2-Letter Words Starting with M

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

Micropyle

An eye for detail (wordplay)

This makes for swell viewing!

It blows up in the lab

Seeing Little and Large in road, credit impersonation

""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.""

Probationary naval officer's rank

Easy to identify this literary character

Probationary rank of young naval officer

US Naval Acad.

Future ensigns.

Annapolis students.

God of crawly things (wordplay)

Multi-legged critters

Early land creatures

Reproductive system (wordplay)

Duplicator of old

Office machine.

Misadapt

Misapply

Misapply

CAPTION to provide with a title

To compute erroneously.

Miscopy

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

Uses improperly

Miskeep

PACKAGE to put into a container or wrapping

Mispaint

Misparse

Mispart

Mispatch

Mispatch

Mispen

Losing

Misplan

Misplant

Misplay

Misplead

Mispoint

Mispoise

Misprice

Like some highly collectible paper money

I run into sea as a gun onto set (wordplay)

Note dashed off could appear this way in the Guardian!

Male is one put into jail for failure of duty

Said to feel absence of one jailed for failure of duty

Misprize

PROGRAM to arrange in a plan of proceedings

Delivers false news

Gets the news wrong

Distorting

Misspace

Like hors d'ouevres

Like 'millenia,' for example

Written incorrectly

Misstop

Tropical trees

MONOCARP a plant that yields fruit only once before dying

Treatises on particular subjects

Certain treatises

Like most 1950s recordings

Transit for Lindy et al.

They have one set of wings

Piper Cubs, for example

Monoploid

""Having a monopodium or a single and continuous axis, as a birchen twig or a cornstalk.""

Monopody

Perfect market's lack

Corners on the market

Strangleholds, businesswise

Control exclusively

All for one person

One who corners the market

Hog of a kind

Hog, as a conversation

Control completely.

Take over

Pictures with craters

English word

Morphemic

A morbid condition produced by the excessive or prolonged use of morphine.

Morphogen

""That branch of biology which deals with the structure of animals and plants, treating of the forms of organs and describing their varieties, homologies, and metamorphoses. See Tectology, and Promorphology. Tectology, and Promorphology.""

Mothproof

Computer problems (wordplay)

Belts for a Chinese leader (wordplay)

Hazards for the unwary.

Opening strap up to show mandibles, say

Spokesman, of sorts

Attorney, for one *

It protects a boxer's teeth

Mudcap

Large, water-dwelling salamanders

Large salamanders

Goby sometimes found on the beach

Goby that might be found on the beach

Damaging allegations by captain bringing fish

Word with prefix multi-

Past tense or past participle

MULTIPART

Having many phases;

Word with prefix multi-

Word with prefix multi-

Multiplet

In new fashion, dump tie? Ill bred

Did some calculations, and generated new issue

The "3" in "6 x 3 = 18"

Young producer, calculating type

Device for intensifying some effect

Does the math, maybe

Does basic math

I'm upset and ill cooking mushrooms

Like most brain neurons

Agitated till our MP pens article with numerous extreme points

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Past tense or past participle

""Composed of, involving, or accommodating several sports: a multisport competition; a multisport stadium.""

Municipal

Mushroom lovers

""Any of numerous parasitic, pathogenic microorganisms of the genus Mycoplasma that lack a true cell wall, are gram-negative, and need sterols such as cholesterol for growth. In humans, one species is a primary cause of nonbacterial pneumonia. Also called pleuropneumonia-like organism .""

English word

Myopathy

""MYOPIC a short-sighted person, also MYOPS""

Of or relating to the making of myths.

Of or relating to the making of myths.

Macrophage

MACROPHAGE A large phagocyte.

Macrophyte

MACROPHYTE

Visible to the naked eye

Clearly visible

""Any of various stony corals of the order Madreporaria, which includes the reef builders of tropical seas.""

A fossil coral.

Good place to unwind?

Good place to unwind (wordplay)

Watch parts

Marked by faulty or inadequate adaptation.

""Ludicrous misuse of a word, especially by confusion with one of similar sound.""

