2-Letter Words Starting with L

Like most backstage passes

Word for structure of windshield glass

Detail man to work with plates

Mica, shale, and butcher block

Divides into thin layers

Like some building materials

ID maker's machine

One covers nonsense creature's return

Gizmo used in making photo ID's

Inflammation of the lamin\'91 or fleshy plates along the coffin bone of a horse; founder.

Lamister

Bright enough, but wicked, perhaps

What a 100-watt 2-volt bulb produces

Wickedly little illumination

Part of the street scene.

They light the way

Streetlight supports

Primitive marine organisms

Car with a folding hood

Early auto style

Small convertible country needs golden permit

Landsman

Reeling out, angles for seafood

It may be eaten roasted

Spiny lobster

Male falcons

Element #57

Lanthorn

Revolutionary comrade I saw getting stoned

Pelts with stones

Lapidist

Tape larks when camouflaged

One taking clarinets off

Thief dressed in scarlet

Brigand or burglar

Somewhat slow (music)

In a fairly slow tempo (>music)

Line to gather unravels quite slowly

Lariat

The weariness of girlhood (wordplay)

Not the energy of girlhood, perhaps

The langour of girlhood, perhaps

Nostalgically upset, having lost coal production in a way that's permanent

They're made to go indoors

One jumping on the bandwagon, say

Fashionable sort (wordplay)

Fashionable one (wordplay)

Mediterranean sailing vessels

Psychoanalytic stages

LATERAL to throw a sideward pass in football

Eleventh hour revival from the side

Subsequent supporter for 'Sideways'

After aid on the side

Laterite

Of soil produced by the decomposition of rocks

Laterize

Laterize

Latewood

Barbers, at times

Shaving preliminary

Lathwork

LATHY long and slender

A plant duct containing latex.

Latinize

Translates into a certain language.

Regions where cliches start off

Angular distances from the equator.

Yachting positions

LATOSOL a tropical soil

Lattice

Might P raise this (wordplay)

Praise

Praise be that there's a case at the end of it!

Laudator

Like an ode

Expressing praise and commendation

Full of or giving praise

Laughter

Laureate

Special poets are honoured people

Nobel Prize winners

Nobelists, e.g

Lavation

Lavish

Laxation

They make you #2

They're taken to go

They get you going

Idlers - they simply laze

Habitually idle and lazy people

In the outskirts of Leeds, there's always a fight for good-for-nothings

Pl. lazarettos also lazarets or lazarettes A hospital treating contagious diseases.

Place for keeping stores on a ship

Hospital for infectious diseases

Quarantine facility

Lazulite

Lazurite

Leachate

Leachy

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.

Leadwort

Leaflet

Stem protrusion

Slender stem that supports plant's flat green structure

Petiole

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

Tanned the opponent (wordplay)

Beaten, though there in first place!

Covered with horsehide

Lecithin

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

Angry moms, at times

Angry dads, at times

Visitors to women's clubs.

Avocation of many authors.

Teaching in a college

Instructing or admonishing

Soup ingredients, perhaps

Takeout food (wordplay)

Remains of the cricket match (wordplay)

Sticklers among the top people surrounded by members

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

Residences of diplomatic ministers.

Residences of diplomats.

Diplomatic missions

Lay down the law (wordplay)

Put on an act (wordplay)

Work in a chamber, say

Used a salmon-spear

Top drawer vocation for one in Windsor

Recurring musical theme

Theme of fancy tile design

Limit vote (anagram)

Recurring literary theme

Recurring musical phrase

What some mascara does to lashes

Increases, in a way

Stretches out

Extending further

More protracted

In a lengthy manner; at great length or extent.

Gently unravel line, gently cutting top

With kid gloves

In an merciful manner

Lenition

Lenitive

Lenticel

English word

LEOTARD a close-fitting garment

LEPIDOTE covered with small scales

""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]""

Deadliness

Fatalness

The garlic (anagram)

The reverse of energetic

Short of energy

Sign makers, for example

Poster painters.

Some signmakers

Calligrapher's activity

It's seen on gilt "Enter" sign

Calligrapher's skill

'Top Ten List' reader

Star seen late at night

Stupid Pet Tricks talk show host

Some college athletes

College athletes.

Students with outstanding character (wordplay)

See white blood cell .

Pl. leukotomies also leucotomies Chiefly British A prefrontal lobotomy.

Levanter

Levant

Levator

Moby Dick, for example

Moby Dick, e.g

Massive thing lit a haven development

Levigate

Levigate

Levirate

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

Raised volunteers (wordplay)

Did a seance feat

Rose by buoyancy.

Picks oneself up (wordplay)

Helps to get up

Rises and floats in the air.

Lewisite

Disadvantage or financial obligation

Left one with talent a burden

Debt of 1 Euros on gift

Spirit-ed creations (wordplay)

Blend basil into alcoholic drinks

Martini and gimlet, for example

Libelant

Libelist

Suer for damages

Suitor left in ballet movement

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

Librate

Balancing small party quota

Balancing

Recklessly rob titles for opera books

Gilbert works

Operatic texts

Lickspit

They're only out for your savings

Ship's equipment.

They rescue people

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.

Liftgate

Tissues that may be torn

Bands of connective tissue

Tissues that connect bones

Ligation

Ligature

Cords to tie blood vessels

Surgical ties for blood vessels

Musical slurs suit Elgar possibly

Bright idea symbol

Source of illumination

Shining example of current usage

Reduced the weight

Took a load off awfully thin ledge

Being illuminated, he tingled with excitement

Summer hair product

Lighter

""A typeface or font of characters having relatively thin, light lines.""

English word

Lighting

Destitute of light; dark.

Kundera's was insufferable

Lack of weight

Less night where there's absence of weight

Flashy sort of striker (wordplay)

Flashy sort of striker

Franklin's aid

Beacon-bearing boat

Beacon vessel at sea

Pilot's warning device.

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

""Pine wood abounding in pitch, used for torches in the Southern United States; pine knots, dry sticks, and the like, for kindling a fire quickly or making a blaze.""

Most credible

Lilliput

LILTING lilt

Limber

Green illumination (wordplay)

Radiation that reaches a star (wordplay)

Center of interest

A mineral prepared from fruit (sound)

Luray Caverns material

Tie lemons up in sedimentary rock

Fruit juice? Clear colourless solution

Tartish drink

Tannery solution

Subject to checks and balances

With limitation.

Very large, extensive

nfinit (wordplay)

Like outer space.

Limonite

LIMONITE a major ore of iron

Translucence

Limpsey

The quality of being linea<?/.

An outline of the face.

Part of mug's tin and enamel cracked

(Facial) feature

LINEAR resembling a straight line

Delineation; a line or lines.

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

A salt of linoleic acid.

Linstock

See Linnet.Linnet.

Lipocyte

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

Cosmetics-counter array

Tubes in purses

Basic cosmetics.

Liquate

""The act or operation of making or becoming liquid; also, the capacity of becoming liquid.""

Convert (assets) into cash

Convert to cash

Kill dead, accepting one pound

State of being fluid.

Available cash

Arachne ultimately got by on 51 Euros in cash

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

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

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.""

Transformed into stone

Lithify

""The science which treats of rocks, as regards their mineral constitution and classification, and their mode of occurrence in nature.""

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

Lithosol

""The operation, art, or practice of cutting for stone in the bladder.""

Like libel, say

Worth suing over

It's possibly a suit likely to dress fool up

Persons engaged in lawsuits.

Parties to a lawsuit

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

Pressed one's suit (wordplay)

Pressed a suit

Took legal action

Contests at the bar (wordplay)

Files a suit against

Engages in legal proceedings