2-Letter Words Starting with M

Unable to get traction, maybe

Bogged down (in)

Spinning wheels perhaps

Walled in

Incarcerated

House mouse.

House mouse

Sufi disciple.

Plunder and pillage

Raid and plunder.

Look for booty

Sea vessel's captured showing flag maybe

Made notation on a manuscript, maybe

Like a gangland foe, perhaps

Fertilized, as lime-deficient soil

Sprayed graffiti on, say

Graffiti covered, for example

Less than perfect

Mart

A head or skull

Joined United (wordplay)

Went from two lanes to one

Lost identity through absorption.

Metre

What a noble address!

English nobleman (hist.)

Noble, to his servant

Like some bedsheet corners, in Britain

Like some collars.

Joined at an angle.

In one's slip (wordplay)

Low revolutionary tied up (wordplay)

Buoyed up (wordplay)

Showing unhealthy interest in death

Kind of curiosity.

Like some fascinations

a vast number, perhaps innumerable

An indefinitely large number

Army headmaster has diary problem

Pursued a collegiate specialty (in)

Pursued academically (with "in")

Made one's main study

Old puffer in shopping centre on a road

Mother left with fat duck

Wild duck went at record-breaking speed

French-style roof

Sort of roof

Multi-slope roof

Football team with its colour becoming mucky

He could get rude in a fertile sort of way

Graduate welcomes a new university bar, finally replete with stools (wordplay)

Toward man

Mottled and streaked (like stone)

Like steak that's going to sizzle

Decorated pages, in a way

Protested in the streets

Protested, perhaps

Moved to Sousa music .

Dutch, say, so united (wordplay)

Joined a union (wordplay)

Spoilt individual trapped in union!

Turned from green to red, perhaps

Crazy about true reform that's now ready

Developed, as a player

Wild sweet-cherry tree

Was worthy of

Was worthy of.

Was entitled to

Davy Jones' girlfriend (wordplay)

Disney's Ariel, for one

All woman? Not half!

Like some postage

Described a taxicab.

Alternative to "stamped"

Studied, but not so much (wordplay)

Studied some, with "in"

Had a secondary study

See see as sea, say

Think that might is right (wordplay)

See saw as say, say

Create accidental double entendres

Phrase wrongly

Cut corners (wordplay)

Like a cornered joint

Cut a picture-frame corner.

Went by Saturn, say

Went by automobile

Travelled by car

Sat shiva, say

Emulated O'Neill's Electra

Became a keener

Yellow paste keenly applied (wordplay)

The keen stuff (wordplay)

Dirt involving celebrity? Hot stuff!

Mammer

Word with ill, well or mild

Written in an affected way

Given to polite social behaviour

Searched for plunder

Raided and plundered

Roved in search of plunder

Edged.

Flower - grim load (anagram)

Colorful plant of the daisy family

The color cadmium orange.

Gave a promotion

Attempted to sell

Offered for sale

Me on road (anagram)

'Red Ed' left high and dry (wordplay)

On a desert island

Marrow

Having suffered for one's beliefs

Like a saint, maybe

Faith, that's what one died for

Stood in awe.

Felt amazement

Gazed amazedly

Red meats (anagram)

Got really good at

Became a pro at

Made a difference

Was of consequence

Had an impact

Taped, perhaps, in the same, rude way

Ready to be cut (wordplay)

Made sure (anagram)

Having {members=n}

Helped a trainee, perhaps

Was a counselor to

Acted as teacher or counsellor

Sought greener pastures

Major route in shreds, moved away

Made a move

A lot appear forbearing about a perjurer

One thousand million

Ten to the power nine

Like some Ray-Bans

On reflection, what one got was this

Did the same as

Give an Oscar for a TV show

Label falsely

Didn't ignite properly

Failed to go off, like a gun

Didn't go off

Wrongly thought you said 'In mid-cut'

Caught (words) incorrectly

(Of speech) not understood correctly

Judged lousily

Failed to manage dire slum reform

Was a lousy leader

Governed badly

Crumbled into particles

Crumbled to dust.

Crumbled to dust

Monger

Toward the moon

Large uncultivated area

Wuthering Heights locale

Arab to come down by heath

A board at the base of a wall

Failing to find bone in tumulus

At the point of death

Dying to ridicule entering bank

Fragmented, as food

Fired shells on enemy trenches

Fired shells on, as enemy trenches

Made fast, as bricks

Mortice

Joined securely

Joined securely

Cared for, perhaps

Took under one's wing

Protected; cared for

Splash protector on a truck (2 words)

Splash protector on a big rig (2 words)

Curved motorcycle part

""A tropical eel, also MORAY, MURRAY, MURRY""

