2-Letter Words Starting with L

Ropes with deadeyes

Holders of referee whistles

Campus-I.D. holders

Refs' whistle holders

Portable writing surface

Tabletop for the legs

Work surface akin to a table.

Having a lapel

Artist who makes cameos

Expert on cutting and polishing gems

I cut start of race run during day

Stone to death.

Stone

To turn to stone

""An expert in gems, also LAPIDARY""

Lapper

Having flaps, as headgear

'Left on ship' is about right!

Port; labrador (anagram)

Old term for port (naut.)

Lardy

Like lard

Salt-pork strips

Becoming slower and broader, in music

Roped at a rodeo

Lassoed.

Lassoed

Pounded the stuffing out of

Beat: Colloq.

How Laurence got beaten, along with a prude

A part of an annual ring of wood

Beaten, showing a white face (wordplay)

Ivory-coated (wordplay)

Worked the Dial (wordplay)

Scope (with parallel circles?)

Not unparalleled range (wordplay)

Such tolerance may be a matter of degree

All in strips and frozen at last

Having crossed strips

With a network of crossed bars

A ball due to be organised? Excellent!

Praises be this way for Lady Baul!

Worthy of praise

In a praiseworthy manner

In a commendable way

Tincture of opium

Take crack up to a union needing drug

Opiate popular in Victorian times

""One who lauds, also LAUDER""

Pushed the boat out (wordplay)

Sent off, ship on a maiden voyage say

Reform uncle had started

Does the wash

Washes and irons

Cleans, in a way

Like old Olympics champions

Crowned a certain way

Honored with a crown of foliage

Laveer

The sweet smell of Marillion (wordplay)

Fragrant shrub (taking water?)

Washer takes last plant

Laid on generously

Bestowed in abundance

Expended profusely

Acted as counsel

In a sluggish way

With heavy steps

Leady

Spaces between lines, in printing

Without lead

First ones to bat

First ones at the plate

Opening moves

Sailor who heaves the sounding line.

Sailor taking soundings.

Fellow who takes soundings on board

Takers of soundings Naut

Sailors who take soundings.

Takers of soundings: Naut.

Something made of lead

Flowering plant also called plumbago

Plumbago plant

Plumbago, a Mediterranean and tropical plant

Like soda crackers

Don't go with Edward with the yeast

Abandon Edward to get a rise out of him

Lecher

Told off or instructed students

Spoke at a seminar

What Twain and Cable did in 1884

Ledgy

Device limiting boat's drift

Movable plank on a hull

Navigational aid on a sailboat

Toward the sheltered side

Islands of the West Indies.

Antigua, St. Kitts, etc.

How liberals lean

Got out of hospital, not in the right direction

Aport

A collection of legends

Having much free time

Having idle time

Having plenty of free time

Meal done (anagram)

Stand for a kid (wordplay)

Soft drink; Noel made (anagram)

A {lemur=n}

Like Edna Bell, in the opinion of a loan officer

Gradually slowing, in music

Retarding, in music

Decreasing in tempo, to musicians

Black-spotted cats

They don't change their spots

Preyers on antelopes

Clothing for acrobats

Ballerina's togs.

One-piece garments

Scaly, to a botanist.

Scaly

Leporid

Lesion

Not so much need - that's more like it

Not so much need to get confused

Cut that could be needless

Tutored

Rebuked.

Reproved.

Disappointments, failures to satisfy

In time or in side

Disappointments or failures to support

Was a star athlete, perhaps

Possessed of learning

Was on the varsity

Levant

One had no inclination to have done this

Flattened by demolition, razed

Flattened

A type of drug to treat Parkinson's disease

Louis sends away for offensive material

Far from clean

Bawdy behavior

Published lies about (someone)

Defamed in writing

Print slanderous statements against

Librate

Granted, in England

Able to practice, say

Part of LPN

Permitted to practice

Lichen

Resembling a {ligula=n}

Loosened (up)

Did warm-up exercises

Developed flexibility

Greek god of tangy drinks (wordplay)

God of tangy drinks (wordplay)

Greenish citrus drinks

Express trains

Rascal in idyll messing clearly

In a clear manner

""A horseshoe crab, also LIMULUS""

Lindane

Striped

Produced by breeding within a particular line of descent

Lingcod

Didn't go away

Hung on, dawdled

Continued to stay.

Small oil producers

Oil sources for oil paint

Plant oil sources

Made to feel like the king of the jungle

Song about working is set on a pedestal

Made a lot of in a beastly fashion

Treated as a celebrity

Treated as a VIP

Treated as a celebrity.

Resembling a {lipoid=n}

Lippen

Lipper

Liquate

In a free-flowing manner

Liquor

Heard it said - doctor lends tie!

Received a signal, perhaps

Heard with intention

Had all the young all over the place

Scattered in untidy fashion

Tilt the deer so ontidily

Like some servants

Wearing an identifying uniform

Uniformed ranks I deliver

The state of being {livid=adj}

Burdens

Guiding light variable

Last road designed to aid the traveller

Guiding light Var.

