2-Letter Words Starting with M

Heat-resistant plastic

H eat-resistant plastic

Resin surface made from Maine elm

Deep black garnet variety

Black garnet.

""To make dark, also MELANISE""

Fusible

Eardrum, for one

Thin, skin-like tissue

Eardrum, e.g

The first occurrence of menstruation

Like most small clothing tears

Like easily repaired things

Like easily-repaired things

He's fed up with you!

Dining companion at sea

Shipboard dining companion

House with outbuildings and land (law)

Communication about upper-class property

House and lands, legally

""To treat with metal, also METALIZE""

Coat with zinc or tin

Strengthen, in a way

Crayfish feature

Gasman's reading

Measurement of kilowatt usage.

Micella

Neither high nor low

Not a compact or luxury car

Neither cheapest nor most expensive

The middle of space

It's a headache as I dash into myself!

Hot-dog headache (wordplay)

From mare gin I get a severe headache

Be a force (against)

Have weight (against)

Have power (against)

Like peppercorns

A residue from pressed linseed

A unit of area

Flow of water in motorway bad - hurry!

Channel for a water-driven wheel

Channel for water driving wheel

Able to be mined

Auntie, I'm fussed about minor details

Most trivial details

Tiny or trivial details

To atone wrongly

To frame badly

Measure incorrectly

Estimate incorrectly.

To grade incorrectly

To parse incorrectly

Lose - limp case (anagram)

Put in wrong location

Put in the wrong spot

To raise wrongly

Emphasis (anagram)

Mar, in a way

Distort, using emphasis in wrong way

To space incorrectly

Say wrong (wordplay)

Say it wrong

Art patron's daughter, say, making error

Make a drafting error

Mrs. Malaprop's problem

Malapropism

Underrate or overrate

Reduce the severity of, say a sentence

Take the edge off

Make less harsh

Like a moat

Able to be mocked

Regulate the cost of fashion (wordplay)

Reasonable cost of fashion (wordplay)

Middle-of-the-road

Vary the tone or pitch of (one's voice)

Adjust tone or pitch

Keep loud team from getting louder

Able to be molded

A mineral

Lecture is given in spirit

Lecture when spirit is trapped inside

Preach new realism about love

Opine self-righteously

Give a sermon

Get all preachy

A pledging document

Subject to obligation

Loan on house

Having a musky odor

Give an incentive

Stimulate to action.

Give incentive to

Make (a hole)

Like Gutenberg's type

Not stationary

Gum with which Alice got involved

Gluey mixture of carbohydrates in plants

Relative of library paste

Expose public scandals

Dig out scandal

(Journalist) seek scandal

Including people of various ages

""Covered with short, sharp points""

Social entertainment of a sort

Soiree entertainment

Tuneful event

Charlie Chaplin's toothbrush, for one

Milk mark (wordplay)

Handlebar, for one

Causing genetic change

Changeable.

Grangerize (a book)

Ultimate butcher's butcher (wordplay)

Damage very seriously

Mixture of diced veg or fruit

Type of salad.

Fruit dessert

Friend involving another in scheme

Scheme to do harm.

Plot to do harm

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

A large blastomere.

Member of Bill's cabinet

Cake singer stuffed in hole

Small French cake immortalized by Proust

Dear me! PRO dispersed coral

Tomato consomme

Angel made unusual appearance for Mary

College at Cambridge.

Cambridge University college

Arachnid holding girl in native compound

Wizard catch is held to produce draw

Draw in game set to change

Geminates arrangement to attract strongly

""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)

Eating mud (anagram)

Extent of mud in gate, perhaps

Extent of horrible mud-eating

Indian princess, once

Important Indian

Indian princess

Mar famine (anagram)

Transfer to Madrid (wordplay)

Large computer for the scholar below me

Stick with her on parade (wordplay)

Female baton twirler

Band leader, at times

""A capital letter; especially, one used in ancient manuscripts. See Majuscul\'91. Majuscul\'91.""

This climate - Ah, it's so green!

Stone bloke found inscribed with a note

Mineral with green bands

Plastic label woven into man's clothing

Like pure gold

Far from recalcitrant

Mammilla

Chap with a party line instrument

Crew perform on string instrument

Kitchen shredder/slicer

A salt of manganic acid.

Element - Anne's game (anagram)

Element of Lucy's style (wordplay)

Element used by steelmakers

""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.""

Be rough with Guy, say (wordplay)

Clue to homo sapiens (wordplay)

Clue to homo sapiens?

How devious is the work of humanity!

Stratagem to get staff to go to work

Work on an island operation

Human-lion dragon hybrid

Mythical stinging beast

Legendary creature similar to the Sphinx

MARBLE to vein or print in a mottled manner

Stain in a way.

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

Mineral found in refuse on a building location (wordplay)

Adjective meaning resembling

Word for marzipan used until 19th century

Is Ma angrier at this spread (wordplay)

I Can't Believe It's Not Butter!

Fat-based butter substitute

A pearl.

Having a margin distinct in appearance or structure.

Clayey rock once common in building

Bear spread (wordplay)

Citrus-imbued toast topper

Orange-flavored toast spread

To make a martyr of.

'Man' is clue (anagram)

Calumnies about male equality

Calumnies about macho type

Munch kin (wordplay)

Make easier to swallow

Champ married bubbly Blanchett

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

Taking the old lady out (wordplay)

The killing of one's mother

Murder of one's mother

At the same time.

In the intervening time

In the interim

Replace personnel with robots

Diplomatic and thoughtful Taiwanese leader's ousted

Having a remedy

Put the girl on a bike with some frequency

For crying out loud, you should use it!

