2-Letter Words Starting with L

Service outlets are unsettled after redevelopment

Silly chap at leisure caught out in poet's office

Lavishness

Lawbreaking

Lawfulness

The act or process of leaching.

Leadenness

New York bus driver's activity

Cold-blooded children's play activity (wordplay)

Certain tenants

Those who might be letting last in race into lead, senior citizens, ultimately

Leatherback

Leatherette

Plural noun or verb form

Leatherneck

Leatherwood

Lecithinase

Lectionary

The act of making legal.

Legerdemain

Soldiers organise line in conflict

French soldiers

Legislation

Legislative

Ugliest Earls form law-making bodies

Legitimacy

Rightfully

With justification, run away with a friend to meet heartless lady

""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.""

The act of making legitimate.

To legitimate.

Legitimator

Lemongrass

Leopardess

Sort of insect to upset people, darn it!

Butterfly, for example

Butterfly or moth

Leprosarium

""Pl. leptocephali (-l ) One of the small, flat, transparent larvae of eels and certain other fishes, characterized by a long, narrow head.""

Leukoplakia

LEVITATION Lightness; buoyancy; act of making light.

""Turning or rotating the plane of polarization towards the left; levogyrate, as levulose, left handed quartz crystals, etc.""

Lexicality

""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.""

The compiling of dictionaries

The compilation of dictionaries

Writing and compiling of dictionaries

LIBERALISE

""Pertaining to, or characterized by, liberalism; as, liberalistic opinions. as, liberalistic opinions.""

Liberality

Liberalizer

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

Some third-party candidates

Libertinage

Lifeguard

Lifemanship

Lacking a centre of gravity (wordplay)

Delight model holding spirit and bubbly!

Carefree to match love of writer

Likability

Swift people (wordplay)

Swift race (wordplay)

Residents of imaginary country

""LIMITATION The act of limiting; the state or condition of being limited; as, the limitation of his authority was approved by the council. as, the limitation of his authority was approved by the council.""

LIMNOLOGIC

Linebacking

Linecasting

""Of or pertaining to language; relating to linguistics, or to the affinities of languages.""

Lionization

Process of becoming fluid

'Then, then (methinks) how sweetly flows / That - of her clothes' (Herrick)

Liquidambar

These are killing the business community? They're wind-ups!

LITERALIST One who adheres to the letter or exact word; an interpreter according to the letter.

Literality

""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.""

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

LITERATE one who can read and write

Lithograph

Type of printer

Of metal or stone surface printing

""Of or pertaining to the character of a rock, as derived from the nature and mode of aggregation of its mineral contents.""

Professional writers.

In the manner of a liturgy.

Livability

Livetrap

Lixiviation

""Act of localizing, or state of being localized.""

Locational

Fruit, sorted out, began to be put in trucks

Logicality

Logistical

Logistician

LOGNORMAL

Lounging around

Running lengthwise

New position for Mason Leghorn

Mahler song on travelling dock worker

Dock worker

In a loquacious manner.

They get the message out powerfully - these can affect one hearing things!

Lovability

Lubrication

Not usual crib (anagram) - learned works

Late night studies

Court dismissing last two tribunals after review and lots of study

Tepidity

Lymphoblast

""A description of the lymphatic vessels, their origin and uses.""

LYMPHOMA a type of {tumour=n}

Labanotation

The modification of an articulation by contraction of the lip opening.

Laborious

Showing little enthusiasm and rigour

Lacking drive and rigour

Not willing to work often

""Pl. lactobacilli (-s l ) Any of various rod-shaped, nonmotile aerobic bacteria of the genus Lactobacillus that ferment lactic acid from sugars and are the causative agents in the souring of milk.""

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Biochemistry) Biochem any of a number of globular proteins found in milk

Laggardness

One of the Lamellibranchia. Also used adjectively.

One that owns land.

Languidness

In a languishing manner.

Languishment

Laparoscopy

""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.""

English word

Laryngology

Laryngoscope

Lastingness

Laterization

Latinization

Latitudinal

Laughable

Humorist's investment (wordplay)

Hilarious cattle (wordplay)

Humorist's investment?

Laureateship

Lawlessness

Learnedness

Plural or third person singular

Legalization

In a legislative manner.

Of or pertaining to a legislator or legislature.

Legitimation

LEGITIMATIZE To legitimate.

Legitimatize

LEISHMANIAS leishmania

LEISHMANIAS leishmania

Lepidopteran

""LEPRECHAUN A small mischevous elf or spirit in Irish folklore; it is often depicted in literature as a dwarfish bearded old man; -- legend tells that if a leprechaun is captured, he will reveal the location of his hidden pot of gold.""

""Pl. leptocephali (-l ) One of the small, flat, transparent larvae of eels and certain other fishes, characterized by a long, narrow head.""

Drowsily

Present participle or gerund

Partridge, say, girl, ex-poacher, shot

Compiler of a dictionary

Dictionary writer

Like dictionary making

Liberalness

LIBERATION The act of liberating or the state of being liberated.

Book custodian's skill

A German wine

German white wine

Light white Rhine wine

Lieutenancy

Lightfast

""A change in the character of a cell wall, by which it becomes harder. It is supposed to be due to an incrustation of lignin.""

Likableness

LINEARIZE LINEAR resembling a straight line

One studying language

Liquefaction

Literalness

(Earth Sciences / Geological Science) the consolidation of a loosely deposited sediment into a hard sedimentary rock

LITHOGRAPHER One who lithographs; one who practices lithography.

Lithography

Lithograph

Livableness

Liveability

Loathsome

Localization

Logicalness

""A written symbol representing an entire spoken word without expressing its pronunciation; for example, for 4 read "four" in English, "quattro" in Italian. Also called ideogram , logograph .""

Longanimity

Losableness

Lovableness

Profitability

LUTEINIZE LUTEIN a yellow pigment

Lycanthropy

Inflammation of the lymphatic glands; called also lymphitis. lymphitis.

""LYMPHATIC pertaining to, containing, or conveying lymph.""

LYMPHOBLAST

Adjective (-ic)

Plural or third person singular

Plural noun or verb form

English word

Lyricalness

Labialization

Of or pertaining to the Labyrinthodonta.

Lachrymosity

Lactoglobulin

Lamellibranch

Lamentable

Landlessness

Landownership

Laparoscopist

Laryngectomee

Laryngectomy

Laryngoscopy

Lascivious

LATERALIZE LATERAL to throw a sideward pass in football

Not restrained; not confined by precise limits.

Laudableness

Friars Club/Merrill Lynch joint venture (wordplay)

Leachability

LEGALISTIC

The office of a legislator.

LEGITIMATIZE To legitimate.

LEGITIMIZE To legitimate.

Letterspacing

LEXICALISE LEXICAL pertaining to the words of a language

""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.""

Wordsmiths rephrase logic mistakenly incorporating unknown

Lexicography

The act of liberalizing.