9-Letter Words Starting with M

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

Friend involving another in scheme

Scheme to do harm.

Plot to do harm

Turner say, seeing a feature in fog

Turner, perhaps, seeing a feature in fog

A feature film's about manual worker

Non-PC material (wordplay)

Drunk is no match for computer

Apple debut of 1984

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

Maculate

Stains

Creator of perfect whirlpools (wordplay)

The storm follows the male in a whirl

Powerful circular current of water

Maestoso

Magister

Expert on wind securing silver

On the staff, devised by a physician

Authoritative point? Annoying alarm's ringing

Arachnid holding girl in native compound

Magnetic

Wizard catch is held to produce draw

Draw in game set to change

Geminates arrangement to attract strongly

Drawing for the Poles

Stemming a terrible charm

So attractive the Poles are

""An oxide of iron (Fe3O4) occurring in isometric crystals, also massive, of a black color and metallic luster. It is readily attracted by a magnet and sometimes possesses polarity, being then called loadstone. It is an important iron ore. Called also magnetic iron. Fe3O4) occurring in isometric crystals, also massive, of a black color and metallic luster. It is readily attracted by a magnet and sometimes possesses polarity, being then called loadstone. It is an important iron ore. Called also magnetic iron.""

Make attractive, in a way

Make attractive

Make attractive gent out, wearing yellow (wordplay)

Hypothetical particles, in physics.

Type of vacuum tube

Generator from England held up by hospital officer

Married woman accepts grand new short wave generator

Eating mud (anagram)

Extent of mud in gate, perhaps

Extent of horrible mud-eating

One's taken up by the painter with a handshake

Parts of yawls, brigs, etc

They hold big sails

Line from man he ties at sea

Sailor's line: 'The name is Rocky'

The means I contrived to control the sail

Ultra-reliable team members

Centers of stability

Chief supports mother wearing corset

States with authority

Makes good preserves

How mother keeps in with the saint

Kings and queens

Their address of their kings or queens

Stick with her on parade (wordplay)

Female baton twirler

Band leader, at times

Makebate

Makefast

Temporary move by force (wordplay)

Temporary movement following fashion

Improvised fashion garment

This climate - Ah, it's so green!

Stone bloke found inscribed with a note

Mineral with green bands

Clumsy admiral to set out

Awkward admiral to be just awkward

Clumsy dolt Maria upset

Musher's team, perhaps

Alaskan dogs

Alaskan sled dogs that are fluffy good bois (love em)

Sassy sorts

Organic phosphate insecticide

Maledict

Malemiut

Arctic dogs.

Bent on evil

Evil country relative in GT

To defame hard worker is evil

The state or quality of being malignant; disposition to do evil; virulent enmity; malignancy; malice; spite.

Maltreat

Maltster

Pursuer of wealth

""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.""

Such assigning is all some girls think of

Commanding

Commissioning soldier with regular girlfriend (wordplay)

Mandator

He has to be a conservative father

Obligatory standing eight count

Compulsory standing eight count

A salt of manganic acid.

""One of the oxides of manganese; called also gray manganese ore. It occurs in brilliant steelgray or ironblack crystals, also massive. gray manganese ore. It occurs in brilliant steelgray or ironblack crystals, also massive.""

Islander's cocktail (wordplay)

Guy Bowler-Brown's drink (wordplay)

New York island cocktail (wordplay)

Italian for 'sleeves'

Literally, "little sleeves"

Tubes in an oven

Nothing to support clear party promises!

Public announcement of clear round

Party's publicly declared aims

Displays passenger lists

Lists of goods

Displays cargo lists

Painter El Greco, for one

One with affectations

Mannitol

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 .

Short capes

Human-lion dragon hybrid

Mythical stinging beast

Legendary creature similar to the Sphinx

Spanish shawls

Mexican capes

Mantissa

Mantling

Flowering shrub of western U. S.

Californian species of bearberry

Chaparral shrub

Maquette

Marabout

Long running events (wordplay)

Opposites of dashes

Ironman competition parts

Marbly

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

Mineral found in refuse on a building location (wordplay)

Tequila/citrus cocktail

Woman's drink

Type of tequila cocktail

A pearl.

Margent

Having a margin distinct in appearance or structure.

Person associated with (-ist)

Prepared for the grill, say

Named Rita (anagram)

Steeped in oil and vinegar.

Pickles, as fish.

Steeps in oil and vinegar.

