2-Letter Words Starting with L

Flashy sort of striker (wordplay)

Flashy sort of striker

Franklin's aid

Beacon-bearing boat

Beacon vessel at sea

Pilot's warning device.

Having light; lighted; not dark or gloomy; bright.

""Pine wood abounding in pitch, used for torches in the Southern United States; pine knots, dry sticks, and the like, for kindling a fire quickly or making a blaze.""

Lignify

Lignify

Ligroine

Most credible

Standard monetary unit of Swaziland

Swaziland's monetary unit

Lilliput

LILTING lilt

Limber

Doing calisthenics (with "up").

Warming up for exercise

Furnaces for reducing calcium carbonate

Green illumination (wordplay)

Radiation that reaches a star (wordplay)

Center of interest

Five-line verses

Five-lined verses

"A flea in a fly in a flue," and others.

A mineral prepared from fruit (sound)

Luray Caverns material

Tie lemons up in sedimentary rock

Fruit juice? Clear colourless solution

Tartish drink

Tannery solution

Subject to checks and balances

With limitation.

Very large, extensive

nfinit (wordplay)

Like outer space.

Study of lakes and ponds

Limonene

Limonite

LIMONITE a major ore of iron

Long way to go (wordplay)

Long ride (wordplay)

A way to go by

Translucence

Limpsey

Limuloid

Linalool

They secure wheels on axles

Vital components

Vital entities

The quality of being linea<?/.

An outline of the face.

Part of mug's tin and enamel cracked

(Facial) feature

Get into a row and rebel after treatment of alien

With frightful lies around, I mean to get into a row

LINEAR resembling a straight line

Make straight

Delineation; a line or lines.

LINER a commercial ship or aeroplane

Those who wait

Lingerie

Like a stubborn cold

Being slow to leave

Hanging back, tarrying

LINGUAL a sound articulated with the tongue

Linguine

Linguini

Tongue specialists (wordplay)

People skilled in languages

Certain U.N. workers

It needs a rubber to put them on

They may be spread in the locker room

Sports doctors' supplies

Linkwork

A salt of linoleic acid.

Linoleum

Linstock

See Linnet.Linnet.

Mothers with pride (wordplay)

Females with pride (wordplay)

Raisers of cubs

Lioniser

Assigning great social importance to

Acclaiming return of number one Liberal, I celebrate

Lionizer

Lionize

Lipocyte

Pl. lipolyses (-s z ) The hydrolysis of lipids.

Decomposition of fat

Pl. lipolyses (-s z ) The hydrolysis of lipids.

LIPOSOME a microscopic globule composed of lipids

Liposome

Lippen

Lipper

Cosmetics-counter array

Tubes in purses

Basic cosmetics.

Liquate

""The act or operation of making or becoming liquid; also, the capacity of becoming liquid.""

Like rock in a volcano or infant's food

Turned to fluid

That which liquefies.

Thaws

Convert (assets) into cash

Convert to cash

Kill dead, accepting one pound

State of being fluid.

Available cash

Arachne ultimately got by on 51 Euros in cash

To render liquid.

Liquify

Liquify

Say Scotch on the rocks is sweet

Sweet drink on the rocks (wordplay)

Pontefract cake ingredient

Liquor

Liripipe

""LISSOME lithe, also LISSOM""

Auditors' audience (wordplay)

Is that what they do? Hear, hear!

They're at the radio, not the TV

50 = 10 by ear with gin (wordplay)

Kind of post.

Following advice about enlisting

Time honoured county town (wordplay)

Really on fire and really worried!

Being exactly as stated

Readers, for example

Readers and writers.

They're well-informed

How accurate copies are made

Letter for letter

Letter-for-letter

Book reviewer

Critic.

A learned man; a man acquainted with literature; chiefly used in the plural. plural.

Litharge

Lithemia

Settled by male head showing flexibility

Flexibility.

Homeliest characters can be graceful

Toned graceful model hostile to me

Article in case stuck in tree, not stiff

LITHIAS lithia

""The formation of stony concretions or calculi in any part of the body, especially in the bladder and urinary passages.""

Transformed into stone

Lithify

""The science which treats of rocks, as regards their mineral constitution and classification, and their mode of occurrence in nature.""

""A white pigment consisting of a mixture of zinc sulfide, zinc oxide, and barium sulfate.""

Lithosol

""The operation, art, or practice of cutting for stone in the bladder.""

Like libel, say

Worth suing over

It's possibly a suit likely to dress fool up

Persons engaged in lawsuits.

Parties to a lawsuit

Do they go to law for the gilt saint (wordplay)

Pressed one's suit (wordplay)

Pressed a suit

Took legal action

Contests at the bar (wordplay)

Files a suit against

Engages in legal proceedings

Law-practicing reptile (wordplay)

One in legal dispute

One in a court battle.

Quick to take action (wordplay)

Quick to sue

Keen to pursue lawsuits

Auto adjunct

Glad item

Wrapper dropper (wordplay)

Scofflaw of a sort

Type of contributor to the street scene.