Grammatical solecism

PARTIAL POST

MALAPROP a humorous misuse of a word

A wrong position.

Improper professional behaviour

Kind of insurance

Type of insurance for a doctor

MAMMOGRAPH

The office or position of a manager.

Possible to manipulate: a manipulable lever; a manipulable populace.

Pulled the strings of, for example

Influenced someone unscrupulously

Cleverly influenced

Controls with dexterity

One who manipulates

Structure around a fireplace

Shelf over fireplace

Place for candlesticks

Editor's desk stack

Handwritten books or documents

Handwritten documents

Businesses stalled here (wordplay)

Haggler's paradise

Proverbially, where no grass grows.

Tool for separating strands of rope

Sailors' pointed tool

The office of a marshal.

Mascarpone

Outstanding item of workmanship

Work of extreme skill

Othello, for instance.

Mastership

Maxilliped

Beef industry

Mediumship

Very large urban area

Group of large towns close together

Greater Mexico City, for example

Megaparsec

""MEGAPHONE A device to magnify sound, or direct it in a given direction in a greater volume, as a very large funnel used as an ear trumpet or as a speaking trumpet.""

English word

""A pigment cell that contains melanin, especially as found in the skin of amphibians and reptiles.""

Mellophone

Affiliations

Mentorship

Meperidine

MEPROBAMATE

Adjective (-ic)

MESOMORPH

""Of or pertaining to the mesonephros; as, the mesonephric, or Wolffian, duct. as, the mesonephric, or Wolffian, duct.""

""The second of the three excretory organs that develop in a vertebrate embryo, becoming the functioning kidney in fish and amphibians but replaced by the metanephros in higher vertebrates. Also called Wolffian body .""

The middle one of the three pairs of embryonic renal organs developed in most vertebrates; the Wolffian body.

""Of, relating to, or living at ocean depths between about 180 and 900 meters (600 and 3,000 feet): mesopelagic organisms.""

MESOPHYLL

Mesosphere

MESOSPHERE

Adjective (-ic)

The state or office of the Messiah.

Metacarpal

Found a cartoon character in charge of some rocks

Type of rock that has undergone transformation

Exhibiting structural change, as some rocks

Adjective (-ic)

""The third and final excretory organ that develops in a vertebrate embryo. In birds, reptiles, and mammals it replaces the mesonephros as the functional excretory organ and develops into the adult kidney.""

The most posterior of the three pairs of embryonic renal organs developed in many vertebrates.

Metaphrase

Field for Aristotle

A branch of philosophy

Branch of philosophy

Metaplasia

""Normal transformation of tissue from one type to another, as in the ossification of cartilage to form bone.""

Methyldopa

A unit of electric current equal to one millionth of an ampere.

Microcopy

Micrograph

Microphage

Devices for amplifying the voice

Of or pertaining to a microphone; serving to intensify weak sounds.

Microphyll

Micropipet

MICROPORE

Microprism

Microprobe

Optical magnifiers

Scientific apparatus

Lab devices

Too small to see with the naked eye

Invisible to the naked eye

Nearly invisible

English word

Microspore

Abbr. mA A unit of current equal to one thousandth (10 -3 ) of an ampere.

Mimeograph

The "Caine", for one

Excavation spiffer-upper (wordplay)

Ship of a sort.

Misadapt

One who hates other people

Person disliking humankind

One hating humankind

Hatred of mankind

Extreme unsociability

Dislike of others making sad man this inadequate

Misapply

Miscaption

COMPUTED compute

Miscompute

Misdevelop

EMPHASES emphasis

EMPHASIS stress imparted to something to indicate significance

Misemploy

PACKAGED package

Mispackage

Mispaint

Mispatch

PERCEIVE to become aware of through the senses

Misplan

Misplant

Misplead

Mispoint

POSITION to put in a particular location

Misprint

Misprision

Misprogram

Gave a false or inaccurate account

Badly handled account of salesman in minutes I classified

Misshapen

Misspeak

Getting letters wrong

Bee disqualifier

She's just waiting around

Improper use of funds

Girl in limbo lashing out irresponsibly

Misstop

The post or office of a monitor.