2-Letter Words Starting with L

Given honour and praise, it's right she from France should be embraced

Pale purple flowers

Purple flowers

Mint plants.

A shrub (Amorpha canescens) of sandy woodlands and streambanks of the Western U. S. having hoary pinnate flowers and dull-colored racemose flowers; it is thought to indicate the presence of lead ore.Amorpha canescens) of sandy woodlands and streambanks of the Western U. S. having hoary pinnate flowers and dull-colored racemose flowers; it is thought to indicate the presence of lead ore.

English word

Leadwork

Leadwort

Leaflet

Leaguer

With erudition

Nearly led astray with erudition (wordplay)

What 12 across has to slacken his grip

Not free to rent cargo space on board

Form of property tenure

Tanned the opponent (wordplay)

Beaten, though there in first place!

Covered with horsehide

Pivoting keels on the sides of a sailboat

Legalise

Like gambling in Nevada

Mythical footary, perhaps (wordplay)

Like a mythical foot (wordplay)

Fabled - green lady (anagram)

Used a salmon-spear

Summer party drinks

Some citrus drinks

Sidewalk-stand sales

Lemuroid

LEOTARD a close-fitting garment

LEPIDOTE covered with small scales

A natural family of mammals comprising the hares and rabbits.

""Any shrubby or herbaceous plant of the genus Lespedeza, widely used for forage, soil improvement, and especially hay in the Southern U.S.Lespedeza, widely used for forage, soil improvement, and especially hay in the Southern U.S.""

English word

Bought with borrowed money

Exerted influence on

Like some buyouts

Levigate

Raised volunteers (wordplay)

Did a seance feat

Rose by buoyancy.

Levodopa

Learner I reprimanded and let go

Wild bear I'd let free

Free at last

Having a vital urge

Local Cockney actor poolside

Powerful local anaesthetic

Cover charged by month can sap

Most vital element

Vital force

One of the Beach Boys (wordplay)

Bank magazine-rack overseer (wordplay)

GARFIELD + U = Beach V.I.P

Ligature

Reduced the weight

Took a load off awfully thin ledge

Being illuminated, he tingled with excitement

Lighter

""Pine wood abounding in pitch, used for torches in the Southern United States; pine knots, dry sticks, and the like, for kindling a fire quickly or making a blaze.""

Lignify

With limitation.

Translucence

Limuloid

Like rock in a volcano or infant's food

Turned to fluid

Convert (assets) into cash

Convert to cash

Kill dead, accepting one pound

State of being fluid.

Available cash

Arachne ultimately got by on 51 Euros in cash

To render liquid.

Liquify

Transformed into stone

Pressed one's suit (wordplay)

Pressed a suit

Took legal action

Red state (wordplay)

Loadstar

A stack of rock is magnetic

Magnetite possessing polarity.

It attracts lots to Tyneside

Zeitgeist and "umami," linguistically

Karaoke and smorgasbord, linguistically speaking

Weltschmerz and schadenfreude, for example

Lobster

""Made up of, or divided into, lobules; as, a lobulated gland.as, a lobulated gland.""

Old Celia's moving around in a restricted area

Restricted diet instead missing even elements

Boozer on other side limited to one place

Confined to one area

Lockdown

Moved, jocularly

Plants that make cattle crazy

Problematic plants for ranchers

Plants that produce the intoxicant swainsonine

Guides for ancient mariners.

Navigational reference points

Sources of inspiration

Lake poems with quality must be a magnet

Iron-attracting magnetite

It was used to make the first compass

Porter's room intended, say, for deposit of monies

Doddery old chaps going in to get accommodation

Accommodations

Lodgment

Lodicule

Verse ()

Logicise

Logicize

Engaged in political skulduggery

Swapped political favors

Took part in a lumberjack contest

Longhand

Longhead

Word often paired with latitude

A concern of mariners

Navigator's concern.

Lookdown

Loophole

Lordly

Walk all over novice inside school for the little chiefs

Titled British dignitaries

Noble potencies

Layabouts' dream country

Idyllic spot

Left to love and lust outrageously in this bed of roses

Louden

Loudly

Noisemaker of sorts

Braggart with noisy oral orifice

Ear-splitting yakker

Soaring honeymooners (wordplay)

Small African parrots or romantic couple

Openly affectionate couple

Lowball

High living is not for him

Scot who touched down in the valley (wordplay)

Flat dweller

A lowly state.

Sporty cars with dropped chassis

Customized cars with diminished ground clearance

Cars close to the ground, and a hint to the ends of the starred answers

""Geography a rhumb line or curve on the surface of a sphere intersecting all meridians at the same angle; hence, the course of a ship or aircraft following a constant compass direction. ; loxodromic,""

The quality of being lucid; lucidity.