Recipients of some fines

Mess makers

Untidy picnickers.

Strewing trash

Making a mess of having a multiple birth, perhaps

Making a mess with a multiple birth, perhaps

Coastal regions.

Study of rights in speech

I urge list of services

Religious rituals

Service conductor fired primitive tenor

See religious leader stir guilt terribly

Authority on rites

It's up to evil, broken tiles to make one most active

Twirl over for the leafy moss

Flowerless plant

Seaweedlike plant

Guy covered with foie gras (wordplay)

Member of a City Company

Predecessor of a chauffeur.

Stable fellows (wordplay)

Are they irritable when dressed alike (wordplay)

Stable chaps, but apparently irritable ones

Farm animals exist to breed

One source of rural income.

(Domestic) animals in general

Livetrap

Red state (wordplay)

""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.""

Lixivium

Hail an object's dislikes (wordplay)

Lobation

Lobbyism

Influential Washington group

Some D.C. workers

Capitol Hill wheeler-dealers

Lobeline

Lobstick

Old Celia's moving around in a restricted area

Restricted diet instead missing even elements

Boozer on other side limited to one place

Localise

Localism

Localist

Localite

Confined to one area

Localize

See small particles in positions

Film credits list

Places, sites

They indicate places where Clovis ate, perhaps

Fable about smoked salmon (wordplay)

Hair stylist's other job (wordplay)

Keystone ring wearer (wordplay)

Locution

Lodicule

Impressive height; nobility (of manner)

Quality of altruistic motives

Stature without bags of money

Verse ()

Slide-rule number

In math, it may be common or natural

Slide rule's basis

Using reason

Following reason

Close to home occupied by soldier with good reason

Ada Lovelace and Charles Babbage, for example

Logicise

Logicise

Logicize

Logicize

Task of movement and supply of troops

Science of moving troops.

How-to-get-it-done science

Anagram, for example

Puzzle based on recombination of the letters of a word

Perhaps ageless ethnological weave

Minimum clothing (wordplay)

Fig leaf successor (wordplay)

Teens at a food court, maybe

Group gathering for no reason

Ones hanging around

Wild lion and tiger lurking

Dawdling toiler drunk on gin cocktail

Just hanging around

Rewards for kids

All-day suckers, for instance

Candies on a stick

Laugh out loud, striding along and bounding about

Adjective for Crusoe.

One, as numbers go

Tell one is strangely more miserable

Tiny glove (anagram)

Ripe old age

Duration of service

Classical music fans

Classical musicians Slang.

Classical musicians: Slang.

Beetle with a lengthy narrow body

In a yearning manner

With passion

With desire

Word often paired with latitude

A concern of mariners

Navigator's concern.

Bank annoyance

Longship

Stupidity figures in toilets

Silly stuff

Masseuse's task

Relaxing and letting go

Not being tight any more

Lopper

Lopstick

Cause of high telephone bills.

Talkativeness

Prolixity.

Lordly

Walk all over novice inside school for the little chiefs

Titled British dignitaries

Noble potencies

Loricate

Birds, we hear, transport poet

Colorful parrots

Whistle-blowers (wordplay)

Stage door johnnies.

Gay rakes

Poor retirement plans (wordplay)

Ventures broadcast re T. S. Eliot

Low visibility figure

Louden

Loudly

The state or quality of being lousy.

LOUTISH ill-mannered and coarse

Soaring honeymooners (wordplay)

Small African parrots or romantic couple

Openly affectionate couple

Prettiest

Lovevine

Lowlifer

Lowlight

A lowly state.

Lack of status

Bird during row starts to show some humility

Humility

Sporty cars with dropped chassis

Customized cars with diminished ground clearance

Cars close to the ground, and a hint to the ends of the starred answers

Loyalism

Nonrevolutionaries

Stalwarts

Not, perhaps, 15 down sort of neckwear

Ties alloy into allegiances

Oil from car black until changed

It helps get the wheels turning

It may keep things moving

Oil (a mechanism)

Apply oil/grease

Smooth Blair cut apart by English

""Smoothness; freedom from friction; also, property, which diminishes friction; as, the lubricity of oil. as, the lubricity of oil.""

Lubric.

Lucency

The quality of being lucid; lucidity.

""Any of several substances found in luminescent organisms (such as the firefly, Photinus pyralis) which, when oxidized, produces an almost heatless light. It was first isolated from fireflies, and is the source of the firefly luminescence. See also firefly luciferinPhotinus pyralis) which, when oxidized, produces an almost heatless light. It was first isolated from fireflies, and is the source of the firefly luminescence. See also firefly luciferin""

Fortunate quality, having courage when powerless

Revictual (anagram)

Rewarding development of vital cure

Vertical upstart could be moneymaking

Somewhat ridiculous (ditto without one?)

Absurd or farcical

Curd Louis prepared was laughable