2-Letter Words Starting with L

Third-year Marine

Gyrene (3rd)

Veteran Marine, in slang

""A small branching shrub (Dirca palustris), with a white, soft wood, and a tough, leathery bark, common in damp woods in the Northern United States; called also moosewood, and wicopy. Dirca palustris), with a white, soft wood, and a tough, leathery bark, common in damp woods in the Northern United States; called also moosewood, and wicopy.""

Any of several enzymes that hydrolyze lecithin.

University post

Tip off ace result about joint academic post

Foreign posts

The act of making or enacting laws; legislation{1}.

Enacting of laws

Passing of bills

Group of laws

Kind of aide

Kind of aide or session

Ones on a diet

Lawmaking body (of a state)

Sorting, Riksdag or Knesset.

Diet, for example

Made lawful daughter born in wedlock first

Legitimate

""LEGITIMATE Accordant with law or with established legal forms and requirements; lawful; as, legitimate government; legitimate rights; the legitimate succession to the throne; a legitimate proceeding of an officer; a legitimate heir. as, legitimate government; legitimate rights; the legitimate succession to the throne; a legitimate proceeding of an officer; a legitimate heir.""

Made to conform to the law

Then just escape and one is in the sea

Validated

Legitimise

Legitimism

Legitimist

LEGITIMIZE To legitimate.

LEGITIMIZE To legitimate.

Legitimize

Lemniscate

Lengthener

Frying medium (wordplay)

Extending

Trait of verbose writers

Lepidolite

Moths and butterflies

Butterflies and moths

Polite padre converted large group of fliers

Adjective (-ous)

LEPTOSPIRE

Leptospire

Lethality

Letterbox

Subject at secretarial school

Subject at secretarial school.

Sajak and White?

Sajak and White (wordplay)

Items of printed stationery

Printing from raised type

Printed words.

Printing technique

Leucoplast

Leukotomy

""Any of several lipid compounds that contain 20 carbon atoms, are related to prostaglandins, and mediate the inflammatory response.""

Levigation

Levitation

Financial obligations

LIBATION a ceremonial pouring of a liquid

Liberalist

Liberation

Believer in free will

*Political party of Gary Johnson

Employee at the Ron Paul Archive (wordplay)

Libertinism; license.

The state of a libertine or freedman.

LIBRATION The act or state of librating.

W. S. Gilbert, Boito, etc.

Licentiate

A subservient flatterer

Obsequious person

Flatterer.

Officer's post

Stratego pieces

It's novel, when woman backs this after 10

""Composing a ligament; of the nature of a ligament; binding; as, a strong ligamentous membrane.as, a strong ligamentous membrane.""

Fees for transporting freight in or about harbors

Pharologist's study

Shining examples, in the main

Coastal beacons

Lightness

Lightning

Lightplane

Lightsome

Carrying little punch (wordplay)

A contender? One cannot be serious!

Lacking seriousness or depth

Tiny person (from 'Gulliver's Travels')

A minor character of Swift

Swift little creature

LILTING lilt

Limelight

Subject of some statutes

Restrictions or shortcomings

Large fake with small checks

The quality of being limited.

Limitless

""The scientific study of the life and phenomena of fresh water, especially lakes and ponds.""

Limpidity

Lineality

""LINEAMENT One of the outlines, exterior features, or distinctive marks, of a body or figure, particularly of the face; feature; form; mark; usually in the plural. plural.""

Linearity

Linecaster

Printing A machine for casting metal type in lines.

Study of language and its structure

Scientific study of language

King Richard I, they say

A millionaire is so courageous

King Richard's epithet

""LIONIZE to treat as a celebrity, also LIONISE""

Part of HDL

Take-out for the corpulent (wordplay)

Low-fat recipe (wordplay)

Alternative to dieting

Lipotropin

""LIQUIDATE To determine by agreement or by litigation the precise amount of (indebtedness); or, where there is an indebtedness to more than one person, to determine the precise amount of (each indebtedness); to make the amount of (an indebtedness); clear and certain.""

The winding up (of a company)

Conversion (of assets) into cash

Process of converting into cash

Liquidator

Liquidity

Plural or third person singular

""A bacterial disease caused by Listeria monocytogenes, affecting wild and domestic animals and sometimes humans and characterized by fever, meningitis, and encephalitis.""

Literalism

Literalist

""LITERALIZE 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.""

