2-Letter Words Starting with L

Subject to penalties, perhaps

Needing a pass, maybe

Subject to a penalty, perhaps

Madrigal accompaniment, perhaps

Pandurina, for one

Bard's instrument, maybe

What may make you bats (wordplay)

Leg shaper (wordplay)

Did Turner work at it (wordplay)

Potato pancakes (in Jewish cookery)

It's made of grated potato

Fried Hanukkah treat

Dead water (wordplay)

River you might forget (wordplay)

Infernal flower (wordplay)

Capable of doing the splits, say

The man on bed in Paris is agile!

Supple of body

BP purchase, maybe

Bath water measure (wordplay)

Bath quantity (wordplay)

Covered in wool

Covered with wool

Having a wooly covering.

Person on a mission (wordplay)

Envoy, say, entering behind schedule

Envoy, maybe papal

Bind a certain way

Bind up the wounds

Tie up, as in surgery

Letters were guide to gold - go slow!

Tell it (anagram) - not a lot!

Very much the opposite!

Unfancy to the max (wordplay)

To heal (anagram)

See 'hate awfully'!

Having rounded protuberances, as leaves.

Like a grebe's foot

Like brains and ears

Enter into Google Maps, say

Pin down, say

Use a GPS, say

Is Mooney in such good shape (wordplay)

Crescent-shaped, like the new moon

Shaped like a crescent

Quality of the queen's jewels (wordplay)

Patina in Piccadilly (wordplay)

Hearing someone randy's taken a shine!

Dislocate

Shaped like Homer's instrument

Like a music maker some highly rated

Shaped like an ancient harp.

Product resulting from lysis

Result of gradual decline of a disease

Lytta

Small dog one fed with mint, say

Belonging to the mint family

Having lips

Aid in digestion

Dairy consumer's enzyme

Enzyme put in milk

Feed the baby, maybe

React to a baby crying, maybe

Emulate a mammal, perhaps

Acid ester

Cause of much intolerance (wordplay)

Be like Lear's Pobble, say, sweet thing

What some folks can't tolerate

Military no-go area? On the contrary!

War potty (wordplay)

Army head (wordplay)

Piecrust pattern, perhaps

'Line the loft' (Energy Grid)

A teetotaller framed in such a lousy way

First gear (wordplay)

Shower attire (wordplay)

Shower purchase, perhaps

Talk that might put one to sleep

TED talk, e.g

Speech giving information to a class

Willing beneficiary (wordplay)

One with will power (wordplay)

One receiving something left in a will

Salad, shall we say (wordplay)

Head on a plate (wordplay)

Leaves for lunch (wordplay)

White or gray mineral

White mineral.

To stay poised

Oscillate, as the beam of a scale.

Oscillate, but sign note

Sente

Fifty light for one that's lighted

Type of coal

It's lit, for example in stove

Bordered, as a flower.

Like most writing pads

Marked with strokes.

Marked with lines.

Separate metals by melting

Lesotho's coins

Lesotho coins

Towing-ring; crescent shape

Moon-shaped ornament

Crescent-shaped object.

Explosive used in shells

Explosive made of picric acid

Tiddley explosive

Debs, for instance.

Follower of Attlee.

Member of a certain party.

Cut tatting speed (wordplay)

Reduce to tears (wordplay)

Clare ate (anagram)

Pertaining to {lacuna=n}

A drug derived from apricot pits

A milky deposit on the surface of fresh concrete

Batter - male bats (anagram)

Condemn a good man in blame shifting

Censure severely or angrily

Anti-male (anagram)

Cover with plastic, maybe

Separate into thin sheets.

Stone to death.

Stone

Reddish tropical soil

Reddish clay from rock decay.

Clay in ceremony associated with deceased

""To convert to laterite, also LATERISE""

Bring under Roman influence

Scope (with parallel circles?)

Not unparalleled range (wordplay)

Such tolerance may be a matter of degree

Line, golden, from this poet (wordplay)

Type of poet (wordplay)

Masefield, for one

...this should get him going!

Going concern (wordplay)

This should get you going!

A blue phosphate

Bright blue mineral

A solution obtained by leaching

Pertaining to an official envoy

Mitigating

Soothing

Soothing.

Scaly, to a botanist.

Scaly

Make smooth by polishing

The custom of marrying the widow of one's brother

Do a magic trick (hidden celeb 3)

Rise at a seance, say

Uplift spiritually (wordplay)

Chemical warfare weapon.

Blistering material from an inkling (wordplay)

Re-lease perhaps, but not sublet

A learner I scold for free!

Bear I let out - yes, let out!

Does a liver perhaps have one (wordplay)

Period clock under sentence (wordplay)

Seemingly an age (wordplay)

Not too heavy to hoist

Not at all heavy

Able to be hoisted

Rear door on sport utility vehicle (4,4)

Term for top-hinged rear hatch

SUV's rear hatch

Pertaining to {ligation=n}

Tie (to restrict flow of blood)

It's binding

Something used to tie

Like a ligula

Brown mineral extractable from mine with toil

A fat-producing cell

Able to be listed

Cultured student? Say it again!

