2-Letter Words Starting with L

Pronounce l's as w's

Loyal, honest (Scots)

Loyal, honest (arch.)

True on the Tweed

Hang out in a hammock, say

Hang the money running short!

Rest in a hammock, say

Dropoff time (wordplay)

Break (in the action)

Storm harbinger (wordplay)

Thing a nonconformist resists, maybe

Place for an address say

Motown for one

Microphones spot maybe

Big flap in 1970s fashion (wordplay)

Pin setting (wordplay)

Street - (1978 Dylan album)

Nigella drops in for kosher (wordplay)

In a gray area, perhaps

Word with top (first-rate)

Be straight (with)

Be frank (with)

Put down in writing (wordplay)

Knock on paper (wordplay)

Slander's well-read cousin (wordplay)

Number perhaps close enough (wordplay)

Fat-free drink here (wordplay)

Look, yell endlessly for pub!

Of a bird part

Major defense contractor

Big maker of communications satellites

Ne'er-do-well: Dial.

Ne'er-do-well Arch.

Ne'er-do-well: Arch.

Faithful (in allegiance)

Kind of opposition

True as Southerne's brother

Of the lips

Of the tongue

Consonant such as "m."

Not of the cloth

Like some church matters

I call a doctor who's not clerical

Quintuplets maybe (wordplay)

Twins, maybe (wordplay)

A squiggly child, perhaps

Like a buggy stage (wordplay)

Baby buggy (wordplay)

Kind of stage

Branch of the Olympics (wordplay)

Bush is dead comic!

Hardy partner (wordplay)

Left the pits, right (wordplay)

By the book

Within the rules

Pulse fast ... one-fifty!

Soup ingredient, perhaps

Vegan's protein source, perhaps

Allow Henry to get fat Al (wordplay)

Essay to come from him forMary

Killing is all the rage!

Of or relating to the spleen

Obsolete word meaning of the spleen

Splenic.

In a line as, say, a descendant

Like royal descent, usually

In direct succession.

Tell, perhaps, it's over the door

Tell, perhaps, over the way in

Beam over the doorway

""A horizontal supporting beam, also LINTEL""

A narrow moulding

Parent of Maybelline

Owner of Maybelline

Maybelline's parent

Relating to a mass of yellow glandular tissue

Milk-like; pertaining to milk

Milk-like, milky

Milk-related

Having small openings or gaps

Having small gaps

Formed of thin plates.

Like some speech sounds

"Sh" sounds, for example

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

A woodlike fibre

Keep a play alive in football, maybe

Pass to one side (wordplay)

A taller building? That's a side issue!

A tropical soil

Pertaining to words

Linguist's adjective

Pertaining to vocabulary

No mean party (wordplay)

Generous politician (wordplay)

Not right (wordplay)

Full of life

Resembling a threshold.

At the threshhold.

On the boundary

""A fragrant alcohol, also LINALOOL""

Bi or tri follower, perhaps

Pronounced with the tongue.

Formed with the tongue, as t, d, n, s.

Ill rate (anagram)

All tire (anagram)

A tiller (anagram)

Coast, to Colon

Pertaining to {lochia=n}

Pertaining to a {loess=n}

Making sense of Gallico (wordplay)

Soldier found in pub? Stands to reason!

Like KenKen or Kakuro puzzles

Exchange political favors (2 words)

Engage in vote-swapping

Work together for mutual political gain.

Understate a car's value (3,4)

Deliberately underestimate a cost

Give a deceptive estimate to

The earliest of the fore and aft rigs

It hangs obliquely to the mast

Canvas used by sailor having earache (wordplay)

Pertaining to the lumen

Of a light unit.

Pertaining to light intensity.

Pertaining to a unit of light.

Like wolves vis-a-vis foxes

Like a dirty old man

Sexually desirous

Used for purification

Used in ceremonial purification

Every five years

Like an ode

Like Hammerstein's works.

Song-like and poetic

Teary (var.)

Producing tears

Teary

Gravy helping, perhaps

Soup scoop serving

As much as a large spoon can hold

Like many an island paradise

Of a body of water

Of a shallow body of water

An evergreen shrub

Dry ground sighted from a ship

Collapse of earth

End of sea journey

Wasted area (wordplay)

Rubbish disposal (site)

Refuse to go underground here (wordplay)

""Relating to the larynx [adj] / (phonics) a laryngeal sound, also LARYNGEAL""

Line Celt redrew round raised pore

Brightly illuminated

Unsaturated alcohol used in perfumes.

Resembling a {lipoid=n}

A type of soil

Is this actually sound? Shore thing!

Of the shore.

Sounds not metaphorically 31 across

Pertaining to {lixivium=n}

Inspiring disgust, say

Detestable

Repulsive

Like a locusta

Pertaining to a {loess=n}

""Slippery, also LUBRIC""

Of tears or weeping

Charm ally with tears

'E's out to leach rye meal of drops

Sea creature hit police sergeant? He will!

Relating to the voice box

A yell rang out, coming from the throat

Developing an allergy of the throat

Adjective (-al)

Having a vital urge

LIPOSOME a microscopic globule composed of lipids

Type of statistical distribution

LYSOSOME a saclike part of a cell

LARVICIDE

Relating to public worship

Medical head going to follow books of worship

LOCATION the position in a particular place

Like some nightmares (wordplay)

Of goods delivery

Point of story I found in pub regarding men's movement (wordplay)

""Formed or pronounced by the cooperation of the lips and teeth, as f and v. f and v.""

LACTATION A giving suck; the secretion and yielding of milk by the mammary gland.

Of geographical measurements

LEISHMANIA

LEPTOSPIRE

LEUKORRHEA

LIBRATION The act or state of librating.

""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.""

Dehiscent through the middle of the back of each cell; said of capsules.

""Of or pertaining to the loins and sacrum; as, the lumbosacral nerve, a branch of one of the lumber nerves which passes over the sacrum. as, the lumbosacral nerve, a branch of one of the lumber nerves which passes over the sacrum.""

LEVITATION Lightness; buoyancy; act of making light.

""LIMITATION The act of limiting; the state or condition of being limited; as, the limitation of his authority was approved by the council. as, the limitation of his authority was approved by the council.""

LIMNOLOGIC

""Of or pertaining to language; relating to linguistics, or to the affinities of languages.""

""Of or pertaining to the character of a rock, as derived from the nature and mode of aggregation of its mineral contents.""

Running lengthwise

Showing little enthusiasm and rigour

Lacking drive and rigour

Not willing to work often

Of or pertaining to a legislator or legislature.

Adjective (-ical)

Like Webster's work

Describing Dr. Johnson's most famous work.

Relating to writing wordbooks or dictionaries