2-Letter Words Starting with L

Laureate

""The act of crowning with laurel; the act of conferring an academic degree, or honorary title.""

Laurel

Jeweled pendants

Ornamental pendants.

Some microphones

Duchesse for whom a pendant was named

Hot stuff leading to blues in 2

Facilities offered by politicians after volcanic outpouring (wordplay)

Lavender

Double-parker, for one.

One risking arrest

A crook or awl

Radioactive transuranic element

Element atomic number 103

Radioactive element dispersed warm nuclei

Lawyering

Adjective meaning resembling

Layperson

Lazarette

Lazaretto

Generally missing (wordplay)

Lacking a commander

Nothing editorial without the boss

The Presidential yacht?

The Presidential yacht (wordplay)

Had replies (anagram)

Leadscrew

Plant pest.

LEAFLET to distribute printed sheets of paper

Leaguer

Thrashing could make hate linger

Thrashing hit general badly

Doctor hit general for hiding

Expansionist's slogan

Extra space deemed necessary

Elbow space a la Hitler.

""A book, or a list, of lections, for reading in divine service.""

Hide shorts in Bierkellar (wordplay)

One's led her astray wearing this!

Shorts with braces

Legalizer

Legendry

Legerity

On trial, so perhaps I will make laws

Gorilla set to become an MP (wordplay)

Senator or representative

Leister

Herb in Thai cuisine

Fruit, drugs or herb

Asian cuisine staple

Vacuum-cleaner pipe, for example

Biconvex

Pl. lentiviruses See slow virus .

Female in the wild

Jungle beast

Big cat.

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.

English word

Lethargy

The development or design of the shape of an alphabet letter.

For example, Y-front's logo (wordplay)

Piece of corporate stationery

Stationery feature from red endings

Lettering

""A thick, whitish discharge from the vagina or cervical canal.""

At fifty, always getting older and taking advantage of

Same as levorotatory.levorotatory.

To loosen restrictions on ale? Risible, daft!

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

What's not right (wordplay)

Generous political philosophy

Freedom from sickly Blair smile

A liberal.

Generous quality

Bounty

Hubert Humphrey's peepers (wordplay)

Releasing Gilbertian medley

Struggler's wish

Freedom for Queen to tuck into drink

Act of freeing

Free thinkers (wordplay)

U. S. planes in W. W. II

American B-24 bombers.

Seducers rebel in its being set free

Dissolute types given punishment at school, one boy included

Rakes

Ones turning up the volume (wordplay)

Reference-desk workers

Bookkeepers (wordplay)

Libration

Abe Burrows, for instance

Writer in a special field.

Provider of opera's words

Licensure

Lientery

Workers who keep an eye on swimmers

Workers in towers

Pool attendants

They go overboard in some emergencies

Brand whose first flavor was Pep-O-Mint

They're in a roll

Ligature

Lightener

Unloading charge for ships.

Arsonist maybe taking time in dockside activity (wordplay)

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

Lighter

Hard-to-read preliminary print (wordplay)

Ballerina's trait

Flexibility of wings, say, wrapped around seabirds

Limewater

""(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]""

LINEARISE

Linearise

LINEARIZE

Makes horizontal

Customer service agent (wordplay)

Ray Lewis, for one

Party policy enthusiast (wordplay)

Printing A machine for casting metal type in lines.

A type of paperboard used in making corrugated cartons.

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)

Liquefier

Settler of an estate.

Property settler.

Liquorice

Literacy

Fidelity to observable fact.

Sadly, I still rate him a pedant

Rigid person of the word, a little sir being silly

The state or quality of being literal.

""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.""

""Of, relating to, or dealing with literature: literary criticism.""

LITERATE one who can read and write

The act or process of representing by letters.

Literator

What bookshops retail? True, perhaps

Novels, essays, etc.

Written works of artistic merit

25 illuminated by beast, part angel

Print from a plate using a flat surface

Type of print

Litigator

Freebies at the car wash

Keep America Beautiful concerns

They ignore trash cans

Non-users of trash cans

The one puppy that can read (wordplay)

Any in a group of puppies

One puppy to another

Relating to public worship

Medical head going to follow books of worship

Liturgist

Liverwort

Braunschweiger, for example

Certain sausage

Delicatessen purchase.

An aircraft crew member in charge of loading and unloading cargo or heavy weapons.

Lobster

A man whose occupation is catching lobsters.

Some Maine trappers

Waterway worker has food in cupboard

Canal worker

Canal employee identified by hair and ring

LOCOMOTOR Of or pertaining to movement or locomotion.

