2-Letter Words Starting with L

Make repairs to stillage: that is the law's obligations

Legalizer

Making O.K., in a way

The office of a legate.

Legendry

Legerity

The quality of being legible; legibleness.

Supporter I reprimanded settled a bill

Laid down law, it's alleged, improperly

Passed bills

What Congress does.

Member is taking credit passes

Makes laws

On trial, so perhaps I will make laws

Gorilla set to become an MP (wordplay)

Senator or representative

State of being valid

Conformity to the law or rules

Propriety of member having sex being nameless

Run away? I would, pal - it's allowed!

E-mail: get it encrypted, OK (wordplay)

Stage one - note friend is legal

Allow to make off up M1 with one's sweetheart

The principles or plans of legitimists.

""One who supports legitimate authority; esp., one who believes in hereditary monarchy, as a divine right.""

To legitimate.

Resembling a pulse, like a glow-worm, say, trapped

""(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Microbiology) any parasitic flagellate protozoan of the genus Leishmania : infects humans and animals and causes diseases ranging from skin lesions to potentially fatal organ damage [New Latin, named after Sir W.B. Leishman (1865-1926), Scottish bacteriologist]""

Leister

Clearly ideas worth repeating

Not weighty reasons, they say, for repeating the same old idea

Leitmotiv

""A curve in the form of the figure 8, with both parts symmetrical, generated by the point in which a tangent to an equilateral hyperbola meets the perpendicular on it drawn from the center.""

Herb in Thai cuisine

Fruit, drugs or herb

Asian cuisine staple

Altered, in a way

Drawn out

Drew out pin around noon - after that, read intermittently

Vacuum-cleaner pipe, for example

Most tediously protracted

Taking the most time

Extended as far as possible, steel thing broke

Gently wash out all the way along

In a direction along an object

Ghastly new craft from stem to stern

From one side to the other

Moving across

In the direction of the extent from end to end

Leniency

LENITIVE a soothing medicine

Slowly, on sheet music

Biconvex

Lenticule

Lentigo

Very slow; very slowly; -- of music tempo.

Pl. lentiviruses See slow virus .

Female in the wild

Jungle beast

Big cat.

""A species of mica, of a lilac or roseviolet color, containing lithia. It usually occurs in masses consisting of small scales. See Mica. Mica.""

Little green man (wordplay)

Og of "Finian's Rainbow," for example

Clean up her mess, little one

Pl. leprosariums or leprosaria (- - ) A hospital for the treatment of leprosy.

Leptosome

English word

Leptotene

Homosexual relations between women.

Lespedeza

Lethargy

The development or design of the shape of an alphabet letter.

For example, Y-front's logo (wordplay)

Piece of corporate stationery

Stationery feature from red endings

Lettering

English word

See Leucoplast. Leucoplast.

Leukaemia

Leukocyte

LEUKOCYTE

An abnormally low number of white blood cells in the circulating blood.

An abnormally low number of white blood cells in the circulating blood.

""A thick, whitish discharge from the vagina or cervical canal.""

At fifty, always getting older and taking advantage of

Huge, formidable things.

Humongous creatures

Monsters on the loose as teal vanish (wordplay)

Levigate

The act or operation of levigating.

Levitate

Illusion created by magicians

Raising of bodies by magical means

Medium's forte

Same as levorotatory.levorotatory.

Lewdness

LEXICAL pertaining to the words of a language

Add a word to a language's vocabulary

Study of word meanings

Study of words

Libecchio

Libellant

To loosen restrictions on ale? Risible, daft!

Enlighten with star sign around East, position covering Saviour's origin

What's not right (wordplay)

Generous political philosophy

Freedom from sickly Blair smile

A liberal.

Generous quality

Bounty

Hubert Humphrey's peepers (wordplay)

Releasing Gilbertian medley

Struggler's wish

Freedom for Queen to tuck into drink

Act of freeing

Free thinkers (wordplay)

U. S. planes in W. W. II

American B-24 bombers.

Seducers rebel in its being set free

Dissolute types given punishment at school, one boy included

Rakes

Lustful Liberal Democrat restrained by pair with common sense

Student couple, tender intimately, sense it's lustful

Lewd

Ones turning up the volume (wordplay)

Reference-desk workers

Bookkeepers (wordplay)

Libration

Abe Burrows, for instance

Writer in a special field.

Provider of opera's words

That can be licensed.

Licensure

Certificate of competence holder

Certificate holder

Authorized practitioner.

Infested with cooties (wordplay)

Abandoned insects move in to many states

Profligate client settled debts

Lidocaine

Lientery

In place of occupant becoming officer

UK rank below captain

Peculiar talent in EU officer

Lifeblood

Workers who keep an eye on swimmers

Workers in towers

Pool attendants

LIFELESS no life

They go overboard in some emergencies

Brand whose first flavor was Pep-O-Mint

They're in a roll

Like CPR, often

Working on the beach, in a sense

Ways to be

Ligature

Lightbulb

Lightener

Getting brighter in a flash, by the sound of it

Unloading charge for ships.

