love for plotting

Of or pertaining to cosmography.

DISCOGRAPHIC

""DISPENSATION The act of dispensing or dealing out; distribution; often used of the distribution of good and evil by God to man, or more generically, of the acts and modes of his administration.""

(Earth Sciences / Physical Geography) (esp of a sea) situated on a continental shelf or continent

Of science that treats of races and nations

Occurring outside the body

Relating to or involving neural pathways situated outside or independent of the pyramidal tracts.

HAGIOGRAPHIC

Pertaining to herpetology.

HIEROGLYPHIC

""EMOTIONAL Pertaining to, or characterized by, emotion; excitable; easily moved; sensational; as, an emotional nature. as, an emotional nature.""

""HYPOCORISTIC Endearing; diminutive; as, the hypocoristic form of a name. as, the hypocoristic form of a name.""

ICONOGRAPHIC Of or pertaining to iconography.

""PAROCHIAL Of or pertaining to a parish; restricted to a parish; as, parochial duties. as, parochial duties.""

A leaflike structure that bears megasporangia.

MICROSPHERE

""MULTIPOTENT Having manifold power, or power to do many things.""

""Of or pertaining to both throat and nose; as, a nasopharyngeal polypus. as, a nasopharyngeal polypus.""

Not working or in use

NYMPHOMANIAC A woman afflicted with nymphomania.

""Of or pertaining to orthography, or right spelling; also, correct in spelling; as, orthographical rules; the letter was orthographic.as, orthographical rules; the letter was orthographic.""

PALEOBOTANIC

Of or pertaining to paleography.

""Of or pertaining to perturbation, esp. to the perturbations of the planets.""

Pertaining to petrography.

Drug, hemp, crucial at a bash

Relating to prescribed drugs

Relating to medicinal drugs

Drug-related

Of or pertaining to phraseology; consisting of a peculiar form of words.

Of or pertaining to physiognomy; according with the principles of physiognomy.

Astronomy ()

""Of or pertaining to polytheism; characterized by polytheism; professing or advocating polytheism; as, polytheistic worship; a polytheistic author, or nation.as, polytheistic worship; a polytheistic author, or nation.""

Adjective (-al)

""Of or relating to a period in the development of an economy or nation in which the relative importance of manufacturing lessens and that of services, information, and research grows.""

Of or occurring in the time following menopause.

Happening or existing after the millennium.

Of or pertaining to postposition.

""CONSONANTAL , <?/. Of the nature of a consonant; pertaining to consonants.""

""OPERATIONAL of or pertaining to operations; as, operational procedure.as, operational procedure.""

""PRESENTATION The act of presenting, or the state of being presented; a setting forth; an offering; bestowal.""

Here one's suffering from a disturbance of the mind that's ominous

The branch of zoology that deals with the study of primates.

""Of or relating to the phase of the menstrual cycle immediately following ovulation, characterized by secretion of progesterone.""

Pl. prothonotaries also protonotaries The principal clerk in certain courts of law.

Of or relating to psychochemicals.

Of or pertaining to psychophysics; involving the action or mutual relations of the psychical and physical in man.

""Pl. psychosurgeries Brain surgery used to treat severe, intractable mental or behavioral disorders.""

The study of ferns.

Like class issues, in the classroom

""Of, relating to, or existing in both space and time.""

SPERMATOGONIA

Relating to a harmful bacterium

""(Linguistics) Linguistics denoting those features of a sound or sequence of sounds that accompany rather than form part of the consecutive segments of a word or sentence, as for example stress and pitch in English suprasegmentally &nbsp; adv""

TABLESPOONS tablespoon

""PLACENTAL Of or pertaining to the placenta; having, or characterized by having, a placenta; as, a placental mammal. as, a placental mammal.""

PRACTICAL Of or pertaining to practice or action.

Not of the expected standard of work

One is not paid for such conduct

The amateur plainness of our production

""Of, pertaining to, exhibited in, or resembling, an amphitheater.""

