9-Letter Words Starting with M

Old priest or inmate has to improve

Oriel team resolved to improve

Improve, having married priest - nothing to reprove

The doctrine that there is a tendency throughout nature toward improvement.

The belief that improvement of society depends on human effort.

Vocal runs

→ Mellotron® nt MEREOLOGY (Philosophy / Logic) the formal study of the logical properties of the relation of part and whole [via French from Greek meros part + -logy ]

Relaxed to the max

Most mature

Extremely mature elm, rotten at the bottom

Chilling out

Diatonic accordions

Organs the sound nice for ages in the end

Melodica

Musical yours truly left? Repulsive!

Sweet-sounding

Agreeable to the ear of model upset by debts

Within blend new ode is set to music

Melodise

People of note (wordplay)

Song writers.

Emulated Harry Warren

Wrote a song

""MELODIZE to compose a melody, also MELODISE""

Composes beautifully

Composes.

Play that made moral, perhaps (wordplay)

Torme's theatrics (wordplay)

Soap ingredient (wordplay)

English word

Processes for saving scrap metal

Results of excessive stress

Rageaholic's outbursts

MELTING the act of melting

In the distance, US-style officer with a big drip coming down the mountain

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

Tissue layers

Pliable layers.

Biological tissues.

Fairgoers' take-home items.

Souvenirs of past events

Vestiges of disease on hands and feet, partly

A writer of memoirs.

Noteworthy, as a performance

Not to be forgotten.

Impressive, as a speech or performance

MEMORABLE Worthy to be remembered; very important or remarkable.

Work sheets (wordplay)

Flowers for secretaries (wordplay)

Reminders, of sorts

Historic tourist sites

Some anniversary events

Some sites on the National Mall

Not for - got ten afterwards

Learnt

Learns by heart

Learns off Messi shimmying round City back

Word from Latin meaning 'from memory' or 'by heart'

Learned by rote

A person who learns by rote.

Learns by heart

Learns by remembering

Ladies in India

""A yellow crystalline powder, C 11 H 8 O 2 , used in medicine as a vitamin K supplement.""

Animal collective (wordplay)

Beastly place (wordplay)

Where the wild things are (wordplay)

Menarche

Repair Chicago's slums?

Repair Chicago's slums (wordplay)

Lying urban reformer's slogan (wordplay)

Beggar's apology (wordplay)

Zsa Zsa on darning socks (wordplay)

Fix it, holding can for beggar

The practice of begging; the life of a beggar; mendicancy.

Menhaden

Of brain membrane

People love to hold back change

It's no ovary action

Midlife crisis where people work to accept a regrettable conclusion (wordplay)

MENSE to do honour to

""Recurring once a month; monthly; gone through in a month; as, the menstrual revolution of the moon; pertaining to monthly changes; as, the menstrual equation of the sun's place. as, the menstrual revolution of the moon; pertaining to monthly changes; as, the menstrual equation of the sun's place.""

Solvent used in the preparation of drugs

A doctrine that mind is the only true reality and that objects exist only as aspects of the mind's awareness.

Kreskin, for one

What this puzzle is (wordplay)

Kreskin, for example

State of mind

Way of thinking

Approach, perhaps

Thinking process

Menthene

Given a reference

Made reference to

Said to be intoned after me

MENTION to remark briefly

Being a personal guide to

Guru's forte

Helping a protege

""A green crystalline organic compound, C 20 H 8 Br 2 HgNa 2 O 6 , that forms a red aqueous solution, used as a germicide and antiseptic.""

On foreign sea skipper discharges one organic compound

Perfect job for Warren (wordplay)

A charging soldier (wordplay)

Soldier of Fortune subject

Textile shops, in London

MERCER a dealer in textiles

Treat (cotton) with alkali for strength and lustre

Poet inclined to pontificate (wordplay)

Antonio and others.

Traders in French sea shanties

Showing no compassion

A cold 'No thanks to the French'

Descriptor for Ming

MERCURATE

Lively blackbird circling court

Prone to sudden mood swings

Like a liquid metallic element

Messengers or guides.

Full of a liquid metal

Dances from Hispaniola

Bird swimming near germs

Germans cooked the Queen's goose

Duck near germs spreading

Mergence

Cartographer's concerns.

North-to-south lines on a map.

Qi's pathways in Chinese medicine

Frothy pie toppings

Frothy toppings

Miner fails with endless speculation on what's for afters

Meristem

Of or relating to a gland whose secretory cells remain undamaged during secretion.

""A form of spore, usually elongate or falciform, and somewhat amoeboid, produced by segmentation of the schizonts of certain Sporozoa, as the malaria parasite.""

Hood's gang reported - time for fun!

Gaiety, laughter, fun

Celebratory goings-on

Mirthful mood

Jollity.

Jollity

Kin of LSD

LSD-like drug*

Cactus hallucinogen

Meseems

See midgut .

""The membranes, or one of the membranes (consisting of a fold of the peritoneum and inclosed tissues), which connect the intestines and their appendages with the dorsal wall of the abdominal cavity. The mesentery proper is connected with the jejunum and ilium, the other mesenteries being called mesoc, mesocolon, mesorectum, etc. mesoc, mesocolon, mesorectum, etc.""

English word

Meshwork

Hypnotise, spellbind

Many seem disconcerted with increase for entrance

Transfix

Form of hypnosis

Fascination

Under achiever (wordplay)

He might make you sleep

Trance producer

Make spellbound

Spellbind

Fascinate

Mesocarp

Mesoderm

Mesoglea

The layer of gelatinous material that separates the inner and outer cell layers of a coelenterate.

