2-Letter Words Starting with M

Learns by heart

Learns off Messi shimmying round City back

Word from Latin meaning 'from memory' or 'by heart'

Learned by rote

A person who learns by rote.

Learns by heart

Learns by remembering

Ladies in India

""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)

Menarche

Repair Chicago's slums?

Repair Chicago's slums (wordplay)

Lying urban reformer's slogan (wordplay)

Beggar's apology (wordplay)

Zsa Zsa on darning socks (wordplay)

Fix it, holding can for beggar

The practice of begging; the life of a beggar; mendicancy.

Menhaden

Of brain membrane

People love to hold back change

It's no ovary action

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

MENSE to do honour to

""Recurring once a month; monthly; gone through in a month; as, the menstrual revolution of the moon; pertaining to monthly changes; as, the menstrual equation of the sun's place. as, the menstrual revolution of the moon; pertaining to monthly changes; as, the menstrual equation of the sun's place.""

Solvent used in the preparation of drugs

A doctrine that mind is the only true reality and that objects exist only as aspects of the mind's awareness.

Kreskin, for one

What this puzzle is (wordplay)

Kreskin, for example

State of mind

Way of thinking

Approach, perhaps

Thinking process

Menthene

Given a reference

Made reference to

Said to be intoned after me

MENTION to remark briefly

Being a personal guide to

Guru's forte

Helping a protege

""A green crystalline organic compound, C 20 H 8 Br 2 HgNa 2 O 6 , that forms a red aqueous solution, used as a germicide and antiseptic.""

On foreign sea skipper discharges one organic compound

Perfect job for Warren (wordplay)

A charging soldier (wordplay)

Soldier of Fortune subject

Textile shops, in London

MERCER a dealer in textiles

Treat (cotton) with alkali for strength and lustre

Poet inclined to pontificate (wordplay)

Antonio and others.

Traders in French sea shanties

Showing no compassion

A cold 'No thanks to the French'

Descriptor for Ming

MERCURATE

Lively blackbird circling court

Prone to sudden mood swings

Like a liquid metallic element

Messengers or guides.

Full of a liquid metal

Dances from Hispaniola

Bird swimming near germs

Germans cooked the Queen's goose

Duck near germs spreading

Mergence

Cartographer's concerns.

North-to-south lines on a map.

Qi's pathways in Chinese medicine

Frothy pie toppings

Frothy toppings

Miner fails with endless speculation on what's for afters

Meristem

Of or relating to a gland whose secretory cells remain undamaged during secretion.

""A form of spore, usually elongate or falciform, and somewhat amoeboid, produced by segmentation of the schizonts of certain Sporozoa, as the malaria parasite.""

Hood's gang reported - time for fun!

Gaiety, laughter, fun

Celebratory goings-on

Mirthful mood

Jollity.

Jollity

Kin of LSD

LSD-like drug*

Cactus hallucinogen

Meseems

See midgut .

""The membranes, or one of the membranes (consisting of a fold of the peritoneum and inclosed tissues), which connect the intestines and their appendages with the dorsal wall of the abdominal cavity. The mesentery proper is connected with the jejunum and ilium, the other mesenteries being called mesoc, mesocolon, mesorectum, etc. mesoc, mesocolon, mesorectum, etc.""

English word

Meshwork

Hypnotise, spellbind

Many seem disconcerted with increase for entrance

Transfix

Form of hypnosis

Fascination

Under achiever (wordplay)

He might make you sleep

Trance producer

Make spellbound

Spellbind

Fascinate

Mesocarp

Mesoderm

Mesoglea

The layer of gelatinous material that separates the inner and outer cell layers of a coelenterate.

Mesomere

Body type somewhere in the middle

Person with a muscular body

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

""The photosynthetic tissue of a leaf, located between the upper and lower epidermis.""

Mesophyl

A land plant that grows in an environment having a moderate amount of moisture.

English word

Mesosome

Nuclear particles.

Something unsightly hiding pretty trees

I sang gems of communication

After muddle is getting on sending texts (wordplay)

Silky, twilled fabric.

Light silk

Soft fabric.

Agent for runner (wordplay)

Herald compiler on ship turning green!

Bird calling (wordplay)

Like one expected to deliver (wordplay)

Having a cult following, say

Like some sacred music

Title of Frenchmen

Nice 1 for some locals

Old-fashioned letter opener

Not in order to make emessss (wordplay)

Slob's quality

Neat freak's bane

Companions at chow

Boot camp pals

Military eating buddies

Household groupings, in law

Mesteso

Mestino

Mestizo

""A synthetic estrogen, C 21 H 26 O 2 , used in combination with a progestin in oral contraceptive preparations.""

Kind of weight loss

Pertaining to chemical processes of life

Of an energy-giving process.

Bones between the wrist and fingers

Before one gets minced meat and fish fingers, depend on them

Metalise

Metalise

Metalist

Gilt, perhaps

Metalize

Metallic

Metal

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

Arsenic, for one

Arsenic or silicon

Arsenic, for example, in it: old meal poisoned

""Any of several small, darkly colored butterflies of the family Riodinidae, occurring mainly in tropical regions and having iridescent lines or spots on the wings.""

Artistic smithwork

Mark and the rest operate this craft!

