2-Letter Words Starting with M

Matiness

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

Maulstick

Maumetry

MAXIMAL an element of a mathematical set that is followed by no other

Meatloaf

Mechanist

Low scorers in golf: Brit.

The first three award winners

Winners of awards.

""Pl. mediastina (-n ) The region in mammals between the pleural sacs, containing the heart and all of the thoracic viscera except the lungs.""

Mediation

Doctor meant to change the remedy

Healing substance

Curative substance

Medicate

Nurse's concern

Doctor's offering

Caught in a way to settle dispute: drugs, perhaps

Person of only average ability

Thinking timid agent needs replacing

Using contemplation for relaxation

Thinking seriously about intervening in dispute involving Tory leader

Thought scribbling a note timid

It might involve a mantra

Deep relaxing thought

Given to contemplation.

Having deep thoughts

Deep-thinking

Yoga practitioners

Ponderers

""Furnished with a medulla or marrow, or with a medullary sheath; as, a medullated nerve fiber. as, a medullated nerve fiber.""

Meetness

Megacity

Megadeath

Larger of two reproductive cells

Like Stonehenge

Affected with melanism; of the nature of melanism.

An epidermal cell capable of synthesizing melanin.

Melanoma

Melatonin

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

Improves.

Improves

One who meliorates.

Meliorist

With multiple notes sung to one syllable

Mellotron

Meltwater

Memoirist

Those poor solicitors!

Alms seekers

These poor beggars finish by the thousand in cats

MENING mene

GI-men, 'tis a disease

Holding group up to begin with, Malingering Git is making complaint

Menstruous.

Male nurse must put out solvents for pharmacist

Mentalism

Medium relatives

Mindreaders

Mentation

Mentioner

Mention

English word

Mephitis

Relating to trade or commerce

Engaged in trade.

Mail centre becomes profit oriented

Mercaptan

Merchant

MERCURATE

Mercurate

Ruler chosen for excellence

Merozoite

Merriment

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.""

Hypnotic experts

Mesnalty

Mesophyte

MESOPHYTE

""Pl. mesothelia (-l - ) The layer of flat cells of mesodermal origin that lines the embryonic body cavity and gives rise to the squamous cells of the peritoneum, pericardium, and pleura.""

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

Mestranol

Chemical processes in living organism

Basic organic process

Biological process

""A product of metabolism; a substance produced by metabolic action, as urea.""

To change by a metabolic process. See Metabolism. Metabolism.

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.""

""(used with a sing. verb) The study of the meaning and nature of ethical terms, judgments, and arguments.""

""METAGE an official weighing of coal, grain etc""

Metalise

Metalize

METALLIZE To impart metallic properties to; to impregnate with a metal.

Metallize

Metalloid

Art of ore-refining.

Branch of science

One of the sciences.

Metalmark

English word

Metalware

Metalwork

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

Metaphase

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)

Philosophical groundwork

In what orchestras make, the pay varies - there's no universal system of thought

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

""Of, relating to, or being an unstable and transient but relatively long-lived state of a chemical or physical system, as of a supersaturated solution or an excited atom.""

METASTABLE

""; metastasize, Cancer""

Change of position, state or form

Transition finds state amiss for 1 across

Mid-September Saturday / is as put another way / transition.

""Of, pertaining to, or caused by, metastasis; as, a metastatic abscess; the metastatic processes of growth. as, a metastatic abscess; the metastatic processes of growth.""

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

METATE a stone used for grinding grains

Transposition, as cruel for crulle, Falstaff for Fastolph, etc.

METATE a stone used for grinding grains

The last or posterior segment of the thorax in insects. See Illust. of Coleoptera. Illust. of Coleoptera.

Metaxylem

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

Methadone

English word

Metheglin

""A sulfur-containing essential amino acid, C 5 H 11 NO 2 S, obtained from various proteins or prepared synthetically and used as a dietary supplement and in pharmaceuticals.""

Systematic though brief in examination

Way I state to be orderly

Organised Oldie match at sea

METHODISE

Methodise

Methodism

Followers of John Wesley

Church members' ways are about its conversion

Chapelgoers force detective to probe consecrated bread

""METHODIZE To reduce to method; to dispose in due order; to arrange in a convenient manner; as, to methodize one's work or thoughts. as, to methodize one's work or thoughts.""

Methodize

Methylase

Inflammable (spirits)

Type of spirit

Met the lady reeling, soaked in alcohol

Methylate

""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.""

""A drug, C 10 H 13 NO 4 , used in the treatment of high blood pressure.""

Methylene

Very careful and precise

Super-attentive to detail

Extremely careful

One addicted to them may say he's on the stage

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

Sound of heavy music with tot's game

Spirited, resilient

High-spirited

Certain engravings.

Tintypes.

Sudden localized air current

Sudden violent downrush of air

Severe, storm-related downdraft

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.""

""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

Tiny distance measure

Precision instrument

Measure of the small-time crime waves engulfing capital

English word

MICROS micro

Microtome

MICROTONE

Microtone

Microvolt

Microwatt

MICTURATE to pass urine through the ureter; to urinate.

Micturate

MIDNIGHT the middle of the night

Midrash

Torso

Trunk

Midstory

Wrong places to change horses

Ship duties, midnight to 4 A. M.

Midwinter

The quality of being mighty; possession of might; power; greatness; high dignity.

Get men in to vandalise plant!

Get men in to design plant

Sauce often served with oysters

Whale's exclamation (wordplay)

Rites of passage

Very important events, by the way

Markers put down by Arnold Bennett

Militance

In a rebellious way

Engagement parties (wordplay)

Forces one learner, entering American university, to sign

In a military manner.

Build up arms

Having broken limit, stand up and get ready to fight

Limits are set covering one having to build up a fighting force

Hitler's philosophy

Student of science of war

Disbeliever in disarmament.

Provide troops for

Organize for war.

Provide armed forces for

Militate

Member of civilian force

Subject of many a New England statue

Citizen in a company

They're not regulars

Lexington and Concord fighters

Muster Day enrollees

Millerite

MILLIE (Irish) a young working-class woman

Very small measure of length

Small unit

About .04 inches

Very small parts

Tiny fractions

Millivolt

Milliwatt

Neckwear, proverbially.

Heavy burdens

Heavy burdens.

Waterwheel's power source

Flow providing power to wheel

Grain grinder's power source

Worker brought in if things grind to a halt (wordplay)

Power clamps will, when adjusted by right craftsman

Local fight with head is advantageous to a factory worker

Minacity

Mincemeat

Contents of a Turin tureen (wordplay)

Prelude to pasta, perhaps

Stock's recipe contained in quality soup

Part of an art collection

Great pictures? Far from it

Dollhouse collector's collection

Resident of a tiny house, say

Deliberately simple or basic

Note celebrities eschewing ostentation

Little attire (wordplay)

Garments with high hemlines

Garments of the 60's

Ministate

Was a comfort (to)

Performed duties in church perhaps

Gave service.

One serving or aiding

Attendant sprinted short way ahead to junction

Serving little cakes, returning to consume unspecified number

Government departments

Are these the little car's attempts to control the Government (wordplay)

Less numerous groups.

Defeated voting sides

Relatively small groups one newcomer upset in digs