2-Letter Words Ending in L

Like Blavatsky's society

""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.""

""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.""

""VEGETATION The act or process of vegetating, or growing as a plant does; vegetable growth.""

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

""The domestication, breeding, and improvement of animals; the technology of animal husbandry.""

Pertaining to abstraction.

ACQUISITION The act or process of acquiring.

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 or practicing alchemy.

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

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

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

""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 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

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

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.""

AUTECOLOGIC

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

""CONDITIONAL Containing, implying, or depending on, a condition or conditions; not absolute; made or granted on certain terms; as, a conditional promise. as, a conditional promise.""

Going both ways

Functioning two ways

BIOELECTRIC

""(used with a sing. verb) The study of the mechanics of a living body, especially of the forces exerted by muscles and gravity on the skeletal structure.""

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

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

""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

Manuscripts ()

Like mixed schools

Certainly not of the class of Eton, for instance

Instructing boys and girls, commander wrongly cautioned a learner

""HOMOLOGICAL Pertaining to homology; having a structural affinity proceeding from, or base upon, that kind of relation termed homology. homology.""

COLLOCATION The act of placing; the state of being placed with something else; disposition in place; arrangement.

Of or relating to combinations.

COMBINATE United; joined; betrothed.

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).

Of the Senate and House of Representatives

___ Record

Relating to conjugation.

Relating to a conjunction.

Having the power of implying or suggesting something in addition to what is explicit. Contrasted with denotative.denotative.

Following as a result

Important; following on

Of importance

""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

Of or pertaining to a convocation.

""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.""

The science of the chemical composition of the universe.

Like much GCHQ work

Code-based

CRYSTALLOID Crystallike; transparent like crystal.

CYTOGENETIC Of or pertaining to cytogenesis or cell development.cytogenesis or cell development.

""DECLINATION The act or state of bending downward; inclination; as, declination of the head. as, declination of the head.""

Of or pertaining to deformation (in all senses).

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

Of or pertaining to demonology.

DENDROLOGIC

Pertaining to deontology.

DETERMINANT Serving to determine or limit; determinative.

""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

DRAMATURGIC Relating to dramaturgy.

Broken, soundly, in fact (wordplay)

Not operating properly

Like George or Kramer on "Seinfeld"

""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.

Specialising in science of insect

Of the study of insects

Colonial got me excited in terms of studying cricket maybe

Pertaining to the surrounding world

To do with one's surroundings

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

EPIPHENOMENA

An equipotential line or surface

""EXAMINATION The act of examining, or state of being examined; a careful search, investigation, or inquiry; scrutiny by study or experiment.""

""The branch of biology that deals with the search for extraterrestrial life and the effects of extraterrestrial surroundings on living organisms. Also called astrobiology , space biology .""

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.

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

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.""

""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

GLACIOLOGIC

GRANDPARENT

GRAPHOLOGIC

Relating to bodily attraction

Relating to attraction

Kind of field changed to a vital grain

Relating to a governor

Of or pertaining to gynecology.

HEMATOLOGIC

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.""

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

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

ICHTHYOFAUNA

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

Of or pertaining to immunology.

""INCANTATION The act or process of using formulas sung or spoken, with occult ceremonies, for the purpose of raising spirits, producing enchantment, or affecting other magical results; enchantment.""

INCLINATION

Small and barely discernible

Very, very small

Start of the commentary

Relating to knowledge or data

""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

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

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.""

The branch of zoology that deals with mollusks.

Relating to or involving the maxilla and the face: a maxillofacial prosthesis.

""Pl. meningococci (-k k s , -k ) A bacterium (Neisseria meningitidis) that causes cerebrospinal meningitis.""

METACERCARIA

METAFICTION

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

MOLLUSCICIDE

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

""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)

Crossing country borders

Large company

Huge corporation

Adjective (-al)

Adjective (-al)

Adjective (-al)

The historical and scientific study of music.

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

MYOELECTRIC

MYTHOPOETIC Making or producing myths or mythical tales.

The branch of zoology that deals with nematodes.

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.