2-Letter Words Ending in L

""SUMMATION The act of summing, or forming a sum, or total amount; also, an aggregate.""

Far from thorough

Not profound

Not significant.

Exceeding the average

English word

Like a whodunit

Creating uncertainty

Capistrano copper (wordplay)

Butterfly to emulate uroboros (wordplay)

Bird, dog or butterfly

With exact correspondence of parts

Appearing as if reflected about an axis

Mirrored about an axis

""Of or pertaining to synonyms, or synonymic; synonymous.""

""Of or pertaining to syntax; according to the rules of syntax, or construction.""

Dosage amount, perhaps

Small volume

Not aquatic, arboreal, or aerial

Relating to dry land

Mundane river ends in River Test

Public tribute (to someone)

Tribute or token of respect

Reference to ailment is revolting

""Of or pertaining to Thraso; like, or becoming to, Thraso; bragging; boastful; vainglorious.""

DERMAL relating to the derm

Radio signal, e.g

Message-sending

Person wishing to change gender, perhaps

One eager to see how the other half lives, say

Line crossing two others

CASUAL one who works according to demand

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

Not of great importance

Describing spending not done in wartime.

Not of emergency importance.

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

""ADJUSTMENT The act of adjusting, or condition of being adjusted; act of bringing into proper relations; regulation.""

Pertaining to apposition; put in apposition syntactically.

Of or pertaining to an archespore.

Characterised by hope or ambition

Like those trying to succeed

Relating to hope, since religious and sensible

Of a pseudoscience

Like the supposed influence of planets and stars

Absolutely huge (in a heavenly way!)

Stellar location with Mars shot

High, as inflationary prices

Irregular in outline

Redeveloped city alarms me, lacking a logical design (wordplay)

Crooked

Of or pertaining to a commissary.

""CONCESSION The act of conceding or yielding; usually implying a demand, claim, or request, and thus distinguished from giving, which is voluntary or spontaneous. giving, which is voluntary or spontaneous.""

Nature of autobiography (especially Rousseau's)

Booth in church finances loos being renovated

In which Higgins supplies a place for admission

Of or pertaining to a consistory.

""CONVERSION The act of turning or changing from one state or condition to another, or the state of being changed; transmutation; change.""

Belonging to cosmogony.

Of or pertaining to cosmology.

English word

Of or associated with both the cranium and the sacrum.

""The selective exposure of tissues to extreme cold, often by applying a probe containing liquid nitrogen, to bring about the destruction or elimination of abnormal cells.""

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

Belonging to declension.

POSITIONAL Of or pertaining to position.

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

""Pertaining to, or having the character of, a digression; departing from the main purpose or subject.""

Neglect; negligent; heedless; regardless.

""DISTORTION The act of distorting, or twisting out of natural or regular shape; a twisting or writhing motion; as, the distortions of the face or body. as, the distortions of the face or body.""

""Having distinct upper and lower surfaces, as most common leaves. The leaves of the iris are not dorsiventral. dorsiventral.""

Of or involving both the back and the side.

""From the dorsal to the ventral side of an animal; as, the dorsoventral axis. as, the dorsoventral axis.""

""Pertaining to, or connected with, the endoskeleton; as, endoskeletal muscles. as, endoskeletal muscles.""

Pl. enterostomies Surgical construction of an opening in the intestine through the abdominal wall.

EXORCISTIC

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.""

Adjective (-ical)

Foresighted.

Triangular sail

""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.""

One gets hammered, making a noise!

Bell-like instrument

Percussion instrument with metal bars

Straight as an arrow, perhaps (wordplay)

Straight

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

AROUSAL the act of {arousing=v}

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

Piece of music without voices

Piece of music without vocals

Music with no vocals

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

STADIAL a substance which depends on the life of a glacier

Sitting in the intervening spaces

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

A cheat simply becomes abstruse

Very abstract.

Having a crystalline structure visible only under a microscope.

APPRAISAL A valuation by an authorized person; an appraisement.

MONSIGNORI

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

20th century music style

In a revived style from the past

Type of art, perhaps one form to one state

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

CUSTODIAL Relating to custody or guardianship.

Suspect online assent is unimportant

Not totally necessary

Not absolutely necessary

""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

""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.""

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

Of or pertaining to osteology.

""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.""

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

Causing infectious diseases

A little snipe playing up causing trouble

English word

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

""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)

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

""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)

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

Expert - one paid in sport etc

Experienced person if also retrained

Pair of sea lions poorly trained

Characteristic of an academic

""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)

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

""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.""

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.""

ARBOREAL tree-dwelling

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.

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.""

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

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.""

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

Happening at the same time; synchronous.

TEASPOONS teaspoon

Like Blavatsky's society

In process of change

In process of changing

In the process of change

NATURAL a type of musical note

""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.

""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 visitation, or a judicial visitor or superintendent; visitorial.""

Pertaining to abstraction.

ACQUISITION The act or process of acquiring.

Relating to or practicing alchemy.

Relating to a country's representative abroad

Relating to the highest diplomatic duties

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

Land-mine type

Like certain weapons sent in plane or distributed some other way

Exciting venereal desire; stimulating the desire for sexual gratification.

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

Like Armstrong or Glenn

Relating to the nature of stars

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.""

Relating to creation of a musical work

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

Of the Senate and House of Representatives

___ Record

Following as a result

Important; following on

Of importance

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.""

The science of the chemical composition of the universe.

CRYSTALLOID Crystallike; transparent like crystal.

Of or pertaining to dipsomania.

Pertaining to disposition.

Lacking in courtesy

Lacking courtesy

Impolite

Broken, soundly, in fact (wordplay)

Not operating properly

Like George or Kramer on "Seinfeld"

Grand, having immensity of good food

To do with fine eating

Relating to the art of good eating

Of half a globe

Of half the globe

Domed

The branch of science that deals with the chemical composition of the cells and tissues of the body.

Above or transcending physical laws; supernatural.

Small and barely discernible

Very, very small

Start of the commentary

""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

Relating to relationships

Relating to relationships between people

SOCIETAL pertaining to a {society=n}

Existing or occurring within the individual self or mind.

English word

Showing little enthusiasm and rigour

Lacking drive and rigour

Not willing to work often

Of or pertaining to a legislator or legislature.

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

""(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.""

MOLLUSCICIDE

Adjective (-al)