9-Letter Words Starting with M

Characterized by a mixture of languages.

Hodgepodge, as the etymology of a word

A comic ran about like 'Michelle, ma belle ... '

Elbow pasta concoctions

Italian dishes.

Kinds of cookies

Sweet cookies with egg whites

Colorful French cookies

Disintegrated through excessive soaking

Staff deserved getting soaked

Steeped valued spice first

Softens by steeping in liquid

Wastes away.

This softens the speeds of blows from them in battle

MACERATE to soften by soaking

Girl reaches across ravine to get plant

Plant herb, not rose, around ravine

Right inside a chimney, uprooted plant

Machzor

Spikes, blinkers and tinkers.

Salt water catches.

Seafood selections

Universe as a whole

The universe, or any great whole

The Universe

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

A large blastomere.

Macruran

Dear me! PRO dispersed coral

Part songs without accompaniment.

Renaissance musical compositions

Part-songs

Tomato consomme

Creator of perfect whirlpools (wordplay)

The storm follows the male in a whirl

Powerful circular current of water

Magister

Expert on wind securing silver

On the staff, devised by a physician

Authoritative point? Annoying alarm's ringing

Type of vacuum tube

Generator from England held up by hospital officer

Married woman accepts grand new short wave generator

Sherlock's glass

Aim gun and fire - unacceptable maybe, but it makes you look big

Microscope.

Indian potentate (var.)

Sanskrit for "great king"

Potentate of India

Jeweled turban wearers

Wearers of jeweled turbans

Indian princes

Indian princess, once

Important Indian

Indian princess

Sari-clad princesses

Royals of India

Royals traditionally kept in purdah

Sage: perhaps I'm a harsh one

A great Hindu sage or spiritual leader

Hindu teacher of mysticism

Mar famine (anagram)

Transfer to Madrid (wordplay)

Large computer for the scholar below me

Head of staff, maybe

Top rank of the staff

Official manager of a large household

Stick with her on parade (wordplay)

Female baton twirler

Band leader, at times

Reveals on "Queer Eye"

Prepare mint (wordplay)

Marked aye so as to prepare

Prepare to forge currency

Clumsy admiral to set out

Awkward admiral to be just awkward

Clumsy dolt Maria upset

Sassy sorts

Malaprop

Pertaining to a miasma.

Disease-ridden central Himalaya initially reneged on debts

Malarkey

Malarky

Malaroma

Badly-shaped

Faultily made

What's so mad about fifty for myself that's crooked (wordplay)

Maligner

Feigns illness

Mother tarries

Shirks work

Maltreat

Maltster

Mammer

An x-ray image of the breast produced by mammography.

Shades or orange

Types of oranges

High-ranking officials or small oranges

""One to whom a command or charge is given; hence, specifically, a person to whom the pope has, by his prerogative, given a mandate or order for his benefice.""

Mandator

He has to be a conservative father

Obligatory standing eight count

Compulsory standing eight count

May apples.

The human form of 11 across might get forked into the ground

Supplies crew garlanding sea dog with noxious plants

Someone exercises the animals

One primate trains others

Some baboons

Training exercises

Moves skillfully

Tactical exercises

Trees found in swamps.

They have visible roots

Trees with interlacing roots

Clipped - and rude (wordplay)

Gave a hand job (wordplay)

Cut and filed

Ways of getting winning hands (wordplay)

Literally, "hand-cares"

Salon treatments

""Of or pertaining to the maniple, or company.""

A peculiarity of men in arms

Madonna with the Long Neck art style

Characteristic behaviour is masculine

Painter El Greco, for one

One with affectations

How devious is the work of humanity!

Stratagem to get staff to go to work

Work on an island operation

Simple pressure gauge

Fellow rebuilt remote pressure gauge

Pressure gauge

Blood and Blood Vessels an instrument for measuring the pressure of gases or vapors. an instrument for measuring blood pressure. Also called sphygmomanometer. ; manometric .

Manpower

MANSARD a type of roof

Murderer

Homicide.

Human-lion dragon hybrid

Mythical stinging beast

Legendary creature similar to the Sphinx

""Any handle-like structure, pl MANUBRIUMS or MANUBRIA""

Cartographers

Marabout

Long running events (wordplay)

Opposites of dashes

Ironman competition parts

Gen. Merrill's jungle fighters in Burma.

Looters, pillagers o raiders

People who attack in search of booty

Raiding and pillaging

Going around raiding

Roving in quest of plunder

Maravedi

MARBLE to vein or print in a mottled manner

Stain in a way.

Marbly

Marbling

Indicate a place, as you might say, for yellow mineral

Mineral found in refuse on a building location (wordplay)

Marcel

Adjective meaning resembling

Word for marzipan used until 19th century

Is Ma angrier at this spread (wordplay)

I Can't Believe It's Not Butter!

Fat-based butter substitute

Margarin

Tequila/citrus cocktail

Woman's drink

Type of tequila cocktail

A pearl.

Margent

Having a margin distinct in appearance or structure.

Margin

Foreign noblemen are cemetery vandals maybe!

South-of-the-border dance musicians

Mexican dance musicians

Mexican street musicians

Yellow or orange blooms

Man-in-the-Moon flowers

Showy yellow flowers

Illegal drug (alt. spelling)

Alternative spelling for the hemp plant

""A strong-smelling Asian plant (Cannabis sativa), also called hemp, from which a number of euphorogenic and halucinogenic drugs are prepared. The euphoric effect is predominently due to tetrahydrocannabinol (THC).Cannabis sativa), also called hemp, from which a number of euphorogenic and halucinogenic drugs are prepared. The euphoric effect is predominently due to tetrahydrocannabinol (THC).""