Macho, for one

Spanglish or Franglais component

Term from French, say - 'mortgage' (wordplay)

It can make horses nuts

It can make for frenzied flocks

Mad cow cause

Guide for sailors on oceans, say

Guiding light; leotards (anagram)

Point of reference

Hotel rooms at the gold sign

Accommodations for travelers

Rented rooms in another's house

Sum placed in a bank

Money placed in a bank

Money left with the bank

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

Dye trees.

I'd led like this (wordplay)

Hung around a Target parking lot, say

Hung a round (wordplay)

Lounged

Ordinary writing of manual origin

Joined-up writing

Writing something for the minutes

A person having a long skull

Consider inferior, with 'on'

Start of "Lonesome Road"

Consider inferior, with "on"

Eased up on

Dissolute Edward is not tight

Gave slack to

Lopper

Did slope make play unequal (wordplay)

Ill-balanced poles did topple

Odd piles set at an angle

Petty noblemen

Like ronin, but not other samurai

More dignified

More nobly

More arrogant

Like a lord

""A young or unimportant lord, also LORDING""

Lordoma

Lordosis

Forward curvature of spine with hollow in back

Abnormal curvature of spinal column with the convexity towards the front

22 across gets round to his sister that this is bent back

Pertaining to {lordosis=n}

Term of respect in the U.K

Address for a nobleman

Title of peers.

Became more clamorous

Intensified

Loudly

Volume (of sound)

Magnitude of sound

How Spinal Tap measured musical quality

How shutters are typically made

Furnished with slatted panels.

Ventilated, in a way

Pet for Feb. 14

Variety of small parrot

Small green parrot

Inside items of information

Owls land (anagram)

Area of Scotland

Part of Scotland.

Song by War & custom car type (3,5)

Variable-height car

Road-scraping custom car

Clarity (of thought)

Clearness of mind

Clarity of expression

I've got to see the doctor, now!

How Jack walked (wordplay)

Proceeded heavily and awkwardly

Numskull: Colloq

Numskull Colloq.

Dolt

Lurdane

Gave a glossy finish

Lycopod

Powerful explosives.

Of a body fluid

Feathered musician (wordplay)

A chick on the harp grounded flyer

Very long-tailed flier

Labdanum

Black-coated retrievers

Did they fetch the game from Canada (wordplay)

Cut material had value

Lear acted badly hurt

Injured by tearing

Lacertid

Lacewood

(Of hair) sprayed to keep in place

Lacquey

Heather, full of terrible dread, is running

Ladleful

Hens, perhaps, spotted beetles

Perhaps hens with spots might be 1 down

Red hens with spots (wordplay)

Ladyhood

The Parisienne upset Yves' old flames

Sweethearts.

Indoor plants popular in waiting rooms

Ladyship

""LAGGARD one who lags, also LAGGER""

Settings of some getaway cabins

Cabin settings

Belts Adam (anagram)

Censured severely or angrily

Beat the little beast like a Teddy

Like most backstage passes

Word for structure of windshield glass

Detail man to work with plates

Mocked, in a way

Skewered, as in a skit

Publicly ridiculed

Lampyrid

""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).""

Car with a folding hood

Early auto style

Small convertible country needs golden permit

Ships' approaches to shores.

Some sightings

Dignified dumps

Geographical features ... or what the circled squares in this puzzle represent

Geographical features ... or what the shaded squares in this puzzle represent

Geographical features... or what the circled squares in this puzzle represent

Territory-expanding ploys

Territory-expanding moves

Unfair property seizures

Grounded connections (wordplay)

Alternatives to mobile phones

Traditional phone connections

Super bosses (wordplay)

Bogie men of housing shortage.

Some men of property

Alamo and Faneuil Hall, for example

Prominent objects in a landscape

Historical buildings, for example

Possessor of real estate

Squire left one bad news

One with much property

Inventor Edwin's cloak (or painting)

Plant trees and shrubs, say

Prospect of unbridled lap dances!

Landside

Lots of scenery - different kinds under wraps

Landsman

Dangerously large victory (wordplay)

Terrain picture (wordplay)

Runaway daughter in end is all upset

Landslip

In a weak or fatigued manner

Lapboard

Revolutionary comrade I saw getting stoned

Pelts with stones

Lapidist

Larboard

An insecticide designed to kill larval pests.

The weariness of girlhood (wordplay)

Not the energy of girlhood, perhaps

The langour of girlhood, perhaps

LATERAL to throw a sideward pass in football

Laterize

Latewood

Latinize

Regions where cliches start off

Angular distances from the equator.

Yachting positions

Laudanum

Might P raise this (wordplay)

Praise

Praise be that there's a case at the end of it!

Laudator

Like an ode

Expressing praise and commendation

Full of or giving praise

Discovery zone (wordplay)

Structure on which a rocket sits

Cape Canaveral sight

Cleaned filthy lucre?

Cleaned filthy lucre (wordplay)

Did a household task.

Cleaner (of clothes, linen)

One cleaning up filthy habits

One cleans material turning round less

Garden-party attire?

Garden-party attire (wordplay)

Woman washing clothes

Basement installations

The French gets wet, perhaps, for washing

Under sail perhaps, they may tend to the sheets

Laureate