2-Letter Words Starting with L

Set characteristic cryptic clue; initially missing Nina

Shine

Glow

Formal midday meals

They take ages at last, of course

Society affairs

Home of counterculture (wordplay)

School's cafeteria

Where students meet to eat

One for when a meal is needed (wordplay)

Inlet much improved by midday (wordplay)

When midday meal is eaten

Lutecium

Lychnis

Lycopene

Pity Hal with the MC for a gland

Lynching

Buttons with the director of "Blue Velvet" on them (wordplay)

LYOPHILE pertaining to a type of colloid

LYOPHOBE not readily dispersed

In an enthusiastic or effusive way

Lily and Carly are dancing in an expressive way

How Wordsworth and Coleridge wrote ballads

Lyricise

Lyricise

Lyricism

Important people on Broadway.

Hart and Hammerstein

Songwriters call up securing one in charts

Lyricize

Lyricize

Harboring a temperate virus

LYTIC pertaining to {lysis=n}

Laccolith

Tearing jaggedly

Tearing (of skin)

How much material you can get wound

Cut the material allowance

""Lacerating, or having the power to lacerate; as, lacerative humors. as, lacerative humors.""

Mahler 'cosy'? Wrong - sorrowful

Tearful (literary)

Rashly come out, getting weepy

Laciness

Bereft of brilliance

Lacking brilliance or vitality

Like a rookie bootblack's efforts (wordplay)

Lacquerer

Lacquer

Lacquey

A chemical substance that causes tears to flow; same as lachrymator.lachrymator.

Lactation

Inducing lactation.

Of Erie, Huron, etc.

Found in lakes

Lambency

Lampblack

Tapering, as a leaf.

Tapering, as leaves

Lancewood

With no sea coast

Describing Paraguay and Bolivia

Cut off from the sea

(Of gardens) aesthetically altered

Like a golf course, with sand placed haphazardly

Lecturer and son, protected against weather, like some gardens

Moe (wordplay)

Job that involves cutting

He may make the earth move

Some J.M.W Turner paintings

Like many of Cezanne's paintings

Down-to-earth paintings

Force enlists car thieves

Those wrongly taking clarinet solos, discontentedly playing

LARVICIDE

Larvicide

Disease and Illness

Driven by lust

So USA civil administration is wanton (wordplay)

Lewd

They may stand for something

Ten o'clock scholars.

Folks who weren't on time

Adjective (-ic)

Laticifer

First digs (wordplay)

Space-shot structures

What shuttles leave from

Radioactive transuranic element

Element atomic number 103

Radioactive element dispersed warm nuclei

Leadscrew

Rental arrangements have a reduced impact in outskirts of Leeds

""A book, or a list, of lections, for reading in divine service.""

Lectotype

Fussy about rules

Excessively adhering to the law

Formal to a fault

State of being valid

Conformity to the law or rules

Propriety of member having sex being nameless

""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.""

Leniency

Biconvex

Lenticule

Little green man (wordplay)

Og of "Finian's Rainbow," for example

Clean up her mess, little one

English word

See Leucoplast. Leucoplast.

Leukocyte

LEUKOCYTE

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

LEXICAL pertaining to the words of a language

Add a word to a language's vocabulary

Study of word meanings

Study of words

Libecchio

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

LIGHTFACE

Lightface

Adjective (-ic)

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.

Customer service agent (wordplay)

Ray Lewis, for one

Party policy enthusiast (wordplay)

Printing A machine for casting metal type in lines.

Related to speech

Belonging to language.

Relating to language

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.

Made up speakers performed as a watch

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

Liquorice

Literacy

Rocky, light and cool, I suspect

Young of the quahog.

Kind of clam

Young quahog

Relating to public worship

Medical head going to follow books of worship

Livestock

Lobscouse

Pub has one, and I confess to being put in place

Spots socialite reeling after end of ball

Places

Settings

Localize

LOCATION the position in a particular place

Waterway worker has food in cupboard

Canal worker

Canal employee identified by hair and ring

Key figures (wordplay)

Key workers (wordplay)

What love laughs at.