Arsonist maybe taking time in dockside activity (wordplay)

Interrupting rest, boy beginning to get up for work in harbour

Lighter

LIGHTFACE

Lightface

Flashing coastal tower

Seafarer's beacon

Cape Hatteras structure.

Lightning

Piper product

Hard-to-read preliminary print (wordplay)

Navigation aids

Like film canisters

Lightwood

Lignify

Variant of likable .

Probability

Chance meeting of priest and criminal after murder almost backfired

Semblances

Ballerina's trait

Flexibility of wings, say, wrapped around seabirds

Places of excessive public attention

Conspicuous positions.

Prominent positions

Mammoth Cave rocks

Great Pyramid of Giza material

Some fossil bases

Limewater

Liminess

Defect from Left, dummy!

Rule restricting extent

Left impression of circumscription

""The point, edge, or line beyond which something cannot or may not proceed.""

LIMITING the act of limiting

""(Earth Sciences / Physical Geography) (of a country or region) on or near a frontier [via French from Late Latin limitrophus, from limit- limit + Greek -trophus supporting; originally referring to borderland that supported frontier troops]""

Adjective (-ic)

Long rides (wordplay)

Emulsion is sprayed on automobiles

They stretch out in Broadway

Quality of being limpid; limpidity.

Limpness

An antibacterial antibiotic obtained from the bacterium Streptomyces lincolnensis and used in the treatment of certain penicillin-resistant infections.Streptomyces lincolnensis and used in the treatment of certain penicillin-resistant infections.

Facial features

Features

LINEARISE

Linearise

LINEARIZE

Makes horizontal

Lineation

Customer service agent (wordplay)

Ray Lewis, for one

Party policy enthusiast (wordplay)

Printing A machine for casting metal type in lines.

A type of paperboard used in making corrugated cartons.

Related to speech

Belonging to language.

Relating to language

Linoleate

Small finches that feed on flaxseed

Lionfish

LIPOMA a tumor of fatty tissue

Having an affinity for lipids; -- of chemical substances or parts of molecules. Contrasted to lipophobic or polar.lipophobic or polar.

Having an affinity for lipids.

A hormone produced by the anterior pituitary gland that promotes the utilization of fat by the body and is a precursor to the endorphins.

Genial drip (anagram)

Hearing by seeing (wordplay)

Hearing visually (wordplay)

Made up speakers performed as a watch

Liquation

Liquefier

Liquefy

Tending to become liquid; inclined to melt to melt; melting.

Sold off quickly

Sold off, as assets

Converted to cash

Pays off one pound during evening shifts

Settler of an estate.

Property settler.

LIQUIDIZE To render liquid.

Thaws

The quality or state of being liquid; liquidity; fluency.

Liquify

Liquorice

LISTEN to try to hear

Not how Ko-Ko operates, lacking spirit

With little enthusiasm

In lackadaisical manner.

Literacy

Fidelity to observable fact.

Sadly, I still rate him a pedant

Rigid person of the word, a little sir being silly

The state or quality of being literal.

""To make literal; to interpret or put in practice according to the strict meaning of the words; opposed to spiritualize; as, to literalize Scripture. spiritualize; as, to literalize Scripture.""

""Of, relating to, or dealing with literature: literary criticism.""

LITERATE one who can read and write

The act or process of representing by letters.

Literator

What bookshops retail? True, perhaps

Novels, essays, etc.

Written works of artistic merit

Lithify

25 illuminated by beast, part angel

Print from a plate using a flat surface

Type of print

Rocky, light and cool, I suspect

""Porcelain impressed with figures which are made distinct by transmitted light, as when hung in a window, or used as a lamp shade.""

Coral, for one

Lithopone

Making a suit (wordplay)

Tailor got initial work for barrister

Lawsuit, legal action

Process at work in court

Litigator

Freebies at the car wash

Keep America Beautiful concerns

They ignore trash cans

Non-users of trash cans

The one puppy that can read (wordplay)

Any in a group of puppies

One puppy to another

Young of the quahog.

Kind of clam

Young quahog

""The state or quality of being little; as, littleness of size, thought, duration, power, etc. as, littleness of size, thought, duration, power, etc.""

Relating to public worship

Medical head going to follow books of worship

Liturgist

Variant of livable .

Bread and butter

Bread and butter, so to speak

Job or career

State of energetic activity

Sparkle

Brio

Liveness

Liverwort

Braunschweiger, for example

Certain sausage

Delicatessen purchase.

Livestock

Lividity

The state or quality of being alive; possession of energy or vigor; animation; quickening.

""LIXIVIATE 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.""

Lixiviate

An aircraft crew member in charge of loading and unloading cargo or heavy weapons.