2-Letter Words Ending in L

""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.

Adjective (-ical)

""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.""

""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.""

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

Like some Freudian stages

Coarse dark ryebread

German coarse rye bread

Coarse dark rye bread

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

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

""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.""

SERICULTURE The raising of silkworms.

English word

""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.

Verbally superfluous

Tight circle is methodical in giving too much repeat information

TEASPOONS teaspoon

NATURAL a type of musical note

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.""

""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.""

Of or pertaining to viticulture.

ACQUISITION The act or process of acquiring.

Relating to building design

Of design

Bow struck the City with the first flower of building design

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.""

AUTECOLOGIC

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

""Selective destruction of tissue by use of chemicals, as for removing malignant skin lesions.""

Like mixed schools

Certainly not of the class of Eton, for instance

Instructing boys and girls, commander wrongly cautioned a learner

Of or pertaining to computation (definition 3).

Relating to conjugation.

Relating to a conjunction.

Following as a result

Important; following on

Of importance

Lacking in courtesy

Lacking courtesy

Impolite

DRAMATURGIC Relating to dramaturgy.

Broken, soundly, in fact (wordplay)

Not operating properly

Like George or Kramer on "Seinfeld"

An equipotential line or surface

Tending or serving to expurgate; expurgatory.

Not legally authorised

Pertaining to the cultivation of flowering plants.

""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.""

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

Relating to a governor

""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

ICHTHYOFAUNA

Of or pertaining to immunology.

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

Searchingly questioning

Prying

Unappealing or monotonous

Impersonal, unappealing

Providing education

Educative

Taliban is nuts blowing up weak

Lacking solidity

Tenuous

COMMUNAL belonging to the community

CULTURAL relating to culture

NEURONAL pertaining to a {neuron=n}

Of or pertaining to metallurgy.

MICROCULTURE

""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

Allowing variety of ways of life

Including several ethnic groups

Relating to several ethnic groups

Adjective (-al)

Crossing country borders

Large company

Huge corporation

Adjective (-al)

Adjective (-al)

Adjective (-al)

The historical and scientific study of music.

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.

CONCEPTUAL Pertaining to conception.

""CONSENSUAL Existing, or made, by the mutual consent of two or more parties.""

Useless oaf Clinton cavorting with nun

Inflected form of HOMOSEXUAL Inflected form of HOMOSEX homosexuality

""INDIVIDUAL Not divided, or not to be divided; existing as one entity, or distinct being or object; single; one; as, an individual man, animal, or city. as, an individual man, animal, or city.""

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

Avoiding moral verdicts

Avoiding expression of moral opinions

Not criticising on moral grounds

""MEANINGFUL Having a meaning or purpose; having significance; as, a meaningful explanation; a meaningful discussion; a meaningful pause; to live a meaningful life. Opposite of meaningless.as, a meaningful explanation; a meaningful discussion; a meaningful pause; to live a meaningful life. Opposite of meaningless.""

SEQUENTIAL Succeeding or following in order.

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

The study of the occult meanings of numbers and their supposed influence on human life.

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

Adjective (-al)

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

""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.""

Out of the ordinary.

Beyond what is normal

Extraordinary and unexplainable

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

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

Square, perhaps

Square, for instance

Four-sided figure

""Of, relating to, or involving the sensory nerves, especially as they affect the hearing: sensorineural deafness.""

SILVICULTURE See Sylviculture. Sylviculture.

Of or involving both social and cultural factors.

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

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

CULTURAL relating to culture

FUSIONAL relating to fusion

CRITICAL {crucial=adj}

PHYSICAL a medical examination of the body

POWERFUL full of power

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

Without any ifs or buts

Under all circumstances

With no strings attached

DIALECTICAL Pertaining to dialectics; logical; argumental.

Commonplace.

Usual

Not conforming to the rules of syntax

(Of a sentence) not correct

Linguistically flawed

IDEOLOGICAL Of or pertaining to ideology.

Not done on purpose

Accidental

Not meant

""SENSATIONAL Of or pertaining to sensation; as, sensational nerves. as, sensational nerves.""

Showing no tender emotions

Not given to excessively tender emotions

Eschewing tender emotions

Lacking in matter or substance; visionary; chimerical.

Clumsy minaret flawed because it's this

Not having matching parts either side of an axis

""THEORETICAL Pertaining to theory; depending on, or confined to, theory or speculation; speculative; terminating in theory or speculation: not practical; as, theoretical learning; theoretic sciences.as, theoretical learning; theoretic sciences.""

""TRADITIONAL Of or pertaining to tradition; derived from tradition; communicated from ancestors to descendants by word only; transmitted from age to age without writing; as, traditional opinions; traditional customs; traditional expositions of the Scriptures. as, traditional opinions; traditional customs; traditional expositions of the Scriptures.""

Ventriloquous.

Consisting of both letters and figures

Inflected form of HOMOSEXUAL Inflected form of HOMOSEX homosexuality

Pertaining to arboriculture.

(Of evidence) indirect

Tantric musical may be incidental

Stroll through law offices (wordplay)

Walk like our monarchy

Walk through the law

""Pertaining to, or deduced from, construction or interpretation.""

Of the same kind or nature; having the same substance or essence; coessential.

Relating to what is not the case

Of or pertaining to distribution.

EUGEOSYNCLINE

Having forethought.

""Pertaining to the stomach and duodenum; as, the gastroduodenal artery. as, the gastroduodenal artery.""

""ILLUSTRATION The act of illustrating; the act of making clear and distinct; education; also, the state of being illustrated, or of being made clear and distinct.""

""The chemistry of immunologic phenomena, as of antigen-antibody reactions.""

Pertaining to insurrection; consisting in insurrection.

""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.""

Of or pertaining to jurisdiction; as jurisdictional rights. jurisdictional rights.

Adjective (-al)

Dependent on a number of elements!!! ...

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

Inflected form of CONTRACTUAL Inflected form of CONTRACT to decrease in size

EDUCATIONAL Of or pertaining to education.

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

Drug, hemp, crucial at a bash

Relating to prescribed drugs

Relating to medicinal drugs

""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.

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

Of a 500th anniversary or its celebration

Most perfectly typical

Representing the most perfect example

Perfect; most typically representative

RESURRECTION A rising again; the resumption of vigor.

Situated under the arachnoid membrane.

Of India or Greenland five vowels in reverse order (nonverbal)

Of or pertaining to substitution; standing in the place of another; substituted.

""(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   adv""

TABLESPOONS tablespoon

TRANSDUCTION The act of conveying over.

PRACTICAL Of or pertaining to practice or action.

Free in one's ways

Free and easy.

Alternative place for sisters in harmony by a lake

Having but one dimension. See Dimension. Dimension.

Moving or operating in one direction only: a unidirectional microphone.

""INTELLECTUAL Belonging to, or performed by, the intellect; mental; as, intellectual powers, activities, etc. as, intellectual powers, activities, etc.""

Not of the expected standard of work

One is not paid for such conduct

The amateur plainness of our production

ACCULTURATION

Like video games, some believe

Miracle cure, if time allows, around a point of the compass

""Used in communication; as, he had few communicational grooves available for use.as, he had few communicational grooves available for use.""

""CONFIGURATION Form, as depending on the relative disposition of the parts of a thing' shape; figure.""

COUNTERCULTURE

Intended to compensate for immoderate developments in a business cycle: a countercyclical federal aid program.

An offer of marriage in store (wordplay)

Response to unsatis- factory plan

Negotiator's offering

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

DOCUMENTATION

""The surgical use of high-frequency electric current for cutting or destroying tissue, as in cauterization.""