""A peculiar sort of stitch formed by the locking of two threads together, as in the work done by some sewing machines. See Stitch.Stitch.""

Locomote

Crazy movement (wordplay)

Power of moving crazy proposal

Movement from place to place

Crazy reason for doing something?

A crazy cause (wordplay)

Steam roller (wordplay)

LOCOMOTOR Of or pertaining to movement or locomotion.

Locutory

Logaoedic

Logicalness.

Reason I make notes whilst arguing

Logicize

Like some nightmares (wordplay)

Of goods delivery

Point of story I found in pub regarding men's movement (wordplay)

""Excessive, uncontrollable, or incoherent talkativeness""

Tarzan's wardrobe

Longicorn

Giving many words to the wise

Gabby to see dodgy doctor shortly to get recovery notes

Chatty

It's the end of the world!...if you want to get really literal about it

Lowercase

Raving lunatics stockpiling 24 oils (wordplay)

Dealt with friction, say

Prepped for an ultrasound, say

Treated with oil

Having produced articles about social security, makes things run smoothly

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

""LUBRIC slippery, also LUBRICAL""

Lucidity

""An enzyme which catalyzes the oxidation of luciferin, thereby producing bioluminescence.""

Luciferin

Giving light; affording light or means of discovery.

In a luculent manner; clearly.

Dreamer

Strong feller (wordplay)

Paul Bunyan's payment (wordplay)

Feller left Brown with nothing!

Luminance

Shone, as from a chemical reaction

Luminesce

Pl. lumpectomies Surgical excision of a tumor from the breast with the removal of a minimal amount of surrounding tissue.

Schools' gathering places

Not when to break fast

Midday breaks

In a pleasingly rich manner

Lushness

Company duo imply upset in the plant

Lymphatic

A T-cell or B-cell

Comply with the last of compulsory orders in cell

Lyricise

Lyricize

Adjective (-ic)

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

Deep cuts or tears in the flesh

Allotments in Cluny

What animal bites may cause

A chemical substance that causes tears to flow; same as lacrimator.lacrimator.

LACINIATE LACINIAE lacinia

Lackluster

In a laconic manner.

English word

English word

Shedding tears; same as lachrymation.lachrymation.

Lacrimator

The albumin contained in milk and obtained from whey.

LACTATION A giving suck; the secretion and yielding of milk by the mammary gland.

""Bearing or containing milk or a milky fluid; as, the lactiferous vessels, cells, or tissue of various vascular plants. as, the lactiferous vessels, cells, or tissue of various vascular plants.""

""LAICIZE to free from clerical control, also LAICISE""

Having antenn\'91 terminating in a group of flat lamell\'91; said of certain coleopterous insects.

""Piercing; seeming to pierce or stab; as, lancinating pains (i.e., severe, darting pains). as, lancinating pains (i.e., severe, darting pains).""

Outside consultants (wordplay)

Manages to get garnishes (wordplay)

Outside property managers (wordplay)

The act of doing various grounds maintenance

A painter of landscapes.

""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 performed with a laparoscope.

Larcenous

It's out for welcome guests

Cord for opening a door

Cord for fastening

Criss-crossed arrangement

Grid construction

Trellis makeup

Lawrencium

Endangered large sea turtle

Largest living turtle

Third-year Marine

Gyrene (3rd)

Veteran Marine, in slang

Lecherous

Any of several enzymes that hydrolyze lecithin.

University post

Tip off ace result about joint academic post

Lemniscate

Little men of Bogland.

Wee hoarders of legend

Pot of gold keepers

Leucocidin

Leucoplast

Adjective (-ic)

""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

Licentiate

The science which treats of lichens.

Lickerish

A subservient flatterer

Obsequious person

Flatterer.

Officer's post

Lincomycin

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.

Study of language and its structure

Scientific study of language

Take-out for the corpulent (wordplay)

Low-fat recipe (wordplay)

Alternative to dieting

Young quahogs

Lobectomy

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

Lockkeeper

Locomotion