Learned line? Say again

Let 'er be knowing (wordplay)

A lighter version of lead compound

Lead monoxide

Inflamed with hot rage brought about by reaction to heavy metal

Contest at the bar (wordplay)

Take action in case (wordplay)

Throw down some law

Resembling a {lobule=n}

A resident of a locality

Type of grammatical case

Crumpled coat in burning case

They say she had her pride. Now sadly drowned

Move under one's own power

Get around

Move around

To divide into compartments

Locusta

Company symbol

Company identifier

Printing block

E on this (wordplay)

'I have missed you'

Of extended duration

Having a hard shell

Cover with plates.

Repulsive

Crescent-shaped.

Purify by ritual action

Purify ceremonially

One might purify this at the speed of desire

Fringed, as petals.

Jagged, as a leaf

Fringed

Covered with scales

Reeling out, angles for seafood

It may be eaten roasted

Spiny lobster

Tape larks when camouflaged

The weariness of girlhood (wordplay)

Not the energy of girlhood, perhaps

The langour of girlhood, perhaps

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

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

If nothing else, most foolish (wordplay)

Most foolish, however (wordplay)

It's the most foolish, anyway

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

Lay down the law (wordplay)

Put on an act (wordplay)

Work in a chamber, say

English word

""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]""

See white blood cell .

Don Juan, for one

Row about French composer, a philanderer

Sensually indulgent person

Existing fashion (wordplay)

It may be Spartan

You get used to it

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

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

A mineral prepared from fruit (sound)

Luray Caverns material

Tie lemons up in sedimentary rock

Subject to checks and balances

A salt of linoleic acid.

See Linnet.Linnet.

Convert (assets) into cash

Convert to cash

Kill dead, accepting one pound

Homeliest characters can be graceful

Toned graceful model hostile to me

Article in case stuck in tree, not stiff

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

Like libel, say

Worth suing over

It's possibly a suit likely to dress fool up

""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.""

A stack of rock is magnetic

Magnetite possessing polarity.

It attracts lots to Tyneside

Can't like revolting

A hole most dreadfully repulsive

Liberal profanity a few find offensive

Readily found

Lake poems with quality must be a magnet

Iron-attracting magnetite

It was used to make the first compass

Word often paired with latitude

A concern of mariners

Navigator's concern.

Eyeglasses with no letter 'g' (wordplay)

Pair of glasses with a handle

Specs on a stick

Oil (a mechanism)

Apply oil/grease

Smooth Blair cut apart by English

Revictual (anagram)

Rewarding development of vital cure

Vertical upstart could be moneymaking

One for when a meal is needed (wordplay)

Inlet much improved by midday (wordplay)

When midday meal is eaten

LUTEIN a yellow pigment

Enjoy greatly, to excess perhaps

Enjoy to excess

Revel in indulgence

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

Of Erie, Huron, etc.

Found in lakes

Far from fortunate

Awful food given to the French servants

Awful ballet with name cast

Tapering, as a leaf.

Tapering, as leaves

Rare-earth series

LATERAL to throw a sideward pass in football

Washing establishment

Perverts enter adult establishment for dirty material (wordplay)

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

Run away? I would, pal - it's allowed!

E-mail: get it encrypted, OK (wordplay)

Stage one - note friend is legal

Allow to make off up M1 with one's sweetheart

To legitimate.

""A curve in the form of the figure 8, with both parts symmetrical, generated by the point in which a tangent to an equilateral hyperbola meets the perpendicular on it drawn from the center.""

From one side to the other

Moving across

In the direction of the extent from end to end

Slowly, on sheet music

""A species of mica, of a lilac or roseviolet color, containing lithia. It usually occurs in masses consisting of small scales. See Mica. Mica.""

English word

Certificate of competence holder

Certificate holder

Authorized practitioner.

Unloading charge for ships.

Arsonist maybe taking time in dockside activity (wordplay)

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

Flashing coastal tower

Seafarer's beacon

Cape Hatteras structure.

Piper product

""The point, edge, or line beyond which something cannot or may not proceed.""

""(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]""

LISTEN to try to hear

""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.""

What bookshops retail? True, perhaps

Novels, essays, etc.

Written works of artistic merit

""Porcelain impressed with figures which are made distinct by transmitted light, as when hung in a window, or used as a lamp shade.""

Coral, for one

The one puppy that can read (wordplay)

Any in a group of puppies

One puppy to another

Change the mind of old boy in toilsome clashing

LOBOTOMIZE

Crazy reason for doing something?

A crazy cause (wordplay)

Steam roller (wordplay)

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

A T-cell or B-cell

Comply with the last of compulsory orders in cell

""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.""

""An evaporite mineral, K 2 Mg 2 (SO 4 ) 3 , used as a source of potassium sulfate for fertilizer.""

Norway lobster

Shellfish

Place for washing and drying clothes

Washing establishment

Coffee houses inferior to European shop that's cleaner

Artificial S&M material

Imitation hide

The French badly treat the English imitation hide

Resembling or made to resemble leather; tough but pliable; leathery.

Any of several enzymes that hydrolyze lecithin.

Kind of aide

Kind of aide or session

Lawmaking body (of a state)

Sorting, Riksdag or Knesset.

Diet, for example

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

Libertinism; license.

A subservient flatterer

Obsequious person

Flatterer.

Rigid part of the earth

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

Adjective meaning resembling

Plant, least restrained, abounding

Plant, most unconfined, abundant

Plant of the primrose family

""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.""

Describes The Maze complex

Like a maze

Highly convoluted

To legitimate.

US informal restaurant - unclothe teen (anagram)

Small cafe, revolutionary, getting on in crescent

English word

LIGNOSULFONATE