2-Letter Words Starting with M

""MEGASCOPE A modification of the magic lantern, used esp. for throwing a magnified image of an opaque object on a screen, solar or artificial light being used.""

MEGASPORE

What is 6? 2 says 'fruit and veg'

Blue state (wordplay)

Dog that eats honeydew?

Affected with melanism; of the nature of melanism.

An epidermal cell capable of synthesizing melanin.

With multiple notes sung to one syllable

In threatening manner

Glance in my direction in intimidatory manner

MENARCHE the first occurrence of menstruation

A demonic mad American lying

(adj.) obsessed with fixing things

Having used Monica, resorted to lying

Begging to repair vessel in the cold

Those poor solicitors!

Alms seekers

These poor beggars finish by the thousand in cats

MENING mene

Meniscus

Relating to trade or commerce

Engaged in trade.

Mail centre becomes profit oriented

Mercaptan

MERCERISE

Mercerise

""MERCERIZE To treat (cotton fiber or fabrics) with a solution of caustic alkali. Such treatment causes the fiber to shrink in length and become stronger and more receptive of dyes. If the yarn or cloth is kept under tension during the process, it assumes a silky luster.""

Mercerize

Merchant

To one's great relief

MERCURATE

Mercurate

Mercurial

Ruler chosen for excellence

Mescaline

""The part of the embryonic mesoderm, consisting of loosely packed, unspecialized cells set in a gelatinous ground substance, from which connective tissue, bone, cartilage, and the circulatory and lymphatic systems develop.""

Pertaining to a mesentery; mesaraic.

MESOPHYTE

Any of ten human bones

Bone in hand

Bone came apart, fragments left

Came across a fish with useless bones

Part of hand between wrist and fingers

Palm bone

""∨ tre The point of intersection of a vertical line through the center of gravity of the fluid displaced by a floating body which is tipped through a small angle from its position of equilibrium, and the inclined line which was vertical through the center of gravity of the body when in equilibrium.""

""(used with a sing. verb) The study of the meaning and nature of ethical terms, judgments, and arguments.""

Like "chariot of fire" for the sun

Not literal

Figurative way to omit chapter where model disappears

Philosophical groundwork

In what orchestras make, the pay varies - there's no universal system of thought

""Of, pertaining to, or caused by, metastasis; as, a metastatic abscess; the metastatic processes of growth. as, a metastatic abscess; the metastatic processes of growth.""

METATE a stone used for grinding grains

Of a space-travelling object that has fallen to earth

English word

Systematic though brief in examination

Way I state to be orderly

Organised Oldie match at sea

Very careful and precise

Super-attentive to detail

Extremely careful

In a metrical manner.

METRICIZE

Metricize

""METRONOME An instrument consisting of a short pendulum with a sliding weight. It is set in motion by clockwork, and serves to measure time in music.""

Micrify

Microbeam

Microbrew

Sudden localized air current

Sudden violent downrush of air

Severe, storm-related downdraft

Microbus

Potato products in computers (wordplay)

Snack for an amoeba (wordplay)

Byte to eat (wordplay)

""A mineral of the feldspar group, like orthoclase or common feldspar in composition, but triclinic in form.""

""Pl. micrococci (-k k s , -k k ) A spherical, aerobic, gram-positive bacterium of the genus Micrococcus, usually occurring in irregular clusters.""

Microcode

Tiny universes

Miniature versions

English word

Microcyte

""MICROCYTE One of the elementary granules found in blood. They are much smaller than an ordinary corpuscle, and are particularly noticeable in disease, as in an\'91mia.""

The millionth part of a farad.

English word

Tiny tuna (wordplay)

Outmoded data storage

Strange choice firm made for archive medium

Microfilm

Extremely small plants

Microform

English word

Microgram

An instrument for executing minute writing or engraving.

Noun (-age)

""MICROLITE A rare mineral of resinous luster and high specific gravity. It is a tantalate of calcium, and occurs in octahedral crystals usually very minute.""

Microlith

Microlux

Microlux

Micromere

Tiny distance measure

Precision instrument

Measure of the small-time crime waves engulfing capital

Micromini

English word

Micromole

MICRONIZE

Micronize

A small phagocyte.

Just the instrument for great sound!

Sound investment (wordplay)

Emcee's need

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Botany) Botany the relatively small type of leaf produced by club mosses and horsetails Compare megaphyll

English word

Micropore

(Miscellaneous Technologies / Photography) Photog a small prism incorporated in the focusing screen of many single-lens reflex cameras. The prism stops shimmering when the subject is in focus

English word

Botany A minute opening in the ovule of a seed plant through which the pollen tube usually enters.

