2-Letter Words Starting with L

One who languishes.

Droops

Rare-earth series

Lanthanum

Feature of a certain bass

Kind of bass

Type of bass

Larghetto

Lathyrism

Adjective (-ic)

With laughter or merriment.

First digs (wordplay)

Space-shot structures

What shuttles leave from

Extravagance or abundance

Prodigality in ladies, say, is displayed before hard head

The Presidential yacht?

The Presidential yacht (wordplay)

Had replies (anagram)

Plant pest.

Let them stop their grip after half a century

Thrashing could make hate linger

Thrashing hit general badly

Doctor hit general for hiding

Hide shorts in Bierkellar (wordplay)

One's led her astray wearing this!

Shorts with braces

The office of a legate.

""(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Microbiology) any parasitic flagellate protozoan of the genus Leishmania : infects humans and animals and causes diseases ranging from skin lesions to potentially fatal organ damage [New Latin, named after Sir W.B. Leishman (1865-1926), Scottish bacteriologist]""

Altered, in a way

Drawn out

Drew out pin around noon - after that, read intermittently

Vacuum-cleaner pipe, for example

Most tediously protracted

Taking the most time

Extended as far as possible, steel thing broke

Gently wash out all the way along

In a direction along an object

Ghastly new craft from stem to stern

From one side to the other

Moving across

In the direction of the extent from end to end

Little green man (wordplay)

Og of "Finian's Rainbow," for example

Clean up her mess, little one

Lethargy

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

Piece of corporate stationery

Stationery feature from red endings

""A thick, whitish discharge from the vagina or cervical canal.""

Huge, formidable things.

Humongous creatures

Monsters on the loose as teal vanish (wordplay)

Libecchio

Lightbulb

Lightener

Getting brighter in a flash, by the sound of it

Unloading charge for ships.

Arsonist maybe taking time in dockside activity (wordplay)

Interrupting rest, boy beginning to get up for work in harbour

Lighter

LIGHTFACE

Lightface

Flashing coastal tower

Seafarer's beacon

Cape Hatteras structure.

Lightning

Piper product

Hard-to-read preliminary print (wordplay)

Navigation aids

Like film canisters

Lightwood

Probability

Chance meeting of priest and criminal after murder almost backfired

Places of excessive public attention

Conspicuous positions.

Prominent positions

""(Earth Sciences / Physical Geography) (of a country or region) on or near a frontier [via French from Late Latin limitrophus, from limit- limit + Greek -trophus supporting; originally referring to borderland that supported frontier troops]""

Small finches that feed on flaxseed

Lionfish

Having an affinity for lipids; -- of chemical substances or parts of molecules. Contrasted to lipophobic or polar.lipophobic or polar.

Lithify

25 illuminated by beast, part angel

Print from a plate using a flat surface

Type of print

Rocky, light and cool, I suspect

""Porcelain impressed with figures which are made distinct by transmitted light, as when hung in a window, or used as a lamp shade.""

Coral, for one

Lithopone

Bread and butter

Bread and butter, so to speak

Job or career

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.""

Shortcuts for complex multiplication

Numbers on slide rules

High-school math subject

Turtle

Fool

Logograph

Puzzles using anagrams

Logorrhea

""Excessive, uncontrollable, or incoherent talkativeness""

Tarzan's wardrobe

Devoted to classical music.

Devoted to classical music

Not buzz-cut

Shrewd

Shrewd.

Longhouse

Loophole

A disk which surrounds the mouth and bears the tentacles of the Bryozoa. See Phylactolemata. Phylactolemata.

Indiscreet speakers

Blusterers

Lowlihead

Dreamer

Lumpfish

Schools' gathering places

Not when to break fast

Midday breaks

Lungfish

""LUNKHEAD a stupid person, also LUNK""

Lushness

Lustihood

Lymphatic

A T-cell or B-cell

Comply with the last of compulsory orders in cell

English word

""Any of various substances released by T cells that have been activated by antigens. They function in the immune response through a variety of actions, including stimulating the production of nonsensitized lymphocytes and activating macrophages.""

Lymphoma

Same as lyophilize.lyophilize.

