2-Letter Words Starting with L

Marked by shallow depressions

Genteel (not referring to gents)

Tramps love to appreciate posh type

In manner of genteel or titled woman

Load levy (anagram)

One's girlfriend, romantically (2 words)

Guy's sweetheart

A drug derived from apricot pits

Gratuity

A milky deposit on the surface of fresh concrete

Summer cottage locale, maybe

Summer-home spot, perhaps

Choice location for a summer cottage

Batter - male bats (anagram)

Condemn a good man in blame shifting

Censure severely or angrily

Resembling ewe (wordplay)

Thin plates or scales

The radiating gills of certain mushrooms

Thin tissue layers

Anti-male (anagram)

Cover with plastic, maybe

Separate into thin sheets.

Like plywood.

Airport area with unrestricted access

""A shot formerly used in naval warfare, also LANGREL""

'Auld ... ... ' (song for midnight)

Long time ago in Scotland

Auld ... ... (Burns)

English or Irish, say

The air's blue? This is bad!

Urdu, for one

Wool fat (var.)

What could be all-in-one fatty mixture

Wool fat.

Stone to death.

Stone

Able to be lapsed

Able to be lapsed

Like lard

Big gift? Refresh glass 'ere!

Just the tip of the capital S (wordplay)

Tip of the S (wordplay)

{playful=adj}

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

A ball due to be organised? Excellent!

Praises be this way for Lady Baul!

Worthy of praise

Line, golden, from this poet (wordplay)

Type of poet (wordplay)

Masefield, for one

Like lava

...this should get him going!

Going concern (wordplay)

This should get you going!

Plant-propagating method.

A blue phosphate

Bright blue mineral

A solution obtained by leaching

Foliose

Ready to be rented

Available for rent

May be let be furry at last

Language involving fine print (wordplay)

Bar talk (wordplay)

Brief speech (wordplay)

See a gill (anagram)

Girl is in shelter for permit

Make lawful

Make lawfully valid

Sanction by ruling

Protest-sign verb

Pertaining to an official envoy

Meal done (anagram)

Stand for a kid (wordplay)

Soft drink; Noel made (anagram)

""An ancient Roman festival, also LEMURIAN""

Like Edna Bell, in the opinion of a loan officer

No mercy's opposite

Soft-hearted bent

Quality that 'hanging judges' lack

Mitigating

Soothing

Soothing.

Scaly, to a botanist.

Scaly

Resembling a rabbit

Like a hare

Resembling a horse

Strategic advantage; large Eve (anagram)

Power of say, a party on rise

Purchase from bar before time

Able to be levied

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)

Turning toward the left

A very sweet sugar

Chemical warfare weapon.

Blistering material from an inkling (wordplay)

One smeared in England

Victim of calumny

Party in a suit

Re-lease perhaps, but not sublet

A learner I scold for free!

Bear I let out - yes, let out!

Holder of official permission

Suckers seen working for landlord

One with permit to sell alcoholic drinks

One holding official permission

Black or dark brown sweet (US spelling)

Movie counter candy

Jelly Belly flavor

Subject to a legal claim

Like some wax figures

Free from artificiality

Not of late, seemingly

Potential millionaire's aid (wordplay)

Essential support (read by palmists?)

Rope from a ship, say

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

""A flammable liquid, also LIGROIN""

Like a ligula

Easy to warm to, attractive

Pleasant and engaging

Genial and appealing

Too fond of sage (wordplay)

Fancy sage, too (wordplay)

And just as if one was learned, too!

Like a lily

Resembling a slug

A chemical compound

Brown mineral extractable from mine with toil

Lying in a straight line

Like a line

Gift for mother maybe

Gift for mother maybe

Stay, that is, stays perhaps

Narrow flat pasta

Variety of pasta

Pasta type

Able to be joined up

Akin to Simba

Very brave

Leonine

A fat-producing cell

A microscopic globule composed of lipids

Old clerical scarf

Headdress streamer

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

Adequate, as a wage

Fine to make a home in, as Manchester or Liverpool

Worthwhile

Like some bank money

Available for lending

Like some bank funds

Drug used to help stop smoking

Resembling a {lobule=n}

Pertaining to a {lobule=n}

Concentrate with reduced calories is key

Restrict to the immediate area

A resident of a locality

Restrict to a specific area

Bring an issue home

Fix in one place.

