2-Letter Words Starting with L

Licencer

Licence

Royalty payers, say

They're permitted (wordplay)

Software users, often

Licenser

Such laws restrict service opportunities for landlords

Licensor

Certification for professional practice

Lichen

Lichenin

""Of, pertaining to, or resembling, lichens; abounding in lichens; covered with lichens.""

Local Cockney actor poolside

Powerful local anaesthetic

Palmist's concern.

Items in palmistry.

Who Wants to Be a Millionaire options

Tissues that may be torn

Bands of connective tissue

Tissues that connect bones

Ligation

Reduced the weight

Took a load off awfully thin ledge

Being illuminated, he tingled with excitement

Summer hair product

Lighting

Kundera's was insufferable

Lack of weight

Less night where there's absence of weight

Flashy sort of striker (wordplay)

Flashy sort of striker

Franklin's aid

Lignify

Lignify

Ligroine

Standard monetary unit of Swaziland

Swaziland's monetary unit

LILTING lilt

Doing calisthenics (with "up").

Warming up for exercise

Furnaces for reducing calcium carbonate

A mineral prepared from fruit (sound)

Luray Caverns material

Tie lemons up in sedimentary rock

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

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

Lippen

Lipper

Liquate

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

Liquor

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

Settled by male head showing flexibility

Flexibility.

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

Persons engaged in lawsuits.

Parties to a lawsuit

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

Strewing trash

Making a mess of having a multiple birth, perhaps

Making a mess with a multiple birth, perhaps

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

Red state (wordplay)

A stack of rock is magnetic

Magnetite possessing polarity.

It attracts lots to Tyneside

Zeitgeist and "umami," linguistically

Karaoke and smorgasbord, linguistically speaking

Weltschmerz and schadenfreude, for example

Hail an object's dislikes (wordplay)

Disinclination

Lobation

Lobeline

See small particles in positions

Film credits list

Places, sites

Lockdown

Locution

Lake poems with quality must be a magnet

Iron-attracting magnetite

It was used to make the first compass

Porter's room intended, say, for deposit of monies

Doddery old chaps going in to get accommodation

Accommodations

Lodgment

Impressive height; nobility (of manner)

Quality of altruistic motives

Stature without bags of money

Ada Lovelace and Charles Babbage, for example

Type of statistical distribution

Perhaps ageless ethnological weave

Minimum clothing (wordplay)

Fig leaf successor (wordplay)

Wild lion and tiger lurking

Dawdling toiler drunk on gin cocktail

Just hanging around

Laugh out loud, striding along and bounding about

Lomentum

Adjective for Crusoe.

One, as numbers go

Tell one is strangely more miserable

Lonesome

Huey's craft

Vessels on vessels

Fuselage parts

Tiny glove (anagram)

Ripe old age

Duration of service

Living a long time; of great age.

Classical music fans

Classical musicians Slang.

Classical musicians: Slang.

Longhand

Longhead

Some ranch cattle

Range sight

Lonestar beeves

Viking "mead hall," for example

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

Arctic birds.

Longueur

Lookdown

Stupidity figures in toilets

Silly stuff

Warm-up deliveries

A lack of strictness

John senses abnormal laxity

Relaxed condition

Masseuse's task

Relaxing and letting go

Not being tight any more

Lopper

Walk all over novice inside school for the little chiefs

Eyeglasses with no letter 'g' (wordplay)

Pair of glasses with a handle

Specs on a stick

Layabouts' dream country

Idyllic spot

Left to love and lust outrageously in this bed of roses

Louden

The state or quality of being lousy.

Lovevine

High living is not for him

Scot who touched down in the valley (wordplay)

Flat dweller

Lack of status

Bird during row starts to show some humility

Humility

Lowness

Oil from car black until changed

It helps get the wheels turning

It may keep things moving

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

Sawyer's table

Moving like an elephant

Failing to start sleeping, being clumsy

Awful mumbler - a northern feller

Paul Bunyan's calling.

Paul Bunyan, for example

They deal in deal

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

Supposed inhabitants of the moon

Lunation

Formal midday meals

They take ages at last, of course

Society affairs

Home of counterculture (wordplay)

School's cafeteria

Where students meet to eat

One for when a meal is needed (wordplay)

Inlet much improved by midday (wordplay)

When midday meal is eaten

Lungworm

Flowering groundcover plants in the apt genus Pulmonaria

Ecliptic period of Julian calendar.

Concerning both the moon and sun's motions

Like the Hebrew calendar, but not the Islamic

Lunkhead

Ghastly quality

Ghastly action started lately underwater clear of the headland

Luster

That Tom Jones quality

Enlists us, perhaps, to what Stone had for life

Vigor

Lustring

Lutanist

LUTEIN a yellow pigment

Some string players

Some minstrels

Some bards

Luteolin

Luxation

Profuse in growth

(Of hair) thick and healthy

Long shift female ignored, working in a rut

Lychnis

Lycopene

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

Harboring a temperate virus

You can get lost in them

Greek archons offer cattle farms

Settings for old stories with misleading passages

Tearing jaggedly

Tearing (of skin)

How much material you can get wound

Cut the material allowance

Laciness

Lacquer

Lacquey

Lactation

Inducing lactation.

Of Erie, Huron, etc.

Found in lakes

Noble dessert (wordplay)

Tirami su cake

Common item in a trifle's cake layer

Single papa in difficulty? Offer some tips maybe

Gratuities

Lakefront

Thrashing: Slang.

Dressing down

Thrashing Slang.

Lambency

Decorative drapery

Valance.

Valance

Stumbling scholars

Chuckleheads

Lameness

Far from fortunate

Awful food given to the French servants

Awful ballet with name cast

LAMENT to cry out in grief

LAMENTED lament

""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 Harvard men

Satirizers.

Satirical writing ridiculing someone

Ridiculing bad Monroe play

Oral eponym, perhaps, suggesting personal satire

Satirist's work

Tapering, as a leaf.

Tapering, as leaves

Lancewood

Landaulet

One who takes the field (wordplay)

Man of property

One with a lot

Women collecting rent

With no sea coast

Describing Paraguay and Bolivia

Cut off from the sea