2-Letter Words Starting with L

The study of part of the throat

Enduring quality

Durability.

It's out for welcome guests

Cord for opening a door

Cord for fastening

LATERALIZE

Lateralize

Latifundio

""Pl. latifundia (-d - ) A great landed estate, especially of the ancient Romans.""

Of geographical measurements

Criss-crossed arrangement

Grid construction

Trellis makeup

Place for washing and drying clothes

Washing establishment

Coffee houses inferior to European shop that's cleaner

Laundress

Laundrette

Laureation

Lavalliere

Lavender

Criminals

An act punishable by law; usually considered an evil act.

Completely illegal behaviour

Total anarchy

Lawrencium

Leadership

Leafhopper

Leafleteer

Leaflet

Leakiness

Jumped over (someone) in play

Jumped or skipped over

Skipped some steps

Profound knowledge.

I can occupy the House for a term!

Person with property rights

One renting a property

Endangered large sea turtle

Largest living turtle

Artificial S&M material

Imitation hide

The French badly treat the English imitation hide

A stiff leathery-leaved fern (Polypodium scouleri) of Western North America having ovate fronds parted to the midrib.Polypodium scouleri) of Western North America having ovate fronds parted to the midrib.

Resembling or made to resemble leather; tough but pliable; leathery.

Third-year Marine

Gyrene (3rd)

Veteran Marine, in slang

""A small branching shrub (Dirca palustris), with a white, soft wood, and a tough, leathery bark, common in damp woods in the Northern United States; called also moosewood, and wicopy. Dirca palustris), with a white, soft wood, and a tough, leathery bark, common in damp woods in the Northern United States; called also moosewood, and wicopy.""

Lebensraum

Lecherous

Any of several enzymes that hydrolyze lecithin.

University post

Tip off ace result about joint academic post

Foreign posts

Legendary

Magician's skill

Magician's line of work

A kind of trickery.

Legginess

Soldiers in line go to take a battering ram

Members of a troop of up to 6,000 Roman army soldiers

One GI in real trouble as a soldier

Member of an elite military unit

Form a line - ignore soldier

The act of making or enacting laws; legislation{1}.

Enacting of laws

Passing of bills

Group of laws

Kind of aide

Kind of aide or session

Ones on a diet

Lawmaking body (of a state)

Sorting, Riksdag or Knesset.

Diet, for example

Made lawful daughter born in wedlock first

Legitimate

""LEGITIMATE Accordant with law or with established legal forms and requirements; lawful; as, legitimate government; legitimate rights; the legitimate succession to the throne; a legitimate proceeding of an officer; a legitimate heir. as, legitimate government; legitimate rights; the legitimate succession to the throne; a legitimate proceeding of an officer; a legitimate heir.""

Made to conform to the law

Then just escape and one is in the sea

Validated

Legitimise

Legitimism

Legitimist

LEGITIMIZE To legitimate.

LEGITIMIZE To legitimate.

Legitimize

LEISHMANIA

Leishmania

Adjective meaning resembling

Lemniscate

Lengthener

Frying medium (wordplay)

Extending

Trait of verbose writers

Lepidolite

Moths and butterflies

Butterflies and moths

Polite padre converted large group of fliers

Little men of Bogland.

Wee hoarders of legend

Pot of gold keepers

Adjective (-ous)

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

LEPTOSPIRE

Leptospire

Lesbianism

Lethality

Letterbox

Subject at secretarial school

Subject at secretarial school.

Sajak and White?

Sajak and White (wordplay)

Items of printed stationery

Printing from raised type

Printed words.

Printing technique

Leucocidin

Leucoplast

Leukopenia

""An abnormal condition characterized by white spots or patches on mucous membranes, especially of the mouth and vulva. Also called leukoplasia .""

Adjective (-ic)

LEUKORRHEA

Leukorrhea

Leukotomy

""Any of several lipid compounds that contain 20 carbon atoms, are related to prostaglandins, and mediate the inflammatory response.""

Like Frankenstein's monster (wordplay)

Not easily rattled

Showing good judgment

Levelness

Levigation

Levitation

""LEXICALIZE To make into a word, coin into a word; as, The concept expressed by German "Gemuetlichkeit" is not lexicalized in English.as, The concept expressed by German "Gemuetlichkeit" is not lexicalized in English.""

