2-Letter Words Ending in M

For this custom, brain's abandoned

""OPERATION The act or process of operating; agency; the exertion of power, physical, mechanical, or moral.""

Unrealistically high view of one's prospects

""A degenerative nervous disorder occurring mostly in persons older than 60 years, characterized in advanced stages by rhythmic muscular tremors, especially in the hands, and by rigidity of movement, a drooping posture, slow speech, and a masklike facial expression; the term designates a set of symptoms, and the underlying disease causing these symptoms is most commonly Parkinson's disease. Parkinsonism results from a deficiency in the neurotransmitter dopamine caused by degeneration of the cells producing that agent. It can be mitigated by chemotherapy with agents such as levodopa (3-hydroxy-L-tyrosine).Parkinson's disease. Parkinsonism results from a deficiency in the neurotransmitter dopamine caused by degeneration of the cells producing that agent. It can be mitigated by chemotherapy with agents such as levodopa (3-hydroxy-L-tyrosine).""

Small-mindedness

Lamia's Orphic new version betrays narrow outlook

Pl. perionychia (- - ) The border of epidermal tissue surrounding a fingernail or toenail.

Lack of culture

Indifference to culture and the arts

Smug conventionality

The tendency of growing plant organs to move or curve under the influence of light. In ordinary use the term is practically synonymous with heliotropism.heliotropism.

""PICTORIAL Of or pertaining to pictures; illustrated by pictures; forming pictures; representing with the clearness of a picture; as, a pictorial dictionary; a pictorial imagination. as, a pictorial dictionary; a pictorial imagination.""

""The property of crystallizing under two or more distinct fundamental forms, including dimorphism and trimorphism. dimorphism and trimorphism.""

""An organism, such as a fish or reptile, having a body temperature that varies with the temperature of its surroundings; an ectotherm.""

CENTRISM a moderate political philosophy

POLYGLOTT

Same as Pleomorphism. Pleomorphism.

PRAGMATIC One skilled in affairs.

""An elementary substance, one of the constituents of didymium; so called from the green color of its salts. Symbol Ps. Atomic weight 143.6.""

""Symbol Pa A rare, extremely toxic, radioactive element chemically similar to uranium, having 13 known isotopes, the most common of which is protactinium 231 with a half-life of 32,480 years. Atomic number 91; melting point 1,230°C; specific gravity 15.37; valence 4, 5. See Table at element .""

A song in celebration of a marriage.

Same as Pseudopod. Pseudopod.

PSYCHOLOGISE

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) (Earth Sciences / Palaeontology) any extinct seed-producing fernlike plant of the group Pteridospermae Also called seed fern [from Greek pteris a fern + -sperm ]

Period of five years

Period or cycle of five years

""An earlier name for the thorium isotope thorium-228, given by its discoverer Otto Hahn. It is a radioactive substance formed as one of series of products in the chain of radioactive decay of thorium. Its immediate predecessor in the chain is Actinium-228, and it decays by alpha emission to radium-224 with a half-life of 1.91 years. The name radiothorium was given prior to the full understanding of the nature of isotopes of elements.thorium-228, given by its discoverer Otto Hahn. It is a radioactive substance formed as one of series of products in the chain of radioactive decay of thorium. Its immediate predecessor in the chain is Actinium-228, and it decays by alpha emission to radium-224 with a half-life of 1.91 years. The name radiothorium was given prior to the full understanding of the nature of isotopes of elements.""

Analysis down to basic constituents

""SALVATION The act of saving; preservation or deliverance from destruction, danger, or great calamity.""

""SCAPEGOAT A goat upon whose head were symbolically placed the sins of the people, after which he was suffered to escape into the wilderness.""

The doctrine or policy of secession; the tenets of secession; the tenets of secessionists.

Adherence to religious groupings

""A disproportionate regard for the interests peculiar to a section of the country; local patriotism, as distinguished from national.""

Sleepwalking

Pl. spermagonia also spermogonia (-n - ) A cup-shaped cavity or receptacle in which the spermatia of certain lichens and fungi are produced.

Brings The Dead to life for the latecomers who have something to say (wordplay)

Brings The Dead to life for the latecomers who have something to say

STANDPAT resisting or opposing change

""Any philosophical doctrine which refers all knowledge to, and founds it upon, any subjective states; egoism.""

