2-Letter Words Starting with L

""LISSOME lithe, also LISSOM""

Auditors' audience (wordplay)

Is that what they do? Hear, hear!

They're at the radio, not the TV

50 = 10 by ear with gin (wordplay)

Kind of post.

Following advice about enlisting

Time honoured county town (wordplay)

Really on fire and really worried!

Being exactly as stated

Readers, for example

Readers and writers.

They're well-informed

How accurate copies are made

Letter for letter

Letter-for-letter

Book reviewer

Critic.

A learned man; a man acquainted with literature; chiefly used in the plural. plural.

Litharge

Lithemia

Settled by male head showing flexibility

Flexibility.

Homeliest characters can be graceful

Toned graceful model hostile to me

Article in case stuck in tree, not stiff

LITHIAS lithia

""The formation of stony concretions or calculi in any part of the body, especially in the bladder and urinary passages.""

Transformed into stone

Lithify

""The science which treats of rocks, as regards their mineral constitution and classification, and their mode of occurrence in nature.""

""A white pigment consisting of a mixture of zinc sulfide, zinc oxide, and barium sulfate.""

Lithosol

""The operation, art, or practice of cutting for stone in the bladder.""

Like libel, say

Worth suing over

It's possibly a suit likely to dress fool up

Persons engaged in lawsuits.

Parties to a lawsuit

Do they go to law for the gilt saint (wordplay)

Pressed one's suit (wordplay)

Pressed a suit

Took legal action

Contests at the bar (wordplay)

Files a suit against

Engages in legal proceedings

Law-practicing reptile (wordplay)

One in legal dispute

One in a court battle.

Quick to take action (wordplay)

Quick to sue

Keen to pursue lawsuits

Auto adjunct

Glad item

Wrapper dropper (wordplay)

Scofflaw of a sort

Type of contributor to the street scene.

Recipients of some fines

Mess makers

Untidy picnickers.

Strewing trash

Making a mess of having a multiple birth, perhaps

Making a mess with a multiple birth, perhaps

Coastal regions.

Study of rights in speech

I urge list of services

Religious rituals

Service conductor fired primitive tenor

See religious leader stir guilt terribly

Authority on rites

It's up to evil, broken tiles to make one most active

Twirl over for the leafy moss

Flowerless plant

Seaweedlike plant

Guy covered with foie gras (wordplay)

Member of a City Company

Predecessor of a chauffeur.

Stable fellows (wordplay)

Are they irritable when dressed alike (wordplay)

Stable chaps, but apparently irritable ones

Farm animals exist to breed

One source of rural income.

(Domestic) animals in general

Livetrap

Red state (wordplay)

""To subject to a washing process for the purpose of separating soluble material from that which is insoluble; to leach, as ashes, for the purpose of extracting the alkaline substances.""

Lixivium

Loadstar

A stack of rock is magnetic

Magnetite possessing polarity.

It attracts lots to Tyneside

Zeitgeist and "umami," linguistically

Karaoke and smorgasbord, linguistically speaking

Weltschmerz and schadenfreude, for example

Hail an object's dislikes (wordplay)

Disinclination

Can't like revolting

A hole most dreadfully repulsive

Liberal profanity a few find offensive

Lobation

Lobbygow

Lobbyism

Influential Washington group

Some D.C. workers

Capitol Hill wheeler-dealers

Surgical removal of a lobe from any organ of the body (such as the lung or brain).

Lobeline

Scumbag eating zero degree stew

Stew of meat, vegetables and hardtack

A stew formerly eaten by sailors

Lobster

Lobstick

""Made up of, or divided into, lobules; as, a lobulated gland.as, a lobulated gland.""

Old Celia's moving around in a restricted area

Restricted diet instead missing even elements

Boozer on other side limited to one place

Localise

Localism

Localist

Localite

Confined to one area

Localize

Readily found

See small particles in positions

Film credits list

Places, sites

They indicate places where Clovis ate, perhaps

Lockbox

Lockdown

Fable about smoked salmon (wordplay)

Hair stylist's other job (wordplay)

Keystone ring wearer (wordplay)

Lockstep

Anti-Tammany reformers of 1835.

Match-lighting party of 1835

Friction matches

Moved, jocularly

Locomote

Relating to power of moving mad vehicle!

Relating to shifts of temperature in unusually cool room

Plants that make cattle crazy

Problematic plants for ranchers

Plants that produce the intoxicant swainsonine

Locution

Guides for ancient mariners.

Navigational reference points

Sources of inspiration

Lake poems with quality must be a magnet

Iron-attracting magnetite

It was used to make the first compass

Porter's room intended, say, for deposit of monies

Doddery old chaps going in to get accommodation

Accommodations

Lodgment

Lodicule

Impressive height; nobility (of manner)

Quality of altruistic motives

Stature without bags of money

Verse ()

Slide-rule number

In math, it may be common or natural

Slide rule's basis

Using reason

Following reason

Close to home occupied by soldier with good reason

Ada Lovelace and Charles Babbage, for example

Logicise

Logicise

Logicize

Logicize

Task of movement and supply of troops

Science of moving troops.

How-to-get-it-done science

Type of statistical distribution

Logogram

Programmer's graphic symbol (wordplay)

Sign of trademark diagram

Anagram, for example

Puzzle based on recombination of the letters of a word

Logomach

An argument about words.