Walk, Metro out of order. Rails perhaps

Welding and soldering et al.

Metamere

""Having the same elements united in the same proportion by weight, and with the same molecular weight, but possessing a different structure and different properties; as, methyl ether and ethyl alcohol are metameric compounds. See Isomeric. as, methyl ether and ethyl alcohol are metameric compounds. See Isomeric.""

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

Pom earths are figures of speech

Tom Sharpe employed them

Bad writers mix them

Is tame rat breaking bones (wordplay)

Came across one eating a sailor's bones

Satisfied a sailor is twisting bones

The part of the primary xylem that differentiates after the protoxylem and is characterized by broader vessels and tracheids.

Metazoan

Fall object (wordplay)

Lunar lander (wordplay)

Source of pre-Iron Age iron

Space rock, maybe

Potential shooting star

Small rock in space

Meterage

METES mete

Narcotic analgesic drug

Drug used in treating addiction

Drug used to treat addicts

Methadon

Methanol

Spiced mead

METHOD orderly procedure

Tommies with hearts and diamonds converted to religion

What could make him modest is a type of Christian outlook

Protestant who's the M in SMU

Way it's converted church member

A follower of Wesleyanism

""To reduce to method; to dispose in due order; to arrange in a convenient manner; as, to methodize one's work or thoughts. as, to methodize one's work or thoughts.""

Spirit should be for this, I imagined

Very old, I reckoned

Had met outside, though, I suspected

Methylal

English word

May initially stimulate when swallowing your old mix with alcohol

Radical left the enemy bewildered

After me, your Leonard, 'e is on meths

Chemical found in paints, varnishes, solvents and inks

METONYM a word used in metonymy

METRIC a standard of measurement

Metrify

Metrify

Science of measurement

Science of weights and measures

Musician's pace maker (wordplay)

A city elf (wordplay)

Dwarf in a Parisian subway?

Mezereon

Mezereum

Mezquite

Floor between first and second

Level in the theater

Neither orchestra nor balcony

Art method used by M.C. Escher

Copper engraving.

Engraving showing singer in her true colours (wordplay)

""Pertaining to, or containing, mica; splitting into lamin\'91 or leaves like mica.""

Micawber

Micrify

Micrify

English word

PBR or IPA (wordplay)

Beer festival offering

Runs into bacterium, say, on head of weak beer

Detailed computer instructions

""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.""

""One of the smaller cells, or blastomeres, resulting from the complete segmentation of a telolecithal ovum.""

One millionth (10 -6 ) of a mole.

""MICRON a unit of length, also MIKRON""

English word

""An opening in the membranes surrounding the ovum, by which nutrition is assisted and the entrance of the spermatozoa permitted.""

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

The curse on ancient Greek citizen

Music An interval smaller than a semitone.

A small goodbye (wordplay)

Stove neighbor, maybe

Modern oven using electromagnetism

Urinate

Half-way through the main dish

Kind of correction

Intermediary no extremist (wordplay)

Not an extremist Wholesaler (wordplay)

The Go-Between (wordplay)

Wheelers and dealers, often

There's no end of them

They're not extremely businesslike

Midfield

Midrange

Midspace

No place to 4 (wordplay)

Current location (wordplay)

Furthest from banks

The - Marriage (Tippett)

Time of madness (wordplay)

Perhaps 24/06/2000 is seen here (wordplay)

""Occurring during the middle of the week; as, a midweekly prayer meeting.as, a midweekly prayer meeting.""

Form of obstetrics

Bleakest time of year (wordplay)

Very cold time, for many

Coldest time, often

Strongest eight loses cohesion in fog

Having the greatest power.

Powerful to the max

Brain busters (wordplay)

Maladies often eased by caffeine

They're major headaches

Mijnheer

Milden

Mildew

Distance markers along a highway

Project benchmarks

Distance signs

Milesimo

Anniversary, for one.

Important stage (reached)

Event in a career.

Fighting or warring.

Had effect

With a limit to the date, that influenced it

This counted against what it ate in such a mild way

Has an effect

Has weight or effect.

Has influence

State or quality of being milky.

Milkshed

Milkweed

Millcake

Aggregate of one thousand years

A thousandth anniversary.

Thousandth anniversary

Big stretch (wordplay)

Note modulating all nine periods

Really long time

Milleped

Adherent of Adventist William

Milliare

Millieme

One thousandth (10 -3 ) of a mole.

Hat-makers

1,049 steamships

Art of hat-making

Pillboxes and such

Lilly Dache's metier

What a heel may come back as

Many-legged creature

Thousand-legger

Milliped

Millirem

Certain currents of water.

They drive it where it gets ground

Sick peoples by the thousand, and it's all due to water

Plants tee and single makes albatross

Heavy and inescapable responsibility

Albatross or handicap

Mimesis

Mimetite

Kim's crime? Working with copycats!

Copycats

Mimicry

Make team, perhaps, a pie filling

Turkey Day pie

Pie filling that may include beef

Forty-niner's profession (wordplay)

Dangerous place where eggs are laid

My land is likely to go up

Ship that's dangerous to follow

Warship that places explosive charges

Warship putting down explosives

Lionel train, say

Great painting? Far from it!

Dollhouse maker's mantra (wordplay)

MINIBIKE a small motorcycle