MICROGRAM

Fabulous insurance payment (wordplay)

SUPERREAL

Sycophancy.

A system of coinage in which a unit of currency is pegged to a combination of two or more metals in fixed proportions.

SYNDACTYL

God and Gods ()

""URANIUM a radioactive element, also URANIDE""

TRANSVEST

Of or relating to antibiotics.

""TRIUMPHAL Of or pertaining to triumph; used in a triumph; indicating, or in honor of, a triumph or victory; as, a triumphal crown; a triumphal arch. as, a triumphal crown; a triumphal arch.""

ULTRALEFT

REALISM concern with fact or reality

Religious doctrine

Narnia? Um, is it about Christian doctrine (wordplay)

A single heretical principle? (Defended by Priestley)

""The doctrine or belief that all men will be saved, or made happy, in the future state.""

See dubnium .

See rutherfordium .

""The principle of supporting a religious system and its institutions by voluntary association and effort, rather than by the aid or patronage of the state.""

""VOLUNTEER One who enters into, or offers for, any service of his own free will.""

""The posterior segment, or extremity, of the sternum; sometimes called metasternum, ensiform cartilage, ensiform process, or xiphoid process. metasternum, ensiform cartilage, ensiform process, or xiphoid process.""

ALDOSTERONE

ANALPHABETE

""COMMUNISM A scheme of equalizing the social conditions of life; specifically, a scheme which contemplates the abolition of inequalities in the possession of property, as by distributing all wealth equally to all, or by holding all wealth in common for the equal use and advantage of all.""

""The number corresponding to a logarithm. The word has been sometimes, though rarely, used to denote the complement of a given logarithm; also the logarithmic cosine corresponding to a given logarithmic sine.""

The tenets or practice of Antinomians.

""RITUALISM A system founded upon a ritual or prescribed form of religious worship; adherence to, or observance of, a ritual.""

""TERRORISM The act of terrorizing, or state of being terrorized; a mode of government by terror or intimidation.""

Collection of resources available for a purpose

""AUTOEROTIC sexually self-satisfying, as by masturbation.""

An image produced upon photographic film by exposure of the film to a radioactive substance in close proximity to (usually in contact with) the film.

Love of books.

BICULTURAL

BIPARTISAN

The conduct or language of a blackguard; rufflanism.

Nonelective government officials; same as bureaucracy.bureaucracy.

The doctrine that the geological changes in the earth's crust have been caused by the sudden action of violent physical causes; opposed to the doctrine of uniformism. uniformism.

Adherence to external rites; fondness for ceremony.

X-ray examination of the bile ducts following administration of a radiopaque contrast medium.

Word used in familiar speech

Expression used in informal conversation

Informal word or phrase

The pursuit of profit

Emphasis on the maximisation of profit

Emphasis on the maximising of profit

""A theory, intermediate between realism and nominalism, that the mind has the power of forming for itself general conceptions of individual or single objects.""

CORPORATIVE

The condition or character of a cosmopolite; disregard of national or local peculiarities and prejudices.

CREDENTIAL Giving a title or claim to credit or confidence; accrediting.

English word

The imposition of rigid beliefs at all times

""ECUMENICAL General; universal; in ecclesiastical usage, that which concerns the whole church; as, an ecumenical council.as, an ecumenical council.""

""The art of writing or compiling encyclopedias; also, possession of the whole range of knowledge; encyclopedic learning.""

EPIGRAMMATISE

Belief in the superiority of one's own ethnic group.

Behaviour intended to attract attention to oneself

Style of painting

Art style expressing inner emotions

Artistic movement

""FEUILLETON A part of a French newspaper (usually the bottom of the page), devoted to light literature, criticism, etc.; also, the article or tale itself, thus printed.""

""FLAGELLANT One of a fanatical sect which flourished in Europe in the 13th and 14th centuries, and maintained that flagellation was of equal virtue with baptism and the sacrament; called also disciplinant. disciplinant.""

A psychology based on the assumption that all mental process are useful to an organism in adapting to the environment.

English word

HOMEOMORPH

HOMOEROTIC

Off-ten for "often."

"Off-ten" for "often."

""The doctrine that immaterial substances or spiritual being exist, or are possible.""

