2-Letter Words Starting with M

MONAURAL having or using only one ear

Having only one estrus period per breeding cycle or per year; -- of certain mammals.

One is in fiscally

Economic stabilization theory

A way to regulate the economy from Roman times

A sailor in fog like Friedman (wordplay)

Economic theorist ruined minor state

Artist, one without time for such as Thatcher

One that flies off shelves (wordplay)

Central bank breadwinner (wordplay)

Bread producer has a profitable business

Moneywort

Intermarry, disparagingly

""Joined or constricted, at regular intervals, so as to resemble a string of beads; as, a moniliform root; a moniliform antenna. See Illust. of Antenna. as, a moniliform root; a moniliform antenna. See Illust. of Antenna.""

Serving to warn.

Monitory

On watch from morning to 1

Checking car travel round Ulster

Listening in

MONOCARP a plant that yields fruit only once before dying

Monochord

Type of painting.

Black and white

In one colour

Relating to a government whose leader has absolute power

Monocular

Monodrama

Monoester

Monogram

Treatises on particular subjects

Certain treatises

""The hybrid of parents that differ at only one gene locus, for which each parent is homozygous with a different allele.""

Containing one replaceable atom of hydrogen.

Monolayer

Monometer

Monorchid

""MONORHYME A composition in verse, in which all the lines end with the same rhyme.""

Many a verse, both short and terse, may well be worse, without this curse

Monotreme

Titles from Francis

Monsignor

Holy vessel accounting for Scotsman's hypnotic state (wordplay)

Vessel displaying the consecrated host in Catholic Masses

Mountaineer, in France.

Nocturnal climber scrambling from new loo

Satellite spiffer-upper (wordplay)

Provider of criminal proof (wordplay)

White lightning maker

Elsie's favorite Cher film (wordplay)

Quarterback Warren's pickup (wordplay)

Description of LEM is crazy

Moralise

Pronouncing on issues of right and wrong

Upright, to a fault

Righteously ethical

Morality

Moralizer

Moralize

Agreed pause in activity

Period of delay

Stoppage of activity

The quality or state of being morbid; morbidity.

Mordancy

Mordant

Of a form of marriage

Kind of marriage.

Of a kind of royal marriage

Morganite

Moronity

Habitually sullen characteristic

Sad state

Morosity

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.""

Morsel

A sausage originally made in Bologna

Italian pork sausage

Smoked Italian sausage

Like some building founda-tions

Mortgagee

Some borrowers

Mortgage

Property pledgers

Mortician

Really embarrassing coming to 15

Locations for closing ceremonies (wordplay)

""The process of cleavage, or segmentation, of the ovum, by which a morula is formed.""

Sherwood Forest parent (wordplay)

Woman's state of having children

Career for women.

Not Dad's native country (wordplay)

Hand Merlot out from the home country

Anthem lord composed in place of origin

""Destitute of a mother; having lost a mother; as, motherless children. as, motherless children.""

Mothproof

Motivator

Electrical impulse conductor in the body

MOTORBIKE

Relatives of scooters

River vehicles with engines

*Vessels pulling water-skiers

Cabin cruisers

Motorbus

MOTORCADE a procession of people traveling in motor cars.

Motorcade

Transport for a kind of angel (wordplay)

Check or age vehicle

Hells Angels vehicle

Motorise

Making mechanical

Fast-talker's malady (wordplay)

Used-car salesman (wordplay)

Person who talks nonstop

English word

What's the brown body doing in 23 down (wordplay)

MOURNFUL expressing grief or sorrow

In a mourning manner.

Computer problems (wordplay)

Belts for a Chinese leader (wordplay)

Hazards for the unwary.

Opening strap up to show mandibles, say

They're interested in looking at the big picture (wordplay)

Film fans

Windows multimedia program

In a way, say cheese!

Cheese for a scat singer (wordplay)

Mild, white cheese

Mridangam

Reporters of T.R.'s day.

Dirt disclosers

Dirty politicians

Searching out scandal to publish

Example of polluted politics

Digging up scandal

Goby sometimes found on the beach

Goby that might be found on the beach

Damaging allegations by captain bringing fish

Coffeehouse employee (wordplay)

One making accusations

Campaigner of a sort

Finger-staining fruit

The state of being a woman or of possessing full womanly powers; womanhood; correlate of virility. virility.

