2-Letter Words Starting with L

Plovers with slow, irregular flight.

Types of plover

Crested plovers

Incentive to romp in a bed (wordplay)

Flower also called delphinium

Delphinium, by another name

Pounded the stuffing out of

Beat: Colloq.

How Laurence got beaten, along with a prude

One who {larrups=v}

Spring activity for the kids (wordplay)

Spring game (wordplay)

Golfer foolishly accepts a quiet game

Lempira

Black-spotted cats

They don't change their spots

Preyers on antelopes

Scaly, to a botanist.

Scaly

Leporid

Resembling a rabbit

Like a hare

Resembling a horse

""Affected with leprosy, also LEPROUS, LEPROSE""

Pertaining to a {lepton=n}

A type of drug to treat Parkinson's disease

A fawning person

Flower, say, planted in imaginary land

Small town (wordplay)

Land with a small population (wordplay)

Rascal in idyll messing clearly

In a clear manner

Birds that resemble bitterns

Lack of stiffness

Unappealing handshake quality

Pens slim novel? Suggests it's a touch handy and by no means hard!

Limpsey

Indispensable person or thing (I, not Y)

Long distance badge for one essential

It keeps wheel in position on axle

A fat-producing cell

Resembling a {lipoid=n}

Lipoma

A microscopic globule composed of lipids

Lippen

Lipper

Displaying the most sass

Lipping

Mouth paint (wordplay)

Drawer of Cupid's bow (wordplay)

Collar stain (wordplay)

Old clerical scarf

Headdress streamer

Possum catcher, for example

... by a safecracker (wordplay)

Rigidly inflexible process

A type of march.

Company symbol

Company identifier

Printing block

The use of logotypes

Sweet noted for 5 (wordplay)

Sweet for suckers (wordplay)

Sweet ship? That's good (wordplay)

Lounged

Confection

Yearns to get cool boat

Viking boat

Viking craft

Bird with brownish plumage

Arctic bird

North American bird with brownish plumage

Flaw in the law (wordplay)

Cloakroom staff blocking hotel escape

Clever lawyer's find

Superlatively dizzy, dishes in the dosh

Lopper

Loppy

Did slope make play unequal (wordplay)

Ill-balanced poles did topple

Odd piles set at an angle

""A tree with its lower branches trimmed, also LOBSTICK""

Term of respect in the U.K

Address for a nobleman

Title of peers.

Fish with edible roe

Least smooth, as mashed potatoes

Lupanar

Lupulin

Colorant of tomatoes and watermelons

Chemical that gives tomatoes their red color

Lycopod

Of a body fluid

Form of cancer

Mom haply has a form of cancer

Mom haply has a strange form of cancer

Keystone, for example variable

Person or thing vital to an enterprise or organization

Hang picture - the first at home, of person vital to the business

Pertaining to a type of colloid

Indoor plants popular in waiting rooms

Ladyship

Trifling gifts, in New Orleans variable

Trifling gifts, in New Orleans Var.

A sack of candy, maybe

Small gift strangely appealing

A little gift for the customer.

One of the Lagomorpha.

Buffalo and Toronto.

Light colour for soot (wordplay)

Soot used as a pigment

Powdery form of carbon

Lampers

Bright enough, but wicked, perhaps

What a 100-watt 2-volt bulb produces

Wickedly little illumination

Mocked, in a way

Skewered, as in a skit

Publicly ridiculed

Trump satirist Sarah Cooper, for example

Parodist performing in Palermo resort

Hit on river, one right for satirist

Part of the street scene.

They light the way

Streetlight supports

Sea creature hit police sergeant? He will!

Lampyrid

Inventor Edwin's cloak (or painting)

Plant trees and shrubs, say

Prospect of unbridled lap dances!

Lots of scenery - different kinds under wraps

Landslip

Lapboard

Revolutionary comrade I saw getting stoned

Pelts with stones

Lapidist

Lapper

Tape larks when camouflaged

Common names for delphiniums

Frolics by cutpurse may be growing

Often-blue garden blooms

Larruper

Beating violently

Discovery zone (wordplay)

Structure on which a rocket sits

Cape Canaveral sight

Church attendees

Non-expert, say

Non-clergy type

No reply as affecting ordinary guy

A shrub (Amorpha canescens) of sandy woodlands and streambanks of the Western U. S. having hoary pinnate flowers and dull-colored racemose flowers; it is thought to indicate the presence of lead ore.Amorpha canescens) of sandy woodlands and streambanks of the Western U. S. having hoary pinnate flowers and dull-colored racemose flowers; it is thought to indicate the presence of lead ore.