Literalize

The quality or state of being literal; literal import

Literation

Bodies of writing

They may be studied along with languages

Belles-lettres

Litheness

Art prints

""The art or process of putting designs or writing, with a greasy material, on stone, and of producing printed impressions therefrom. The process depends, in the main, upon the antipathy between grease and water, which prevents a printing ink containing oil from adhering to wetted parts of the stone not covered by the design. See Lithographic limestone, under Lithographic. Lithographic limestone, under Lithographic.""

Lithology

Lithophane

Lithophyte

Rigid part of the earth

Crust and upper mantle of the earth in which earthquakes may originate

Lithotomy

The operation of crushing a stone in the bladder with an instrument called lithotriptor or lithotrite; lithotrity. lithotriptor or lithotrite; lithotrity.

Litigation

Disputably

Bookish type to esteem high-class among the junk

Writer's rubbish: director has to overlook first of repeated characters

Essayist

Littermate

Young quahogs

Variant of livable .

Liverwurst

Livetrap

""LIXIVIATE To subject to a washing process for the purpose of separating soluble material from that which is insoluble; to leach, as ashes, for the purpose of extracting the alkaline substances.""

Separation by percolation

Loadmaster

Loathness

Ticker tapes (wordplay)

In an offensive way

Lobectomy

LOBOTOMISE

Lobotomise

LOBOTOMIZE

Lobotomize

Lobstering

Adjective meaning resembling

Lobulation

Locomotion

What spurs madmen (wordplay)

Some transports

Mad reasons to get vehicles using diesel (wordplay)

Loftiness

Like some nonlinear scales in mathematics

Descriptor for a type of spiral; am right coil (anagram)

One skilled in military supply

Expert in military transport and supply.

Disposition to bear injuries patiently; forbearance; patience.

Longevity

Farseeing.

Golding's the author capable of prophesy (wordplay)

Plant, least restrained, abounding

Plant, most unconfined, abundant

Plant of the primrose family

Loquacity

Given to offensive talk

Vociferous

Blatant.

Boor's attribute

Sushi stolen in buffet? It's ill-bred behaviour

Lovastatin

""LUBRICATE To make smooth or slippery; as, mucilaginous and saponaceous remedies lubricate the parts to which they are applied. as, mucilaginous and saponaceous remedies lubricate the parts to which they are applied.""

The application of oil or grease

Garage job.

""LUBRICATE To make smooth or slippery; as, mucilaginous and saponaceous remedies lubricate the parts to which they are applied. as, mucilaginous and saponaceous remedies lubricate the parts to which they are applied.""

Lubricator

Lubricity

In a lucrative manner.

""The act of lucubrating, or studying by candlelight; nocturnal study; meditation.""

Emitting light without heat

Giving off light

Lusterware

LUSTFUL full of lust

Lustiness

Lustration

LUTEINIZE

Adjective (-ic)

English word

Lutestring

In a luxuriant manner.

LUXURIATE To grow exuberantly; to grow to superfluous abundance.

The supposed act of turning one's self or another person into a wolf.

A dividing cell that gives rise to a mature lymphocyte.

Lymphocyte

LYMPHOCYTE

""A system of movement notation for dance that employs various symbols to record the points of a dancer's body, the direction of a dancer's movement, the tempo, and the dynamics: "Labanotation is specific enough to record the flutter of an eyelid" (Joseph Menosky).""

Labiodental

Test solutions might be found here

Rooms for scientists

Where one might find 13 lorries? A boat at sea

Labradorite

Intricately winding; like a labyrinth; perplexed; labyrinthal.

Describes The Maze complex

Like a maze

Highly convoluted

Lachrymator

LACHRYMOSE Generating or shedding tears; given to shedding tears; suffused with tears; tearful.

Laciniation

Lacrimation

Lactalbumin

Some vaginal flora

Laicization

Jeremiah's book of the Old Testament.

*It comes after the Book of Jeremiah

Jeremiah's OT book

""LAMPLIGHTER One who, or that which, lights a lamp; esp., a person who lights street lamps.""

Landscapist

Langbeinite

Langoustine

Lackadaisical state

Laparotomy

Big in the middle? That's generous

Of liberal disposition

Dealer Gareth, surprisingly generous

Excision of the larynx.

Plural or third person singular

Laryngitis

Latchstring

LATERALIZE

""LATERIZE to convert to laterite, also LATERISE""

""The act or process of Latinizing, as a word, language, or country.""

Latticework

Service outlets are unsettled after redevelopment

Silly chap at leisure caught out in poet's office

The act or process of leaching.

Leatherback

Leatherette

Plural noun or verb form

Leatherneck

Leatherwood

Lecithinase

Lectionary

Such reptiles chewed up chairs

The act of making legal.

Legibility

Legislation