2-Letter Words Starting with L

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

Like libel, say

Worth suing over

It's possibly a suit likely to dress fool up

""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.""

Word often paired with latitude

A concern of mariners

Navigator's concern.

Oil (a mechanism)

Apply oil/grease

Smooth Blair cut apart by English

Revictual (anagram)

Rewarding development of vital cure

Vertical upstart could be moneymaking

English word

Set characteristic cryptic clue; initially missing Nina

Shine

Glow

One for when a meal is needed (wordplay)

Inlet much improved by midday (wordplay)

When midday meal is eaten

LUTEIN a yellow pigment

Enjoy greatly, to excess perhaps

Enjoy to excess

Revel in indulgence

Like a cat's oniony dish (wordplay)

Like a cat's oniony dish?

Kind of potatoes for simba

""Lacerating, or having the power to lacerate; as, lacerative humors. as, lacerative humors.""

Of Erie, Huron, etc.

Found in lakes

Adjective meaning resembling

Rare-earth series

LATERAL to throw a sideward pass in football

Duchesse for whom a pendant was named

Adjective meaning resembling

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

To legitimate.

""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.""

From one side to the other

Moving across

In the direction of the extent from end to end

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

English word

Add a word to a language's vocabulary

To loosen restrictions on ale? Risible, daft!

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

Hubert Humphrey's peepers (wordplay)

That can be licensed.

Certificate of competence holder

Certificate holder

Authorized practitioner.

Unloading charge for ships.

Arsonist maybe taking time in dockside activity (wordplay)

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

Flashing coastal tower

Seafarer's beacon

Cape Hatteras structure.

Piper product

""The point, edge, or line beyond which something cannot or may not proceed.""

""(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]""

LISTEN to try to hear

""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.""

What bookshops retail? True, perhaps

Novels, essays, etc.

Written works of artistic merit

""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

The one puppy that can read (wordplay)

Any in a group of puppies

One puppy to another

Change the mind of old boy in toilsome clashing

LOBOTOMIZE

Crazy reason for doing something?

A crazy cause (wordplay)

Steam roller (wordplay)

""An enzyme which catalyzes the oxidation of luciferin, thereby producing bioluminescence.""

Lushness

""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.""

Same as lyophilize.lyophilize.

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

LYSOGEN a type of {antigen=n}

LYSOGEN a type of {antigen=n}

""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.""

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

Norway lobster

Shellfish

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

Any of several enzymes that hydrolyze lecithin.

One GI in real trouble as a soldier

Member of an elite military unit

Form a line - ignore soldier

Kind of aide

Kind of aide or session

Lawmaking body (of a state)

Sorting, Riksdag or Knesset.

Diet, for example

Adjective meaning resembling

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

Libertinism; license.

A subservient flatterer

Obsequious person

Flatterer.

Rigid part of the earth

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

Adjective meaning resembling

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

Plant, least restrained, abounding

Plant, most unconfined, abundant

Plant of the primrose family

""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.""

Describes The Maze complex

Like a maze

Highly convoluted

To legitimate.

Emission of light at cool temperatures

Jock's chimney basically said to produce light

A combination of lignin and cellulose that strengthens woody plant cells.

LIGNOSULFONATE