Micropyle

English word

English word

An eye for detail (wordplay)

This makes for swell viewing!

It blows up in the lab

Seeing Little and Large in road, credit impersonation

""A feeble earth tremor not directly perceptible, but detected only by means of specially constructed apparatus.""

MICROSOME a tiny granule in the cytoplasm of a cell; it consists of ribosomes bound to fragments of the endoplasmic reticulum and mitochondria.

Microsome

""One of the exceedingly minute spores found in certain flowerless plants, as Selaginella and Isoetes, which bear two kinds of spores, one very much smaller than the other. Cf. Macrospore. Selaginella and Isoetes, which bear two kinds of spores, one very much smaller than the other. Cf. Macrospore.""

MICROS micro

Microtome

MICROTONE

Microtone

""Pl. microvilli (-v l ) Any of the minute hairlike structures projecting from the surface of certain types of epithelial cells, especially those of the small intestine.""

Microvolt

Microwatt

Cooked quickly

Heated up, warm voice melted heart of model

Zapped

Fast food contrivances

Kitchen contrivances

Currently my blackbird flaps its wings when cooking there

English word

Micrurgy

MICTURATE to pass urine through the ureter; to urinate.

Micturate

Torso

Trunk

Ship duties, midnight to 4 A. M.

Militance

Abbr. mc or mCi A unit of radioactivity equal to one thousandth (10 -3 ) of a curie.

Millilux

Minacity

Mincemeat

""A short, usually intensive course on a subject of study.""

An alternative school offering specialized or one-on-one instruction.

Miniscule

Minuscule

MIRACIDIA

Pl -ia [-ɪə] (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) the flat ciliated larva of flukes that hatches from the egg and gives rise asexually to other larval forms

Our musical interpretation is marvellous

Incredibly wonderful

'Unbelievable!'

BALANCE to have equal weight or power

Misbecome

Miscall

CAPTION to provide with a title

Miscarry

Goes wrong.

Actor's problem.

CATALOG to classify information descriptively

PATchwork of stuff

Anthology: I flog about 100 in a lot

Varied collection

Bits of bad luck.

Unfortunate events

CHANNEL to direct along a course

CHARGED charge

Mischarge

Mischoice

Misclaim

Misclass

Misclass

Miscoin

Miscolor

To compute erroneously.

Frenchman is to handle malpractice

Improper behaviour

Bad behaviour

CONNECT to join together

Miscook

Miscopy

Miscount

Is rent scam their undoing (wordplay)

Villains' crimes shatter workers

Depraved, devilish dastards

Formed unnaturally or illegitimately; deformed.

Miscreate

Miscut

A magician does it

Leads astray

Teach myths, say

Ledge under choir stall seat

Church's "mercy seat"

Dagger gives room for breaking the rules

Misfocus

Misfocus

Miskick

LOCATED locate

Mislocate

Ill-suited as partners

Mated unsuitably.

Badly suited maiden is game, Edward concluded

Pessimism at chess games revealed as such!

PACKAGE to put into a container or wrapping

Mispatch

Mispatch

Losing

Misprice

Misreckon

Misrecord

Misspace

Misteach

Mistouch

Mistouch

Mistrace

Mitomycin

""Of, or relating to, a mobocracy.""

Monachism

Monadnock

Monarchic.

Chap engaged in battle with Denmark, Sweden, Norway etc

""The principles of, or preference for, monarchy.""

No Chartism reforms for him!

A fan of Queen (wordplay)

Mac, in short, butchered for kingship

""MONOACID a type of acid, also MONACID""

MONOCARP a plant that yields fruit only once before dying

""Pl. monochasia (-z - , -zh - , -zh ) A cyme having a single flower on each axis.""

Monochord

Type of painting.

Black and white

In one colour

Monocline

""Having one oblique intersection; said of that system of crystallization in which the vertical axis is inclined to one, but at right angles to the other, lateral axis. See Crystallization. Crystallization.""

MONOCLE an eyeglass for one eye

Monocoque

Relating to a government whose leader has absolute power

Monocular

Having one ring of atoms in the molecule

""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.""

Monoecism

Containing one replaceable atom of hydrogen.

Immovably massive

Monumental record ignited this as the Romans said

Fitness freak, for one

Person obsessed with one issue

Obsessive type

Like most 1950s recordings