10-Letter Words Starting with M

Macerate

Process of soaking fixed amount of spice

Process of breaking up staff allowance

Staff given allowance in softening-up process

Macerator

Joined with friend inside and plotted

Schemed to get married outside the country

Fancy plates

Plotter in country besieged by dull soldiers

Leader of men taking a country to right is seen as a plotter

Machinist

Scotsman worn out (wordplay)

Designer label in top and rubbish coat

Cover for an art-nouveau designer

Macrocyte

""MACROCYTE An abnormally large red blood cell, associated with pernicious anemia.""

A macroscopic plant.

Maculate

Stain

Powerful whirlpools

Realms most disrupted in turbulent situations

Mass with moral sets off destructive situations

One who edits or writes for a magazine.

Wise men's girl on bench

Mark a point with sharp beaks

The bench

Beak spoils tart's image

Reformed tart is game to see JP

Wise men over the way rebuke judge

Magnesite

Attractive endgame - it's needing analysis

Given drawing qualities of a certain attraction

Makes attractive new version of message in short time

Magnetism

Magnetite

Made more attractive (wordplay)

Made attractive, in a way

""One who, or that which, imparts magnetism.""

Magnetize

Magnetron

Weird faint magic of canticle

One replaces measure in beautiful hymn

Song of rhapsody and praise.

Sizes, as of stars.

Mahlstick

Nautical ropes

Convention site (wordplay)

Criminal Barker wading (wordplay)

Alternative to alternative

Kept up (level)

Observed in animated dances

Made claim that was upheld

One who takes care of things

No estimate for rebuilding home

Make use of one's time at home

Small house, flat

Marching band leaders

Marching-band baton twirlers

Some halftime performers

Controlling groups in House and Senate.

Democratic rulers

Pluralities.

Substitutes.

Stopgaps

Something thrown in to avoid a shortage.

Small thing added to make up batch

Filler for a garden centre in 1008

Malachite

Poorly suited

Poorly acclimated

Mum and boy, a quiet little boy socially awkward (wordplay)

In a bold or impudent way

Malathion

Crab, not the apple

One with grouse

Faultfinding type

Maledict

Criminal testosterone (wordplay)

Fellow-broker may be a gangster

Agent in pursuit of man is a criminal

Hurtful as one of Gordon's evil-doers

Like evildoers

Doing evil

Cruel man's brutal - cutting one

Bloke furious dropping one's bitter

Wishing evil to others

Secondary fermentation

Abused whiskey and wine, consumed inside

Abused

MALTREAT to treat badly

Mammitis

Mammonist

Field of a retail boss

Fellow sales rep wants me in admin group

Poster of "please" signs

Manganate

Manganite

Some gannet chewing sweet, juicy fruit

Tree one gets chopped by servant (wordplay)

They're garnished with cherries

Rob Roy relatives

Cocktail orders

Hands-on beautician (wordplay)

Marital mismatch quip (Part 2)

She's defiled (wordplay)

Made known

Demonstrated

MANIFEST to show clearly

3's '6' sent out, obviously

Clearly, obviously

Goal posts (wordplay)

Formal to-do lists

Public declarations

Pull strings of handle

Put a menial to work for doctor

Influence someone deviously

Mannerist

Pressure gauges

Araucaria absent in exam about dealing with comparison of pressures

Title on "Downton Abbey"

Maid's counterpart

Family member is new butler in Batman

Gentleness required when scattering autumn seed

Manticore

Man Utd all over young one it released in the past

Released from Premiership team: fellow that's upset another

Author's typed draft

Musicologist's find

The earliest literary form

Manzanita

One with a staggered start, perhaps

He may hit the wall

Olympic entrant in the 26-mile race.

Marcasite

Round at the cantina

Cinco de mayo orders

Cinco de mayo rounds

Margarite

Margent

""Same as Marginate, a. Marginate, a.""

Marginate

MARGRAVE a German nobleman of rank

I urge mater to sort out Daisy maybe

She spurned Faust - such a bloomer!

Daisy contrived to present truer image

Marimbist

Soaking up flavor

Kabob preparer's activity

Task for a barbecuer

""MARINATE to soak in seasoned liquid before cooking, also MARINADE""

Punch, for one.

One in a string band (wordplay)

*Howdy Doody, for one

Fit for sale; in demand

Fit to be sold

Ready to go into business with clever type behind commercial centre

Marketeer

Marketing

Marlstone

""The seigniory, dignity, or lordship of a marquis; the territory governed by a marquis.""

Marrowfat

Carbon-steel component

Steel component in designated habitat for semi-arboreal mammal (wordplay)

Something in steel that makes main street look awful

Man gets wind of betting system

Boy given heavy blow with strap

Double-up betting system

Martyrdom

MARTYRIZE To make a martyr of.

Martyrize

Painfully aware people (wordplay)

Scots Amish splinter group getting pleasure from pain

Of or pertaining to the masseter.

""Pl. mastectomies Surgical removal of all or part of a breast, sometimes including excision of the underlying pectoral muscles and regional lymph nodes, usually performed as a treatment for cancer.""

