2-Letter Words Starting with M

Round at the cantina

Cinco de mayo orders

Cinco de mayo rounds

Margarite

Margent

Reader's notes, at times

Reader's notes

Notes written beside text

Not by much

Alarmingly frayed at the edges

Barely one month before drink with friend

""Same as Marginate, a. Marginate, a.""

Marginate

MARGRAVE a German nobleman of rank

MARGRAVE a German nobleman of rank

The wife of a margrave.

I urge mater to sort out Daisy maybe

She spurned Faust - such a bloomer!

Daisy contrived to present truer image

Marihuana

Marijuana

Marimbist

Marinade

Soaking up flavor

Kabob preparer's activity

Task for a barbecuer

""MARINATE to soak in seasoned liquid before cooking, also MARINADE""

Punch, for one.

One in a string band (wordplay)

*Howdy Doody, for one

MARKED mark

Fit for sale; in demand

Fit to be sold

Ready to go into business with clever type behind commercial centre

Marketeer

Marketing

A woman skilled in shooting at a target.

Notes warning about wife and armed females

Notice a couple of points warning they could be femmes fatales (wordplay)

Marlstone

Marmalade

Marquess

""The seigniory, dignity, or lordship of a marquis; the territory governed by a marquis.""

Warm robe on (anagram) - kind of jelly

Marrowfat

Placing in proper rank

A small herd, having gone astray, getting gathered together

The state or condition of being marshy.

Where bulrushes grow

Swamps, bogs, or the like

Wombats, bandicoots, etc.

Order of mammals

Bandicoot, wombat, kangaroo etc

Carbon-steel component

Steel component in designated habitat for semi-arboreal mammal (wordplay)

Something in steel that makes main street look awful

Man gets wind of betting system

Boy given heavy blow with strap

Double-up betting system

Martyrdom

MARTYRIZE To make a martyr of.

Martyrize

Marvel

Overall sum becomes great

Great savage mauls lover

Amazing organisation loves mural

Mascara

Hard cheese? Far from it!

Mum's only eating fish and cheese

A soft Italian cream cheese

Ball made square, amazingly

Mardi Gras revelry.

Act under false pretenses.

Massacrer

Doing a lot of damage to*

Wiping out call after service bill

Of or pertaining to the masseter.

Look out, clever boss!

Look out , brilliant boss!

Moriarty his chosen subject (wordplay)

Skill at Augusta (wordplay)

Superiority

Beethoven's Ninth, for example

Pinnacle of fine art

Artist's crowning achievement

One who masticates.

""To achieve sexual gratification by stimulating one's own sexual organs, without the aid of a partner; -- typically to the point of orgasm.""

A board that has a groove cut into one edge and a tongue cut into the other so they fit tightly together (as in a floor); see match boarding.match boarding.

Test God as Cupid (wordplay)

Dolly Levi, for one

Boxing's Don King (wordplay)

Run a unit surrounded by friends in the main

State parting two friends to a significant degree

Tangibly.

In a motherly way

With solicitude.

Typical of mother and wife to mobilise over last altercation

Matriarch

Rule by mothers

Rule by women

Woman bosses modified hems on tiny armchair

Of or pertaining to matricide.

They're sure to live longer than their mothers

Name deriving from female ancestor; my, romantic (anagram)

Mattrass

Whoopee cushions (wordplay)

Lying often involves them

Supporters with springs

Maturate

Process of full development

Coming of age

Maturity

Maumetry

Maunderer

Maunder

Roman venue arranged for me darlin'

Maximizer

Good name for a gardener (wordplay)

She's a friend of April Showers

They have "darling buds"

Mayoress

Karma - we twerk with old bird!

State bird of Wyoming

Montana's state bird is one

Paltry nature

Exiguity

Lack

Moving on a circular course

Serpentine's green, and I'm swimming

Like the path through a maze

Criminal behind bars discovered in daze

Of discernible size

MEASURE to compare with a standard

MEASURED measure

MECHANIZE To cause to be mechanical.

Person of only average ability

Yoga practitioners

Ponderers

Clay forms each summer

for example Tobacco pipe

Pipe bowl material

One million parsecs.

Megaspore

MEGASPORE

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

Improves.

Improves

One who meliorates.

Meliorism

Meliorist

Mellotron

Melodizer

Theater-goers' fare.

Plays sensationalised madam's role perhaps

Productions rooted in medieval morality plays

Meltwater

Perhaps a vessel is as one in sociery

A sense of belonging (wordplay)

Rushee's desire

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

Collections of wild animals

Places for wild life.

Circus collections

MENARCHE the first occurrence of menstruation

Menstruous.

Male nurse must put out solvents for pharmacist

Capable of being measured; measurable.

Mentioner

English word

A synthetic narcotic drug used as a sedative; Demerol is the trademark of a brand of meperidine.Demerol is the trademark of a brand of meperidine.

Merbromin

Relating to trade or commerce

Engaged in trade.

Mail centre becomes profit oriented

Mercaptan

MERCERISE

Mercerise

""MERCERIZE To treat (cotton fiber or fabrics) with a solution of caustic alkali. Such treatment causes the fiber to shrink in length and become stronger and more receptive of dyes. If the yarn or cloth is kept under tension during the process, it assumes a silky luster.""

Mercerize

Merchant

To one's great relief

MERCURATE

Mercurate

Mercurial

Feathered fish-eaters

Diving ducks

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

Merriment

King Cole (wordplay)

King Cole?

One revels in tight score, getting runs

Pertaining to a mesentery; mesaraic.

""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.""

MESMERISE

Bewitches me twice round the section's the lifts

Mesmerism

Hypnotic experts

1986 Jodie Foster film

In a hypnotic trance.

Bewitched, in a way.

One who mesmerizes.

Fascinates

Enthralls

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

2 types; some strangely change shape at beginning of season

MESOMORPH

It's about 30 miles up

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

They have some word for you

Heralds, at times

Hermes and Mercury

Mestranol

Any of ten human bones

Bone in hand

Bone came apart, fragments left

Came across a fish with useless bones

Part of hand between wrist and fingers

Palm bone

""∨ tre The point of intersection of a vertical line through the center of gravity of the fluid displaced by a floating body which is tipped through a small angle from its position of equilibrium, and the inclined line which was vertical through the center of gravity of the body when in equilibrium.""

Art of ore-refining.

Branch of science

One of the sciences.

Metalmark

Metalware

Metalwork

The symmetry of a metameric structure; serial symmetry; the state of being made up of metameres.

Like "chariot of fire" for the sun

Not literal

Figurative way to omit chapter where model disappears

Literal translation

Repeat ham's changes - turning prose into verse

Ape and hamster dancing for a solver's final target (this puzzle's is one word)

Of the instep

Bone meal covering various strata

Bone in the foot

Foot part

What Coleridge's wedding guest did with suspect bones

The skeleton of the human foot, consisting of five long bones

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

English word

English word

""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.""

In a metrical manner.

METRICIZE

Metricize

Metrify

Metritis

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

Micrify

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