Cheerleader's instrument

Voice-amplifying device

The larger of two types of spores that give rise to a female gametophyte. Also called macrospore .

Old priest or inmate has to improve

Oriel team resolved to improve

Improve, having married priest - nothing to reprove

Noteworthy, as a performance

Not to be forgotten.

Impressive, as a speech or performance

""A yellow crystalline powder, C 11 H 8 O 2 , used in medicine as a vitamin K supplement.""

Animal collective (wordplay)

Beastly place (wordplay)

Where the wild things are (wordplay)

People love to hold back change

It's no ovary action

Midlife crisis where people work to accept a regrettable conclusion (wordplay)

MERCURATE

Kin of LSD

LSD-like drug*

Cactus hallucinogen

""An atmospheric area about 80 kilometers (50 miles) above the earth's surface, forming the upper boundary of the mesosphere.""

English word

Silky, twilled fabric.

Light silk

Soft fabric.

To impart metallic properties to; to impregnate with a metal.

Artistic smithwork

""The stage of mitosis and meiosis, following prophase and preceding anaphase, during which the chromosomes are aligned along the metaphase plate.""

Narcotic analgesic drug

Drug used in treating addiction

Drug used to treat addicts

English word

May initially stimulate when swallowing your old mix with alcohol

Floor between first and second

Level in the theater

Neither orchestra nor balcony

A small goodbye (wordplay)

Stove neighbor, maybe

Modern oven using electromagnetism

Urinate

Fighting or warring.

Lionel train, say

Great painting? Far from it!

Dollhouse maker's mantra (wordplay)

San Marino or Andorra

Warn wrongly.

BECAME become

Conduct oneself badly

Get out of LINE

Copy a poor conductor

Stroke of bad luck

Caught in flying machine's accident

An accident by mechanics

Error in bill spread about one's church

""Miscreated; illegitimate; forged; as, miscreate titles. as, miscreate titles.""

Can one mean to be so unhappy (wordplay)

Skinflint fit to be unhappy

Sad musical with less entourage

Fumble, perhaps on the goal line

Fluff man held is foul

Maltreat said girl with title

LOCATE to find or pinpoint

Screw up for one brief second in r-run

Handle wrongly, as funds

A weak soccer boss might do this

Get story wrong, so do not make connection

A salt of molybdic acid.

""An amine compound containing one amino group, especially a compound that functions as a neurotransmitter.""

Lindbergh's craft

Type of flying machine.

What Lindbergh flew to Paris

English word

Tremor on satellite's surface

Armstrong's 1969 view

View from a LEM

Picture of the lunar surface

Gem named after financier J.P.

Rose-colored beryl

Home loan offerer

ATM George misused as source of money

Bank client

Car to demo (anagram)

Traveling Beck song (wordplay)

Procession using cars

Such as can be mounted.

Handle bar, for one.

Growing row over speaker (wordplay)

Hair on upper lip

MUCRO a sharp point at the end of certain plant and animal organs

Having several lanes: a multilane highway.

Noun (-age)

""A name given to several very different kinds of grapes, but in America used chiefly for the scuppernong, or southern fox grape, which is said to be the parent stock of the Catawba. See Grapevine. Grapevine.""

""A highly toxic alkaloid, C 9 H 20 NO 2 , related to the cholines, derived from the red form of the mushroom Amanita muscaria and found in decaying animal tissue.""

MUTUAL shared in common

""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.""

Suited to lathe-working

A large phagocyte.

A macroscopic plant.

English word

Beak spoils tart's image

Reformed tart is game to see JP

Wise men over the way rebuke judge

No estimate for rebuilding home

Make use of one's time at home

Small house, flat

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

Submitting to control

Open to being controlled

Able to be controlled

Pull strings of handle

Put a menial to work for doctor

Influence someone deviously

Gentleness required when scattering autumn seed

Art of using cosmetics and make-up

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

Punch, for one.

One in a string band (wordplay)

*Howdy Doody, for one

Fit for sale; in demand

Fit to be sold

Ready to go into business with clever type behind commercial centre

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

Warm robe on (anagram) - kind of jelly

Carbon-steel component

Steel component in designated habitat for semi-arboreal mammal (wordplay)

Something in steel that makes main street look awful

Man gets wind of betting system

Boy given heavy blow with strap

Double-up betting system

Hard cheese? Far from it!

Mum's only eating fish and cheese

A soft Italian cream cheese

Ball made square, amazingly

Mardi Gras revelry.

Act under false pretenses.

""To achieve sexual gratification by stimulating one's own sexual organs, without the aid of a partner; -- typically to the point of orgasm.""

Springtime condiment (wordplay)

Filipino alt rock band

Might be a sin, one sloppily dressing

Criminal behind bars discovered in daze

Of discernible size

Given to contemplation.

Having deep thoughts

Deep-thinking

English word

Larger of two reproductive cells

An epidermal cell capable of synthesizing melanin.

English word

Menstruous.

Capable of being measured; measurable.

Relating to trade or commerce

Engaged in trade.

Mail centre becomes profit oriented

""A product of metabolism; a substance produced by metabolic action, as urea.""

To change by a metabolic process. See Metabolism. Metabolism.

Literal translation

Repeat ham's changes - turning prose into verse

Ape and hamster dancing for a solver's final target (this puzzle's is one word)

""Of, relating to, or being an unstable and transient but relatively long-lived state of a chemical or physical system, as of a supersaturated solution or an excited atom.""

Noun (-age)

A small phagocyte.

English word

English word

MICROS micro