2-Letter Words Starting with M

See cherry plum .

Mystagog

""The doctrines, principles, or practice of a mystagogue; interpretation of mysteries.""

One that creates myths or mythical situations.

Myxedema

Adjective (-al)

Nuts grown in Hawaii

Queensland nuts, in the US

Hawaiian nuts

""To cover, as a road, or street, parking lot, playground, or other flat area, with macadam, so as to form a smooth, hard, convex surface.macadam, so as to form a smooth, hard, convex surface.""

Macaronic

Macaroni

Macedoine

Macerate

Process of soaking fixed amount of spice

Process of breaking up staff allowance

Staff given allowance in softening-up process

Macerator

Suited to lathe-working

Joined with friend inside and plotted

Schemed to get married outside the country

Fancy plates

Plotter in country besieged by dull soldiers

Leader of men taking a country to right is seen as a plotter

Machinist

Scotsman worn out (wordplay)

Designer label in top and rubbish coat

Cover for an art-nouveau designer

Universes

Macrocyte

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

Macromere

A large phagocyte.

A macroscopic plant.

English word

Maculate

Stain

Itinerant men and ladies devouring last of free cakes

Madrepore

""Resembling, or pertaining to, the genus Madrepora.Madrepora.""

Madrilene

Powerful whirlpools

Realms most disrupted in turbulent situations

Mass with moral sets off destructive situations

Maffick

One who edits or writes for a magazine.

Magdalene

Wise men's girl on bench

Mark a point with sharp beaks

The bench

Beak spoils tart's image

Reformed tart is game to see JP

Wise men over the way rebuke judge

Magnesite

Magnesium

Attractive endgame - it's needing analysis

Given drawing qualities of a certain attraction

Makes attractive new version of message in short time

Magnetism

Magnetite

Made more attractive (wordplay)

Made attractive, in a way

""One who, or that which, imparts magnetism.""

Magnetize

Magnetron

Grand; splendid; illustrious; magnificent.

Weird faint magic of canticle

One replaces measure in beautiful hymn

Song of rhapsody and praise.

Magnifico

Magnifier

Increasing (optically)

Sizes, as of stars.

Ranjit Singh and others

Some Bollywood epic characters

Hindu rulers

Old royalty

Hindu princesses

Royal ladies who could make for a sane harem

Yoga instructors

Spiritualists

Mahlstick

Mahogany

Kind of fern

Fern - girl getting shock

This goes on ahead of a girl in Ferns

Young female boss somewhere in Berks

A he-man died horribly here

First leader from a Berkshire town

The state of being a maid or a virgin; virginity.

Big iron, in hacker slang

Large, powerful computers

Data center workhorses

Beijing resident, in Taipei

Californian, to a Hawaiian

Many a Hawaiian tourist

Mainline

Nautical ropes

Pining rams (anagram)

Chief motive power

Sea water in one's watch

Convention site (wordplay)

Criminal Barker wading (wordplay)

Alternative to alternative

Kept up (level)

Observed in animated dances

Made claim that was upheld

One who takes care of things

No estimate for rebuilding home

Make use of one's time at home

Small house, flat

Chief stewards

Chief stewards.

Staff leaders

Marching band leaders

Marching-band baton twirlers

Some halftime performers

Controlling groups in House and Senate.

Democratic rulers

Pluralities.

""A large letter, either capital or uncial, used in writing or printing.""

Capital letters

Substitutes.

Stopgaps

Something thrown in to avoid a shortage.

Small thing added to make up batch

Filler for a garden centre in 1008

Malachite

The science which relates to the structure and habits of mollusks.

Poorly suited

Poorly acclimated

Mum and boy, a quiet little boy socially awkward (wordplay)

Spanish dances like fandangos

In a bold or impudent way

Out of place

Unsuitable mother licks around poor Dicky

Inopportune

Malathion

Crab, not the apple

One with grouse

Faultfinding type

Maledict

Criminal testosterone (wordplay)

Fellow-broker may be a gangster

Agent in pursuit of man is a criminal

Hurtful as one of Gordon's evil-doers

Like evildoers

Doing evil

Maleness

Cruel man's brutal - cutting one

Bloke furious dropping one's bitter

Wishing evil to others

Pl. malignancies also malignance (-n ns) The state or quality of being malignant.

""The state or quality of being malignant; extreme malevolence; bitter enmity; malice; disposition toward evil; intense ill will; as, malignancy of heart.as, malignancy of heart.""

Stayed well away from work

Feigned incapacity

Feigned sickness

Person who's lying in bed, perhaps

Shirker of duty.