Past tense or past participle

""Having many, or several, colors.""

Word with prefix multi-

Word with prefix multi-

Kind of cereal

Word with prefix multi-

Like onions

MULTIPART

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

Young producer, calculating type

Device for intensifying some effect

Like most brain neurons

Agitated till our MP pens article with numerous extreme points

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Word with prefix multi-

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

Unlike ranch houses

Semi-simultaneous disaster for Conservative at car park

""Having, using, or produced with multiple recording tracks: a multitrack tape recorder.""

Murther

Muscarine

MUSCARINE

In a muscular manner.

Got out of hand.

Space needed in Slough after Mothers' Union expanded

Athos et al.

Athos's gang

Chocolate-bar trio

Musketry

Mutilator

Mutineer

English word

Mycoflora

""Pl. mycorrhizae or mycorhizae (-z ) or mycorrhizas or mycorhizas The symbiotic association of the mycelium of a fungus with the roots of certain plants, such as conifers, beeches, or orchids.""

Mydriatic

Of or pertaining to the myocardium.

Frightful ado and I cry, wanting mother around to show a bit of heart (wordplay)

Myofibril

Myrobalan

Beyond normal understanding

Cryptic compiler's to start in earnest

Of a secret nature

Mystifier

MYTHICIZE

Mythmaker

A mythologist.

Maceration

Machinator

Machinery

Like an organic wholefood diet

Pertaining to the universe

MACROCYCLE

A fossil large enough to be examined without a microscope.

""The larger, usually female of two conjugating gametes in a heterogamous organism. Also called megagamete .""

""Pl. macronuclei (-kl - ) The larger of two nuclei present in ciliate protozoans, which controls nonreproductive functions of the cell, such as metabolism.""

Macrophage

MACROPHAGE A large phagocyte.

Macrophyte

MACROPHYTE

Macroscale

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.

""A. A song for two or three unaccompanied voices, developed in Italy in the late 13th and early 14th centuries.""

Singer in crazy outfit meeting top people

Commanding US soldiers in drill, perhaps

Authoritative stuff about soldiers

High-handed soldiers in khaki, for example

Roman Catholic Church The authority to teach religious doctrine.

In a magistral manner.

People judging regatta miss train

Justices of the peace

Some judicial officials

Magnetizer

Mad hares in trips involving ego? They're among the ferns

Sexy costume

Kinky costume

Domestic help

People from California, to Hawaiians

Marjorie and Ann, of Kansas, not Kauai (wordplay)

Good place to unwind?

Good place to unwind (wordplay)

Watch parts

Integrates, as some students

Prevailing tendencies

Custodians, for example

Makeready

Maladroit

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

Grammatical solecism

PARTIAL POST

MALAPROP a humorous misuse of a word

Disease and Illness ()

MALEDICT to {curse=v}

Y chromosomes (wordplay)

Sex genes producing criminals

Y chromosomes

They stay well away from work

Like somebody with the acting bug (wordplay)

The old lady hanging around, presenting spurious complaint

Improper professional behaviour

Kind of insurance

Type of insurance for a doctor

Maltreater

Maltreat

MAMMOGRAPH

The office or position of a manager.

The collective body of officials or persons of rank in China.

A government mandarins; character or spirit of the mandarins.

Mandatary

Mandatory

Mandatory

Mandragora

Maneuverer

Maneuver

They work with files

Exciting star in music who might use a 27 12 (wordplay)

Manifester

One who manipulates

""MANNERIST One addicted to mannerism; a person who, in action, bearing, or treatment, carries characteristic peculiarities to excess. See citation under Mannerism. Mannerism.""

Changing position to gain advantage

Manometry

MANORIAL pertaining to a {manor=n}

Place where goods are made

Source of Old Trafford's talent production line (wordplay)

Make in large quantities

Turn reality into fertiliser for produce

Can ma change with future fashion (wordplay)

Editor's desk stack

Handwritten books or documents

Handwritten documents

""An assembly plant in Mexico, especially one along the border between the United States and Mexico, to which foreign materials and parts are shipped and from which the finished product is returned to the original market.""

Maraschino