2-Letter Words Starting with M

They go the distance

MARATHON a long-distance race

MARBLEISE

A texture like that of marble.

Wife of a marquis

Lady Muck initially rich as one's poor

Titled lady

The property of being marginal or on the fringes.

MARGINAL anything in or on a margin

MARGINATE Having a margin distinct in appearance or structure.

MARGINATE Having a margin distinct in appearance or structure.

Margravate

The territory or jurisdiction of a margrave.

Margravine

Cookies

""Cultivation of marine organisms in their natural habitats, usually for commercial purposes.""

Marination

Friends of the Bairds

Howdy Doody and others

Kukla's relatives.

Businesses stalled here (wordplay)

Haggler's paradise

Proverbially, where no grass grows.

Tool for separating strands of rope

Sailors' pointed tool

Marmoreal

Rank or position of one next below a duke

Decorative process

Marquetry

Marquisate

Meshlike curtain fabric

Cotton fabric

Curtain fabric

Parts of skeleton with edible cores

Marshalcy

Assembling (a group) in order

The office of a marshal.

Spongy confection - wild flower

Spongy confection, often toasted

Confection commonly toasted

Martensite

MARTENSITE

Straps to prevent horses from rearing.

MARTYRIZE To make a martyr of.

A history or account of martyrs; a register of martyrs.

In a marvelous manner; wonderfully; strangely.

Mascarpone

""MASQUERADE An assembly of persons wearing masks, and amusing themselves with dancing, conversation, or other diversions.""

One who masquerades; a person wearing a mask; one disguised.

False representations.

Entertainments not to be taken at face value (wordplay)

PRETENDS

In a masterful manner; imperiously.

Behind-the-scenes brains

Atomic scientists, for instance.

Behind-the-scenes brains.

Outstanding item of workmanship

Work of extreme skill

Othello, for instance.

Mastership

Masterwork

Masticator

Chewing; adapted to perform the office o<?/ chewing food.

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

Masturbate

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

Matchboard

Union organizers (wordplay)

Mothers and others.

Marriage arrangers

Happen to beat Israeli team

Marxism, for instance

Preoccupation with possessions

Preoccupation with physical comforts

Devotee of worldly goods

No spiritual person, he

The quality or state of being material; material existence; corporeity.

Appear in thin air

Show up suddenly

Appear out of thin air

States of parenthood.

Motherhoods

Char with marital problem concerning mother

One who matriculates or is a candidate for matriculation.

Be enrolled in a college

Enroll as a student

Admit to a college

Inherited via the mother's side

The sort of house where a woman succeeds holds me in Tara: I'll have it restored

Relating to the wedded state

Nuptial

Matrimony

Matronymic

Maturation

Mavourneen

Maxillary

Mayoralty

Frolics in the grass (wordplay)

Yellow-breasted songbirds

Oriole cousins

Without measure; unlimited; immeasurable.

A tape recording (wordplay)

Beef perhaps about certain chaps' size

Size of solid pieces, in essence

Mechanizer

MEDIATE to interpose between parties as a friend to each

Mediatrix

Meerschaum

Megaparsec

English word

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

Improving

""The act or operation of meliorating, or the state of being meliorated; improvement.""

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

Meliorator

MELIORIST

Affiliations

Much eBay merchandise

Objects connected with famous people

Objects associated with the famous

Memorandum

Same as memorialize.

Maker of a commemorative item

Pay homage to

Pay tribute to

""MEMORIZE to commit to memory, also MEMORISE""

Profuse menstruation.

Some Downton Abbey staff

Butlers, for example

Butlers, e.g

MENSTRUATE Menstruous.

Menstruate

""The act, process, or art, of measuring.""

Mentorship

Meperidine

MEPROBAMATE

George III's Hessians.

Hired soldiers

In a mercenary manner.

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.""

Goods dealer almost changed side

Goods for trading

Iran schemed suspiciously to promote...

MERCHANDIZE

Merchant

Tramp, for one

Trading vessel

Trading vessel.

Sing amidst mythical sea creatures in ships

French sea shanty the crew put together in ships sailing the trade routes

In Paris thanks the old expert without feeling

MERCURATE

MERCURATE

In a mercurial manner.

Meridional

Desert society (wordplay)

Government by the best

Belief that rulers should be chosen based on skills rather than wealth

Meritocrat

Deserving reward/praise

Deserving reward

Deserving praise

""Consisting only in part of germinal matter; characterized by partial segmentation only; as, meroblastic ova, in which a portion of the yolk only undergoes fission; meroblastic segmentation; opposed to holoblastic. as, meroblastic ova, in which a portion of the yolk only undergoes fission; meroblastic segmentation; opposed to holoblastic.""

Adjective (-ic)

Meromyosin

Merriness

Mardi gras mummers.

Convivial craftsmen

Boisterous celebration

Be wrong to interrupt my mother and family having grand celebration

Festivity

Mesentery

""MESHUGGE crazy, also MESHUGA, MESHUGAH, MESHUGGA""

MESMERISE

Hypnotists

MESMERIZE To bring into a state of mesmeric sleep.

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.

Mesosphere

MESOSPHERE

Adjective (-ic)

Metacarpal

Metacenter

""METACENTRE 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.""

A blacksmith, for one

Robot (wordplay)

Eg, a blacksmith

Metamerism

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

Metatarsal

Meteoritic

Of or pertaining to a meteoroid or to meteoroids.

Study of weather and climate

Study of weather

Roker's field

Meterstick

Metestrus

Methedrine

Methylator

Conversion to a particular measurement system

Modernisation of measures from imperial units

METRICIZE

Metrology

Measurement

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

Microbrew

Sudden, violent storms

Microbus

Microcline

Of or pertaining to micrococci; caused by micrococci.

""A genus of Spherobacteria, in the form of very small globular or oval cells, forming, by transverse division, filaments, or chains of cells, or in some cases single organisms shaped like dumbbells (Diplococcus), all without the power of motion. See Illust. of Ascoccus. Spherobacteria, in the form of very small globular or oval cells, forming, by transverse division, filaments, or chains of cells, or in some cases single organisms shaped like dumbbells (Diplococcus), all without the power of motion. See Illust. of Ascoccus.""

Microcopy

Serving as a small example

Ape eats small reptile and big, reflecting bigger world

""MICROCOSM A little world; a miniature universe. Hence (so called by Paracelsus), a man, as a supposed epitome of the exterior universe or great world. Opposed to macrocosm. macrocosm.""

Microcurie

Microfarad

English word

MICROFAUNA

Microfauna

English word

Microfiche

Microfilm

Microfilm

English word

MICROFLORA

Microflora

""A microscopic fossil, as of a pollen grain or unicellular organism.""

Plural noun or verb form

""The smaller of a pair of conjugating gametes, usually the male, in an organism that reproduces by heterogamy.""

Micrograph

Process that helped introduce long-playing records

Microimage

Microinch

""Injection of minute amounts of a substance into a microscopic structure, such as a single cell.""

Microliter

Formed of small stones.

Oversee to a fault

Control down to the last detail

If your employee says "I'll relabel the nacho cheese widgets," you don't...

Calipers for measuring small distances

English word

MICRONIZE

Pl. micronuclei (-kl - ) or micronucleuses The smaller of two nuclei in ciliate protozoans that contains genetic material and functions in reproduction.

Microphage

Devices for amplifying the voice

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

Microphyll

Micropipet

MICROPORE

Microprism

Microprobe