Type of grammatical case

Crumpled coat in burning case

They say she had her pride. Now sadly drowned

Able to be secured

Move under one's own power

Get around

Move around

To divide into compartments

Locusta

""A small scale in a grass flower, also LODICULA""

""To reason, also LOGICIZE""

""To reason, also LOGICISE""

Company symbol

Company identifier

Printing block

Solitary (mainly US)

Solitary (chiefly US)

Are you - tonight (Elvis)

Ma Bell's concern

Shopper's annoyance

Tediously long

E on this (wordplay)

'I have missed you'

Of extended duration

Desire to get understanding horizontally (wordplay)

Flaw in the law (wordplay)

Cloakroom staff blocking hotel escape

Clever lawyer's find

Like a lord

Having a hard shell

Cover with plates.

Repulsive

Worthy of hugs

Greatly enjoy being skilful and winning

Bewitching

Winning, making bad move and lose

To be that fond of the compiler is charming

A twining herb

Crescent-shaped.

Purify by ritual action

Purify ceremonially

One might purify this at the speed of desire

Colorant of tomatoes and watermelons

Chemical that gives tomatoes their red color

Pertaining to a type of colloid

""To write lyrics, also LYRICIZE""

Put words to music

Enzyme-filled cell organelle

Protein in egg whites.

LABEL to attach a tag to

To modify by contraction of the lip opening.

Fringed, as petals.

Jagged, as a leaf

Fringed

A sack of candy, maybe

Small gift strangely appealing

A little gift for the customer.

Fisherman's spot, sometimes

Place for an inland beach

Covered with scales

Inventor Edwin's cloak (or painting)

Plant trees and shrubs, say

Prospect of unbridled lap dances!

Dangerously large victory (wordplay)

Terrain picture (wordplay)

Runaway daughter in end is all upset

Reeling out, angles for seafood

It may be eaten roasted

Spiny lobster

Tape larks when camouflaged

An insecticide designed to kill larval pests.

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!

Adjective for Mr. Peepers.

Incongruous, inviting ridicule

It's hilarious, blowing up a huge ball

Pendant on a chain

Ornament on a chain

Pendant ornament.

Church attendees

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

LEACH to allow a liquid to percolate

Like good lessons for students

That can be studied when left to get fit

That can be taken in, or left with the listener to catch the French

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.

Tenacious

Lay down the law (wordplay)

Put on an act (wordplay)

Work in a chamber, say

English word

A natural family of mammals comprising the hares and rabbits.

""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

Certification for professional practice

Local Cockney actor poolside

Powerful local anaesthetic

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

Long way to go (wordplay)

Long ride (wordplay)

A way to go by

Get into a row and rebel after treatment of alien

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

Make straight

A salt of linoleic acid.

See Linnet.Linnet.

Convert (assets) into cash

Convert to cash

Kill dead, accepting one pound

To render liquid.

Say Scotch on the rocks is sweet

Sweet drink on the rocks (wordplay)

Pontefract cake ingredient

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

Scumbag eating zero degree stew

Stew of meat, vegetables and hardtack

A stew formerly eaten by sailors

Readily found

Lake poems with quality must be a magnet

Iron-attracting magnetite

It was used to make the first compass

Viking "mead hall," for example

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

Small, UNLIKE THIS!

Some letters perhaps from minor lawsuit

Drop the bag ... not like THAT!

""Geography a rhumb line or curve on the surface of a sphere intersecting all meridians at the same angle; hence, the course of a ship or aircraft following a constant compass direction. ; loxodromic,""

Oil (a mechanism)

Apply oil/grease

Smooth Blair cut apart by English

Revictual (anagram)

Rewarding development of vital cure

Vertical upstart could be moneymaking

English word

Set characteristic cryptic clue; initially missing Nina

Shine

Glow

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

Like a cat's oniony dish (wordplay)

Like a cat's oniony dish?

Kind of potatoes for simba

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

Mahler 'cosy'? Wrong - sorrowful

Tearful (literary)

Rashly come out, getting weepy

Of Erie, Huron, etc.

Found in lakes

Adjective meaning resembling

Far from fortunate

Awful food given to the French servants

Awful ballet with name cast

Tapering, as a leaf.

Tapering, as leaves