One pretending to be ill

Smelling very unpleasant

Amorous, old, perverted and smelly

Having a bad smell

Secondary fermentation

Abused whiskey and wine, consumed inside

Abused

MALTREAT to treat badly

Mammalian

""Of or pertaining to the mammilla, or nipple, or to the breast; resembling a mammilla; mammilloid.""

Mammitis

Mammock

Mammogram

Mammonism

Mammonist

Submitting to control

Open to being controlled

Able to be controlled

MANAGE to control or direct

Field of a retail boss

Fellow sales rep wants me in admin group

Poster of "please" signs

Woman in charge, a complainer, ruler in muddle

Like Stengel's job.

Pertaining to supervisors or bosses

Recollect alarm in age of administration

""A euphorbiaceous tree (Hippomane Mancinella) of tropical America, having a poisonous and blistering milky juice, and poisonous acrid fruit somewhat resembling an apple. Hippomane Mancinella) of tropical America, having a poisonous and blistering milky juice, and poisonous acrid fruit somewhat resembling an apple.""

Mandamus

Bloke entertains duke coming in to give orders

Appropriate or peculiar to a mandarin.

Lower jaw-related

Of the lower jaw

Relating to the jaw featured in bird manual

Mandoline

Bother in big house having a plant with narcotic properties

Used sly strategy

Schemed deviously

Dodger (wordplay)

MANFUL courageous

Manganate

Manganese

Manganite

Some gannet chewing sweet, juicy fruit

Tree one gets chopped by servant (wordplay)

Roughed up.

Treated roughly

Roughed up

Knocks around and pulls. Things to pick up a guy (wordplay)

They're garnished with cherries

Rob Roy relatives

Cocktail orders

Master murderer back with friend in a mad way

Manicure

Hands-on beautician (wordplay)

Marital mismatch quip (Part 2)

She's defiled (wordplay)

Made known

Demonstrated

MANIFEST to show clearly

3's '6' sent out, obviously

Clearly, obviously

Goal posts (wordplay)

Formal to-do lists

Public declarations

Manifold

In a manifold manner.

Pull strings of handle

Put a menial to work for doctor

Influence someone deviously

German author's dummies (wordplay)

Couturier's aids.

Models

Base-stealer's study re a pitcher

Tricks of behavior.

Quirks, say

Mannerist

Very rude

Impolite.

MANOEUVRE See Maneuver.Maneuver.

Chap works in military operations

Chap works for military advantage

Exercises can make me ravenous

Pressure gauges

Araucaria absent in exam about dealing with comparison of pressures

Title on "Downton Abbey"

Maid's counterpart

Family member is new butler in Batman

Manslayer

Gentleness required when scattering autumn seed

Manticore

Manubrium

Man Utd all over young one it released in the past

Released from Premiership team: fellow that's upset another

Author's typed draft

Musicologist's find

The earliest literary form

Manzanita

Mapmaking

Art of using cosmetics and make-up

What when drunk is crimson, aha!

Liqueur makes chairman so drunk!

Harmonicas (anagram) - cherry liqueur

Marasmus

One with a staggered start, perhaps

He may hit the wall

Olympic entrant in the 26-mile race.

MARBLEISE

Marbleise

""MARBLEIZE To stain or grain in imitation of marble; to cover with a surface resembling marble; as, to marbleize slate, wood, or iron. as, to marbleize slate, wood, or iron.""

Marbleize

Marcasite

Marcel

Marchpane

Plant butters, before they were cool

Certain spreads

Round at the cantina

Cinco de mayo orders

Cinco de mayo rounds

Margarite

Margent

Reader's notes, at times

Reader's notes

Notes written beside text

Not by much

Alarmingly frayed at the edges

Barely one month before drink with friend

""Same as Marginate, a. Marginate, a.""

Marginate

MARGRAVE a German nobleman of rank

MARGRAVE a German nobleman of rank

The wife of a margrave.

I urge mater to sort out Daisy maybe

She spurned Faust - such a bloomer!

Daisy contrived to present truer image

Marihuana

Marijuana

Marimbist

Marinade

Soaking up flavor

Kabob preparer's activity

Task for a barbecuer

""MARINATE to soak in seasoned liquid before cooking, also MARINADE""

Punch, for one.

One in a string band (wordplay)

*Howdy Doody, for one

MARKED mark

Fit for sale; in demand

Fit to be sold

Ready to go into business with clever type behind commercial centre

Marketeer

Marketing

A woman skilled in shooting at a target.

Notes warning about wife and armed females

Notice a couple of points warning they could be femmes fatales (wordplay)

Marlstone

Marmalade

Marquess

""The seigniory, dignity, or lordship of a marquis; the territory governed by a marquis.""

Warm robe on (anagram) - kind of jelly

Marrowfat

Placing in proper rank

A small herd, having gone astray, getting gathered together