Lexicalize

Financial obligations

LIBATION a ceremonial pouring of a liquid

Relaxed lad is rebel, I suspect

Liberalise

Liberalism

Liberalist

LIBERALIZE To make liberal; to free from narrow views or prejudices.

""One who, or that which, liberalizes.""

Liberalize

LIBERAL one who is open to ideas of progress or reform

Liberation

Believer in free will

*Political party of Gary Johnson

Employee at the Ron Paul Archive (wordplay)

Libertinism; license.

The state of a libertine or freedman.

Libidinal

LIBRATION The act or state of librating.

W. S. Gilbert, Boito, etc.

Licentiate

The science which treats of lichens.

Lickerish

A subservient flatterer

Obsequious person

Flatterer.

Officer's post

Stratego pieces

It's novel, when woman backs this after 10

Lifeguard

English word

Lifesaving

""Composing a ligament; of the nature of a ligament; binding; as, a strong ligamentous membrane.as, a strong ligamentous membrane.""

Fees for transporting freight in or about harbors

Pharologist's study

Shining examples, in the main

Coastal beacons

Lightness

Lightning

Lightplane

Lightsome

Carrying little punch (wordplay)

A contender? One cannot be serious!

Lacking seriousness or depth

LIKABLE able to be liked

Likelihood

Tiny person (from 'Gulliver's Travels')

A minor character of Swift

Swift little creature

LILTING lilt

Limelight

Subject of some statutes

Restrictions or shortcomings

Large fake with small checks

The quality of being limited.

Limitless

Limnology

""The scientific study of the life and phenomena of fresh water, especially lakes and ponds.""

Limpidity

Lincomycin

Lineality

""LINEAMENT One of the outlines, exterior features, or distinctive marks, of a body or figure, particularly of the face; feature; form; mark; usually in the plural. plural.""

LINEARISE

Linearity

LINEARIZE

Bills that can really bring you down (wordplay)

Defensive footballers

Football defensemen

Football Abbr. LB Any of the defensive players forming a second line of defense behind the ends and tackles.

Linecaster

Printing A machine for casting metal type in lines.

Linerboard

With delay; slowly; tediously.

Shrub with tart fruit

Study of language and its structure

Scientific study of language

King Richard I, they say

A millionaire is so courageous

King Richard's epithet

""LIONIZE to treat as a celebrity, also LIONISE""

Plural or third person singular

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Biochemistry) Biochem the synthesis of fatty acids in the body from glucose and other substrates

Part of HDL

Take-out for the corpulent (wordplay)

Low-fat recipe (wordplay)

Alternative to dieting

Lipotropin

Lipreading

Sweet gum

""LIQUIDATE To determine by agreement or by litigation the precise amount of (indebtedness); or, where there is an indebtedness to more than one person, to determine the precise amount of (each indebtedness); to make the amount of (an indebtedness); clear and certain.""

The winding up (of a company)

Conversion (of assets) into cash

Process of converting into cash

Liquidator

Liquidity

LIQUIDIZE To render liquid.

""LISSOME lithe, also LISSOM""

Plural or third person singular

""A bacterial disease caused by Listeria monocytogenes, affecting wild and domestic animals and sometimes humans and characterized by fever, meningitis, and encephalitis.""

Literalism

Literalist

""LITERALIZE 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.""

Literalize

The quality or state of being literal; literal import

Literation

Bodies of writing

They may be studied along with languages

Belles-lettres

Litheness

Art prints

""The art or process of putting designs or writing, with a greasy material, on stone, and of producing printed impressions therefrom. The process depends, in the main, upon the antipathy between grease and water, which prevents a printing ink containing oil from adhering to wetted parts of the stone not covered by the design. See Lithographic limestone, under Lithographic. Lithographic limestone, under Lithographic.""

Lithology

Lithophane

Lithophyte

Rigid part of the earth

Crust and upper mantle of the earth in which earthquakes may originate

Lithotomy

The operation of crushing a stone in the bladder with an instrument called lithotriptor or lithotrite; lithotrity. lithotriptor or lithotrite; lithotrity.

Litigation

Disputably

Bookish type to esteem high-class among the junk

Writer's rubbish: director has to overlook first of repeated characters

Essayist

Littermate

Young quahogs

""LIVABLE suitable for living in, also LIVEABLE""

Variant of livable .

Doctor and lawyer

Liverwurst

Livetrap

Lividness

""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.""

Separation by percolation

Loadmaster

Loathness