2-Letter Words Starting with L

A type of {lizard=n}

An Australian tree

Lacker

Lackey

Got milk (wordplay)

Produced milk

Got milk

(Of tights or stockings) having a run

Ran, as a thread.

Maturing in stages, as investments

Perhaps Mother Goose finds insect

But the garden is my favourite spot!

Beetle (or the late Mrs LBJ)

The state of being a lady

Ideal, sic to be removed from priesthood

Of priest, returned to secular status

Deprived of priesthood, reduced to secular state

Laicize

Pertaining to a {lambda=n}

Mourned (a death)

Mourned or grieved for

Was sorry about the ten injured

Any of a family of beetles

Narrow and pointed

Having an acutely pointed arch.

Letter that has one's address (wordplay)

One charging a flat rate (wordplay)

Flat personality (wordplay)

Landslide

Toward the coast

In the direction of a port

Not toward the sea

Portable writing surface

Tabletop for the legs

Work surface akin to a table.

Having a lapel

Lapper

Having flaps, as headgear

'Left on ship' is about right!

Port; labrador (anagram)

Old term for port (naut.)

Roped at a rodeo

Lassoed.

Lassoed

Pounded the stuffing out of

Beat: Colloq.

How Laurence got beaten, along with a prude

A part of an annual ring of wood

Beaten, showing a white face (wordplay)

Ivory-coated (wordplay)

Worked the Dial (wordplay)

All in strips and frozen at last

Having crossed strips

With a network of crossed bars

Pushed the boat out (wordplay)

Sent off, ship on a maiden voyage say

Reform uncle had started

Like old Olympics champions

Crowned a certain way

Honored with a crown of foliage

Laveer

Laid on generously

Bestowed in abundance

Expended profusely

Acted as counsel

Like soda crackers

Don't go with Edward with the yeast

Abandon Edward to get a rise out of him

Lecher

Told off or instructed students

Spoke at a seminar

What Twain and Cable did in 1884

Device limiting boat's drift

Movable plank on a hull

Navigational aid on a sailboat

How liberals lean

Got out of hospital, not in the right direction

Aport

Having much free time

Having idle time

Having plenty of free time

A {lemur=n}

Lesion

Not so much need - that's more like it

Not so much need to get confused

Cut that could be needless

Tutored

Rebuked.

Reproved.

Was a star athlete, perhaps

Possessed of learning

Was on the varsity

Levant

One had no inclination to have done this

Flattened by demolition, razed

Flattened

Published lies about (someone)

Defamed in writing

Print slanderous statements against

Librate

Granted, in England

Able to practice, say

Part of LPN

Permitted to practice

Lichen

Resembling a {ligula=n}

Loosened (up)

Did warm-up exercises

Developed flexibility

""A horseshoe crab, also LIMULUS""

Striped

Produced by breeding within a particular line of descent

Didn't go away

Hung on, dawdled

Continued to stay.

Made to feel like the king of the jungle

Song about working is set on a pedestal

Made a lot of in a beastly fashion

Treated as a celebrity

Treated as a VIP

Treated as a celebrity.

Lippen

Lipper

Liquate

Liquor

Heard it said - doctor lends tie!

Received a signal, perhaps

Heard with intention

Had all the young all over the place

Scattered in untidy fashion

Tilt the deer so ontidily

Like some servants

Wearing an identifying uniform

Uniformed ranks I deliver

Macho, for one

Spanglish or Franglais component

Term from French, say - 'mortgage' (wordplay)

It can make horses nuts

It can make for frenzied flocks

Mad cow cause

I'd led like this (wordplay)

Hung around a Target parking lot, say

Hung a round (wordplay)

Lounged

Ordinary writing of manual origin

Joined-up writing

Writing something for the minutes

A person having a long skull

Eased up on

Dissolute Edward is not tight

Gave slack to

Lopper

Did slope make play unequal (wordplay)

Ill-balanced poles did topple

Odd piles set at an angle

Became more clamorous

Intensified

How shutters are typically made

Furnished with slatted panels.

Ventilated, in a way

Pet for Feb. 14

Variety of small parrot

Small green parrot

I've got to see the doctor, now!

How Jack walked (wordplay)

Proceeded heavily and awkwardly

Numskull: Colloq

Numskull Colloq.

Dolt

Gave a glossy finish

Of a body fluid

Feathered musician (wordplay)

A chick on the harp grounded flyer

Very long-tailed flier

Cut material had value

Lear acted badly hurt

Injured by tearing

(Of hair) sprayed to keep in place

Lacquey

Belts Adam (anagram)

Censured severely or angrily

Beat the little beast like a Teddy

Like most backstage passes

Word for structure of windshield glass

Detail man to work with plates

Mocked, in a way

Skewered, as in a skit

Publicly ridiculed

""A tough, elastic wood, often used for the shafts of gigs, archery bows, fishing rods, and the like. Also, the tree which produces this wood, Duguetia Quitarensis (a native of Guiana and Cuba), and several other trees of the same family (Anonase\'91). Duguetia Quitarensis (a native of Guiana and Cuba), and several other trees of the same family (Anonase\'91).""