Like Mead's field

Man's in pathetic poncho, wrestling with alligator

Like a librarian's job

Sourced

Of or pertaining to biogeography.

""An antibiotic, C 11 H 12 Cl 2 N 2 O 5 , derived from the soil bacterium Streptomyces venezuelae or produced synthetically and effective against a broad spectrum of microorganisms.""

An offer of marriage in store (wordplay)

Response to unsatis- factory plan

Negotiator's offering

CRYPTANALYTIC

Tense about wild fun in baths with little liquid

As much as can be eaten in one go during the final course of a meal (wordplay)

Rene's old fusspot, pouring out measure of liquid in kitchen

I'd poor part - lion's share when 29

Lacking size relationship

Launching a start-up, say

All up in your business (wordplay)

Willing to go it alone, in a way

Like much of today's most pressing scientific research

Of the philosophical study of knowledge

Like questions of what is knowable

Of the limits of knowledge

""FUNCTIONAL Pertaining to, or connected with, a function or duty; official.""

Worrywartish, in a way.

Like the Guardian's diarist, harpy had colonic disorder

Like "Whose Line Is It Anyway?"

Like comedy that's performed without a script

I am tentative about a theatrical opening that's unrehearsed

IMPROVISATORI

""PAROXYSMAL Of the nature of a paroxysm; characterized or accompanied by paroxysms; as, a paroxysmal pain; paroxysmal temper. as, a paroxysmal pain; paroxysmal temper.""

Inflected form of PERCEPTUAL Inflected form of PERCEPT something that is perceived

""Between phalanges; as, interphalangeal articulations. as, interphalangeal articulations.""

""PROVINCIAL Of or pertaining to province; constituting a province; as, a provincial government; a provincial dialect. as, a provincial government; a provincial dialect.""

Adjective (-al)

INTRAPRENEUR

""INTROSPECTION A view of the inside or interior; a looking inward; specifically, the act or process of selfexamination, or inspection of one's own thoughts and feelings; the cognition which the mind has of its own acts and states; selfconsciousness; reflection.""

Banged intruders up in horrible jail in accordance with the law

""JUXTAPOSITION A placing or being placed in nearness or contiguity, or side by side; as, a juxtaposition of words. as, a juxtaposition of words.""

Like Webster's work

Describing Dr. Johnson's most famous work.

Relating to writing wordbooks or dictionaries

A leaflike structure that bears microsporangia.

BIOGRAPHICAL Of or pertaining to biography; containing biography.

DEPARTMENTAL Pertaining to a department or division.

""EXPERIMENTAL Pertaining to experiment; founded on, or derived from, experiment or trial; as, experimental science; given to, or skilled in, experiment; as, an experimental philosopher. as, experimental science; given to, or skilled in, experiment; as, an experimental philosopher.""

""METAPHORICAL Of or pertaining to metaphor; comprising a metaphor; not literal; figurative; tropical; as, a metaphorical expression; a metaphorical sense.as, a metaphorical expression; a metaphorical sense.""

""OCCUPATIONAL Of or pertaining to an occupation{3} or occupations{3}; caused by or incidental to an occupation{3}; as, occupational hazard; occupational illness.as, occupational hazard; occupational illness.""

Lay out loan for pensions

Amateur

""PROFESSORIAL Of or pertaining to a professor; as, the professional chair; professional interest. as, the professional chair; professional interest.""

Rise of gas with cheap coal I moved about, referring to marine studies

PALEOBIOLOGIC

PALEOECOLOGIC

Of fossil lore

Fossils

PANTISOCRATIC Of or pertaining to a pantisocracy.

PARASITOLOGIC

""PARTICIPATION The act or state of participating, or sharing in common with others; as, a participation in joy or sorrows. as, a participation in joy or sorrows.""

Concerning drugs

Reportedly cultivate a green when dropping head of drug science