2-Letter Words Starting with M

Melatonin

MELIORATE To make better; to improve; to ameliorate; to soften; to make more tolerable.

Improves.

Improves

One who meliorates.

Meliorism

Meliorist

""A brass wind instrument, similar to the French horn, often used in military or marching bands.""

Mellotron

Soft quality.

Melodise

Melodizer

Melodize

Theater-goers' fare.

Plays sensationalised madam's role perhaps

Productions rooted in medieval morality plays

Resembling a thin tissue

Memoirist

Note for a modern mum working

Manager's note

Written message or note

MEMORIAL something that serves as a remembrance of a person or event

Memorise

Memorizer

Memorize

Menadione

A demonic mad American lying

(adj.) obsessed with fixing things

Having used Monica, resorted to lying

""Pl. meningiomas or meningiomata (-m -t ) A slow-growing tumor of the meninges, occurring most often in adults.""

Menology

Shed - no, another setter packed with sex appeal - undergoing change

Soldiers use soap, all lathered up, for changes

Mentation

Mentioner

Mention

English word

Merbromin

Relating to an imaginary line through the Poles

Ruler chosen for excellence

""Either of two protein subunits of a myosin molecule, obtained especially through the digestive action of trypsin.""

Merozoite

""All that part of the alimentary canal which is developed from the primitive enteron and is lined with hypoblast. It is distinguished from the stomod, a part at the anterior end of the canal, including the cavity of the mouth, and the proctod, a part at the posterior end, which are formed by invagination and are lined with epiblast. stomod, a part at the anterior end of the canal, including the cavity of the mouth, and the proctod, a part at the posterior end, which are formed by invagination and are lined with epiblast.""

""Pertaining to, or derived from, the mesoderm; as, mesodermal tissues. as, mesodermal tissues.""

Mesogloea

2 types; some strangely change shape at beginning of season

MESOMORPH

Mesopause

Mesophyll

Mesophyte

MESOPHYTE

It's about 30 miles up

""Pl. mesothelia (-l - ) The layer of flat cells of mesodermal origin that lines the embryonic body cavity and gives rise to the squamous cells of the peritoneum, pericardium, and pleura.""

The middle segment of the thorax in insects. See Illust. of Coleoptera. Illust. of Coleoptera.

Mestranol

Chemical processes in living organism

Basic organic process

Biological process

""A product of metabolism; a substance produced by metabolic action, as urea.""

To change by a metabolic process. See Metabolism. Metabolism.

Metalloid

Metalwork

Like "chariot of fire" for the sun

Not literal

Figurative way to omit chapter where model disappears

The last or posterior segment of the thorax in insects. See Illust. of Coleoptera. Illust. of Coleoptera.

Shower aftermath, maybe

They're seen after a shower

New arrivals on Earth

Of a space-travelling object that has fallen to earth

Space travellers do tiresome rubbish

Methadone

""A sulfur-containing essential amino acid, C 5 H 11 NO 2 S, obtained from various proteins or prepared synthetically and used as a dietary supplement and in pharmaceuticals.""

Systematic though brief in examination

Way I state to be orderly

Organised Oldie match at sea

METHODISE

Methodise

Methodism

Followers of John Wesley

Church members' ways are about its conversion

Chapelgoers force detective to probe consecrated bread

""METHODIZE 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.""

Methodize

""METHYLATE An alcoholate of methyl alcohol in which the hydroxyl hydrogen is replaced by a metal, after the analogy of a hydrate; as, sodium methylate, CH3ONa. as, sodium methylate, CH3ONa.""

""A drug, C 10 H 13 NO 4 , used in the treatment of high blood pressure.""

Very careful and precise

Super-attentive to detail

Extremely careful

One addicted to them may say he's on the stage

Beat-keeping gizmos

Instruments for Horowitz

They swing on a steady basis

""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.""

Sole import produced in New York, say

New York, home of Shea's tenants

1927 silent film directed by Fritz Lang

Sound of heavy music with tot's game

Spirited, resilient

High-spirited

Certain engravings.

Tintypes.

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

Regarded as only moderately intellectual

Not too intellectually stretching

Not very intellectual book found in central part of stalls (wordplay)

Midrash

Torso

Trunk

Midstory

Get men in to vandalise plant!

Get men in to design plant

Sauce often served with oysters

Being headachy, I groan - music, mostly awful!

Whale's exclamation (wordplay)

Rites of passage

Very important events, by the way

Markers put down by Arnold Bennett

A.   decorative glassware in which coloured glass rods are fused and cut to create flower patterns: an ancient technique revived in Venice in the sixteenth century and in France and England in the nineteenth century

English word

Millimole

Very small parts

Tiny fractions

English word

Millivolt

Neckwear, proverbially.

Heavy burdens

Heavy burdens.

Reproductive system (wordplay)

Duplicator of old

Office machine.

Astounding occurrence

Fantastic movie

Something astounding

Rock expert's field

It involves the study of cleavage

Study of valuable rocks

Contents of a Turin tureen (wordplay)

Prelude to pasta, perhaps

Stock's recipe contained in quality soup

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

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

Less numerous groups.

Defeated voting sides

Relatively small groups one newcomer upset in digs

Minoxidil

Our musical interpretation is marvellous

Incredibly wonderful

'Unbelievable!'

""Capable of reflecting light like a mirror; flat and reflective; as, the mirrorlike surface of the lake.as, the mirrorlike surface of the lake.""

Misatone

Misbecome

Misbutton

CAPTION to provide with a title

CATALOG to classify information descriptively

Mischoice

Miscoin

Miscolor

To compute erroneously.

Frenchman is to handle malpractice

Improper behaviour

Bad behaviour

CONNECT to join together

Miscook

Miscopy

Miscount

""DEVELOP to bring to a more advanced state, also DEVELOPE""

Distrusted

Uses improperly

Misenroll

Ledge under choir stall seat

Church's "mercy seat"

Dagger gives room for breaking the rules

Misfeasor

Misfocus

Misfocus

First thing you learn in vase class (wordplay)

Blow air after form is lost

Spymaster favours melody that could 21

It's more fun tussling in adversity

Doesn't do well - not as a rule

What a bad ruler does

Has trouble running

Misgrow

Mishmosh

Give false information that girl gets in shape

""An incorrect union of parties or of causes of action in a procedure, criminal or civil.""

Misjoin

Misknow

Mislabor

LOCATED locate

Mislocate

Mislodge

MISNOMER a name wrongly used

Misogamy

One who hates marriage

Go round with Kingsley in haze as one distinctly single-minded (wordplay)

Misogyny