2-Letter Words Starting with L

LEGITIMIZE To legitimate.

Legitimize

Adjective meaning resembling

Lengthener

Frying medium (wordplay)

Extending

Trait of verbose writers

Levigation

Libertinism; license.

The science which treats of lichens.

Lifeguard

Lifesaving

""Composing a ligament; of the nature of a ligament; binding; as, a strong ligamentous membrane.as, a strong ligamentous membrane.""

Fees for transporting freight in or about harbors

Pharologist's study

Shining examples, in the main

Coastal beacons

Lightness

Lightning

Lightplane

Lightsome

Carrying little punch (wordplay)

A contender? One cannot be serious!

Lacking seriousness or depth

LILTING lilt

Limelight

Limnology

""The scientific study of the life and phenomena of fresh water, especially lakes and ponds.""

LINEARISE

LINEARIZE

Football Abbr. LB Any of the defensive players forming a second line of defense behind the ends and tackles.

Printing A machine for casting metal type in lines.

With delay; slowly; tediously.

Shrub with tart fruit

Study of language and its structure

Scientific study of language

Plural or third person singular

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Biochemistry) Biochem the synthesis of fatty acids in the body from glucose and other substrates

Lipreading

""LIQUIDATE To determine by agreement or by litigation the precise amount of (indebtedness); or, where there is an indebtedness to more than one person, to determine the precise amount of (each indebtedness); to make the amount of (an indebtedness); clear and certain.""

LIQUIDIZE To render liquid.

Art prints

""The art or process of putting designs or writing, with a greasy material, on stone, and of producing printed impressions therefrom. The process depends, in the main, upon the antipathy between grease and water, which prevents a printing ink containing oil from adhering to wetted parts of the stone not covered by the design. See Lithographic limestone, under Lithographic. Lithographic limestone, under Lithographic.""

Lithology

Litigation

Disputably

""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.""

Lobstering

Like some nonlinear scales in mathematics

Descriptor for a type of spiral; am right coil (anagram)

Large marine turtles.

Large sea turtles

Carnivorous turtles

The quality of being logical.

One skilled in military supply

Expert in military transport and supply.

Lognormal

LOGOGRAPH

Logomachy

Logrolling

Messed about

Fooled around

Disposition to bear injuries patiently; forbearance; patience.

Longevity

LONGSHORE Belonging to the seashore or a seaport; along and on the shore.

Farseeing.

Golding's the author capable of prophesy (wordplay)

Lovemaking

""LOWERCASE Pertaining to, or kept in, the lower case; used to denote the small letters, in distinction from capitals and small capitals. See the Note under 1st Case, n., 3. Case, n., 3.""

""LUBRICATE To make smooth or slippery; as, mucilaginous and saponaceous remedies lubricate the parts to which they are applied. as, mucilaginous and saponaceous remedies lubricate the parts to which they are applied.""

LUMINESCE

LUTEINIZE

Lutestring

LUXURIATE To grow exuberantly; to grow to superfluous abundance.

Lymphogram

LYSOGENISE

Lysogenise

LYSOGENIZE

Lysogenize

Lallygag

Lammergeier

Lammergeyer

""LAMPLIGHTER One who, or that which, lights a lamp; esp., a person who lights street lamps.""

Landholding

Langbeinite

Langoustine

Lackadaisical state

With a dreamy inertia

Big in the middle? That's generous

Of liberal disposition

Dealer Gareth, surprisingly generous

Excision of the larynx.

Plural or third person singular

Laryngitis

""An instrument, consisting of an arrangement of two mirrors, for reflecting light upon the larynx, and for examining its image.""

The art of using the laryngoscope; investigations made with the laryngoscope.

Latchstring

LATERALIZE

Lawbreaking

New York bus driver's activity

Cold-blooded children's play activity (wordplay)

The act of making legal.