Revolutionary comrade I saw getting stoned

LATERAL to throw a sideward pass in football

Laterize

Latinize

Discovery zone (wordplay)

Structure on which a rocket sits

Cape Canaveral sight

Cleaned filthy lucre?

Cleaned filthy lucre (wordplay)

Did a household task.

Laureate

Given honour and praise, it's right she from France should be embraced

Leaflet

Leaguer

What 12 across has to slacken his grip

Not free to rent cargo space on board

Form of property tenure

Tanned the opponent (wordplay)

Beaten, though there in first place!

Covered with horsehide

Legalise

Like gambling in Nevada

Used a salmon-spear

LEOTARD a close-fitting garment

English word

Bought with borrowed money

Exerted influence on

Like some buyouts

Levigate

Raised volunteers (wordplay)

Did a seance feat

Rose by buoyancy.

Learner I reprimanded and let go

Wild bear I'd let free

Free at last

Cover charged by month can sap

Most vital element

Vital force

One of the Beach Boys (wordplay)

Bank magazine-rack overseer (wordplay)

GARFIELD + U = Beach V.I.P

Ligature

Reduced the weight

Took a load off awfully thin ledge

Being illuminated, he tingled with excitement

Lighter

""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.""

Lignify

Like rock in a volcano or infant's food

Turned to fluid

Liquify

Transformed into stone

Pressed one's suit (wordplay)

Pressed a suit

Took legal action

Lobster

""Made up of, or divided into, lobules; as, a lobulated gland.as, a lobulated gland.""

Old Celia's moving around in a restricted area

Restricted diet instead missing even elements

Boozer on other side limited to one place

Confined to one area

Moved, jocularly

Logicise

Logicize

Engaged in political skulduggery

Swapped political favors

Took part in a lumberjack contest

Loophole

Layabouts' dream country

Idyllic spot

Left to love and lust outrageously in this bed of roses

Lowball

A lowly state.

Lullaby

State of being lusty; vigor of body.

Lustrate

LYOPHILE pertaining to a type of colloid

Lyricise

Lyricize

LABIALIZE To modify by contraction of the lip opening.

With no sea coast

Describing Paraguay and Bolivia

Cut off from the sea

(Of gardens) aesthetically altered

Like a golf course, with sand placed haphazardly

Lecturer and son, protected against weather, like some gardens

Pined; lay neglected

Left in agony, went into decline

Grew weak or feeble

Lapidify

Lavender

Leaflet

Supporter I reprimanded settled a bill

Laid down law, it's alleged, improperly

Passed bills

Altered, in a way

Drawn out

Drew out pin around noon - after that, read intermittently

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

Piece of corporate stationery

Stationery feature from red endings

LIGHTFACE

Probability

Chance meeting of priest and criminal after murder almost backfired

LINEARISE

LINEARIZE

A type of paperboard used in making corrugated cartons.

Made up speakers performed as a watch

Sold off quickly

Sold off, as assets

Converted to cash

LIQUIDIZE To render liquid.

Bread and butter

Bread and butter, so to speak

Job or career

""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.""

Turtle

Fool

Devoted to classical music.

Devoted to classical music

Not buzz-cut

Shrewd

Shrewd.

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

Dealt with friction, say

Prepped for an ultrasound, say

Treated with oil

Unfinished business (wordplay)

Where elephants go walking (wordplay)

Where to buy 2x4's.

Shone, as from a chemical reaction

""LUNKHEAD a stupid person, also LUNK""

LUTEINIZE

LUXURIATE To grow exuberantly; to grow to superfluous abundance.

Lallygag

Hardly Mensa material

None too smart

Not too smart

LATERALIZE

Jumped over (someone) in play

Jumped or skipped over

Skipped some steps

""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.""

Made lawful daughter born in wedlock first

Made to conform to the law

Then just escape and one is in the sea

Validated

LEGITIMIZE To legitimate.

Letterbox

Like Frankenstein's monster (wordplay)

Not easily rattled

Showing good judgment

""LEXICALIZE To make into a word, coin into a word; as, The concept expressed by German "Gemuetlichkeit" is not lexicalized in English.as, The concept expressed by German "Gemuetlichkeit" is not lexicalized in English.""

Relaxed lad is rebel, I suspect

LIBERALIZE To make liberal; to free from narrow views or prejudices.

Lifeguard

Lightning

Limelight

King Richard I, they say

A millionaire is so courageous

King Richard's epithet

""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.""

Livetrap

LOBOTOMISE

LOBOTOMIZE

Messed about

Fooled around

Farseeing.

Golding's the author capable of prophesy (wordplay)

Given to offensive talk

Vociferous

Blatant.

Same as lyophilized.lyophilized.

Dried by freezing and subsequent evaporation of the water in a high vacuum; -- used of tissue or blood or serum or other biological or sensitive substances.

LYSOGENISE

LYSOGENIZE

Big in the middle? That's generous

Of liberal disposition

Dealer Gareth, surprisingly generous

Lacking a centre of gravity (wordplay)

Delight model holding spirit and bubbly!

Carefree to match love of writer

Lithograph