Locutory

Began to wriggle around in truck

Hybrid fruit plant

Lorry began transporting fruit

Shortcuts for complex multiplication

Numbers on slide rules

High-school math subject

Turtle

Fool

Logograph

Puzzles using anagrams

Logorrhea

""Excessive, uncontrollable, or incoherent talkativeness""

Logroller

Political back scratching

Politicians' quid pro quo

Back-scratchers' activity

Devoted to classical music.

Devoted to classical music

Not buzz-cut

Longicorn

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

Snobbery concerning strokes seen in cricket ground

Superiority of policies adopted by cricket ground

In a test venue, a punishment for pupils displaying arrogance

Glasses with handles

Glasses with a handle

Glasses with handles, but not tankards

Lornness

What to relax in

Oversized sweats, for example

Comfy clothes for around the house

Lousewort

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

Lowercase

Plains denizens

Loxodrome

Raving lunatics stockpiling 24 oils (wordplay)

Dealt with friction, say

Prepped for an ultrasound, say

Treated with oil

Having produced articles about social security, makes things run smoothly

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

""LUBRIC slippery, also LUBRICAL""

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

Luciferin

Giving light; affording light or means of discovery.

Sad, mournful

Mournful guru catches bus with oil sprinkled around

Dismal

Without much passion

Strong feller (wordplay)

Paul Bunyan's payment (wordplay)

Feller left Brown with nothing!

Unfinished business (wordplay)

Where elephants go walking (wordplay)

Where to buy 2x4's.

Luminaire

Luminaria

Prominent or expert people

Influential famous folk

Famous people

Schools' gathering places

""LUSTER to make lustrous, also LUSTRE""

Pottery or porcelain having a metallic sheen produced when metallic oxides are added to the glaze.

Lustrate

The act of lustrating or purifying.

LUSTROUS reflecting light evenly and efficiently

It is tempting without evaluation to pluck it

Essay in enticement at Orpheus' fingertips (wordplay)

Lushness

LUXURIATE To grow exuberantly; to grow to superfluous abundance.

Luxuriate

English word

Lyricise

Lyricize

Lysimeter

Adjective (-ic)

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.""

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.

Lackluster

English word

English word

Shedding tears; same as lachrymation.lachrymation.

Lacrimator

""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.""

Godiva's digits (wordplay)

Manicurist's favorite dessert (wordplay)

Godiva identifies (wordplay)

""LAGGARD one who lags, also LAGGER""

Lambrequin

Hardly Mensa material

None too smart

Not too smart

Having antenn\'91 terminating in a group of flat lamell\'91; said of certain coleopterous insects.

Thin and flat; scalelike; lamellar.

Laminarian

""A large predatory bird (Gypaetus barbatus) of the vulture family, ranging from the mountainous regions of southern Europe to China and having a wide wingspan and black plumage. Also called bearded vulture , ossifrage .""

""A very large vulture (Gypa\'89tus barbatus), which inhabits the mountains of Southern Europe, Asia, and Northern Africa. When full-grown it is nine or ten feet in extent of wings. It is brownish black above, with the under parts and neck rusty yellow; the forehead and crown white; the sides of the head and beard black. It feeds partly on carrion and partly on small animals, which it kills. It has the habit of carrying tortoises and marrow bones to a great height, and dropping them on stones to obtain the contents, and is therefore called bonebreaker and ossifrage. It is supposed to be the ossifrage of the Bible. Called also bearded vulture and bearded eagle.Gypa\'89tus barbatus), which inhabits the mountains of Southern Europe, Asia, and Northern Africa. When full-grown it is nine or ten feet in extent of wings. It is brownish black above, with the under parts and neck rusty yellow; the forehead and crown white; the sides of the head and beard black. It feeds partly on carrion and partly on small animals, which it kills. It has the habit of carrying tortoises and marrow bones to a great height, and dropping them on stones to obtain the contents, and is therefore called bonebreaker and ossifrage. It is supposed to be the ossifrage of the Bible. Called also bearded vulture and bearded eagle.""

Guy who worked at dusk in colonial times

He was always illuminating

Spill jam with more flimsy packaging

Landholder

""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.""

Clumsy seagoers

Outside consultants (wordplay)

Manages to get garnishes (wordplay)

Outside property managers (wordplay)

Langlaufer

Languisher

""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

Largeness

Larkiness

The study of part of the throat

It's out for welcome guests

Cord for opening a door

Cord for fastening

LATERALIZE

Lateralize

Criss-crossed arrangement

Grid construction

Trellis makeup

Place for washing and drying clothes

Washing establishment

Coffee houses inferior to European shop that's cleaner

Laundress

Laundrette