Like many Sue Grafton characters

Took life seriously

Killed with premeditation

Pickled

Made a soft sound

Was hard to hear

Spoke softly or indistinctly

Collected and keen type, say

As one gathered, hot, by the sound of it

Gathered that this had a hot sound

Male said to have grumbled

Talked in a barely audible voice

Frenchman said to be quietly spoken

Eg, a millipede

Eg, centipede or millipede

Many-legged creature; dip my oar (anagram)

""A multi-legged arthropod, also MYRIAPOD""

Disintegrated through excessive soaking

Staff deserved getting soaked

Steeped valued spice first

Badly-shaped

Faultily made

What's so mad about fifty for myself that's crooked (wordplay)

Clipped - and rude (wordplay)

Gave a hand job (wordplay)

Cut and filed

MANSARD a type of roof

Marcel

Margent

Marinade

Prepared for the grill, say

Named Rita (anagram)

Steeped in oil and vinegar.

Marshal

Everglades, for example

Swampy tract spoils hot country

Boggy area

Was filled with wonder

Was wondering if horse's drunk a few - almost fell over and died!

Expressed amazement, finding limited edition by poet

Mascara

Indiscriminately killed

Samantha turns religious and is butchered

Trounced, using same cards but in different order

Ripened

Maunder

Took a winding course.

Wandered around aimlessly

(Of river) snaked

""MEMBRANE a thin, pliable layer of tissue""

Not for - got ten afterwards

Learnt

Learned by rote

Space rock, maybe

Potential shooting star

Small rock in space

Metrify

Micrify

Misform

Misframe

Misgrade

LEARED leare

Mismark

Misparse

Mispart

Misprice

Misprize

Misraise

RECORD to register in writing

Misrely

Misroute

Missort

Set dimmer switches labelled incorrectly

Named inaccurately

Wrongly classified

Mistrace

Misword

Deleted the trolls, say

Fashion criticised, toned down

Fashion considered to be toned down

The curved plate of a plow that turns over the soil.

Kept an eye on

Kept track of

Watched carefully

""An instrument for experimenting upon the mathematical relations of musical sounds. It consists of a single string stretched between two bridges, one or both of which are movable, and which stand upon a graduated rule for the purpose of readily changing and measuring the length of the part of the string between them.""

(Medicine) an animal or person with only one testicle

Moralise

Lectured about the value of virtue

Gave a sermon

Mordant

Morsel

Like upside-down Monopoly deeds

Like Monopoly deeds that are flipped upside down

Embarrassed at having lost vitality

Not merely embarrassed

Completely shamed

It's moored at sea, like a power boat

Equipped with engined vehicles

Motorize

Moulder

Dug for dirt

MUFFLER a device for deadening sound

Word with prefix multi-

Murther

Stayed well away from work

Feigned incapacity

Feigned sickness

Abused whiskey and wine, consumed inside

Abused

Used sly strategy

Schemed deviously

MANOEUVRE See Maneuver.Maneuver.

MARBLEISE

""MARBLEIZE To stain or grain in imitation of marble; to cover with a surface resembling marble; as, to marbleize slate, wood, or iron. as, to marbleize slate, wood, or iron.""

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

A small herd, having gone astray, getting gathered together

MARTYRIZE To make a martyr of.

Look out, clever boss!

Look out , brilliant boss!

Moriarty his chosen subject (wordplay)

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.

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

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.""

Merchant

MERCURATE

MESMERISE

1986 Jodie Foster film

In a hypnotic trance.

Bewitched, in a way.

METRICIZE

The millionth part of a farad.

MICRONIZE

Cooked quickly

Heated up, warm voice melted heart of model

Zapped

English word

MICTURATE to pass urine through the ureter; to urinate.

Was a comfort (to)

Performed duties in church perhaps

Gave service.

Misalter

Misaver

Misaward

Misbrand

Miscarry

CHARGED charge

Miscolor

Formed unnaturally or illegitimately; deformed.

Misenter

Ledge under choir stall seat

Church's "mercy seat"

Dagger gives room for breaking the rules

Misgraft

Mislabor

Mislearn

MISNOMER a name wrongly used

Misorder

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!

RELATED relate

Misstart

Missteer

Mistrain

Was unkind to

Done wrong

Ill-used

Corroded by a fine spray?

Corroded by a fine spray (wordplay)

Had no confidence in.

Mistryst

Mistutor

Brought up to date when Reds in demo rerouted

Brought up to date, way diners must change

'Minder' does become confused when it is brought up to date

MODERNIZE To render modern; to adapt to modern person or things; to cause to conform to recent or present usage or taste.

Monogram

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

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

Mountaineer, in France.

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

MOTORBIKE

MOTORCADE a procession of people traveling in motor cars.

Past tense or past participle

Got out of hand.

Space needed in Slough after Mothers' Union expanded

Mutineer

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