2-Letter Words Ending in L

""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.

Of or pertaining to petrology.

(Of research) done after a second degree

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

Adjective (-al)

Immediately after a meal

Occurring after a meal

After dinner

Adjective (-ical)

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

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

Match in knockout tournament

Match between two sides in the last eight of knockout competition

RADIOLOGIC

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)

""Related to the rhombohedron; presenting the form of a rhombohedron, or a form derivable from a rhombohedron; relating to a system of forms including the rhombohedron and scalenohedron.""

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

""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.""

ARBOREAL tree-dwelling

Warm, as a climate

SERICULTURE The raising of silkworms.

Of or pertaining to a spectator.

SPERMATOZOA

English word

STENOTHERM

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

""A sterol, C 29 H 48 O, obtained from soybeans or Calabar beans.""

""EDITORIAL Of or pertaining to an editor; written or sanctioned by an editor; as, editorial labors; editorial remarks. as, editorial labors; editorial remarks.""

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)

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

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

Happening at the same time; synchronous.

""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.""

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

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

In process of change

In process of changing

In the process of change

NATURAL a type of musical note

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

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

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.""

Characterized by tropes; varied by tropes; tropical.

CAREFUL {cautious=adj}

LIBERAL one who is open to ideas of progress or reform

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.""

""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.""

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

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

""Of or pertaining to visitation, or a judicial visitor or superintendent; visitorial.""

Of or pertaining to viticulture.

North American goatsucker

North American nightjar

Nocturnal bird with an onomatopoeic name

Pertaining to abstraction.

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.""

Relating to a country's representative abroad

Relating to the highest diplomatic duties

Protective, in a way

Like a drug that's intricate a lab developed

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

Exciting venereal desire; stimulating the desire for sexual gratification.

Relating to or resulting from arbitration.

Of or pertaining to an archdeacon.

Relating to building design

Of design

Bow struck the City with the first flower of building design

Like Armstrong or Glenn

Relating to the nature of stars

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

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

Going both ways

Functioning two ways

BIOELECTRIC

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

""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

COMBINATE United; joined; betrothed.

Divided into sections

Commander, somewhat mad, is sectioned

Commander, a bit crazy, is sectioned

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

Of the Senate and House of Representatives

___ Record

""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

""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.""

Like much GCHQ work

Code-based

CRYSTALLOID Crystallike; transparent like crystal.

Of or pertaining to deformation (in all senses).

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

DENDROLOGIC

DETERMINANT Serving to determine or limit; determinative.

English word

Lacking in courtesy

Lacking courtesy

Impolite

DRAMATURGIC Relating to dramaturgy.

""ELECTRODE The path by which electricity is conveyed into or from a solution or other conducting medium; esp., the ends of the wires or conductors, leading from source of electricity, and terminating in the medium traversed by the current.""

Of or pertaining to embryology.

Pertaining to the surrounding world

To do with one's surroundings

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

""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.

""Beyond the territorial limits; foreign to, or exempt from, the territorial jurisdiction.""

Not legally authorised

Pertaining to the cultivation of flowering plants.

""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.""

""The study or forecasting of potential developments, as in science, technology, and society, using current conditions and trends as a point of departure.""

Grand, having immensity of good food

To do with fine eating

Relating to the art of good eating

GRANDPARENT

GRAPHOLOGIC

Relating to bodily attraction

Relating to attraction

Kind of field changed to a vital grain

Relating to a governor

Of half a globe

Of half the globe

Domed

""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.""

Pertaining to gardening

Relating to the cultivation of plants

""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

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

Relating to knowledge or data

Searchingly questioning

Prying

INSCRIPTION The act or process of inscribing.

Iranian plot is strangely stirring

(Of idea) sudden, brilliant

Generating an elevated feeling

Providing education

Educative

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

Of or pertaining to a legislator or legislature.

""Of, pertaining to, or proceeding from, a magistrate; having the authority of a magistrate.""

METACERCARIA

Of or pertaining to metallurgy.

MICROCULTURE

Microfilaria

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

MICROSCOPIC

""Pl. microsurgeries Surgery on minute body structures or cells performed with the aid of a microscope and other specialized instruments, such as a micromanipulator.""

Underground worker, ace thinking properly about study of ores

MITOCHONDRIA

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

Allowing variety of ways of life

Including several ethnic groups

Relating to several ethnic groups

Adjective (-al)

Adjective (-al)

Adjective (-al)

""MYCOBACTERIA A group of rod-shaped bacteria, some saprophytic or causing diseases.""

MYOELECTRIC

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.

Not connected with or engaged in commercial enterprises. Opposite of commercial.commercial.

Not electric; conducting electricity.

""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.

Not industrial; -- used of societies. Opposite of industrial and industrialized.industrial and industrialized.

""MANAGERIAL Of or pertaining to management or a manager; as, managerial qualities. as, managerial qualities.""

RECIPROCAL Recurring in vicissitude; alternate.

""STRUCTURAL Of or pertaining to structure; affecting structure; as, a structural error. as, a structural error.""

""THEATRICAL Of or pertaining to a theater, or to the scenic representations; resembling the manner of dramatic performers; histrionic; hence, artificial; as, theatrical performances; theatrical gestures. as, theatrical performances; theatrical gestures.""