Dispute concerning words

Leave Mum in lake and start your verbal sparring

1999's winning word: Verbosity

Nonstop talkativeness

Excessive talkativeness, perhaps incoherent

The Golden Arches, for McDonald's

Company emblems

Engaged in political skulduggery

Swapped political favors

Took part in a lumberjack contest

Lumberjack, at times (wordplay)

Exchanger of political favors

Political favor-monger

Perhaps ageless ethnological weave

Minimum clothing (wordplay)

Fig leaf successor (wordplay)

Teens at a food court, maybe

Group gathering for no reason

Ones hanging around

Wild lion and tiger lurking

Dawdling toiler drunk on gin cocktail

Just hanging around

Rewards for kids

All-day suckers, for instance

Candies on a stick

Laugh out loud, striding along and bounding about

Drags one's feet

Dawdles

Prizes for good children

Savalas props

Lomentum

Adjective for Crusoe.

One, as numbers go

Tell one is strangely more miserable

Lonesome

Huey's craft

Vessels on vessels

Fuselage parts

Tiny glove (anagram)

Ripe old age

Duration of service

Living a long time; of great age.

Classical music fans

Classical musicians Slang.

Classical musicians: Slang.

Longhand

Longhead

Some ranch cattle

Range sight

Lonestar beeves

Viking "mead hall," for example

Beetle with a lengthy narrow body

In a yearning manner

With passion

With desire

Word often paired with latitude

A concern of mariners

Navigator's concern.

Bank annoyance

Longship

Arctic birds.

Longueur

Lookdown

Stupidity figures in toilets

Silly stuff

Loophole

Escape mechanisms (wordplay)

Hacker's targets

Ways out of contracts

Warm-up deliveries

A lack of strictness

John senses abnormal laxity

Relaxed condition

Masseuse's task

Relaxing and letting go

Not being tight any more

Lopper

Lopstick

Cause of high telephone bills.

Talkativeness

Prolixity.

Lordly

Walk all over novice inside school for the little chiefs

Titled British dignitaries

Noble potencies

Eyeglasses with no letter 'g' (wordplay)

Pair of glasses with a handle

Specs on a stick

Loricate

Birds, we hear, transport poet

Colorful parrots

Whistle-blowers (wordplay)

Stage door johnnies.

Gay rakes

Poor retirement plans (wordplay)

Ventures broadcast re T. S. Eliot

Low visibility figure

Layabouts' dream country

Idyllic spot

Left to love and lust outrageously in this bed of roses

Louden

Loudly

Noisemaker of sorts

Braggart with noisy oral orifice

Ear-splitting yakker

Round American splits garden tool turning over plant

The state or quality of being lousy.

LOUTISH ill-mannered and coarse

Soaring honeymooners (wordplay)

Small African parrots or romantic couple

Openly affectionate couple

Prettiest

Romantic keepsakes of old

'Flowing hair', as the canal flight fan said (wordplay)

'Mud in your eye' coming up without a lot of speed for old dandy's curls

Lovevine

Lowball

Small, UNLIKE THIS!

Some letters perhaps from minor lawsuit

Drop the bag ... not like THAT!

On the bottom.

At the bottom of the list.

At the very bottom

High living is not for him

Scot who touched down in the valley (wordplay)

Flat dweller

Lowlifer

Lowlight

A lowly state.

Lack of status

Bird during row starts to show some humility

Humility

Lowness

Sporty cars with dropped chassis

Customized cars with diminished ground clearance

Cars close to the ground, and a hint to the ends of the starred answers

""Geography a rhumb line or curve on the surface of a sphere intersecting all meridians at the same angle; hence, the course of a ship or aircraft following a constant compass direction. ; loxodromic,""

Loyalism

Nonrevolutionaries

Stalwarts

Not, perhaps, 15 down sort of neckwear

Ties alloy into allegiances

Oil from car black until changed

It helps get the wheels turning

It may keep things moving

Oil (a mechanism)

Apply oil/grease

Smooth Blair cut apart by English

""Smoothness; freedom from friction; also, property, which diminishes friction; as, the lubricity of oil. as, the lubricity of oil.""

Lubric.

Lucency

The quality of being lucid; lucidity.

""Any of several substances found in luminescent organisms (such as the firefly, Photinus pyralis) which, when oxidized, produces an almost heatless light. It was first isolated from fireflies, and is the source of the firefly luminescence. See also firefly luciferinPhotinus pyralis) which, when oxidized, produces an almost heatless light. It was first isolated from fireflies, and is the source of the firefly luminescence. See also firefly luciferin""

Fortunate quality, having courage when powerless

Revictual (anagram)

Rewarding development of vital cure

Vertical upstart could be moneymaking

Somewhat ridiculous (ditto without one?)

Absurd or farcical

Curd Louis prepared was laughable

Lullaby

Strains to get to sleep (wordplay)

Soothing songs for babies

They're crooned near cradles

Lumberer

Sawyer's table

Moving like an elephant

Failing to start sleeping, being clumsy

Awful mumbler - a northern feller

Paul Bunyan's calling.

Paul Bunyan, for example

They deal in deal

English word

Set characteristic cryptic clue; initially missing Nina

""A votive candle set into a small, decorative paper bag weighted with sand and placed in a row with others along a walkway, driveway, or rooftop as a holiday decoration. Also called regionally farolito .""

Shine

Glow

Luminism

Luminist

Feature of badly-mixed custard

LUMPISH {stupid=adj}

Supposed inhabitants of the moon

Lunation

Formal midday meals

They take ages at last, of course

Society affairs