2-Letter Words Starting with M

Topic sentences (wordplay)

Science of improving the memory.

Art of improving the memory.

""A condition in which the lower classes of a nation control public affairs without respect to law, precedents, or vested rights.""

Mobocrat

Heelless slip-ons

Soft shoes

Casual footwear

Travesties

By way of derision; in a contemptuous or mocking manner.

Of atomic structure.

Kind of weight or formula

Kind of biology

Groups of atoms

Bits with bonds

Small particles of matter

Of or pertaining to mollusks.

The system and influences of a monastic life; monasticism.

Peak in S. W. New Hampshire, 3,186 ft

Sovereign.

At start of week, Henry follows a religion to do with head of state

Roman building with style of kings

Of hereditary rule

Lisa perhaps, right in fashion like a queen

Cenobites.

Anchorites

""Consisting of, or containing, one atom; as, the molecule of mercury is monatomic. as, the molecule of mercury is monatomic.""

""See Mon\'d2cian, and Mon\'d2cious.Mon\'d2cian, and Mon\'d2cious.""

Names

Monoacid

""Capable of being neutralized by a univalent base or basic radical; having but one acid hydrogen atom to be replaced; said of acids; as, acetic, nitric, and hydrochloric acids are monobasic. as, acetic, nitric, and hydrochloric acids are monobasic.""

Monocarp

""An instrument for experimenting upon the mathematical relations of musical sounds. It consists of a single string stretched between two bridges, one or both of which are movable, and which stand upon a graduated rule for the purpose of readily changing and measuring the length of the part of the string between them.""

A monoclinal fold.

""A metal structure, such as an aircraft, in which the skin absorbs all or most of the stresses to which the body is subjected.""

Government by a single person; undivided rule.

Monocrat

Like a birder's field glass

Like many microscopes

New moon? On reflection, you see Altair regularly with one eye

Monocyte

MONOCYTE a type of white blood cell

Belonging to a monody.

Monoecy

""Botany Having unisexual reproductive organs or flowers, with the organs or flowers of both sexes borne on a single plant, as in corn and pines.""

""Pertaining to, or involving, monogamy.""

Of or pertaining to monogenesis.

Like molecules that can bond in a polymer

(Medicine) an animal or person with only one testicle

MONOSOME an unpaired chromosome

Uttered in a dull way

Unvarying in pitch

Love to get boost after day lacking variety

""Having but one type; containing but one representative; as, a monotypic genus, which contains but one species.as, a monotypic genus, which contains but one species.""

""Having a round, full face.""

Armstrong's 1969 view

View from a LEM

Picture of the lunar surface

Moorcock

Of or pertaining to a morpheme.

"Six Feet Under" occupation

'Six Feet Under' occupation

Six Feet Under occupation

Mortice

MOSAIC to decorate with an inlaid surface

MOSAIC to decorate with an inlaid surface

Mosaic

Old turtles

Off-road racing competition

Bikers' competition on a dirt trail

Grueling race for bikers

Car to demo (anagram)

Traveling Beck song (wordplay)

Procession using cars

Afford one of them, by the sound of it

Sunday traffic.

Formula One racing would be quiet without them!

Mouchoir

Handle bar, for one.

Growing row over speaker (wordplay)

Hair on upper lip

Muchacho

Glues

Muckluck

Dug for dirt

Scandal sheet employee

Tarbell, for example

Writer of exposes

Searches out scandal, digs the dirt

Muckworm

Breaking down or hydrolyzing mucus or mucopolysaccharides.

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

Mudcap

Word with prefix multi-

Abstract noun (-ity)

Word with prefix multi-

""Any one of several species of small American cyprinodont fishes of the genus Fundulus, and of allied genera; the killifishes; called also minnow. Fundulus, and of allied genera; the killifishes; called also minnow.""

Lollipop Guild members

Diminutive characters eat, and sink rum

Members of "The Lullaby League"

Like Bonds in San Francisco (wordplay)

German city cut one friend of the town

Run by the council

Muscadel

Muscadet

""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.""

Sweet after-dinner drinks

Russian capitalist (wordplay)

A citizen of Moscow

Boris Pasternak was one

Private concerts.

