2-Letter Words Starting with M

Changing in form

Making changes

Altering

""The enriched block or horizontal bracket generally found under the cornice of the Corinthian and Composite entablature, and sometimes, less ornamented, in the Ionic and other orders; so called because of its arrangement at regulated distances.""

MODULAR pertaining to a {module=n}

Glorified first replaced by second, becoming varied

Softens.

Radio tube.

Telecommunications device

Moffette

MOILING moil

Like a damp sponge

Done Times cryptic? Got it licked, perhaps

With the help of a little water, the doctor's over Edward X, it seems

Wet sponge, for one.

Wetting device for stamps

What a wet sponge may be used as

Damp

Moisture

The curved plate of a plow that turns over the soil.

Wasting away

Decaying

Crumbling

Musty quality

Moldwarp

Of atomic structure.

Kind of weight or formula

Kind of biology

Groups of atoms

Bits with bonds

Small particles of matter

Potential mountains (wordplay)

Minor problems, so to speak

Mountain materials, for some

Cotton twill fabrics

Molester

Molest

Appeased medical officer's student I found in ploughed field

Appeased

Appeases.

Of or pertaining to mollusks.

; Variant of molluscan .

A salt of molybdic acid.

Lasting only a short time

Brief in nature

Lasting a very short time

Momento

Doctor, doctor! One must be serious!

So little time to us - that's terrific!

Medicine men are most significant to us

Momentum

The system and influences of a monastic life; monasticism.

Monadism

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

In which all men are brothers (wordplay)

Cadfael's was Benedictine, not ...

Daisy's passed on in my brother's house

Cenobites.

Anchorites

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

Monazite

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

Monellin

After conversion, 1 x 500 turned into currency

Monetise

Monetize

Converts to currency

Fat cats perhaps as bogymen in disguise

Green giant (wordplay)

Owner of blue chips

""A trailing plant (Lysimachia Nummularia), with rounded opposite leaves and solitary yellow flowers in their axils. Lysimachia Nummularia), with rounded opposite leaves and solitary yellow flowers in their axils.""

Trafficking.

MONGOL a person affected by Down's syndrome

Like Genghis Khan

Beasts and bird in battle

Indian killers of snakes and rats

Domesticated animals of India.

Names

Monish

Monition

Kept an eye on

Kept track of

Watched carefully

Monkery

Brother ogling and being playful

Tropical tree with pink flowers

Tropical tree

Monkhood

Wolfsbane, a poisonous plant

A poisonous perennial plant

Buttercup's kin

Monoacid

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

""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.

Monodist

Beckett's "Krapp's Last Tape," for example

Beckett's 'Krapp's Last Tape,' for example

Old bird with no drink in singular performance

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.""

An ester having only one ester group.

Monofuel

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

Of or pertaining to monogenesis.

They're not linguists

LBJ and others

F.D.R., D.D.E., etc.

JFK and DDE, for example

Specific scholarly essay

Detailed written study

Treatise on single subject

Monohull

A film or layer of a compound one molecule thick.

Obelisks, for example

Single-slab stone monuments

Easter Island mysteries

Noah's delivery

The address of a single person

Long speech by one actor

Obsession with one thing

Obsession with a single subject

Overconcentration on one theme.

Like molecules that can bond in a polymer

One-foot line of verse

Monomial

Eating only one kind of food.

Music

Adverb

Lindbergh's craft

Type of flying machine.

What Lindbergh flew to Paris

Having a single set of chromosomes; haploid.

Monopode

Monopole

Trade

Seattle and N. Y. fair items.

Features of Disneyland and Seattle

Amusement park rides

(Medicine) an animal or person with only one testicle

Type of verse inspired by daemon or Hymen

Many a verse, both short and terse, may have been worse, without this curse

Monosome

MONOSOME an unpaired chromosome

English word

MONOS mono

Certain artwork

Johnny-one-notes.

Many dull speakers

Problems for speech teacher.