Mesomere

Body type somewhere in the middle

Person with a muscular body

""An atmospheric area about 80 kilometers (50 miles) above the earth's surface, forming the upper boundary of the mesosphere.""

""The photosynthetic tissue of a leaf, located between the upper and lower epidermis.""

Mesophyl

A land plant that grows in an environment having a moderate amount of moisture.

English word

Mesosome

Nuclear particles.

Something unsightly hiding pretty trees

I sang gems of communication

After muddle is getting on sending texts (wordplay)

Silky, twilled fabric.

Light silk

Soft fabric.

Agent for runner (wordplay)

Herald compiler on ship turning green!

Bird calling (wordplay)

Like one expected to deliver (wordplay)

Having a cult following, say

Like some sacred music

Title of Frenchmen

Nice 1 for some locals

Old-fashioned letter opener

Not in order to make emessss (wordplay)

Slob's quality

Neat freak's bane

Companions at chow

Boot camp pals

Military eating buddies

Household groupings, in law

Mesteso

Mestino

Mestizo

""A synthetic estrogen, C 21 H 26 O 2 , used in combination with a progestin in oral contraceptive preparations.""

Kind of weight loss

Pertaining to chemical processes of life

Of an energy-giving process.

Bones between the wrist and fingers

Before one gets minced meat and fish fingers, depend on them

Metalise

Metalise

Metalist

Gilt, perhaps

Metalize

Metallic

Metal

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

Arsenic, for one

Arsenic or silicon

Arsenic, for example, in it: old meal poisoned

""Any of several small, darkly colored butterflies of the family Riodinidae, occurring mainly in tropical regions and having iridescent lines or spots on the wings.""

Artistic smithwork

Mark and the rest operate this craft!

Walk, Metro out of order. Rails perhaps

Welding and soldering et al.

Metamere

""Having the same elements united in the same proportion by weight, and with the same molecular weight, but possessing a different structure and different properties; as, methyl ether and ethyl alcohol are metameric compounds. See Isomeric. as, methyl ether and ethyl alcohol are metameric compounds. See Isomeric.""

""The stage of mitosis and meiosis, following prophase and preceding anaphase, during which the chromosomes are aligned along the metaphase plate.""

Pom earths are figures of speech

Tom Sharpe employed them

Bad writers mix them

Is tame rat breaking bones (wordplay)

Came across one eating a sailor's bones

Satisfied a sailor is twisting bones

The part of the primary xylem that differentiates after the protoxylem and is characterized by broader vessels and tracheids.

Metazoan

Fall object (wordplay)

Lunar lander (wordplay)

Source of pre-Iron Age iron

Space rock, maybe

Potential shooting star

Small rock in space

Meterage

METES mete

Narcotic analgesic drug

Drug used in treating addiction

Drug used to treat addicts

Methadon

Methanol

Spiced mead

METHOD orderly procedure

Tommies with hearts and diamonds converted to religion

What could make him modest is a type of Christian outlook

Protestant who's the M in SMU

Way it's converted church member

A follower of Wesleyanism

""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.""

Spirit should be for this, I imagined

Very old, I reckoned

Had met outside, though, I suspected

Methylal

English word

May initially stimulate when swallowing your old mix with alcohol

Radical left the enemy bewildered

After me, your Leonard, 'e is on meths

Chemical found in paints, varnishes, solvents and inks

METONYM a word used in metonymy

METRIC a standard of measurement

Metrify

Metrify

Science of measurement

Science of weights and measures

Musician's pace maker (wordplay)

A city elf (wordplay)

Dwarf in a Parisian subway?

Mezereon

Mezereum

Mezquite

Floor between first and second

Level in the theater

Neither orchestra nor balcony

Art method used by M.C. Escher

Copper engraving.

Engraving showing singer in her true colours (wordplay)

""MIASMA a noxious vapor, also MIASM""

""Pertaining to, or containing, mica; splitting into lamin\'91 or leaves like mica.""

Micawber

Micrify

Micrify

Microbar

English word

MICROBE a microscopic organism

PBR or IPA (wordplay)

Beer festival offering

Runs into bacterium, say, on head of weak beer

Extra small fry (wordplay)

Integrated circuit piece

Tiny circuit bearer

Detailed computer instructions

MICRO short for microprocessor

Universe in miniature

It's a small world

A little universe

""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.""

Some spy storage

Cloak-and-dagger item.

Space-saver for data filing

Optical archiving medium

Little copy from single credit in second class

One is roughly the mass of a speck of dust

English word

""Same as Microlite, 2. Microlite, 2.""

""One of the smaller cells, or blastomeres, resulting from the complete segmentation of a telolecithal ovum.""

Micromho

Teeny-tiny skirt

Barely-there dress

Ultrashort skirt often paired with leggings

One millionth (10 -6 ) of a mole.

""MICRON a unit of length, also MIKRON""

English word

""An opening in the membranes surrounding the ovum, by which nutrition is assisted and the entrance of the spermatozoa permitted.""

A tiny granule in the cytoplasm of a cell; it consists of ribosomes bound to fragments of the endoplasmic reticulum and mitochondria.

The curse on ancient Greek citizen

Music An interval smaller than a semitone.

A measure of electromotive force; the millionth part of one volt.

Little bit of power

A small goodbye (wordplay)

Stove neighbor, maybe

Modern oven using electromagnetism

Urinate

Inner skull innards

Half-way through the main dish

Kind of correction

Intermediary no extremist (wordplay)

Not an extremist Wholesaler (wordplay)

The Go-Between (wordplay)