2-Letter Words Starting with L

LOVELESS without love

Beauty

Courtship

Affection; kind regard.

Understating on purpose

It's the end of the world!...if you want to get really literal about it

Lowercase

Plains denizens

Lowlihead

Loxodrome

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

""LUBRIC slippery, also LUBRICAL""

Giving light; affording light or means of discovery.

Sad, mournful

Mournful guru catches bus with oil sprinkled around

Dismal

Strength of light

LUMINOUS giving off light

Pl. lumpectomies Surgical excision of a tumor from the breast with the removal of a minimal amount of surrounding tissue.

Schools' gathering places

In a pleasingly rich manner

Lustihood

The act of lustrating or purifying.

LUSTROUS reflecting light evenly and efficiently

Company duo imply upset in the plant

A T-cell or B-cell

Comply with the last of compulsory orders in cell

English word

""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.""

Lymphoma

Same as lyophilize.lyophilize.

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

Lysogeny

LYSOGEN a type of {antigen=n}

LYSOGEN a type of {antigen=n}

""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

A chemical substance that causes tears to flow; same as lacrimator.lacrimator.

LACINIATE LACINIAE lacinia

In a laconic manner.

English word

Shedding tears; same as lachrymation.lachrymation.

Lacrimator

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.""

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

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.

Layers upon layers

Layers.

Landholder

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.""

Landowning

Squat lobsters, in American cuisine

Norway lobster

Shellfish

""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 performed with a laparoscope.

Larcenous

Largemouth

The study of part of the throat

Latifundio

Criss-crossed arrangement

Grid construction

Trellis makeup

Laureation

Leafhopper

Jumped over (someone) in play

Jumped or skipped over

Skipped some steps

I can occupy the House for a term!

Person with property rights

One renting a property

""A small branching shrub (Dirca palustris), with a white, soft wood, and a tough, leathery bark, common in damp woods in the Northern United States; called also moosewood, and wicopy. Dirca palustris), with a white, soft wood, and a tough, leathery bark, common in damp woods in the Northern United States; called also moosewood, and wicopy.""

Lecherous

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

Enacting of laws

Passing of bills

Group of laws

Ones on a diet

""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.""

Lepidolite

Moths and butterflies

Butterflies and moths

Polite padre converted large group of fliers

Adjective (-ous)

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

LEPTOSPIRE

Leptospire

Letterbox

Subject at secretarial school

Subject at secretarial school.

Leucocidin

Leucoplast

Leukopenia

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

Adjective (-ic)

LEUKORRHEA

Leukorrhea

Leukotomy

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

Levigation

Levitation

LIBATION a ceremonial pouring of a liquid

Liberation

LIBRATION The act or state of librating.

The science which treats of lichens.

""Composing a ligament; of the nature of a ligament; binding; as, a strong ligamentous membrane.as, a strong ligamentous membrane.""

Pharologist's study

Shining examples, in the main

Coastal beacons

Lightsome

Likelihood

Subject of some statutes

Restrictions or shortcomings

Large fake with small checks

Limnology

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

Lincomycin

Linerboard

Shrub with tart fruit

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

The winding up (of a company)

Conversion (of assets) into cash

Process of converting into cash

Liquidator

""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.""

Literation

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

Doctor and lawyer

Separation by percolation

Loadmaster

Loathness

Ticker tapes (wordplay)

In an offensive way

Lobectomy

LOBOTOMISE

Lobotomise

LOBOTOMIZE

Lobotomize

Lobstering

Adjective meaning resembling

Lobulation

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

Lockkeeper

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)

Large marine turtles.

Large sea turtles

Carnivorous turtles

The quality of being logical.

One skilled in military supply

Expert in military transport and supply.

Lognormal

LOGOGRAPH

Logomachy

Logrolling

Messed about

Fooled around

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

Looseness

Plant, least restrained, abounding

Plant, most unconfined, abundant

Plant of the primrose family

Lophophore

Loquacity

LOSABLE able to be lost

Given to offensive talk

Vociferous

Blatant.

Part of hi-fi system

Part of a sound system

Sound projector

Lousiness

Boor's attribute

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

""LOVABLE worthy of love, also LOVEABLE""

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

The application of oil or grease

Garage job.

Lubricator

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

In ridiculous fashion

Absurdly, ridiculously

""Of or pertaining to the loins and sacrum; as, the lumbosacral nerve, a branch of one of the lumber nerves which passes over the sacrum. as, the lumbosacral nerve, a branch of one of the lumber nerves which passes over the sacrum.""

Lustration

Adjective (-ic)

English word

Luxurious

The supposed act of turning one's self or another person into a wolf.

Lycopodium

A dividing cell that gives rise to a mature lymphocyte.

Lymphocyte

LYMPHOCYTE

Lymphogram

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