2-Letter Words Starting with L

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.

Litigation

Disputably

Bookish type to esteem high-class among the junk

Writer's rubbish: director has to overlook first of repeated characters

Essayist

Littermate

Young quahogs

""LIVABLE suitable for living in, also LIVEABLE""

Variant of livable .

Doctor and lawyer

Liverwurst

Livetrap

Lividness

""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.""

Separation by percolation

Lobectomy

LOBOTOMISE

Lobotomise

LOBOTOMIZE

Lobotomize

Lobstering

Adjective meaning resembling

Lobulation

""LOCALIZE to confine or limit to a certain place, also LOCALISE""

Locomotion

What spurs madmen (wordplay)

Some transports

Mad reasons to get vehicles using diesel (wordplay)

Dehiscent through the middle of the back of each cell; said of capsules.

Loftiness

Like some nonlinear scales in mathematics

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

The quality of being logical.

One skilled in military supply

Expert in military transport and supply.

LOGOGRAPH

Logomachy

Logrolling

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)

Looniness

Plant, least restrained, abounding

Plant, most unconfined, abundant

Plant of the primrose family

Loquacity

Lousiness

Boor's attribute

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

Lovastatin

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.""

Lowliness

""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.""

The application of oil or grease

Garage job.

""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.""

Lubricator

Lubricity

Lucidness

Luciferase

Luckiness

In a lucrative manner.

""The act of lucubrating, or studying by candlelight; nocturnal study; meditation.""

In ridiculous fashion

Absurdly, ridiculously

Emitting light without heat

Giving off light

LUMINESCE

Lumpiness

LUMPISH {stupid=adj}

Luridness

Lustiness

Lustration

LUTEINIZE

Adjective (-ic)

English word

Lutestring

Luxuriance

In a luxuriant manner.

LUXURIATE To grow exuberantly; to grow to superfluous abundance.

Luxurious

Lycopodium

LYMPHOCYTE

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

LYRICAL having the form of a song

LYSOGENISE

Lysogenise

LYSOGENIZE

Lysogenize

""A system of movement notation for dance that employs various symbols to record the points of a dancer's body, the direction of a dancer's movement, the tempo, and the dynamics: "Labanotation is specific enough to record the flutter of an eyelid" (Joseph Menosky).""

Labiodental

Test solutions might be found here

Rooms for scientists

Where one might find 13 lorries? A boat at sea

Labradorite

Intricately winding; like a labyrinth; perplexed; labyrinthal.

Describes The Maze complex

Like a maze

Highly convoluted

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

Laciniation

Lacrimation

Lactalbumin

Some vaginal flora

Laicization

Lallygag

Lamellicorn

Jeremiah's book of the Old Testament.

*It comes after the Book of Jeremiah

Jeremiah's OT book

Lammergeier

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

Lampoonery

Landholding

Landlordism

Landscapist

Langbeinite

Langoustine

Lackadaisical state

""LAPAROSCOPE A slender endoscope, containing fiber-optic viewing capability and miniature surgical devices, which can be inserted through a small incision in the abdominal wall, allowing a surgeon to perform minor surgery with minimal damage to the abdominal muscles.""

Laparotomy

Plural or third person singular

Laryngitis

Lascivious

Latchstring

LATERALIZE

""LATERIZE to convert to laterite, also LATERISE""

""The act or process of Latinizing, as a word, language, or country.""

Latticework

Silly chap at leisure caught out in poet's office

Lavishness

Lawbreaking

The act or process of leaching.

New York bus driver's activity

Cold-blooded children's play activity (wordplay)

Lecithinase

Lectionary

Such reptiles chewed up chairs

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.

Lentivirus

Sort of insect to upset people, darn it!

Butterfly, for example

Butterfly or moth

Leprosarium

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

Film-to-video transfer technique

Adjective (-ic)

LEUKOCYTE

Leukoplakia

Plural or third person singular

The formation or production of white blood cells.

The formation or production of white blood cells.

Leukotriene

LEVITATION Lightness; buoyancy; act of making light.

Lexicality

""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

""Pertaining to, or characterized by, liberalism; as, liberalistic opinions. as, liberalistic opinions.""

Liberality

Liberalizer

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

Some third-party candidates

Libertinage

Libertinism

Libidinous

Licentious

Lickspittle

Lifeguard

Not having life.

LIFELIKE resembling a living thing

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)

Likability

Swift people (wordplay)

Swift race (wordplay)

Residents of imaginary country

Limberness

Limelight

""LIMITATION The act of limiting; the state or condition of being limited; as, the limitation of his authority was approved by the council. as, the limitation of his authority was approved by the council.""

LIMNOLOGIC

Limnologist

Limpidness

Linebacking

Present participle or gerund

Linecasting

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

Lionization

Lipoprotein

Liposuction