2-Letter Words Starting with L

Tendency towards verbal slips

Sieve quality

Sievelike quality

Progresses in jumps or stages

Goes over another's head

Flog spare rubbish in vaults

Learning

Property seller's arrangement

Property seller's temp arrangement

What 12 across has to slacken his grip

Not free to rent cargo space on board

Form of property tenure

Ruins, lays waste at any rate

If nothing else

At any rate

If nothing else, most foolish (wordplay)

Most foolish, however (wordplay)

It's the most foolish, anyway

Lechayim

Lechery

Lewd clues, set to entrap 3

Rakish sign about singer in front of us

Nothing in Hercules' disposition was lewd

Lecithin

Angry moms, at times

Angry dads, at times

Visitors to women's clubs.

Pivoting keels on the sides of a sailboat

Soup ingredients, perhaps

Takeout food (wordplay)

Remains of the cricket match (wordplay)

Legalese

Legalise

Decriminalises

Lawyer's terms

Sticklers among the top people surrounded by members

Members keeping within group of top people? They know the rules

Legalize

Residences of diplomatic ministers.

Residences of diplomats.

Diplomatic missions

""LEGGIN a covering for the leg, also LEGGING""

Lay down the law (wordplay)

Put on an act (wordplay)

Work in a chamber, say

Used a salmon-spear

In a casual way

Garland, without doubt, is comfortable

Sue Reilly for being relaxed

Adjective (-al)

A band of nerve fibres

Summer party drinks

Some citrus drinks

Sidewalk-stand sales

Lemuroid

What some mascara does to lashes

Increases, in a way

Stretches out

Lenience

Lenition

Lenitive

Lenticel

LEPIDOTE covered with small scales

Leprosy

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

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

""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.""

Shrinking German city Heather goes round

Cutting down on

How a single sen is down in value

Lesson

Sign makers, for example

Poster painters.

Some signmakers

Leucemia

Leukemia

Leukemic

Levanter

Levator

"Zeitgeist" U.K. band

Zeitgeist U.K. band

Equalisers

Pool table quality

Buys on margin, for example

Borrows for a buyout

Certain mechanical effects.

Levigate

Levirate

Picks oneself up (wordplay)

Helps to get up

Rises and floats in the air.

Levodopa

Levulose

Lewisite

Lewisson

Spirit-ed creations (wordplay)

Blend basil into alcoholic drinks

Martini and gimlet, for example

Libeccio

Libelant

Libelist

Libellee

Libeller

Defamatory, in Dover

See evil bullies outside being defamatory

Defamatory

Learner one harshly scolds and releases

Steals, slangily

Delivers lectures after colleague's third one

Rights it's wrong to take (wordplay)

Subjects of the Bill of Rights.

Cads take them

Book stores (wordplay)

Two of the 24 merge with volumes

They house books

Recklessly rob titles for opera books

Gilbert works

Operatic texts

Licencee

Licencer

Royalty payers, say

They're permitted (wordplay)

Software users, often

Licenser

Such laws restrict service opportunities for landlords

Licensor

Certification for professional practice

Lichenin

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

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

Lickspit

Dried-root candies

They're only out for your savings

Ship's equipment.

They rescue people

Palmist's concern.

Items in palmistry.

Who Wants to Be a Millionaire options

Mae West perhaps flies around state

Candy with a hole in the middle

An opportune rescuer.

Existing fashion (wordplay)

It may be Spartan

You get used to it

They last till the last of us

That's all we have for a living

Spans of three-score years and ten.

Lifework

Liftgate

Tissues that may be torn

Bands of connective tissue

Tissues that connect bones

Ligation

Cords to tie blood vessels

Surgical ties for blood vessels

Musical slurs suit Elgar possibly

English word

Lighting

Destitute of light; dark.

Kundera's was insufferable

Lack of weight

Less night where there's absence of weight

Beacon-bearing boat

Beacon vessel at sea

Pilot's warning device.

Having light; lighted; not dark or gloomy; bright.

Lignify

Ligroine

Most credible

Lilliput

Limber

Furnaces for reducing calcium carbonate

Five-line verses

Five-lined verses

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

A mineral prepared from fruit (sound)

Luray Caverns material

Tie lemons up in sedimentary rock

Very large, extensive

nfinit (wordplay)

Like outer space.

Limonene

Limonite

Long way to go (wordplay)

Long ride (wordplay)

A way to go by

Limpsey

Limuloid

Linalool

They secure wheels on axles

Vital components

Vital entities

Get into a row and rebel after treatment of alien

With frightful lies around, I mean to get into a row

LINER a commercial ship or aeroplane

Those who wait

Lingerie

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

Linoleum

Linstock

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

Lipocyte

Pl. lipolyses (-s z ) The hydrolysis of lipids.

Decomposition of fat

LIPOSOME a microscopic globule composed of lipids

Liposome

Cosmetics-counter array

Tubes in purses

Basic cosmetics.

Thaws

Liquify

Liripipe

""LISSOME lithe, also LISSOM""

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

Readers, for example

Readers and writers.

They're well-informed

A learned man; a man acquainted with literature; chiefly used in the plural. plural.

Litharge

Lithemia

Settled by male head showing flexibility

Flexibility.

Homeliest characters can be graceful

Toned graceful model hostile to me

Article in case stuck in tree, not stiff

LITHIAS lithia

""The formation of stony concretions or calculi in any part of the body, especially in the bladder and urinary passages.""

Lithify

Lithosol

Persons engaged in lawsuits.

Parties to a lawsuit

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

Contests at the bar (wordplay)

Files a suit against

Engages in legal proceedings

Quick to take action (wordplay)

Quick to sue

Keen to pursue lawsuits

Recipients of some fines

Mess makers

Untidy picnickers.

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

It's up to evil, broken tiles to make one most active

Farm animals exist to breed

One source of rural income.

(Domestic) animals in general

Livetrap

Red state (wordplay)

Lixivium

Loadstar

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

Can't like revolting

A hole most dreadfully repulsive

Liberal profanity a few find offensive

Lobation

Lobbygow

Lobbyism

Influential Washington group

Some D.C. workers

Capitol Hill wheeler-dealers

Lobeline

Scumbag eating zero degree stew

Stew of meat, vegetables and hardtack

A stew formerly eaten by sailors

Lobster

Lobstick

Old Celia's moving around in a restricted area

Restricted diet instead missing even elements

Boozer on other side limited to one place

Localise

Localism

Localist

Localite

Localize

See small particles in positions

Film credits list

Places, sites

They indicate places where Clovis ate, perhaps

Lockbox

Lockdown

Fable about smoked salmon (wordplay)

Hair stylist's other job (wordplay)

Keystone ring wearer (wordplay)

Lockstep

Anti-Tammany reformers of 1835.

Match-lighting party of 1835

Friction matches

Locomote

Plants that make cattle crazy

Problematic plants for ranchers

Plants that produce the intoxicant swainsonine

Locution

Guides for ancient mariners.

Navigational reference points

Sources of inspiration

Lake poems with quality must be a magnet

Iron-attracting magnetite

It was used to make the first compass

Lodgment

Lodicule

Impressive height; nobility (of manner)

Quality of altruistic motives

Stature without bags of money

Ada Lovelace and Charles Babbage, for example

Logicise

Logicise