2-Letter Words Starting with L

Levirate

LEVIRATE the custom of marrying the widow of one's brother

Libeller

Baron in story meeting magnanimously

Learner I reprimanded and let go

Wild bear I'd let free

Free at last

Learner one harshly scolds and releases

Steals, slangily

Delivers lectures after colleague's third one

Bolivar, for one

Bolivar, for one

Bolivar's epithet

Rights it's wrong to take (wordplay)

Subjects of the Bill of Rights.

Cads take them

Don Juan, for one

Row about French composer, a philanderer

Sensually indulgent person

Book keeper (wordplay)

Quieter in a school, maybe

Book overseer (wordplay)

Book stores (wordplay)

Two of the 24 merge with volumes

They house books

Librate

Balancing small party quota

Balancing

Recklessly rob titles for opera books

Gilbert works

Operatic texts

""Having the form of liber, or resembling liber.""

Licencer

Licenser

Licensor

Certification for professional practice

Eager; craving; urged by desire; eager to taste or enjoy; greedy.

Dried-root candies

One of the Beach Boys (wordplay)

Bank magazine-rack overseer (wordplay)

GARFIELD + U = Beach V.I.P

Mae West perhaps flies around state

Candy with a hole in the middle

An opportune rescuer.

Lifework

Ligature

Cords to tie blood vessels

Surgical ties for blood vessels

Musical slurs suit Elgar possibly

Summer hair product

Lighter

Ligroine

Limber

Doing calisthenics (with "up").

Warming up for exercise

Five-line verses

Five-lined verses

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

Fruit juice? Clear colourless solution

Tartish drink

Tannery solution

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

LINER a commercial ship or aeroplane

Those who wait

Lingerie

Like a stubborn cold

Being slow to leave

Hanging back, tarrying

Linkwork

Lioniser

Lionizer

Lipper

That which liquefies.

Say Scotch on the rocks is sweet

Sweet drink on the rocks (wordplay)

Pontefract cake ingredient

Liquor

Liripipe

Auditors' audience (wordplay)

Is that what they do? Hear, hear!

They're at the radio, not the TV

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

Law-practicing reptile (wordplay)

One in legal dispute

One in a court battle.

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

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

Livetrap

Loadstar

Zeitgeist and "umami," linguistically

Karaoke and smorgasbord, linguistically speaking

Weltschmerz and schadenfreude, for example

Lobster

Relating to power of moving mad vehicle!

Relating to shifts of temperature in unusually cool room

Guides for ancient mariners.

Navigational reference points

Sources of inspiration

Slide-rule number

In math, it may be common or natural

Slide rule's basis

Type of statistical distribution

Logogram

Programmer's graphic symbol (wordplay)

Sign of trademark diagram

Anagram, for example

Puzzle based on recombination of the letters of a word

1999's winning word: Verbosity

Nonstop talkativeness

Excessive talkativeness, perhaps incoherent

Engaged in political skulduggery

Swapped political favors

Took part in a lumberjack contest

Lumberjack, at times (wordplay)

Exchanger of political favors

Political favor-monger

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

Fuselage parts

Classical music fans

Classical musicians Slang.

Classical musicians: Slang.

Some ranch cattle

Range sight

Lonestar beeves

Beetle with a lengthy narrow body

Arctic birds.

Longueur

Warm-up deliveries

Lopper

Lordly

Walk all over novice inside school for the little chiefs

Titled British dignitaries

Noble potencies

Eyeglasses with no letter 'g' (wordplay)

Pair of glasses with a handle

Specs on a stick

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

Round American splits garden tool turning over plant

Soaring honeymooners (wordplay)

Small African parrots or romantic couple

Openly affectionate couple

Small, UNLIKE THIS!

Some letters perhaps from minor lawsuit

Drop the bag ... not like THAT!

On the bottom.

At the bottom of the list.

At the very bottom

High living is not for him

Scot who touched down in the valley (wordplay)

Flat dweller

Lowlifer

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

""Geography a rhumb line or curve on the surface of a sphere intersecting all meridians at the same angle; hence, the course of a ship or aircraft following a constant compass direction. ; loxodromic,""

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.

""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""

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

Lumberer

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

""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 .""

Supposed inhabitants of the moon

Home of counterculture (wordplay)

School's cafeteria

Where students meet to eat

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

Ghastly quality

Ghastly action started lately underwater clear of the headland

Luster

Lustrate

Lustrate

Lustring

Profuse in growth

(Of hair) thick and healthy

Long shift female ignored, working in a rut

Enjoy greatly, to excess perhaps

Enjoy to excess

Revel in indulgence

Very comfortable

Extravagant

You are you, in short, to be so comfortable with Louis X

Lyrebird

In an enthusiastic or effusive way

Lily and Carly are dancing in an expressive way

How Wordsworth and Coleridge wrote ballads

Lyricise

Lyricise

Lyricism

Important people on Broadway.

Hart and Hammerstein

Songwriters call up securing one in charts

Lyricize

Lyricize

An instrument for measuring the water that percolates through a certain depth of soil.

""Simultaneously labial and velar, as (kw) in quick.""

*Coat room (wordplay)

Coat room (wordplay)

Where to go to get results (wordplay)

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

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

Mahler 'cosy'? Wrong - sorrowful

Tearful (literary)

Rashly come out, getting weepy

Bereft of brilliance

Lacking brilliance or vitality

Like a rookie bootblack's efforts (wordplay)

Lacquerer

Lacquer

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

Of Erie, Huron, etc.

Found in lakes

Adjective meaning resembling

Noble dessert (wordplay)

Tirami su cake

Common item in a trifle's cake layer

Lagomorph

Lakefront

Lakeshore

Himalayan monasteries

Males arise to be trained for Buddhist institutions

Decorative drapery

Valance.

Valance

Stumbling scholars

Chuckleheads

""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

Laminator

Certain Harvard men

Satirizers.

Satirical writing ridiculing someone

Ridiculing bad Monroe play

Oral eponym, perhaps, suggesting personal satire

One who takes the field (wordplay)

Man of property

One with a lot

Not a seafaring type!

Sea fearer (wordplay)

One with no experience of the sea

They mind their manors

They may deal lots

Property-tax payers

Moe (wordplay)

Job that involves cutting

He may make the earth move

LANGLAUF a cross-country ski run

One who languishes.

Dreamy - our UN goals (anagram)

Full of dreamy inertia

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

Force enlists car thieves

Those wrongly taking clarinet solos, discontentedly playing

Feature of a certain bass

Kind of bass

Type of bass

Larghetto

LARVICIDE

Larvicide

Laryngeal

Plural or third person singular

Disease and Illness

An impediment to free speech (wordplay)

Inflammation of the windpipe

Sit angrily suffering sore throat

They may stand for something

Ten o'clock scholars.

Folks who weren't on time

LATERAL to throw a sideward pass in football

LATERAL to throw a sideward pass in football

Laterize

Lathyrism

Adjective (-ic)

Laticifer

Money changing hands for cleaners

Housewife's chore.

Washing establishment

Perverts enter adult establishment for dirty material (wordplay)

High street concern as a French doctor with little energy tucked into coffee

"What's My Line?" candidate.

What's My Line? candidate.

LAUNDRY a place where clothes are washed and ironed