Person associated with (-ist)

Marinade

Wine baths (wordplay)

Balls is mad near Pickles

Type of car I hit going in reverse

Pasta sauces

Prepared for the grill, say

Named Rita (anagram)

Steeped in oil and vinegar.

Pickles, as fish.

Steeps in oil and vinegar.

Seasons, as meat

Opahs and sego lilies

Showy Mexican flowers

Insectas del orden Lepidoptera

Arachne conforms after 31 days in wedlock

Certain spices.

Good name for a discount store manager (wordplay)

Word after free or black

Dealer in commodities

Sales specialist

They try to sell stuff

They promote the sale for Noah's vessel in today's yards

Promoting shopping in America

Stripe on a zebra, for example

Stripe on a zebra, e.g

Markhoor

Clayey rock once common in building

Bear spread (wordplay)

Citrus-imbued toast topper

Orange-flavored toast spread

In mountain and sea, increasingly stony

Cause further damage to a line of stone

Like marble in smoothness

Resembling marble

Long-tailed monkeys

Training some smart little monkeys

New World monkeys

Marocain

Leaving stranded

Make and test inlaid work

Inlaid coloured woodwork in furniture

Wood inlay work

Some cut diamonds

French noblemen or noblewomen

Earls' superiors

Events for Figaro and others.

There's not a single one after them

Society page news.

Many quarrel over profitable vegetable

Variety of pea, often served in cans

Large variety of pea

Marrow

""MARSHAL to put in proper order, also MARSHALL""

Marshal

Pacific islands attacked by Mitscher

Kwajalein, Eniwetok, etc.

Most like a bayou

Everglades, for example

Swampy tract spoils hot country

Boggy area

Wallaby, for one.

Koala, for one

Pocket protector (wordplay)

Kangaroo's pouch

Kangeroo's pouch

Pouch

Martagon

Martello

In a martial manner.

Strict sergeants, say

Strictly speaking, that's all they are

Tough taskmasters

Death for one's beliefs

A good reason for being late (wordplay)

Fate of one with a cause, perhaps

Martyry

Martyr

To make a martyr of.

Showing awe

Was filled with wonder

Was wondering if horse's drunk a few - almost fell over and died!

Expressed amazement, finding limited edition by poet

Of Alpert's sportscasts (wordplay)

Like Mrs. Maisel

Causing wonder

Footwear for small fry

Girls' low-heeled slippers

Footwear for small fry.

Marzipan

Mascara

Bricklayers' projects

Stoneworks

Indiscriminately killed

Samantha turns religious and is butchered

Trounced, using same cards but in different order

One who massacres.

Real estate in the Bay State (wordplay)

Large-scale killings

Routs, in sports

Massager

Masseter

Imperious males involved with turf

Expert fusses over dividing batter

Having dominating quality

Displays of skill

Learning German? It's complicated

The boss is coping with the gin

Overcoming it, Germans reassembled

Masurium

Pullman's sombre stuffs

Friend with top off tests fabrics

Some are raw

Supplies of guns and ammo, for example

Motherhood has a bad name - try it

Certain hospital ward

Kind of ward

Matrass

Mother superior (wordplay)

Leading lady (wordplay)

Female head of the family

Taking the old lady out (wordplay)

The killing of one's mother

Murder of one's mother

Object of the banns

Start of a quip

The state you're in after the match

Matter

Ripened

Gathers matter, USA style

Becomes ripe

Ripens

Maunder

One who maunders.

They danced the night away

Dallas cagers

Dallas team

Bone forming posterior part of upper jaw

Martha's sister hides a sign of something wrong, bad in the jaw

""MAXIMIZE to make as great as possible, also MAXIMISE""

Perhaps blooming well started States

How Pilgrims progressed (wordplay)

Ship that might bear fruit (wordplay)

Civic office.

This position in town may start to be spoken

Seems that Ma has a position in the city that gets her next to royalty

Mazourka

Mealworm

Took a winding course.

Wandered around aimlessly

(Of river) snaked

MEANE to {lament=v}

Rulers, for example

Tailors, at times.

Determining the dimensions

Ruler's role

Taking the gauge.

Divorce parties, perhaps

Officials like Dr. Bunche.

Those who settle disputes

Like a go-between linking press and politician

A female mediator.

Medicare

T.M. adherent

One who thinks deeply

Reflective person

Relating to bone marrow

Like part of body that's source of energy, sluggish in girl

Number on a dial

Unit of frequency

MHz in full

The larger of two types of spores that give rise to a female gametophyte. Also called macrospore .

Very famous entertainers

Old priest or inmate has to improve

Oriel team resolved to improve

Improve, having married priest - nothing to reprove

The doctrine that there is a tendency throughout nature toward improvement.

The belief that improvement of society depends on human effort.

→ Mellotron® nt MEREOLOGY (Philosophy / Logic) the formal study of the logical properties of the relation of part and whole [via French from Greek meros part + -logy ]

""MELODIZE to compose a melody, also MELODISE""

Play that made moral, perhaps (wordplay)

Torme's theatrics (wordplay)

Soap ingredient (wordplay)

In the distance, US-style officer with a big drip coming down the mountain

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

Tissue layers

Pliable layers.

Biological tissues.

A writer of memoirs.

Noteworthy, as a performance

Not to be forgotten.

Impressive, as a speech or performance

MEMORABLE Worthy to be remembered; very important or remarkable.

Work sheets (wordplay)

Flowers for secretaries (wordplay)

Reminders, of sorts

Historic tourist sites

Some anniversary events

Some sites on the National Mall

Not for - got ten afterwards

Learnt

Learns by heart

Learns off Messi shimmying round City back

Word from Latin meaning 'from memory' or 'by heart'

Learned by rote

A person who learns by rote.