2-Letter Words Ending in M

The quality or state of being plebeian.

Noun denoting doctrine or practice

""The property possessed by some crystals, of showing different colors when viewed in the direction of different axes.""

""A genus of herbs of the Barberry family, having large palmately lobed peltate leaves and solitary flower. There are two species, the American Podohyllum peltatum, or May apple, the Himalayan P. Emodi. Podohyllum peltatum, or May apple, the Himalayan P. Emodi.""

Neo-impressionist painting style

Neo-Impressionist technique

Technique employed in the painting hidden in this puzzle

POLYGLOT one who speaks or writes several languages

A short-lived association of an electron and a positron bound together in a configuration resembling the hydrogen atom.

Cult of eg tribal art

Painting genre of Grandma Moses

The doctrine of the probabilists.

Pl. proctodea (-d ) or proctodeums also proctodaea (-d ) or proctodaeums An inward fold on the surface of the embryonic ectoderm that develops into part of the anal passage.

Projection of the jaws.

""The act or practice of proselyting; the making of converts to a religion or a religious sect, or to any opinion, system, or party.""

Same as Prothallus. Prothallus.

The first formed phloem that differentiates from the procambium.

Monastery room for writing

""A genus of fleshyleaved plants, of which the houseleek (Sempervivum tectorum) is the commonest species. Sempervivum tectorum) is the commonest species.""

Heavenly photo

""Pl -nia [-nɪə] (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Botany) the sporophyte of mosses and liverworts, consisting of a spore-bearing capsule on a short stalk that arises from the parent plant (the gametophyte) sporogonial   adj STADIOMETER (Mathematics & Measurements / Surveying) an instrument that measures the length of curves, dashes, etc., by running a toothed wheel along them [from stadio- , from stadium + -meter ]""

""An expansion at the base of the style, as in umbelliferous plants.""

English word

English word

SUPREME a rich cream sauce

XEROPHYTE

The property which constitutes an allomorph; the change involved in becoming an allomorph.

Not isotropic.

NEPOTISM favouritism shown to a relative

Noun denoting doctrine or practice

""Pl -ria [-rɪə] (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Botany) Botany a flattened hypha of a parasitic fungus that penetrates the host tissues [from New Latin, from Latin appressus ; see appressed ]""

A primitive cell or group of cells from which a mother cell develops.

Automorphic characterization.

English word

""Biology , Growth growth or motion in response to a chemical stimulus. ; chemotropic ,""

A developmental defect marked by the failure of the testes to descend into the scrotum.

""Geology the process of movement that causes the earth’s crust to form continents, mountains, oceans, etc. ; diastrophe , n . ; diastrophic , adj . Earth""

""ENDOMORPH A crystal of one species inclosed within one of another, as one of rutile inclosed in quartz.""

Fastidiousness in luxury

A nice umpire's unusual sort of philosophy

Resembling epilepsy.

Poem honoring newly- weds

English word

Policy of seeking economic or territorial growth

Doctrine of increasing the territory or influence of a country

EXPATRIATE To banish; to drive or force (a person) from his own country; to make an exile of.

""The phenomenon of turning toward the light, seen in many leaves and flowers.""

Noun denoting doctrine or practice

Same as Homomorphy. Homomorphy.

A tendency towards moisture.

REALISM concern with fact or reality

""The state or quality of being metamorphic; the process by which the material of rock masses has been more or less recrystallized by heat, pressure, etc., as in the change of sedimentary limestone to marble.""

(Electronics & Computer Science / Computer Science) Computing a sequence of microinstructions that controls the operation of an arithmetic and logic unit so that machine code instructions are executed

""Chemistry Having only one form, as one crystal form.""

Word with prefix multi-

NECROPHILE

""PETROLEUM Rock oil, mineral oil, or natural oil, a dark brown or greenish inflammable liquid, which, at certain points, exists in the upper strata of the earth, from whence it is pumped, or forced by pressure of the gas attending it. It consists of a complex mixture of various hydrocarbons, largely of the methane series, but may vary much in appearance, composition, and properties. It is refined by distillation, and the products include kerosene, benzine, gasoline, paraffin, etc.""

""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.

""Of, relating to, or being random numbers generated by a definite, nonrandom computational process.""

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 ]

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

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

Fabulous insurance payment (wordplay)

SUPERREAL

Realm of A-list celebrity (wordplay)

Very great fame

Position of great fame

""A stratum, or layer, above another.""

Sycophancy.

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.""

See dubnium .

""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.""

ANALPHABETE

Love of books.

BIPARTISAN

Spasmodic winking caused by the involuntary contraction of an eyelid muscle.

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.

""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.

Picture of brain spread around, coating new mushroom ring

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

EPIGRAMMATISE

Style of painting

Art style expressing inner emotions

Artistic movement

HOMEOMORPH

Off-ten for "often."

"Off-ten" for "often."

A theory and school of art.

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

Noun denoting doctrine or practice

Four-sided shape

Type of quadrilateral

Four-sided figure

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""

A record or tracing produced by a plethysmograph.

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

Piers Morgan: 'US run a highly organised community'

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

""Growth stereotropism. ; thigmotropic ,""

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

""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.""

""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.""

APOCALYPTIC

CRYPTORCHID

""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.""

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

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

HYPOTHYROID

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 .

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

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.""

""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.""

Cruel seas, for example

"Cruel seas," for example

Being a citizen of the world

State of world citizenship

Plot with a commission to destroy the global view

ENANTIOMORPH

An empirical doctrine that advocates experimental principles.

It's Rod/Pam, him/her mixed up in this (wordplay)

""CATABOLISM the breakdown of more complex substances into simpler ones with release of energy, in living organisms; destructive or downward metabolism; -- a form of metabolism, opposed to anabolism. See also Disassimilation.metabolism, opposed to anabolism. See also Disassimilation.""

""An abnormally high level of insulin in the blood, resulting in hypoglycemia.""

""METABOLISM The act or process, by which living tissues or cells take up and convert into their own proper substance the nutritive material brought to them by the blood, or by which they transform their cell protoplasm into simpler substances, which are fitted either for excretion or for some special purpose, as in the manufacture of the digestive ferments. Hence, metabolism may be either constructive (anabolism), or destructive (katabolism). anabolism), or destructive (katabolism).""

PARASITISM The state or behavior of a parasite; the act of a parasite.

""An abnormality of the thyroid gland characterized by the pathologically excessive production of thyroid hormones; -- also, the resulting condition characterized by increased metabolism, weight loss, rapid heart rate, high blood pressure, an enlarged thyroid gland and sometimes exophthalmos. It leads to, and may be confirmed by, high plasma levels of triiodothyronine or thyroxin.""

Disease and Illness ()

A sporangium or conceptacle containing only very minute spores. Cf. Macrosporangium. Macrosporangium.

A graphic record of heart sounds and murmurs that is produced by a phonocardiograph.

Special type of reporting

Picture book theory used by the press

News in which pictures play a more important role than text

Competence of experts

Skill not displayed by amateur

Expertise is disguised with prim aloofness

Belief in magic

Belief in ghosts

Infestation of parasites by other parasites.

Jingo's excessive ardor

""Biology the study of the relative day and night temperatures required, in a 24-hour period, to achieve the best growth, reproduction, or flowering of plant species or the growth and reproduction of animals. Also thermoperiodicity. Cf. photoperiodism . ; thermoperiodic, thermoperiodical,""

Record of brain activity