2-Letter Words Starting with L

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

Any of several enzymes that hydrolyze lecithin.

Foreign posts

Legendary

Magician's skill

Magician's line of work

A kind of trickery.

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.""

LEISHMANIA

Leishmania

Lemniscate

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

Lesbianism

Lethality

Sajak and White?

Sajak and White (wordplay)

Items of printed stationery

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

Like Frankenstein's monster (wordplay)

Not easily rattled

Showing good judgment

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.

Libidinal

LIBRATION The act or state of librating.

Licentiate

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

Lightplane

LIKABLE able to be liked

Tiny person (from 'Gulliver's Travels')

A minor character of Swift

Swift little creature

Subject of some statutes

Restrictions or shortcomings

Large fake with small checks

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

King Richard I, they say

A millionaire is so courageous

King Richard's epithet

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

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

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

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.""

Lithophane

Litigation

Bookish type to esteem high-class among the junk

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

Essayist

Littermate

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

Variant of livable .

Livetrap

""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

Ticker tapes (wordplay)

In an offensive way

Lobulation

""LOCALIZE to confine or limit to a certain place, also LOCALISE""

Dehiscent through the middle of the back of each cell; said of capsules.

Like some nonlinear scales in mathematics

Descriptor for a type of spiral; am right coil (anagram)

Large marine turtles.

Large sea turtles

Carnivorous turtles

The quality of being logical.

One skilled in military supply

Expert in military transport and supply.

Lognormal

LOGOGRAPH

Logomachy

Messed about

Fooled around

Disposition to bear injuries patiently; forbearance; patience.

Loquacity

LOSABLE able to be lost

Part of hi-fi system

Part of a sound system

Sound projector

""LOVABLE worthy of love, also LOVEABLE""

Lovastatin

Lovemaking

""LOWERCASE Pertaining to, or kept in, the lower case; used to denote the small letters, in distinction from capitals and small capitals. See the Note under 1st Case, n., 3. Case, n., 3.""

""LUBRICATE To make smooth or slippery; as, mucilaginous and saponaceous remedies lubricate the parts to which they are applied. as, mucilaginous and saponaceous remedies lubricate the parts to which they are applied.""

The application of oil or grease

Garage job.

""LUBRICATE To make smooth or slippery; as, mucilaginous and saponaceous remedies lubricate the parts to which they are applied. as, mucilaginous and saponaceous remedies lubricate the parts to which they are applied.""

Lubricator

Luciferase

In a lucrative manner.

""The act of lucubrating, or studying by candlelight; nocturnal study; meditation.""

Plaid wearers, stereotypically

Breakfast cereal for woodcutters (wordplay)

Loggers

Carpenters visit them

Homebuilders may visit them

*Where employees log long hours (wordplay)

""Of or pertaining to the loins and sacrum; as, the lumbosacral nerve, a branch of one of the lumber nerves which passes over the sacrum. as, the lumbosacral nerve, a branch of one of the lumber nerves which passes over the sacrum.""

Lusterware

Lustration

Luxuriance

In a luxuriant manner.

LUXURIATE To grow exuberantly; to grow to superfluous abundance.

The supposed act of turning one's self or another person into a wolf.

A dividing cell that gives rise to a mature lymphocyte.

Lymphogram

LYRICAL having the form of a song

""A system of movement notation for dance that employs various symbols to record the points of a dancer's body, the direction of a dancer's movement, the tempo, and the dynamics: "Labanotation is specific enough to record the flutter of an eyelid" (Joseph Menosky).""

Labiodental

Test solutions might be found here

Rooms for scientists

Where one might find 13 lorries? A boat at sea

Labradorite

Intricately winding; like a labyrinth; perplexed; labyrinthal.

Describes The Maze complex

Like a maze

Highly convoluted

Lachrymator

In a tearful manner

LACHRYMOSE Generating or shedding tears; given to shedding tears; suffused with tears; tearful.

Laciniation

Lacquerware

Lacquerwork

Lacrimation

Lactalbumin

Some vaginal flora

Laicization

Lallygag

Lamellicorn

Jeremiah's book of the Old Testament.

*It comes after the Book of Jeremiah

Jeremiah's OT book

Lammergeier

Lammergeyer

""LAMPLIGHTER One who, or that which, lights a lamp; esp., a person who lights street lamps.""

Lampoonery

Landholding

LANDLESS having no land

Landlordism

Landlubber

Landscapist

Langbeinite

Langoustine

Lackadaisical state

With a dreamy inertia

Laparoscope

""LAPAROSCOPE A slender endoscope, containing fiber-optic viewing capability and miniature surgical devices, which can be inserted through a small incision in the abdominal wall, allowing a surgeon to perform minor surgery with minimal damage to the abdominal muscles.""

Laparotomy

Big in the middle? That's generous

Of liberal disposition

Dealer Gareth, surprisingly generous

Excision of the larynx.

Plural or third person singular

Laryngitis

""An instrument, consisting of an arrangement of two mirrors, for reflecting light upon the larynx, and for examining its image.""

The art of using the laryngoscope; investigations made with the laryngoscope.

Lascivious

Latchstring

LATERALIZE

""LATERIZE to convert to laterite, also LATERISE""

""The act or process of Latinizing, as a word, language, or country.""

Latticework

The quality of being laudable; praiseworthiness; commendableness.