Look out, clever boss!

Look out , brilliant boss!

Moriarty his chosen subject (wordplay)

Skill at Augusta (wordplay)

Superiority

Beethoven's Ninth, for example

Pinnacle of fine art

Artist's crowning achievement

Masthead

Chewed on

Chewed

Chews

One who masticates.

Mastitis

MASTODON an extinct elephant-like mammal

Mastodont

""To achieve sexual gratification by stimulating one's own sexual organs, without the aid of a partner; -- typically to the point of orgasm.""

A board that has a groove cut into one edge and a tongue cut into the other so they fit tightly together (as in a floor); see match boarding.match boarding.

PHILLUMENIST

Containers of a sort.

Phillumenist's collection

Small cardboard containers

Union shuts away old guns

Test God as Cupid (wordplay)

Dolly Levi, for one

Boxing's Don King (wordplay)

Red-headed striker (wordplay)

How to light up a game with criticism

Agree to fix being very thin

Matchwood

Run a unit surrounded by friends in the main

State parting two friends to a significant degree

Tangibly.

In a motherly way

With solicitude.

Typical of mother and wife to mobilise over last altercation

See Mathematical. Mathematical.

Matiness

Matriarch

Rule by mothers

Rule by women

Woman bosses modified hems on tiny armchair

Of or pertaining to matricide.

They're sure to live longer than their mothers

Name deriving from female ancestor; my, romantic (anagram)

Mattrass

Whoopee cushions (wordplay)

Lying often involves them

Supporters with springs

Maturate

Process of full development

Coming of age

Maturity

Maulstick

Maumetry

MAXIMAL an element of a mathematical set that is followed by no other

Meatloaf

Mechanist

Low scorers in golf: Brit.

The first three award winners

Winners of awards.

""Pl. mediastina (-n ) The region in mammals between the pleural sacs, containing the heart and all of the thoracic viscera except the lungs.""

Mediation

Doctor meant to change the remedy

Healing substance

Curative substance

Medicate

Nurse's concern

Doctor's offering

Caught in a way to settle dispute: drugs, perhaps

Person of only average ability

Thinking timid agent needs replacing

Using contemplation for relaxation

Thinking seriously about intervening in dispute involving Tory leader

Thought scribbling a note timid

It might involve a mantra

Deep relaxing thought

Given to contemplation.

Having deep thoughts

Deep-thinking

Yoga practitioners

Ponderers

""Furnished with a medulla or marrow, or with a medullary sheath; as, a medullated nerve fiber. as, a medullated nerve fiber.""

Meetness

Megacity

Megadeath

Larger of two reproductive cells

Like Stonehenge

Affected with melanism; of the nature of melanism.

An epidermal cell capable of synthesizing melanin.

Melanoma

Melatonin

MELIORATE To make better; to improve; to ameliorate; to soften; to make more tolerable.

Improves.

Improves

One who meliorates.

Meliorist

With multiple notes sung to one syllable

Mellotron

Meltwater

Memoirist

Those poor solicitors!

Alms seekers

These poor beggars finish by the thousand in cats

MENING mene

GI-men, 'tis a disease

Holding group up to begin with, Malingering Git is making complaint

Menstruous.

Male nurse must put out solvents for pharmacist

Mentalism

Medium relatives

Mindreaders

Mentation

Mentioner

Mention

English word

Mephitis

Relating to trade or commerce

Engaged in trade.

Mail centre becomes profit oriented

Mercaptan

Merchant

MERCURATE

Mercurate

Ruler chosen for excellence

Merozoite

Merriment

Pertaining to a mesentery; mesaraic.

""All that part of the alimentary canal which is developed from the primitive enteron and is lined with hypoblast. It is distinguished from the stomod, a part at the anterior end of the canal, including the cavity of the mouth, and the proctod, a part at the posterior end, which are formed by invagination and are lined with epiblast. stomod, a part at the anterior end of the canal, including the cavity of the mouth, and the proctod, a part at the posterior end, which are formed by invagination and are lined with epiblast.""

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Mesnalty

Mesophyte

MESOPHYTE

""Pl. mesothelia (-l - ) The layer of flat cells of mesodermal origin that lines the embryonic body cavity and gives rise to the squamous cells of the peritoneum, pericardium, and pleura.""

The middle segment of the thorax in insects. See Illust. of Coleoptera. Illust. of Coleoptera.

Mestranol

Chemical processes in living organism

Basic organic process

Biological process

""A product of metabolism; a substance produced by metabolic action, as urea.""

To change by a metabolic process. See Metabolism. Metabolism.

Any of ten human bones

Bone in hand

Bone came apart, fragments left

Came across a fish with useless bones

Part of hand between wrist and fingers

Palm bone

""∨ tre The point of intersection of a vertical line through the center of gravity of the fluid displaced by a floating body which is tipped through a small angle from its position of equilibrium, and the inclined line which was vertical through the center of gravity of the body when in equilibrium.""