Seasons, as meat

Arachne conforms after 31 days in wedlock

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

Clayey rock once common in building

Long-tailed monkeys

Training some smart little monkeys

New World monkeys

Make and test inlaid work

Inlaid coloured woodwork in furniture

Wood inlay work

Many quarrel over profitable vegetable

Variety of pea, often served in cans

Large variety of pea

Most like a bayou

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.

Stomach is churning - but he enjoys it!

He takes pains to provide pleasure

Is stomach upset? One probably enjoys it

Masscult

Masseter

Massicot

Mastabah

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

Magazine staff listings

Newspapers' staff lists

Never below decks - quite the opposite

Munch kin (wordplay)

Make easier to swallow

Champ married bubbly Blanchett

Mastiche

Large, extinct mammals

Extinct relatives of elephants.

Extinct tusked beasts

""Of, relating to, or characteristic of a mastodon.""

English word

Capable of being matched; comparable on equal conditions; adapted to being joined together; correspondent.

Record of Wimbledon action (wordplay)

Restaurant souvenir, maybe

Record of a World Cup game (wordplay)

Consummate marriage? Not so!

So good nobody will play you (wordplay)

Can't make light of it (wordplay)

Weapon child found in county town

Old-fashioned type of gun

Musket device

Union with club's splintered fragments

Material in a fire starter set

Watch out! When in a mood, flares up quickly

Matelote

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

Mateship

MATEY a friend

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

Of the morning

Of the morning.

Pharaoh dips into sea and a lake in the morning

1's supporter savages parasite

Maxicoat

Maximite

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

Grace periods (wordplay)

When to make me smile at cook (wordplay)

When cooks call, "Come and get it."

Interims

Most contemptibly small

Pasta topping, perhaps

Minced stale lamb in these (wordplay)

Dish prepared from stale lamb (wordplay)

Muscular jocks, stereotypically

Pea-brains

Brawniness; substance

Have meal at home in dining room - the quality of the beef!

Pithiness

A maker of machines; one skilled in mechanics.

Olympic winners made silly lists

Winners at a form of competitive golf.

Spitz and Owens

Winner on the record!

Finished in the first three, no doubt

Sort of winner is still made to struggle

In a mediate manner; by a secondary cause or agent; not directly or primarily; by means; opposed to immediately. immediately.

Mediate

Dispute resolution method

No time to study arbitration

Occupation for an optimist.

Diplomatic and thoughtful Taiwanese leader's ousted

Divorce parties, perhaps

Officials like Dr. Bunche.

Those who settle disputes

Like a go-between linking press and politician

A female mediator.

Like some shampoos

Like some cough drops.

Administered drugs to

Treats, in a way

Treats.

Thought broadcast item dated

Thought it over.

Focused one's thoughts

Thinks team's diet needs changing

Reflects, and acts as peacemaker - about time!

Contemplates getting rewrite held by friends

T.M. adherent

One who thinks deeply

Reflective person

Megabyte

One million deaths. Used as a unit in reference to nuclear warfare.

Number on a dial

Unit of frequency

MHz in full

Megalith

Very famous entertainers

Units of a million watts per ampere

A lot of power (wordplay)

Power plant measures

They represent a lot of power

Melanist

Deep black garnets

Deep-black garnets

Black garnets

MELANITE a black variety of garnet

"", Melanistic.""

Hormone that induces sleepiness

Pineal hormone secreted in the evening

Hormone in male not developed

Melilite

Melinite

Old priest or inmate has to improve

Oriel team resolved to improve

Improve, having married priest - nothing to reprove

The belief that improvement of society depends on human effort.

Vocal runs

→ 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 ]

Relaxed to the max

Most mature

Extremely mature elm, rotten at the bottom

People of note (wordplay)

Song writers.

Processes for saving scrap metal

Results of excessive stress

Rageaholic's outbursts

MELTING the act of melting

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

Fairgoers' take-home items.

Souvenirs of past events

Vestiges of disease on hands and feet, partly

A writer of memoirs.

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

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.

""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

On foreign sea skipper discharges one organic compound

Poet inclined to pontificate (wordplay)

Antonio and others.

Traders in French sea shanties

MERCURATE

Meristem

""A form of spore, usually elongate or falciform, and somewhat amoeboid, produced by segmentation of the schizonts of certain Sporozoa, as the malaria parasite.""

Hood's gang reported - time for fun!

Gaiety, laughter, fun

Celebratory goings-on

Meseems

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.""