9-Letter Words Starting with M

MELTING the act of melting

""MEMBRANE a thin, pliable layer of tissue""

Tissue layers

Pliable layers.

Biological tissues.

Fairgoers' take-home items.

Souvenirs of past events

Vestiges of disease on hands and feet, partly

Work sheets (wordplay)

Flowers for secretaries (wordplay)

Reminders, of sorts

""A yellow crystalline powder, C 11 H 8 O 2 , used in medicine as a vitamin K supplement.""

Animal collective (wordplay)

Beastly place (wordplay)

Where the wild things are (wordplay)

Menarche

Repair Chicago's slums?

Repair Chicago's slums (wordplay)

Lying urban reformer's slogan (wordplay)

Beggar's apology (wordplay)

Zsa Zsa on darning socks (wordplay)

Fix it, holding can for beggar

The practice of begging; the life of a beggar; mendicancy.

Menhaden

Of brain membrane

People love to hold back change

It's no ovary action

Midlife crisis where people work to accept a regrettable conclusion (wordplay)

MENSE to do honour to

""Recurring once a month; monthly; gone through in a month; as, the menstrual revolution of the moon; pertaining to monthly changes; as, the menstrual equation of the sun's place. as, the menstrual revolution of the moon; pertaining to monthly changes; as, the menstrual equation of the sun's place.""

Solvent used in the preparation of drugs

A doctrine that mind is the only true reality and that objects exist only as aspects of the mind's awareness.

Kreskin, for one

What this puzzle is (wordplay)

Kreskin, for example

State of mind

Way of thinking

Approach, perhaps

Thinking process

Menthene

Given a reference

Made reference to

Said to be intoned after me

MENTION to remark briefly

Being a personal guide to

Guru's forte

Helping a protege

""A green crystalline organic compound, C 20 H 8 Br 2 HgNa 2 O 6 , that forms a red aqueous solution, used as a germicide and antiseptic.""

On foreign sea skipper discharges one organic compound

Perfect job for Warren (wordplay)

A charging soldier (wordplay)

Soldier of Fortune subject

Poet inclined to pontificate (wordplay)

Antonio and others.

Traders in French sea shanties

Dances from Hispaniola

Bird swimming near germs

Germans cooked the Queen's goose

Duck near germs spreading

Mergence

Cartographer's concerns.

North-to-south lines on a map.

Qi's pathways in Chinese medicine

Frothy pie toppings

Frothy toppings

Miner fails with endless speculation on what's for afters

Of or relating to a gland whose secretory cells remain undamaged during secretion.

Hood's gang reported - time for fun!

Gaiety, laughter, fun

Celebratory goings-on

Mirthful mood

Jollity.

Jollity

Kin of LSD

LSD-like drug*

Cactus hallucinogen

See midgut .

""The membranes, or one of the membranes (consisting of a fold of the peritoneum and inclosed tissues), which connect the intestines and their appendages with the dorsal wall of the abdominal cavity. The mesentery proper is connected with the jejunum and ilium, the other mesenteries being called mesoc, mesocolon, mesorectum, etc. mesoc, mesocolon, mesorectum, etc.""

Nuclear particles.

I sang gems of communication

After muddle is getting on sending texts (wordplay)

Silky, twilled fabric.

Light silk

Soft fabric.

Agent for runner (wordplay)

Herald compiler on ship turning green!

Bird calling (wordplay)

Like one expected to deliver (wordplay)

Having a cult following, say

Like some sacred music

Not in order to make emessss (wordplay)

Slob's quality

Neat freak's bane

Mestino

""A synthetic estrogen, C 21 H 26 O 2 , used in combination with a progestin in oral contraceptive preparations.""

Metal

Metazoan

Narcotic analgesic drug

Drug used in treating addiction

Drug used to treat addicts

Methadon

Methanol

Spiced mead

Radical left the enemy bewildered

After me, your Leonard, 'e is on meths

Chemical found in paints, varnishes, solvents and inks

METONYM a word used in metonymy

Musician's pace maker (wordplay)

A city elf (wordplay)

Dwarf in a Parisian subway?

Mezereon

Floor between first and second

Level in the theater

Neither orchestra nor balcony

Art method used by M.C. Escher

Copper engraving.

Engraving showing singer in her true colours (wordplay)

English word

Teeny-tiny skirt

Barely-there dress

Ultrashort skirt often paired with leggings

""MICRON a unit of length, also MIKRON""

Music An interval smaller than a semitone.

Inner skull innards

Intermediary no extremist (wordplay)

Not an extremist Wholesaler (wordplay)

The Go-Between (wordplay)

Wheelers and dealers, often

There's no end of them

They're not extremely businesslike

Middling

Midmonth

Nothing light for twelve at a time

They're twelve each

Bisectors pass through them

Equidistant spots

Midrange

Midwife

Bleakest time of year (wordplay)

Very cold time, for many

Coldest time, often

Midwive

Brain busters (wordplay)

Maladies often eased by caffeine

They're major headaches

Going away with fancy rig in wedding

Quality of fighters on the move

Birds flying south

Periodic passage of animals

Periodic movement of groups of animals

Mijnheer

Milden

Mildew

Anniversary, for one.

