2-Letter Words Starting with M

A pearl.

Having a margin distinct in appearance or structure.

Margin

South-of-the-border dance musicians

Mexican dance musicians

Mexican street musicians

Yellow or orange blooms

Man-in-the-Moon flowers

Showy yellow flowers

Illegal drug (alt. spelling)

Alternative spelling for the hemp plant

""A strong-smelling Asian plant (Cannabis sativa), also called hemp, from which a number of euphorogenic and halucinogenic drugs are prepared. The euphoric effect is predominently due to tetrahydrocannabinol (THC).Cannabis sativa), also called hemp, from which a number of euphorogenic and halucinogenic drugs are prepared. The euphoric effect is predominently due to tetrahydrocannabinol (THC).""

Person associated with (-ist)

Marinade

Wine baths (wordplay)

Balls is mad near Pickles

Type of car I hit going in reverse

Pasta sauces

Prepared for the grill, say

Named Rita (anagram)

Steeped in oil and vinegar.

Pickles, as fish.

Steeps in oil and vinegar.

Seasons, as meat

Opahs and sego lilies

Showy Mexican flowers

Insectas del orden Lepidoptera

Arachne conforms after 31 days in wedlock

Promoting shopping in America

Stripe on a zebra, for example

Stripe on a zebra, e.g

Marocain

Leaving stranded

Some cut diamonds

French noblemen or noblewomen

Earls' superiors

Events for Figaro and others.

There's not a single one after them

Society page news.

Marrow

Most like a bayou

Wallaby, for one.

Koala, for one

Pocket protector (wordplay)

Kangaroo's pouch

Kangeroo's pouch

Pouch

In a martial manner.

Strict sergeants, say

Strictly speaking, that's all they are

Tough taskmasters

Martyry

Martyr

To make a martyr of.

Showing awe

Marzipan

'Man' is clue (anagram)

Calumnies about male equality

Calumnies about macho type

Pleasure having bent for punishment

Taking pains to enjoy oneself

Morbid gratification in suffering pain

Stomach is churning - but he enjoys it!

He takes pains to provide pleasure

Is stomach upset? One probably enjoys it

Bricklayers' projects

Stoneworks

Rubbing the right way (wordplay)

Is the population getting older? There's the rub!

The seervice is getting old - there"s the rub

Massicot

In a big way

In an extremely large manner

Displays of skill

Learning German? It's complicated

The boss is coping with the gin

Overcoming it, Germans reassembled

Munch kin (wordplay)

Make easier to swallow

Champ married bubbly Blanchett

Mastiche

Masurium

Pullman's sombre stuffs

Friend with top off tests fabrics

Some are raw

Supplies of guns and ammo, for example

Motherhood has a bad name - try it

Certain hospital ward

Kind of ward

Mateship

Mother superior (wordplay)

Leading lady (wordplay)

Female head of the family

Taking the old lady out (wordplay)

The killing of one's mother

Murder of one's mother

Object of the banns

Start of a quip

The state you're in after the match

Matter

Of the morning

Of the morning.

Pharaoh dips into sea and a lake in the morning

1's supporter savages parasite

They danced the night away

Dallas cagers

Dallas team

In a mawkish way.

Maxicoat

Bone forming posterior part of upper jaw

Martha's sister hides a sign of something wrong, bad in the jaw

Haste makes waste

"Haste makes waste"

Made the most of general principle on other side

Maximise

Maximite

Got everything from

""MAXIMIZE to make as great as possible, also MAXIMISE""

Makes as big as possible, as a computer window

A spore-producing organ of certain lichens

Grace periods (wordplay)

When to make me smile at cook (wordplay)

When cooks call, "Come and get it."

MEANING the sense intended

Interims

At the same time.

In the intervening time

In the interim

Most contemptibly small

Determining the dimensions

Ruler's role

Taking the gauge.

Brawniness; substance

Have meal at home in dining room - the quality of the beef!

Pithiness

Workers who repair cars, say

Science of motion/forces

Auto shop employees

Process minces ham that's prepared

Any device with moving parts

Way in which something works

A maker of machines; one skilled in mechanics.

Replace personnel with robots

""A whitish crystalline powder, C 25 H 27 ClN 2 , used to treat nausea and motion sickness.""

Meconium

I'm all done cooking piece of meat

Cut of meat Irish house put into fruit

Olympic winners made silly lists

Winners at a form of competitive golf.

Spitz and Owens

Medal

Ornament of mine, a doll specially made

Meat cut from prize animal

Award hung on a chain or ribbon

Winner on the record!

Finished in the first three, no doubt

Sort of winner is still made to struggle

Mediacy

Leave maid to work, being old-fashioned!

Made a live broadcast of the Middle Ages

Leave Da? I'm not modern enough for that

In a mediate manner; by a secondary cause or agent; not directly or primarily; by means; opposed to immediately. immediately.

Mediate

Dispute resolution method

No time to study arbitration

Occupation for an optimist.

Diplomatic and thoughtful Taiwanese leader's ousted

Divorce parties, perhaps

Officials like Dr. Bunche.

Those who settle disputes

Like a go-between linking press and politician

A female mediator.

Having a remedy

Medicaid

So might mice dally with the doctor

On average, cold thus acts in a healing way

Medicare

Like some shampoos

Like some cough drops.

Administered drugs to

Treats, in a way

Treats.

Lily 15's invention

Having healing properties

Good for you

Medicine

Doc's stock

Drugs for the strangely dim nieces

Preparations to treat disease

Medieval

Thought broadcast item dated

Thought it over.

Focused one's thoughts

Thinks team's diet needs changing

Reflects, and acts as peacemaker - about time!

Contemplates getting rewrite held by friends

T.M. adherent

One who thinks deeply

Reflective person

Medusoid

Megalith

Lengthy accounts (slang)

Melamine

Melanism

Melanist

Deep black garnets

Deep-black garnets

Black garnets

MELANITE a black variety of garnet

Melanize

Melanize

Melanoid

"", Melanistic.""

Hormone that induces sleepiness

Pineal hormone secreted in the evening

Hormone in male not developed

Melilite

Melinite

Old priest or inmate has to improve

Oriel team resolved to improve

Improve, having married priest - nothing to reprove

The doctrine that there is a tendency throughout nature toward improvement.

The belief that improvement of society depends on human effort.

Vocal runs

Chilling out

Melodica

Musical yours truly left? Repulsive!

Sweet-sounding

Agreeable to the ear of model upset by debts

Within blend new ode is set to music

Melodise

People of note (wordplay)

Song writers.

Emulated Harry Warren

Wrote a song

""MELODIZE to compose a melody, also MELODISE""

Composes beautifully

Composes.

MELTING the act of melting

A writer of memoirs.

Historic tourist sites

Some anniversary events

Some sites on the National Mall

Not for - got ten afterwards

Learnt

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)

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.

Of brain membrane

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

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.""

Textile shops, in London

MERCER a dealer in textiles

Treat (cotton) with alkali for strength and lustre

Showing no compassion

A cold 'No thanks to the French'

Descriptor for Ming

Lively blackbird circling court

Prone to sudden mood swings

Like a liquid metallic element

Messengers or guides.

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

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

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.

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

Mestino

Mestizo

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

""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.""

Is tame rat breaking bones (wordplay)

Came across one eating a sailor's bones

Satisfied a sailor is twisting bones

Fall object (wordplay)

Lunar lander (wordplay)

Source of pre-Iron Age iron

Space rock, maybe

Potential shooting star

Small rock in space

Spiced mead

METHOD orderly procedure