2-Letter Words Starting with L

Twirl over for the leafy moss

Flowerless plant

Seaweedlike plant

Guy covered with foie gras (wordplay)

Member of a City Company

Predecessor of a chauffeur.

Stable fellows (wordplay)

Are they irritable when dressed alike (wordplay)

Stable chaps, but apparently irritable ones

Farm animals exist to breed

One source of rural income.

(Domestic) animals in general

Livetrap

Red state (wordplay)

""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.""

A stack of rock is magnetic

Magnetite possessing polarity.

It attracts lots to Tyneside

Disinclination

Can't like revolting

A hole most dreadfully repulsive

Liberal profanity a few find offensive

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

Lobeline

Scumbag eating zero degree stew

Stew of meat, vegetables and hardtack

A stew formerly eaten by sailors

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

Localise

Localite

Confined to one area

Localize

Readily found

They indicate places where Clovis ate, perhaps

Lockbox

Lockstep

Moved, jocularly

Locomote

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

Impressive height; nobility (of manner)

Quality of altruistic motives

Stature without bags of money

Verse ()

Logicise

Logicise

Logicize

Logicize

1999's winning word: Verbosity

Nonstop talkativeness

Excessive talkativeness, perhaps incoherent

The Golden Arches, for McDonald's

Company emblems

Engaged in political skulduggery

Swapped political favors

Took part in a lumberjack contest

Lumberjack, at times (wordplay)

Exchanger of political favors

Political favor-monger

Teens at a food court, maybe

Group gathering for no reason

Ones hanging around

Wild lion and tiger lurking

Dawdling toiler drunk on gin cocktail

Just hanging around

Lomentum

Adjective for Crusoe.

One, as numbers go

Tell one is strangely more miserable

Lonesome

Fuselage parts

Tiny glove (anagram)

Ripe old age

Duration of service

Living a long time; of great age.

Longhead

Viking "mead hall," for example

Word often paired with latitude

A concern of mariners

Navigator's concern.

Bank annoyance

Longueur

Stupidity figures in toilets

Silly stuff

Loophole

Escape mechanisms (wordplay)

Hacker's targets

Ways out of contracts

Warm-up deliveries

A lack of strictness

John senses abnormal laxity

Relaxed condition

Masseuse's task

Relaxing and letting go

Not being tight any more

Lopper

Lordly

Eyeglasses with no letter 'g' (wordplay)

Pair of glasses with a handle

Specs on a stick

Loricate

Birds, we hear, transport poet

Colorful parrots

Poor retirement plans (wordplay)

Ventures broadcast re T. S. Eliot

Low visibility figure

Louden

Loudly

Round American splits garden tool turning over plant

The state or quality of being lousy.

Soaring honeymooners (wordplay)

Small African parrots or romantic couple

Openly affectionate couple

Prettiest

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

Lovevine

Lowball

Small, UNLIKE THIS!

Some letters perhaps from minor lawsuit

Drop the bag ... not like THAT!

On the bottom.

At the bottom of the list.

At the very bottom

High living is not for him

Scot who touched down in the valley (wordplay)

Flat dweller

Lowlifer

A lowly state.

Lack of status

Bird during row starts to show some humility

Humility

Lowness

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,""

Not, perhaps, 15 down sort of neckwear

Ties alloy into allegiances

Oil (a mechanism)

Apply oil/grease

Smooth Blair cut apart by English

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

Lullaby

Strains to get to sleep (wordplay)

Soothing songs for babies

They're crooned near cradles

Lumberer

Sawyer's table

Moving like an elephant

Failing to start sleeping, being clumsy

Awful mumbler - a northern feller

Paul Bunyan's calling.

Paul Bunyan, for example

They deal in deal

English word

Set characteristic cryptic clue; initially missing Nina

Shine

Glow

Feature of badly-mixed custard

Formal midday meals

They take ages at last, of course

Society affairs

One for when a meal is needed (wordplay)

Inlet much improved by midday (wordplay)

When midday meal is eaten

Lunkhead

Ghastly quality

Ghastly action started lately underwater clear of the headland

Luster

That Tom Jones quality

Enlists us, perhaps, to what Stone had for life

Vigor

Lustrate

Lustrate

Lutecium

Lutefisk

LUTEIN a yellow pigment

Some string players

Some minstrels

Some bards

Luteolin

Lutetium

Enjoy greatly, to excess perhaps

Enjoy to excess

Revel in indulgence

Lychnis

Lycopene

Like a cat's oniony dish (wordplay)

Like a cat's oniony dish?

Kind of potatoes for simba

LYOPHILE pertaining to a type of colloid

Lyrebird

Lyricise

Lyricise

Lyricize

Lyricize

An instrument for measuring the water that percolates through a certain depth of soil.

Harboring a temperate virus

Lysosome

Lysozyme

LABIALIZE To modify by contraction of the lip opening.

Labialize

Lability

""Simultaneously labial and velar, as (kw) in quick.""

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

Inducing lactation.

Of Erie, Huron, etc.

Found in lakes

Adjective meaning resembling

Noble dessert (wordplay)

Tirami su cake

Common item in a trifle's cake layer

Ladyfish

Single papa in difficulty? Offer some tips maybe

Gratuities

Lakefront

Lakeshore

Himalayan monasteries

Males arise to be trained for Buddhist institutions

Lambency

Decorative drapery

Valance.

Valance

Stumbling scholars

Chuckleheads

Lameness

Far from fortunate

Awful food given to the French servants

Awful ballet with name cast

LAMENT to cry out in grief

LAMENTED lament

Certain Harvard men

Satirizers.

Satirical writing ridiculing someone

Ridiculing bad Monroe play

Oral eponym, perhaps, suggesting personal satire

Lampshell

Tapering, as a leaf.

Tapering, as leaves

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

(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

LANGLAUF a cross-country ski run

Lobsters sans large claws

At sea, eat no slugs as seafood

Pined; lay neglected

Left in agony, went into decline

Grew weak or feeble

One who languishes.

Droops

Lankness

Lanosity

Rare-earth series

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

Gem cutters

Lapidify

Lapidify

Force enlists car thieves

Those wrongly taking clarinet solos, discontentedly playing

Feature of a certain bass

Kind of bass

Type of bass

Larghetto

Larvicide

Laryngeal

Plural or third person singular

Weary states

They may stand for something

Ten o'clock scholars.

Folks who weren't on time

Lateness

LATERAL to throw a sideward pass in football

LATERAL to throw a sideward pass in football

Laterize

Laticifer

Latinity