A theory and school of art.

State of indecision

The quality of being individual; individuality; personality.

Devotion to industrial pursuits; labor; industry.

English word

""IRRATIONAL Not rational; void of reason or understanding; as, brutes are irrational animals. as, brutes are irrational animals.""

Bacterium, say (wordplay)

Eg, bacterium or virus

Tiny life form

""MILLENNIAL Of or pertaining to the millennium, or to a thousand years; as, a millennial period; millennial happiness. as, a millennial period; millennial happiness.""

""The legalized use of one metal only, as gold, or silver, in the standard currency of a country, or as a standard of money values. See Bimetallism. Bimetallism.""

""Any of various rod-shaped bacteria, some saprophytic or causing diseases.""

Backward-looking style of art and architecture

""A political orientation originating in the 1960s, blending liberal political views with an emphasis on economic growth.""

""NEOPLASTIC of or pertaining to neoplasty, or neoplasia.""

CONFORMISM orthodoxy in thoughts and belief.

""MAINSTREAM The prevailing opinion or practise; as, the doctor avoided using therapies outside the mainstream of modern medical practice.as, the doctor avoided using therapies outside the mainstream of modern medical practice.""

Noun denoting doctrine or practice

Weak form of attraction

A minute description; a detailed statement.

Addiction of the 50-mile hikers.

Walking skill

President aims to shatter eco-friendly movement

Won't get any better with unseemly imperfections

""The membrane of fibrous connective tissue which closely invests cartilage, except where covering articular surfaces.""

""That theory which limits positive or scientific knowledge to phenomena only, whether material or spiritual.""

Love of Greece.

""(Physics / General Physics) (of glass) changing colour with the intensity of incident light, used, for example, in sunglasses that darken as the sunlight becomes brighter""

Carelessness; apathy; indifference.

Style of New York's Sony Building

Literature genre

Late 20th-century style of art and literature

Political ideology advocating reform

Import-tariff policy

Shielding from foreign competition

Charge is made initially for shielding home industry

""A word, or a manner of speaking, peculiar to a province or a district remote from the mother country or from the metropolis; a provincial characteristic; hence, narrowness; illiberality.""

One of main US political movements

Policy of one US party

Belief that monarchies should be abolished

Element named for a nuclear physicist

A mild Socrates (anagram); priestcraft

Priestly devotion admits oracles must be reinterpreted

Enjoyment of a painful relationship (wordplay)

Extreme republican principles; the principles or practice of the sansculottes. sansculottes.

Abelard's thing

New Catholics miss medieval sort of philosophy

Technique for literary criticism

Piers Morgan: 'US run a highly organised community'

Some Sunday broadcasting

Staginess, artificiality

""The phenomenon of turning towards a source of warmth, seen in the growing parts of some plants.""

""Growth stereotropism. ; thigmotropic ,""

""The quality, state, or phenomenon of being trichromatic.""

Same as Triliterality. Triliterality.

Its motto: No meat, in gravies or out!

Vitamins, eg, are developed for this diet

A meat serving I arranged out of order for this (wordplay)

Throwing one's voice

Voice-throwing

A vernacular idiom.

Teaching work skills in education

Pl. zoosporangia (-j - ) A sporangium in which zoospores develop.

""ABSTRACTION The act of abstracting, separating, or withdrawing, or the state of being withdrawn; withdrawal.""

""ALLELOMORPH One of the pure unit characters commonly existing singly or in pairs in the germ cells of Mendelian hybrids, and exhibited in varying proportion among the organisms themselves; same as allele, 2. Allelomorphs which under certain circumstances are themselves compound are called hypallelomorphs. See Mendel's law.allele, 2. Allelomorphs which under certain circumstances are themselves compound are called hypallelomorphs. See Mendel's law.""

Opposed to alcoholism

""CAPITALISM An economic system based on predominantly private (individual or corporate) investment in and ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange of goods and wealth; contrasted with socialism or especially communism, in which the state has the predominant role in the economy.socialism or especially communism, in which the state has the predominant role in the economy.""

""LIBERALISM Liberal principles; the principles and methods of the liberals in politics or religion; specifically, the principles of the Liberal party.""

See it in an arms limit I arranged (wordplay)

The study or collection of old things

Study of old and rare books etc.