Important stage (reached)

Event in a career.

Fighting or warring.

Hawk's attribute

Confrontational behaviour

Extremism? It's in Italian city, and city's to dismiss it

Black Panthers, for example

Intrepid fighters for a cause.

Aggressive activists

State or quality of being milky.

Aggregate of one thousand years

A thousandth anniversary.

Thousandth anniversary

Big stretch (wordplay)

Note modulating all nine periods

Really long time

Hat-makers

1,049 steamships

Art of hat-making

Pillboxes and such

Lilly Dache's metier

One gram, of one tonne

A tiny fraction may be ill one month

Teeny-weeny fraction

Still waters

Waterwheel drivers

Plants tee and single makes albatross

Heavy and inescapable responsibility

Albatross or handicap

Making like

Impersonating

Aping

Make team, perhaps, a pie filling

Turkey Day pie

Pie filling that may include beef

In a mincing manner; not fully; with affected nicety.

With eyes open

Forty-niner's profession (wordplay)

Dangerous place where eggs are laid

My land is likely to go up

Ship that's dangerous to follow

Warship that places explosive charges

Warship putting down explosives

Lionel train, say

Great painting? Far from it!

Dollhouse maker's mantra (wordplay)

MINIBIKE a small motorcycle

Off-road vehicles

Putt-putts

Small motorcycles

Relatives of station wagons

Some airport shuttles

Transport vehicles

Minicamp

Minify

To a very slight degree

To the smallest degree

Almost negligibly

Minimax

Minimill

Made light of

Made as small as possible

Never made the most of 27 across

At least that's what one may make of it

Double-clicked a window, perhaps

Explained away

One saying "It's really no big deal," maybe

Belittler

Plays down

Minipark

Picayune Var.

Really tiny

Very small

Minish

Try it on for thighs (wordplay)

Pencil alternative (wordplay)

Girl said to go round in skimpy clothing

San Marino or Andorra

Is terms, perhaps, in church

Prime V. I. P.'s in London

Looks after 13 across, confused rests

Synthetic drug used in cases of baldness

Lay people (wordplay)

Old-time entertainers.

Medieval singers

Extremely small, tiny

Take poor clue as wee

A lower-case letter

Fast Colonial fighter (wordplay)

Fast Colonial fighter?

Pygmy militia member (wordplay)

Certain ICBM's

Gung-ho group of Revolution

Lexington and Concord fighters

Mirliton

All the same, that's what you get on reflection

Reflecting

Misact

Misadd

Misagent

Misaim

Misalign

Misatone

Misatone

Misbegin

Misbrand

BUTTON to fasten with a small disk

Stroke of bad luck

Caught in flying machine's accident

An accident by mechanics

Miscite

Miscode

Miscoin

Figures wrong girl is hugging nobleman

Says there are 76 clues in this puzzle, for example

Girl, nobleman's accepted, fails to get right figure

Rogue's pile spanning rolling acres

Criminal worker found after awful crimes

Bad boy's crimes affected social worker

Arranging to take her out, one might be getting it wrong like this

Err lexicographically

Misdoing

Misdrive

Miseat

Sign up for the wrong class

Misenrol

Misenter

Misevent

Misfile

Misfire

Premonition of evil

Maiden is conveying feeling of suspicion

Premonition of evil.

Head wrong

Rule badly

Rule corruptly

Fumble, perhaps on the goal line

Fluff man held is foul

Maltreat said girl with title

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Deduces wrongly

Give inaccurate info to (someone)

Deceive girl, almost fashionable model

Issue distorted facts

Misinter

Misjoin

Losing track of motorway carnage

Sounds as if the girl is behaving like a hen and losing

Forgetting the whereabouts of Scottish island in possession of dynasty

Wrongly receives instructions

Mislearn

Mislike

Mislive

Mismake

Screw up for one brief second in r-run

Handle wrongly, as funds

A weak soccer boss might do this

Pairing imperfectly

Mismove

Using the wrong handle

Inappropriate designations

Koala bear and "prairie dog," for example

Alaskan city gets into some bad name-calling

What Don Juan wasn't

Hatred or fear of change or innovation.

ORIENT to acquaint with details of a situation

Mispage

Mispaint

Mispen

Misplant

Mispoint

Smudged words, maybe

Errors of the type seen in road runs

New Yrok and New Jresey, for example

Misrate

To reckon wrongly; to miscalculate.

To render wrongly; to translate or recite wrongly.

Misrule

Missay

Missense

Distorted spin has me confused

Ugly in form

Unnaturally formed

Mission

He has creed, will travel

If you need a conversion, he's your man

Evangelist who spends little touring holy city

Missound

Squanders, as funds

Is profligate

The girl is awaiting settlement; she is foolish with money

Wrong, in a way

Not well-articulated

Regret of a reformed thief?

Regret of a reformed thief (wordplay)

Have His Majesty befogged in error

Mistend

Misthink

Misthrow

Mistime

Indistinct quality

Weather word.

That has one befogged with what is metal in a mess

Mistrain