2-Letter Words Starting with M

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

Masthead

""MASTICATE To grind or crush with, or as with, the teeth and prepare for swallowing and digestion; to chew; as, to masticate food. as, to masticate food.""

Working with teeth initially meshed, one side of cog breaking a channel

Masticator

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

Plural or third person singular

Inflammation in the mastoid process of the temporal bone.

""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

Matchless

Union organizers (wordplay)

Mothers and others.

Marriage arrangers

Dolly Levi activity

For example, test maiden and a powerful male forming a relationship

Wood lighters (wordplay)

Some small bridge materials

Fire starters

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

Mateyness

Mos Def feat. T.I. (wordplay)

Summer activity (wordplay)

Problem area (wordplay)

MATHEMATIZE

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

Matutinal

Extremist socialist faction

Mayoralty

Plant found in damp fields

Wild plant with creamy fragrant flowers

Fragrant wild plant

A tape recording (wordplay)

Beef perhaps about certain chaps' size

Size of solid pieces, in essence

Meatiness

Beef industry

Functioning like a machine

Of or pertaining to a mediastinum.

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

""MEDIATION The act of mediating; action or relation of anything interposed; action as a necessary condition, means, or instrument; interposition; intervention.""

MEDIATE to interpose between parties as a friend to each

Mediatrix

Medicament

Medication

This writer long opposing high-ranking expert devoted to past era

Celebrated book by Marcus Aurelius.

Sessions of deep thought meant idiots would be transformed

""(Spirituality, New Age, Astrology & Self-help / Alternative Belief Systems) of or relating to a spiritual medium""

Megagamete

An abnormally large nucleated red blood cell found especially in people having pernicious anemia or certain vitamin deficiencies.

English word

Abbr. MT A unit of explosive force equal to that of one million metric tons of TNT.

A dose of a vitamin greatly exceeding the amount required to maintain health.

MEIOTIC pertaining to {meiosis=n}

A precursor cell of a melanocyte or melanophore.

Melanocyte

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

Flowing as with honey; smooth; mellifluous.

A melted solid; a fused mass.

Maker of a commemorative item

Mendacity

Mendicity

Some Downton Abbey staff

Butlers, for example

Butlers, e.g

MENSTRUATE Menstruous.

Menstruate

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

Of or pertainig to mentalism.

Mind-sets

Torero's type of smoke (wordplay)

Minty (of cigarettes)

Not taboo

Mentorship

MEPROBAMATE

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

MERCURATE

MERCURATE

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.""

Mesentery

MESOTHELIA

""Epithelial mesoderm; a layer of cuboidal epithelium cells, formed from a portion of the mesoderm during the differetiation of the germ layers. It constitutes the boundary of the c&oe;lum.""

Adjective (-ic)

Metabolism

Products of the body's fuel-burning system

Built up and destroyed protoplasm

Metabolize

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.""

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

""Fiction that deals, often playfully and self-referentially, with the writing of fiction or its conventions.""

Plural or third person singular

""The change of form which one animal species undergoes in a series of successively produced individuals, extending from the one developed from the ovum to the final perfected individual. Hence, metagenesis involves the production of sexual individuals by nonsexual means, either directly or through intervening sexless generations. Opposed to monogenesis. See Alternate generation, under Generation. monogenesis. See Alternate generation, under Generation.""

Of or pertaining to metagenesis.

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

Metalloid.

Metalsmith

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

Plural or third person singular

Plural noun or verb form

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

Field for Aristotle

A branch of philosophy

Branch of philosophy

Metaplasia

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

English word

METASOMA the back portion of an arachnid with no appendages

""To spread from one part of the body to other parts, and grow there; to spread by metastasis{3}; -- said of cancer cells.""

Metatarsal

Meteoritic

Of or pertaining to a meteoroid or to meteoroids.

Study of weather and climate

Study of weather

Roker's field

Meterstick

Metestrus

METHANE a flammable gas

Methedrine

""An organic compound, (CH 2 ) 6 N 4 , used as a urinary tract antiseptic and in rubber vulcanizing. Also called hexamethylenetetramine .""

""A synthetic antibiotic, C 17 H 19 N 2 O 6 NaS, related to penicillin and most commonly used in treatment of infections caused by penicillinase-producing staphylococci.""

Methionine

METHODISE

METHODIST One who observes method.

""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.""

System of rules

System of procedures for use in a specific field

""See Methyl amine, under Methyl. Methyl amine, under Methyl.""

""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.""

""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.""

Methylator

Methyldopa

Used by way of metonymy; using the name of one thing for that of another with which it is closely associated.

Conversion to a particular measurement system

Modernisation of measures from imperial units

METRICIZE

Metrology

Measurement

Sudden, violent storms

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

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

Microliter

Formed of small stones.

Calipers for measuring small distances

English word

Micropipet

Microstate

Small electrical contactor

""Any of the proteinaceous cylindrical hollow structures that are distributed throughout the cytoplasm of eukaryotic cells, providing structural support and assisting in cellular locomotion and transport.""

MICTURATE to pass urine through the ureter; to urinate.

""The act of voiding urine; also, a morbidly frequent passing of the urine, in consequence of disease.""

English word

Adjective (-al)

Midsection

Garden annuals.

Relating to large-scale movements of animals

Militancy

Run like the forces

Militarise

Militarism

Militarist

""Equipped with eapons; armed; -- used of persons, regions, or the military. Contrasted to unarmed and demilitarized.unarmed and demilitarized.""

Militarize

Milliliter

An inch equals 25.4 of these

Fine measures

Sources of power for the daily grind (wordplay)

Philosopher with legal claims for specialist builders

Mimetical

Italian soups

One who does very little work (wordplay)

(Small portrait) painter

He could be a great artist but he does not produce great pictures

Construct on a smaller scale

Composer Philip Glass and others

Miniskirt

Executive on the government side

Relating to cabinet members

Government department's small and it's real crazy!

Attending (to)

Ministrant

Mirthless

Misadapt

Misadjust

ALLOCATE to {assign=v}

Misalter

One who hates other people

Person disliking humankind

One hating humankind

Hatred of mankind

Extreme unsociability

Dislike of others making sad man this inadequate

Ill-conceived

Ill-advised

Badly conceived

Misbutton

Miscaption

Miscatalog

Capability of being mixed.