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

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

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

Guy who worked at dusk in colonial times

He was always illuminating

Spill jam with more flimsy packaging

Landholder

Propertied

Languisher

Novice suffering agony whilst pining

In decline

Lanthanide

Largemouth

It's out for welcome guests

Cord for opening a door

Cord for fastening

Leadership

Leafhopper

I can occupy the House for a term!

Person with property rights

One renting a property

Endangered large sea turtle

Largest living turtle

Artificial S&M material

Imitation hide

The French badly treat the English imitation hide

A stiff leathery-leaved fern (Polypodium scouleri) of Western North America having ovate fronds parted to the midrib.Polypodium scouleri) of Western North America having ovate fronds parted to the midrib.

Resembling or made to resemble leather; tough but pliable; leathery.

Third-year Marine

Gyrene (3rd)

Veteran Marine, in slang

""A small branching shrub (Dirca palustris), with a white, soft wood, and a tough, leathery bark, common in damp woods in the Northern United States; called also moosewood, and wicopy. Dirca palustris), with a white, soft wood, and a tough, leathery bark, common in damp woods in the Northern United States; called also moosewood, and wicopy.""

Lecherous

Any of several enzymes that hydrolyze lecithin.

University post

Tip off ace result about joint academic post

Foreign posts

LEISHMANIA

Leishmania

Lengthener

Frying medium (wordplay)

Extending

Trait of verbose writers

Little men of Bogland.

Wee hoarders of legend

Pot of gold keepers

Lethality

Sajak and White?

Sajak and White (wordplay)

Items of printed stationery

LEUKORRHEA

Leukorrhea

Like Frankenstein's monster (wordplay)

Not easily rattled

Showing good judgment

The science which treats of lichens.

Lickerish

English word

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

Likelihood

Limelight

King Richard I, they say

A millionaire is so courageous

King Richard's epithet

Litheness

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

Lithophane

Lithophyte

Rigid part of the earth

Crust and upper mantle of the earth in which earthquakes may originate

Lithotomy

The operation of crushing a stone in the bladder with an instrument called lithotriptor or lithotrite; lithotrity. lithotriptor or lithotrite; lithotrity.

Doctor and lawyer

Loathness

Ticker tapes (wordplay)

In an offensive way

Like some nonlinear scales in mathematics

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

Large marine turtles.

Large sea turtles

Carnivorous turtles

LOGOGRAPH

Logomachy

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

Farseeing.

Golding's the author capable of prophesy (wordplay)

Lophophore

Given to offensive talk

Vociferous

Blatant.

Boor's attribute

Sushi stolen in buffet? It's ill-bred behaviour

LUMPISH {stupid=adj}

The supposed act of turning one's self or another person into a wolf.

A dividing cell that gives rise to a mature lymphocyte.

Lymphocyte

LYMPHOCYTE

Lymphogram

Lymphokine

Same as lyophilized.lyophilized.

Lyophilise

Dried by freezing and subsequent evaporation of the water in a high vacuum; -- used of tissue or blood or serum or other biological or sensitive substances.

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

Lyophilize

Intricately winding; like a labyrinth; perplexed; labyrinthal.

Describes The Maze complex

Like a maze

Highly convoluted

Lachrymator

In a tearful manner

LACHRYMOSE Generating or shedding tears; given to shedding tears; suffused with tears; tearful.

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

Landholding

Lackadaisical state

Big in the middle? That's generous

Of liberal disposition

Dealer Gareth, surprisingly generous

Latchstring

Silly chap at leisure caught out in poet's office

Lavishness

The act or process of leaching.

Certain tenants

Those who might be letting last in race into lead, senior citizens, ultimately

Leatherback

Leatherette

Plural noun or verb form

Leatherneck

Leatherwood

Lecithinase

Such reptiles chewed up chairs

""Pl. leptocephali (-l ) One of the small, flat, transparent larvae of eels and certain other fishes, characterized by a long, narrow head.""

The compiling of dictionaries

The compilation of dictionaries

Writing and compiling of dictionaries

Lifemanship

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

The people who listen to a radio program or station.

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.""

Lithosphere