Legerdemain

Legibility

Soldiers organise line in conflict

French soldiers

Legislation

Legislative

Ugliest Earls form law-making bodies

Legitimacy

Rightfully

With justification, run away with a friend to meet heartless lady

""LEGITIMATE Accordant with law or with established legal forms and requirements; lawful; as, legitimate government; legitimate rights; the legitimate succession to the throne; a legitimate proceeding of an officer; a legitimate heir. as, legitimate government; legitimate rights; the legitimate succession to the throne; a legitimate proceeding of an officer; a legitimate heir.""

The act of making legitimate.

To legitimate.

Legitimator

LEGITIMISE

Legitimizer

LEGITIMIZE To legitimate.

Lemongrass

Film-to-video transfer technique

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.""

The compiling of dictionaries

The compilation of dictionaries

Writing and compiling of dictionaries

Lexicology

One who studies words

LIBERALISE

LIBERALIZE To make liberal; to free from narrow views or prejudices.

Libertinage

Lifeguard

Lacking a centre of gravity (wordplay)

Delight model holding spirit and bubbly!

Carefree to match love of writer

They tend to fight with agile types from the gym

Unimportant people throwing digs at people in Ring

Unimportant people who get involved in fights (wordplay)

Limelight

LIMNOLOGIC

Limnologist

Linebacking

Present participle or gerund

Linecasting

""Of or pertaining to language; relating to linguistics, or to the affinities of languages.""

""LITERALIZE To make literal; to interpret or put in practice according to the strict meaning of the words; opposed to spiritualize; as, to literalize Scripture. spiritualize; as, to literalize Scripture.""

Lithograph

Type of printer

Of metal or stone surface printing

""Of or pertaining to the character of a rock, as derived from the nature and mode of aggregation of its mineral contents.""

In the manner of a liturgy.

""The science treating of liturgical matters; a treatise on, or description of, liturgies.""

Livetrap

Livingness

LOBOTOMISE

LOBOTOMIZE

Locksmith

Fruit, sorted out, began to be put in trucks

Logicality

Logistical

Logistician

LOGNORMAL

Lounging around

Running lengthwise

New position for Mason Leghorn

Mahler song on travelling dock worker

Dock worker

US dockers

Longshoring

LONGSOME tediously long

Lovingness

Lugubrious

""A description of the lymphatic vessels, their origin and uses.""

LYOPHILISE same as lyophilize.lyophilize.

""LYOPHILIZE to freeze-dry; -- a technique used to dry serum, tissue, unstable chemicals and other sensitive materials.""

LYSOGENIC

LYSOGENISE

LYSOGENIZE

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Biochemistry) Biochem any of a number of globular proteins found in milk

Laggardness

Languidness

In a languishing manner.

Languishment

English word

Laryngology

Laryngoscope

Lastingness

Laughable

Humorist's investment (wordplay)

Hilarious cattle (wordplay)

Humorist's investment?

Legalization

In a legislative manner.

Of or pertaining to a legislator or legislature.

Legitimation

LEGITIMATIZE To legitimate.

Legitimatize

Lengthiness

Drowsily

LETTERBOXING letterbox

Present participle or gerund

Partridge, say, girl, ex-poacher, shot

Compiler of a dictionary

Dictionary writer

Like dictionary making

Lexicologist

Lichenology

One versed in lichenology.

Lightfast

Lightsome

""A change in the character of a cell wall, by which it becomes harder. It is supposed to be due to an incrustation of lignin.""

Liltingness

Linebreeding

Lingonberry

One studying language

LITHOGRAPHER One who lithographs; one who practices lithography.

Lithography

Lithograph

The state of being litigious; disposition to engage in or carry on lawsuits.

LOCKSMITHING locksmith

Lockstitch

Logicalness

""A written symbol representing an entire spoken word without expressing its pronunciation; for example, for 4 read "four" in English, "quattro" in Italian. Also called ideogram , logograph .""

Longanimity

Adjective (-ic)

Lactoglobulin

Laryngectomee

Laryngectomy

Laryngoscopy