Uttered in a dull way

Unvarying in pitch

Love to get boost after day lacking variety

Creature such as the platypus

Egg-laying mammal

Duckbill or echidna

Monotype

""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.""

""Derived from a single egg or ovum; -- of twins; as, identical twins are monovular. Contrasted with fraternal.as, identical twins are monovular. Contrasted with fraternal.""

Monoxide

Priest, and character in 23

Prelate finds new character in Othello

Prelate's title

Like the Asian rainy period

Monstera

Sun Motors, manufacturing giant

Really big and terrible

Shockingly brutal or cruel

English word

Montage

Monteith

Monthly

Like the World Cup finals

Tour stops, perhaps

Obelisks, e.g

Statue of Liberty and Grant's Tomb

Coarse-grained igneous rock

State of gloom or depression

Downcast condition

Mercurial quality

Night rays (wordplay)

Song in Herbert's "The Red Mill"

Night lights

Moondust

""Having a round, full face.""

MOONISH {fickle=adj}

Hold two jobs (informal)

Lamp sold at the Sky Mall (wordplay)

Sonata form of flit (wordplay)

Moonport

Tremor on satellite's surface

Night sights on the eastern horizon

Lunar events

Twilight times

Moonsail

Armstrong's 1969 view

View from a LEM

Picture of the lunar surface

Moonseed

Bootlegged product is trash!

Illicit liquor (informal)

Spirit abroad at night (wordplay)

Prospective space probes.

Apollo-program missions

Apollo missions

Gem in a Wilkie Collins novel

Subject of a Wilkie Collins classic

Colour of satellite described by Collins

Dances for doctor working with escorts

Some rock hunts

Promenades that are out of this world

Moonwort

Moorcock

Moorfowl

Writing about poor Orlando Heath

The Hound of the Baskervilles locale

Moorwort

Moldings found along the floor

Moquette

Moralise

Moralise

Maxims

Ones concerned with ethics

Didactic teachers.

They might censor a 1000 spoken to first by the South

Lectured about the value of virtue

Gave a sermon

One giving sermons

Moralize

Rent freezes, say

Maria, root out stays!

Temporary bans on an activity

Sickliness results in dim boy getting no points in resit

Mordant

In the manner of a mordant.

Moresque

Gem named after financier J.P.

Rose-colored beryl

Moronism

Morpheme

Of or pertaining to a morpheme.

Morphine

MORPHO a tropical butterfly

MORSEL to divide into small pieces

Morsel

Death rate inherent in the human condition

Death

Fixing brickwork

Like upside-down Monopoly deeds

Like Monopoly deeds that are flipped upside down

Home loan offerer

ATM George misused as source of money

Bank client

Gives a mortgage.

Loans arranged - go get arms!

Goats get the germ of loans from them

Homeowners' expenses

One still making home payments

"Six Feet Under" occupation

'Six Feet Under' occupation

Six Feet Under occupation

Mortice

Embarrassed at having lost vitality

Not merely embarrassed

Completely shamed

Embarrasses deeply

Humiliates

Mortiser

With the dead in France I make a song for the joiner

Mortmain

MOSAIC to decorate with an inlaid surface

MOSAIC to decorate with an inlaid surface

Mosaic

Mosasaur

Some blood suckers

Capital invested in model planes

Doctor left nothing on board ship for cause of malaria

Old turtles

What some warships are in.

Naphthalene in our home chemistry set

Smelly spheres in long-term storage

Caring for

Young producer with gin cocktail describes a mid-Lent Sunday

Secure from lepidoptera

Not allowing one's clothes to get grubby

Take precaution against possible attackers

Motioner

Motion

Lit a fire under

Inspired actor hoarding Cheers millions in retirement

Impelled.

Spurs into action

Calls to action

I stave Tom off which drives him to action.

Particularly inspiring horse!

Last year's inspiring Derby winner

Truism (Part 3)

Motley

Off-road racing competition

Bikers' competition on a dirt trail

Grueling race for bikers