A love of rare books and old things

""RADICALISM The quality or state of being radical; specifically, the doctrines or principles of radicals in politics or social reform.""

APOCALYPTIC

The doctrine or theory held by associationists.

BIDIALECTAL

Pl. chondrocraniums or chondrocrania (-n - ) The cartilaginous cranium of an embryo before ossification.

""CONSTRUCTIVE Having ability to construct or form; employed in construction; as, to exhibit constructive power. as, to exhibit constructive power.""

CRYPTORCHID

""Pl. cyanobacteria (-tîr - ) A photosynthetic bacterium of the class Coccogoneae or Hormogoneae, generally blue-green in color and in some species capable of nitrogen fixation. Cyanobacteria were once thought to be algae. Also called blue-green alga .""

EQUILIBRIUM Equality of weight or force; an equipoise or a state of rest produced by the mutual counteraction of two or more forces.

A visual record produced by an echocardiograph.

Belief that all are equal

Belief in the equality of men

Principal of equality among people

""ENDOPARASITE Any parasite which lives in the internal organs of an animal, as the tapeworms, Trichina, etc.; opposed to ectoparasite. See Entozo\'94n. ectoparasite. See Entozo\'94n.""

""EXCEPTIONAL Forming an exception; not ordinary; uncommon; rare; hence, better than the average; superior.""

Scrap elitist exams in philosophy

Philosophical tradition centered around the individual struggle for authenticity

FERRIMAGNET

FERROMAGNET

Eastman mindful, perhaps, of taking the Bible literally

""Having different forms at different periods of the life cycle, as in stages of insect metamorphosis.""

""Producing male and female gametangia in different structures or plants, as in some algae and fungi.""

See complete metamorphosis .

""Excessive criticism, or unjust severity or rigor of criticism; zoilism.""

HYPOTHYROID

""INCREMENTAL Pertaining to, or resulting from, the process of growth; as, the incremental lines in the dentine of teeth. as, the incremental lines in the dentine of teeth.""

""State of indifference; want of interest or earnestness; especially, a systematic apathy regarding what is true or false in religion or philosophy; agnosticism.""

Laissez-faire doctrine is embraced by awfully irritable man

Pl. lymphangiographies Examination of the lymph nodes and lymphatic vessels following the injection of a radiopaque substance. Also called lymphography .

Pl. megasporangia (-j - ) A structure that produces one or more megaspores. Also called macrosporangium .

Belief in a future utopian period

MONOCHROMATE

MULTIRACIAL

""Control by a powerful country of its former colonies (or other less developed countries) by economic pressures. In contrast to colonialism, in which one country controls another territory by military force.colonialism, in which one country controls another territory by military force.""

EQUILIBRIUM Equality of weight or force; an equipoise or a state of rest produced by the mutual counteraction of two or more forces.

Inflected form of OBJECTIVISM Inflected form of OBJECTIVE Of or pertaining to an object.

The act or the policy of obstructing progress.

""The doctrine that the meaning of a proposition consists of the operations involved in defining, proving, or applying it.""

Excessive enthusiasm.

The study of the remanent magnetization in rocks.

Subjective journalism that uses some of the techniques or license of fiction.

PHOTOPERIOD

""The state of having, or the property of taking, a crystalline form unlike that which belongs to the species.""

English word

""REACTIONARY Being, causing, or favoring reaction; as, reactionary movements. as, reactionary movements.""

""RESTRICTION The act of restricting, or state of being restricted; confinement within limits or bounds.""

The doctrine and use of sacraments; attashment of excessive importance to sacraments.

Animated salesman is into overdramatic presentation

The quality of being sentimental; the character or behavior of a sentimentalist; sentimentality.

An electronically controlled mechanical or hydraulic device permitting a large action or strong forces to be controlled by a small electrical signal.

""A primitive seminal cell, occuring in masses in the seminal tubules. It divides into a mass (spermosphere) of small cells (spermoblast), which in turn give rise to spermatozoids.""

""TERRITORIAL Of or pertaining to territory or land; as, territorial limits; territorial jurisdiction. as, territorial limits; territorial jurisdiction.""

Conservative attitude is fixed aim in old artist

Inflected form of SEXUALISM Inflected form of SEXUAL pertaining to sex