2-Letter Words Starting with L

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

Lyricise

Lyricize

Lysimeter

Adjective (-ic)

Lysogeny

LYSOGEN a type of {antigen=n}

LYSOGEN a type of {antigen=n}

LABIALIZE To modify by contraction of the lip opening.

""Formed or pronounced by the cooperation of the lips and teeth, as f and v. f and v.""

Labiovelar

Laborious

Skipping work (wordplay)

Kind of device

Like certain devices

""A kind of feldspar commonly showing a beautiful play of colors, and hence much used for ornamental purposes. The finest specimens come from Labrador. See Feldspar. Feldspar.""

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

Deep cuts or tears in the flesh

Allotments in Cluny

What animal bites may cause

LACINIATE LACINIAE lacinia

In a laconic manner.

Shedding tears; same as lachrymation.lachrymation.

Lacrimator

The albumin contained in milk and obtained from whey.

LACTATION A giving suck; the secretion and yielding of milk by the mammary gland.

""Bearing or containing milk or a milky fluid; as, the lactiferous vessels, cells, or tissue of various vascular plants. as, the lactiferous vessels, cells, or tissue of various vascular plants.""

Godiva's digits (wordplay)

Manicurist's favorite dessert (wordplay)

Godiva identifies (wordplay)

""LAICIZE to free from clerical control, also LAICISE""

Lambrequin

Hardly Mensa material

None too smart

Not too smart

Having antenn\'91 terminating in a group of flat lamell\'91; said of certain coleopterous insects.

Thin and flat; scalelike; lamellar.

Expression of sorrow

Sobbing Tory leader in weak state

Expression of sorrow.

Laminarian

Layers upon layers

Layers.

Laminitis

""A large predatory bird (Gypaetus barbatus) of the vulture family, ranging from the mountainous regions of southern Europe to China and having a wide wingspan and black plumage. Also called bearded vulture , ossifrage .""

Guy who worked at dusk in colonial times

He was always illuminating

Spill jam with more flimsy packaging

""Piercing; seeming to pierce or stab; as, lancinating pains (i.e., severe, darting pains). as, lancinating pains (i.e., severe, darting pains).""

Propertied

""The state of being a landlord; the characteristics of a landlord; specifically, in Great Britain, the relation of landlords to tenants, especially as regards leased agricultural lands.""

Present participle or gerund

Landowning

The act of doing various grounds maintenance

A painter of landscapes.

Landslide

""An evaporite mineral, K 2 Mg 2 (SO 4 ) 3 , used as a source of potassium sulfate for fertilizer.""

Squat lobsters, in American cuisine

Norway lobster

Shellfish

LANGUID lacking vitality

Languisher

Novice suffering agony whilst pining

In decline

Lankiness

Lanthanide

Lapidify

Larkiness

Enduring quality

Durability.

It's out for welcome guests

Cord for opening a door

Cord for fastening

LATERALIZE

Lateralize

Latifundio

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

Of geographical measurements

Criss-crossed arrangement

Grid construction

Trellis makeup

Laureation

Lavalliere

Lavender

An act punishable by law; usually considered an evil act.

Lawrencium

Leadership

Leaflet

Leakiness

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

Any of several enzymes that hydrolyze lecithin.

University post

Tip off ace result about joint academic post

Foreign posts

Legendary

Magician's skill

Magician's line of work

A kind of trickery.

Legginess

Soldiers in line go to take a battering ram

Members of a troop of up to 6,000 Roman army soldiers

One GI in real trouble as a soldier

Member of an elite military unit

Form a line - ignore soldier

The act of making or enacting laws; legislation{1}.

Enacting of laws

Passing of bills

Group of laws

Kind of aide

Kind of aide or session

Ones on a diet

Lawmaking body (of a state)

Sorting, Riksdag or Knesset.

Diet, for example

Made lawful daughter born in wedlock first

Legitimate

""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.""

Made to conform to the law

Then just escape and one is in the sea

Validated

Legitimise

Legitimism

Legitimist

LEGITIMIZE To legitimate.

LEGITIMIZE To legitimate.

Legitimize

LEISHMANIA

Leishmania

Adjective meaning resembling

Lemniscate

Frying medium (wordplay)

Extending

Trait of verbose writers

Lepidolite

Moths and butterflies

Butterflies and moths

Polite padre converted large group of fliers

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

LEPTOSPIRE

Leptospire

Lesbianism

Lethality

Leucocidin

Leukopenia

""An abnormal condition characterized by white spots or patches on mucous membranes, especially of the mouth and vulva. Also called leukoplasia .""

Adjective (-ic)

Leukotomy

""Any of several lipid compounds that contain 20 carbon atoms, are related to prostaglandins, and mediate the inflammatory response.""

Levigation

Levitation

""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.""

Lexicalize

Financial obligations

LIBATION a ceremonial pouring of a liquid

Relaxed lad is rebel, I suspect

Liberalise

Liberalism

Liberalist

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

""One who, or that which, liberalizes.""

Liberalize

LIBERAL one who is open to ideas of progress or reform

Liberation

Believer in free will

*Political party of Gary Johnson

Employee at the Ron Paul Archive (wordplay)

Libertinism; license.

The state of a libertine or freedman.

Libidinal

LIBRATION The act or state of librating.

W. S. Gilbert, Boito, etc.

Licentiate

The science which treats of lichens.

Lickerish

A subservient flatterer

Obsequious person

Flatterer.

Officer's post

Stratego pieces

It's novel, when woman backs this after 10

Lifeguard

English word

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

LIKABLE able to be liked

Likelihood

Tiny person (from 'Gulliver's Travels')

A minor character of Swift

Swift little creature

LILTING lilt

Limelight

Subject of some statutes

Restrictions or shortcomings

Large fake with small checks

The quality of being limited.

Limitless

Limnology

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

Limpidity

Lincomycin

Lineality

""LINEAMENT One of the outlines, exterior features, or distinctive marks, of a body or figure, particularly of the face; feature; form; mark; usually in the plural. plural.""

LINEARISE

Linearity

LINEARIZE

Bills that can really bring you down (wordplay)

Defensive footballers

Football defensemen

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

Linecaster

Printing A machine for casting metal type in lines.

Linerboard

With delay; slowly; tediously.

Shrub with tart fruit

Study of language and its structure

Scientific study of language

King Richard I, they say

A millionaire is so courageous

King Richard's epithet

""LIONIZE to treat as a celebrity, also LIONISE""

Plural or third person singular

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

Part of HDL

Take-out for the corpulent (wordplay)

Low-fat recipe (wordplay)

Alternative to dieting

Lipotropin

Lipreading

Sweet gum

""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.""

The winding up (of a company)

Conversion (of assets) into cash

Process of converting into cash

Liquidator

Liquidity

LIQUIDIZE To render liquid.

""LISSOME lithe, also LISSOM""

Plural or third person singular

""A bacterial disease caused by Listeria monocytogenes, affecting wild and domestic animals and sometimes humans and characterized by fever, meningitis, and encephalitis.""

Literalism

Literalist

""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.""

Literalize

The quality or state of being literal; literal import

Literation

Bodies of writing

They may be studied along with languages

Belles-lettres

Litheness