Snug, as a roof.

Sealed so as not to allow seepage

Like a good travel mug

Progresses in jumps or stages

Goes over another's head

Flog spare rubbish in vaults

The specimen or element selected as the type of a species when a holotype has not been defined.

LEPIDOTE covered with small scales

A natural family of mammals comprising the hares and rabbits.

Leprosy

""LEPROUS affected with leprosy, also LEPROSE, LEPROTIC""

""A person with a slender, thin, or frail body.""

""(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Biochemistry) the first stage of the prophase of meiosis during which the nuclear material becomes resolved into slender single-stranded chromosomes [from lepto- + -tene, from Greek tainia band, filament]""

""Any shrubby or herbaceous plant of the genus Lespedeza, widely used for forage, soil improvement, and especially hay in the Southern U.S.Lespedeza, widely used for forage, soil improvement, and especially hay in the Southern U.S.""

Levodopa

Lickspit

Beacon-bearing boat

Beacon vessel at sea

Pilot's warning device.

Lilliput

Translucence

Limpsey

They secure wheels on axles

Vital components

Vital entities

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.

Liripipe

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

Livetrap

Lockstep

Programmer's graphic symbol (wordplay)

Sign of trademark diagram

Anagram, for example

Puzzle based on recombination of the letters of a word

The Golden Arches, for McDonald's

Company emblems

Rewards for kids

All-day suckers, for instance

Candies on a stick

Laugh out loud, striding along and bounding about

Prizes for good children

Savalas props

Longship

Arctic birds.

Loophole

Escape mechanisms (wordplay)

Hacker's targets

Ways out of contracts

Lopper

Lopstick

Titled British dignitaries

Noble potencies

Feature of badly-mixed custard

LUMPISH {stupid=adj}

Lycopene

Pity Hal with the MC for a gland

Lymphoma

Buttons with the director of "Blue Velvet" on them (wordplay)

LYOPHILE pertaining to a type of colloid

LYOPHILE pertaining to a type of colloid

LYOPHOBE not readily dispersed

Single papa in difficulty? Offer some tips maybe

Gratuities

Lagomorph

Lampblack

Certain illuminations.

Certain Harvard men

Satirizers.

Satirical writing ridiculing someone

Ridiculing bad Monroe play

Oral eponym, perhaps, suggesting personal satire

Satirist's work

Lampshell

(Of gardens) aesthetically altered

Like a golf course, with sand placed haphazardly

Lecturer and son, protected against weather, like some gardens

Moe (wordplay)

Job that involves cutting

He may make the earth move

Some J.M.W Turner paintings

Like many of Cezanne's paintings

Down-to-earth paintings

Opening to examine innards of engine, a mate having reversed battery terminal

Like the cutting of gemstones

I said pearl should be reset - by us (wordplay)

Gem cutters

Lapidate

Lapidify

Lapidify

First digs (wordplay)

Space-shot structures

What shuttles leave from

Layperson

The Presidential yacht?

The Presidential yacht (wordplay)

Had replies (anagram)

Leadplant

Plant pest.

Lectotype

The office of a legate.

Female in the wild

Jungle beast

Big cat.

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

Little green man (wordplay)

Og of "Finian's Rainbow," for example

Clean up her mess, little one

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

Leptosome

English word

Leptotene

Lespedeza

See Leucoplast. Leucoplast.

An abnormally low number of white blood cells in the circulating blood.

An abnormally low number of white blood cells in the circulating blood.

Piper product

Hard-to-read preliminary print (wordplay)

Navigation aids

""(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]""

Quality of being limpid; limpidity.

Limpness

LIPOMA a tumor of fatty tissue

Having an affinity for lipids; -- of chemical substances or parts of molecules. Contrasted to lipophobic or polar.lipophobic or polar.

Having an affinity for lipids.

A hormone produced by the anterior pituitary gland that promotes the utilization of fat by the body and is a precursor to the endorphins.

Genial drip (anagram)

Hearing by seeing (wordplay)

Hearing visually (wordplay)

Made up speakers performed as a watch

25 illuminated by beast, part angel

Print from a plate using a flat surface

Type of print

""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

Lithopone

Waterway worker has food in cupboard

Canal worker

Canal employee identified by hair and ring

Logograph

Puzzles using anagrams

Logotypy

Loophole

A disk which surrounds the mouth and bears the tentacles of the Bryozoa. See Phylactolemata. Phylactolemata.

LOPSIDED leaning to one side

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

Lumpfish

Company duo imply upset in the plant

Lymphatic