Somewhat ridiculous (ditto without one?)

Absurd or farcical

Curd Louis prepared was laughable

Lullaby

Lunkhead

Ghastly quality

Ghastly action started lately underwater clear of the headland

State of being lusty; vigor of body.

Lustrate

LYOPHILE pertaining to a type of colloid

Lyrebird

Lyricise

Lyricize

LABIALIZE To modify by contraction of the lip opening.

Adjective meaning resembling

Noble dessert (wordplay)

Tirami su cake

Common item in a trifle's cake layer

Ladyfish

LAMENTED lament

Lancewood

Landaulet

One who takes the field (wordplay)

Man of property

One with a lot

Women collecting rent

With no sea coast

Describing Paraguay and Bolivia

Cut off from the sea

Not a seafaring type!

Sea fearer (wordplay)

One with no experience of the sea

They're continent enough to get a thousand of the mokes ashore

They mind their manors

They may deal lots

Property-tax payers

Disembarking without personal property? Anything but!

(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

Hoped-for political results.

Massive election triumphs

Massive electoral victories

Pined; lay neglected

Left in agony, went into decline

Grew weak or feeble

Rare-earth series

Like the cutting of gemstones

I said pearl should be reset - by us (wordplay)

Gem cutters

Lapidate

Lapidify

Lapidify

LARVICIDE

Larvicide

Weary states

""Pl. latifundia (-d - ) A great landed estate, especially of the ancient Romans.""

Pl. latifundios A large landed estate in Spain or Latin America.

Laudation

First digs (wordplay)

Space-shot structures

What shuttles leave from

Money changing hands for cleaners

Housewife's chore.

Washing establishment

Perverts enter adult establishment for dirty material (wordplay)

High street concern as a French doctor with little energy tucked into coffee

"What's My Line?" candidate.

What's My Line? candidate.

LAUNDRY a place where clothes are washed and ironed

Lavender

LEADEN to become {heavy=adj}

Generally missing (wordplay)

Lacking a commander

Nothing editorial without the boss

The Presidential yacht?

The Presidential yacht (wordplay)

Had replies (anagram)

Leadplant

Leadscrew

Leaflet

Let them stop their grip after half a century

Hide shorts in Bierkellar (wordplay)

One's led her astray wearing this!

Shorts with braces

Legendry

Supporter I reprimanded settled a bill

Laid down law, it's alleged, improperly

Passed bills

Altered, in a way

Drawn out

Drew out pin around noon - after that, read intermittently

Female in the wild

Jungle beast

Big cat.

""A species of mica, of a lilac or roseviolet color, containing lithia. It usually occurs in masses consisting of small scales. See Mica. Mica.""

Lespedeza

For example, Y-front's logo (wordplay)

Piece of corporate stationery

Stationery feature from red endings

English word

Lewdness

Lustful Liberal Democrat restrained by pair with common sense

Student couple, tender intimately, sense it's lustful

Lewd

Lidocaine

Lifeblood

Workers who keep an eye on swimmers

Workers in towers

Pool attendants

LIGHTFACE

Lightwood

Probability

Chance meeting of priest and criminal after murder almost backfired

Quality of being limpid; limpidity.

LINEARISE

LINEARIZE

A type of paperboard used in making corrugated cartons.

Genial drip (anagram)

Hearing by seeing (wordplay)

Hearing visually (wordplay)

Made up speakers performed as a watch

Sold off quickly

Sold off, as assets

Converted to cash

Pays off one pound during evening shifts

Settler of an estate.

Property settler.

LIQUIDIZE To render liquid.

Thaws

The quality or state of being liquid; liquidity; fluency.

Bread and butter

Bread and butter, so to speak

Job or career

Lividity

""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.""

An aircraft crew member in charge of loading and unloading cargo or heavy weapons.

Loadstone

They have a strong attraction

Magnets

Lodgement

Logaoedic

Turtle

Fool

Devoted to classical music.

Devoted to classical music

Not buzz-cut

Shrewd

Shrewd.

Longitude

LOPSIDED leaning to one side

Snobbery concerning strokes seen in cricket ground

Superiority of policies adopted by cricket ground

In a test venue, a punishment for pupils displaying arrogance

Lotusland

Indiscreet speakers

Blusterers

Loudness

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

Plains denizens

Lowlihead

Loxodrome

Dealt with friction, say

Prepped for an ultrasound, say

Treated with oil

Lucidity

Unfinished business (wordplay)

Where elephants go walking (wordplay)

Where to buy 2x4's.

Shone, as from a chemical reaction

""LUNKHEAD a stupid person, also LUNK""

Lustihood

LUTEINIZE

LUXURIATE To grow exuberantly; to grow to superfluous abundance.

Company duo imply upset in the plant