2-Letter Words Ending in M

""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

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.

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

(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 ]

""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

Adherence to religious groupings

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

MICROGRAM

Fabulous insurance payment (wordplay)

SUPERREAL

Realm of A-list celebrity (wordplay)

Very great fame

Position of great fame

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

God and Gods ()

Electrifying weather (wordplay)

Cause of many a blackout

Modern truths about violent weather

""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.""

""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

""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.""

""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.

BESTSELLER

BICULTURAL

BIPARTISAN

The conduct or language of a blackguard; rufflanism.

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

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.

Common garden plant

Showy flower such as the ox-eye daisy

Bright garden flower

The pursuit of profit

Emphasis on the maximisation of profit

Emphasis on the maximising of profit

CORPORATIVE

English word

English word

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

The imposition of rigid beliefs at all times

Picture of brain spread around, coating new mushroom ring

EPIGRAMMATISE

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

Style of painting

Art style expressing inner emotions

Artistic movement

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

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

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

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

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

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.""

""(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

X-ray of man or egg - or net product

Element named for a nuclear physicist

A mild Socrates (anagram); priestcraft

Priestly devotion admits oracles must be reinterpreted

Technique for literary criticism

Piers Morgan: 'US run a highly organised community'

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.

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.""

""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.""

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

English word

""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

Abbr. EMG A graphic record of the electrical activity of a muscle as recorded by an electromyograph.

""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.""

FERRIMAGNET

FERROMAGNET

""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.""

""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

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

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.

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.

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

""The principles of those within the Roman Catholic Church who maintain extreme views favoring the pope's supremacy; so used by those living north of the Alps in reference to the Italians; rarely used in an opposite sense, as referring to the views of those living north of the Alps and opposed to the papal claims. Cf. Gallicanism. Gallicanism.""

Philosophical doctrine

Millian reason

Cruel seas, for example

"Cruel seas," for example

Being opposed to any priest or saint I call 'crime' ridiculously

MATERIALISM The doctrine of materialists; materialistic views and tenets.

""RATIONALISM The doctrine or system of those who deduce their religious opinions from reason or the understanding, as distinct from, or opposed to, revelation.""

""ROMANTICISM A fondness for romantic characteristics or peculiarities; specifically, in modern literature, an aiming at romantic effects; applied to the productions of a school of writers who sought to revive certain medi<?/val forms and methods in opposition to the socalled classical style.""

Pl. archaebacteria An archaeon.

""Any member of the genus Corynebacterium, consisting of gram-positive usually nonmotile irregularly rod-shaped bacteria, some of which are pathogenic or parasitic in humans and domestic animals, such as Corynebacterium diphtheriae, which causes diphtheria.Corynebacterium, consisting of gram-positive usually nonmotile irregularly rod-shaped bacteria, some of which are pathogenic or parasitic in humans and domestic animals, such as Corynebacterium diphtheriae, which causes diphtheria.""

ENANTIOMORPH

One of the enterobacteria; a member of the family Enterobacteriaceae.Enterobacteriaceae.

English character nearly a heresy (Levellers' view)

An empirical doctrine that advocates experimental principles.

FUTILITARIAN

""GOVERNMENTAL Pertaining to government; made by government; as, governmental duties. as, governmental duties.""

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

Ideal of man's welfare

I am an Irish nut and am troubled by a principle of benevolence

Benevolent philosophy in this UN aim? Drama without director unfolded

""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 ()

Funnel-shaped

""The view that the sanction of truth is its utility, or that truth is genuine only in so far as it is a valuable instrument.""

Interference by a government in economic matters

Democratic doctrine

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

MULTILATERAL Having many sides; manysided.

""CONSERVATISM The disposition and tendency to preserve what is established; opposition to change; the habit of mind; or conduct, of a conservative.""

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

Handedness, in chemistry

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,""

The blocking of a blood vessel by a blood clot dislodged from its site of origin.

The end of freedom

Absolute control by the government

System making a NATO militarist mad

ULTRALIBERAL

novelist stirring one martini as a rule (16)