2-Letter Words Starting with L

Lockjaw

Locknut

Anti-strike tactics

Tactics employed in some labor disputes

Lockram

... by a safecracker (wordplay)

Rigidly inflexible process

A type of march.

Member of the Equal Rights Party, 1835.

Democratic party faction in 1835.

A member of the radical faction of the New York City Democrats of 1835

Locoism

Move under one's own power

Get around

Move around

It can make horses nuts

It can make for frenzied flocks

Mad cow cause

To divide into compartments

Locusta

Like a locusta

Mode of expression

Style of speech or idiom

Manner of speaking

Room in a monastery - but not for Trappists!

""A small scale in a grass flower, also LODICULA""

Holmes, for one

Reasonable person (wordplay)

Pro at sound reasoning

""To reason, also LOGICIZE""

""To reason, also LOGICISE""

Relating to management systems

Of a military science

Like a wedding planner's skills

One given to arguing about words

""A tree with its lower branches trimmed, also LOBSTICK""

Pertaining to {lordosis=n}

Having a hard shell

Cover with plates.

Curl worn by 17th century courtiers

Like a teen with a crush, perhaps

Pining for one's sweetheart

Nauseatingly infatuated (wordplay)

""Slippery, also LUBRIC""

Lucarne

Lucence

In a clear fashion

Lucerne

Clarity (of thought)

Clearness of mind

Clarity of expression

Early matches

Most fortunate in cute silk dress

Most blessed with good fortune

Most blessed by fortune

Like Vegas losers, so they say

Like Mickelson in majors

Having no good fortune

{lucid=adj}

Wildly foolish acts

Clues in a mix-up leads to a number of follies (wordplay)

Follies

They're off their rockers

Whack jobs

Bedlamites

Meat served at midday meal (wordplay)

Break between coffee breaks

Uncle Henry has no cooked meal

Luncher

Making a meal of a jaw in a lung

Eater's activity

Starting proceedings without American, taking food

Unsteady dogs (wordplay)

Cross-bred hunting dogs

Cross-bred dogs for catching rabbits

Moving slowly and unsteadily

How tasteful, perhaps, so to coil us with us!

Pleasingly rich and sweet

Descriptor for food or lips

Alternative spelling for metallic element atomic number 71

Colorant of tomatoes and watermelons

Chemical that gives tomatoes their red color

Lycopod

Lyncher

Oater justice, maybe

An illegal hanging as by mob

The Ox-Bow Incident, for example

Keystone, for example variable

Person or thing vital to an enterprise or organization

Hang picture - the first at home, of person vital to the business

""To write lyrics, also LYRICIZE""

Shelley's forte

Enthusiastic or emotional outpouring

Song-like quality or enthusiastic praise

Hammerstein, for one

Ira Gershwin, for one

Bernie Taupin, for one

Put words to music

A mass of igneous rock intruded between sedimentary beds and resulting in a mammiform bulging of the overlying strata.

Cut material had value

Lear acted badly hurt

Injured by tearing

Cuts (flesh) roughly

Spike tears dreadfully

Ale crates smashed causing tears

Lacertid

Cousins of ant lions

Neuropteran insects

Delicate insects

Lacewood

Lacework

Of tears or weeping

Charm ally with tears

'E's out to leach rye meal of drops

Fringed, as petals.

Jagged, as a leaf

Fringed

Lacker

Lackey

Laconism

(Of hair) sprayed to keep in place

Queer Carl became a varnisher

One putting on coat presents a pound bill: odd? About right

Lacquey

Lacrimal

Lacrosse

Reportedly have no money invested in label producing baby food

Dairy process

Play at this in the dairy with a lion around

Sounds as if one might lack this to a tin of milk

Lacunar

Laicise

Laicize

Laitance

Light colour for soot (wordplay)

Soot used as a pigment

Powdery form of carbon

Primitive marine organisms

""A tough, elastic wood, often used for the shafts of gigs, archery bows, fishing rods, and the like. Also, the tree which produces this wood, Duguetia Quitarensis (a native of Guiana and Cuba), and several other trees of the same family (Anonase\'91). Duguetia Quitarensis (a native of Guiana and Cuba), and several other trees of the same family (Anonase\'91).""

Inventor Edwin's cloak (or painting)

Plant trees and shrubs, say

Prospect of unbridled lap dances!

Larcener

Petty thefts

Thefts

One taking clarinets off

Thief dressed in scarlet

Brigand or burglar

A close run, maybe, for kleptomaniac

Related to theft

Light-fingered clue, arson suspected

An insecticide designed to kill larval pests.

They're made to go indoors

One jumping on the bandwagon, say

Fashionable sort (wordplay)

Fashionable one (wordplay)

Psychoanalytic stages

Of soil produced by the decomposition of rocks

A plant duct containing latex.

LATOSOL a tropical soil

Lattice

Launcher

Pushing the boat out (wordplay)

Sending off (a rocket)

Firing one that's eating out

Discovery zone (wordplay)

Structure on which a rocket sits

Cape Canaveral sight

Laverock

LEACH to allow a liquid to percolate

Leachate

Leachy

English word

Property seller's arrangement

Property seller's temp arrangement

Lechayim

Lechery

Living a licentious lifestyle

Lewd clues, set to entrap 3

Rakish sign about singer in front of us

Nothing in Hercules' disposition was lewd

Lecithin

The specimen or element selected as the type of a species when a holotype has not been defined.

Angry moms, at times

Angry dads, at times

Visitors to women's clubs.

Avocation of many authors.

Teaching in a college

Instructing or admonishing

Tenacious

Adjective (-al)

A band of nerve fibres

Lenience

Lenticel

English word

The garlic (anagram)

The reverse of energetic

Short of energy

Leucemia

Leukemic

See white blood cell .

LEVIRATE the custom of marrying the widow of one's brother

LEXICAL pertaining to the words of a language

English word

Libeccio

Licencee

Licencer

Licence

Royalty payers, say

They're permitted (wordplay)

Software users, often

Licenser

Such laws restrict service opportunities for landlords

Licensor

Certification for professional practice

Lichen

Lichenin

""Of, pertaining to, or resembling, lichens; abounding in lichens; covered with lichens.""

Eager; craving; urged by desire; eager to taste or enjoy; greedy.

Lickspit

Dried-root candies

Local Cockney actor poolside

Powerful local anaesthetic

""A typeface or font of characters having relatively thin, light lines.""

Five-line verses

Five-lined verses

"A flea in a fly in a flue," and others.

LIMONITE a major ore of iron

They secure wheels on axles

Vital components

Vital entities

Linstock

Lipocyte

Pl. lipolyses (-s z ) The hydrolysis of lipids.

Cosmetics-counter array

Tubes in purses

Basic cosmetics.

Say Scotch on the rocks is sweet

Sweet drink on the rocks (wordplay)

Pontefract cake ingredient

Study of rights in speech

Farm animals exist to breed

One source of rural income.

(Domestic) animals in general

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

Scumbag eating zero degree stew

Stew of meat, vegetables and hardtack

A stew formerly eaten by sailors

Lobstick

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

Lodicule

Verse ()

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

Logomach

An argument about words.

Dispute concerning words

Leave Mum in lake and start your verbal sparring

Perhaps ageless ethnological weave

Minimum clothing (wordplay)

Fig leaf successor (wordplay)

Beetle with a lengthy narrow body

Lopstick

Cause of high telephone bills.

Talkativeness

Prolixity.

Loricate

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

Small, UNLIKE THIS!

Some letters perhaps from minor lawsuit

Drop the bag ... not like THAT!

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