2-Letter Words Starting with L

Lullaby

Strains to get to sleep (wordplay)

Soothing songs for babies

They're crooned near cradles

Sawyer's table

Moving like an elephant

Failing to start sleeping, being clumsy

English word

Set characteristic cryptic clue; initially missing Nina

""A votive candle set into a small, decorative paper bag weighted with sand and placed in a row with others along a walkway, driveway, or rooftop as a holiday decoration. Also called regionally farolito .""

Shine

Glow

Luminism

Luminist

Feature of badly-mixed custard

LUMPISH {stupid=adj}

Supposed inhabitants of the moon

Lunation

One for when a meal is needed (wordplay)

Inlet much improved by midday (wordplay)

When midday meal is eaten

Ecliptic period of Julian calendar.

Concerning both the moon and sun's motions

Like the Hebrew calendar, but not the Islamic

Ghastly quality

Ghastly action started lately underwater clear of the headland

Luster

State of being lusty; vigor of body.

That Tom Jones quality

Enlists us, perhaps, to what Stone had for life

Vigor

Lustring

Lutanist

Lutecium

Lutefisk

LUTEIN a yellow pigment

Some string players

Some minstrels

Some bards

Luteolin

Lutetium

Luxation

Profuse in growth

(Of hair) thick and healthy

Long shift female ignored, working in a rut

Enjoy greatly, to excess perhaps

Enjoy to excess

Revel in indulgence

Very comfortable

Extravagant

You are you, in short, to be so comfortable with Louis X

Lychnis

Pity Hal with the MC for a gland

Lynching

Buttons with the director of "Blue Velvet" on them (wordplay)

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

LYOPHILE pertaining to a type of colloid

LYOPHOBE not readily dispersed

Lyrebird

In an enthusiastic or effusive way

Lily and Carly are dancing in an expressive way

How Wordsworth and Coleridge wrote ballads

Lyricise

Lyricise

Lyricism

Important people on Broadway.

Hart and Hammerstein

Songwriters call up securing one in charts

Lyricize

Lyricize

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

Harboring a temperate virus

LYTIC pertaining to {lysis=n}

LABIALIZE To modify by contraction of the lip opening.

Labialize

Lability

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

You can get lost in them

Greek archons offer cattle farms

Settings for old stories with misleading passages

Laccolith

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.""

Laciness

Lacquer

Lacquey

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

Lactation

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

Himalayan monasteries

Males arise to be trained for Buddhist institutions

Thrashing: Slang.

Dressing down

Thrashing Slang.

Lambency

Decorative drapery

Valance.

Valance

Stumbling scholars

Chuckleheads

""Pertaining to seaweeds of the genus Laminaria, or to that zone of the sea (from two to ten fathoms in depth) where the seaweeds of this genus grow.""

Laminaria

Laminarin

Laminate

Layered structure

Laminator

Certain illuminations.

Satirist's work

Women collecting rent

Disembarking without personal property? Anything but!

Hoped-for political results.

Massive election triumphs

Massive electoral victories

English word

Pined; lay neglected

Left in agony, went into decline

Grew weak or feeble

One who languishes.

Droops

Lanosity

Rare-earth series

""Covered with down, or fine soft hair; downy.""

Like the cutting of gemstones

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

Gem cutters

Lapidate

Lapidify

Lapidify

Force enlists car thieves

Those wrongly taking clarinet solos, discontentedly playing

LARVICIDE

Larvicide

Plural or third person singular

Disease and Illness

An impediment to free speech (wordplay)

Inflammation of the windpipe

Sit angrily suffering sore throat

Driven by lust

So USA civil administration is wanton (wordplay)

Lewd

Weary states

LATERAL to throw a sideward pass in football

LATERAL to throw a sideward pass in football

Laterize

Lathyrism

Adjective (-ic)

Laticifer

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

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

Latinity

Latinize

Laudation

With laughter or merriment.

Housewife's chore.

Laureate

""The act of crowning with laurel; the act of conferring an academic degree, or honorary title.""

Laurel

Jeweled pendants

Ornamental pendants.

Some microphones

Duchesse for whom a pendant was named

Hot stuff leading to blues in 2

Facilities offered by politicians after volcanic outpouring (wordplay)

Extravagance or abundance

Prodigality in ladies, say, is displayed before hard head

Lawmaking

Radioactive transuranic element

Element atomic number 103

Radioactive element dispersed warm nuclei

Lawyering

Adjective meaning resembling

Laziness

The Presidential yacht?

The Presidential yacht (wordplay)

Had replies (anagram)

LEAFLET to distribute printed sheets of paper

Leaguer

Thrashing could make hate linger

Thrashing hit general badly

Doctor hit general for hiding

Leavening

""A book, or a list, of lections, for reading in divine service.""

Legalise

Fussy about rules

Excessively adhering to the law

Formal to a fault

Make repairs to stillage: that is the law's obligations

Legalizer

Making O.K., in a way

The office of a legate.

Legendry

Legerity

The quality of being legible; legibleness.

Supporter I reprimanded settled a bill

Laid down law, it's alleged, improperly

Passed bills

What Congress does.

Member is taking credit passes

Makes laws

On trial, so perhaps I will make laws

Gorilla set to become an MP (wordplay)

Senator or representative

State of being valid

Conformity to the law or rules

Propriety of member having sex being nameless

Run away? I would, pal - it's allowed!

E-mail: get it encrypted, OK (wordplay)

Stage one - note friend is legal

Allow to make off up M1 with one's sweetheart

The principles or plans of legitimists.

""One who supports legitimate authority; esp., one who believes in hereditary monarchy, as a divine right.""

To legitimate.

Resembling a pulse, like a glow-worm, say, trapped

""(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]""

Leister

Clearly ideas worth repeating

Not weighty reasons, they say, for repeating the same old idea

Leitmotiv

""A curve in the form of the figure 8, with both parts symmetrical, generated by the point in which a tangent to an equilateral hyperbola meets the perpendicular on it drawn from the center.""

Most tediously protracted

Taking the most time

Extended as far as possible, steel thing broke

From one side to the other

Moving across

In the direction of the extent from end to end

Leniency

LENITIVE a soothing medicine

Biconvex

Lenticule

Lentigo

Very slow; very slowly; -- of music tempo.

Pl. lentiviruses See slow virus .

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

Pl. leprosariums or leprosaria (- - ) A hospital for the treatment of leprosy.

English word

Homosexual relations between women.

Lethargy

Lettering

English word

Leukaemia

LEUKOCYTE

An abnormally low number of white blood cells in the circulating blood.

An abnormally low number of white blood cells in the circulating blood.

At fifty, always getting older and taking advantage of

Huge, formidable things.

Humongous creatures

Monsters on the loose as teal vanish (wordplay)

Levigate

The act or operation of levigating.

Levitate

Illusion created by magicians

Raising of bodies by magical means

Medium's forte

LEXICAL pertaining to the words of a language

Add a word to a language's vocabulary

Study of word meanings

Study of words

Libecchio

Libellant

To loosen restrictions on ale? Risible, daft!

Enlighten with star sign around East, position covering Saviour's origin

What's not right (wordplay)

Generous political philosophy

Freedom from sickly Blair smile

A liberal.

Generous quality

Bounty

Hubert Humphrey's peepers (wordplay)

Releasing Gilbertian medley

Struggler's wish

Freedom for Queen to tuck into drink

Act of freeing

Free thinkers (wordplay)

U. S. planes in W. W. II

American B-24 bombers.