With pleasing effect

Members of a combo.

Start of a quip

Band members

Like Dali

Items in a makeup kit.

Milk drinkers' mementos

Certain foam formations

Feature of many a bandito

Large elegantly curling hair above mouth

Facial decoration.

MUTAGEN a substance that causes biological mutation

Mutchkin

Mycetoma

English word

Fungivorous.

English word

A toxin produced by a fungus.

Causing dilatation of the pupil.

A large cell of the bone marrow that is a precursor of the mature granulocyte of the blood.

Myocardium

""A sudden twitching of muscles or parts of muscles, without any rhythm or pattern, occurring in various brain disorders.""

""A sudden twitching of muscles or parts of muscles, without any rhythm or pattern, occurring in various brain disorders.""

Of or pertaining to myopathia.

Myoscope

It's thought to be quite divine

Kabbalah, for example

Sufi beliefs, for example

MYTHIC {mythical=adj}

Myxocyte

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

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

Maffick

Wise men's girl on bench

Mark a point with sharp beaks

The bench

Grand; splendid; illustrious; magnificent.

Weird faint magic of canticle

One replaces measure in beautiful hymn

Song of rhapsody and praise.

Magnifico

Mahlstick

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

Capital letters

Malachite

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

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

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.""

Secondary fermentation

Mammock

""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.""

Appropriate or peculiar to a mandarin.

Master murderer back with friend in a mad way

Manicure

Hands-on beautician (wordplay)

Marital mismatch quip (Part 2)

She's defiled (wordplay)

Araucaria absent in exam about dealing with comparison of pressures

Manticore

Author's typed draft

Musicologist's find

The earliest literary form

What when drunk is crimson, aha!

Liqueur makes chairman so drunk!

Harmonicas (anagram) - cherry liqueur

Marcasite

Marcel

Marchpane

Mascara

Hard cheese? Far from it!

Mum's only eating fish and cheese

A soft Italian cream cheese

Masculine

Masochism

Painfully aware people (wordplay)

Scots Amish splinter group getting pleasure from pain

Massacrer

Doing a lot of damage to*

Wiping out call after service bill

Of or pertaining to the masseter.

""Pl. mastectomies Surgical removal of all or part of a breast, sometimes including excision of the underlying pectoral muscles and regional lymph nodes, usually performed as a treatment for cancer.""

Chewed on

Chewed

Chews

One who masticates.

MASTODON an extinct elephant-like mammal

A board that has a groove cut into one edge and a tongue cut into the other so they fit tightly together (as in a floor); see match boarding.match boarding.

PHILLUMENIST

Containers of a sort.

Phillumenist's collection

Small cardboard containers

Union shuts away old guns

Test God as Cupid (wordplay)

Dolly Levi, for one

Boxing's Don King (wordplay)

Red-headed striker (wordplay)

How to light up a game with criticism

Agree to fix being very thin

Matchwood

See Mathematical. Mathematical.

Matriarch

Rule by mothers

Rule by women

Woman bosses modified hems on tiny armchair

Of or pertaining to matricide.

They're sure to live longer than their mothers

Name deriving from female ancestor; my, romantic (anagram)

Maulstick

Bottom for one without intelligence

Kind of drawing

Fixer and Mafia boss, unconscious

Mechanism

Mechanist

MECHANIZE To cause to be mechanical.

MECHANIZE To cause to be mechanical.

Provides with armored motor vehicles

Makes automatic

Meclizine

""MEDEVAC to evacuate the wounded from a battlefield by helicopter, also MEDIVAC""

MEDIAE media

Doctor meant to change the remedy

Healing substance

Curative substance

Medicate

Nurse's concern

Doctor's offering

Caught in a way to settle dispute: drugs, perhaps

Medicinal

Medicine

Person of only average ability

Clay forms each summer

for example Tobacco pipe

Pipe bowl material

Megacity

Little woman's transports (wordplay)

Huge bikes in engineering units

Like Stonehenge

One million parsecs.

""MEGAPHONE A device to magnify sound, or direct it in a given direction in a greater volume, as a very large funnel used as an ear trumpet or as a speaking trumpet.""