5-letter words containing a, m, i
- maxis — Plural form of maxi.
- mbari — (Nigeria, West Africa) A ceremonial clay shrine filled with clay models of humans or deities, made by the Igbo tribe.
- mbira — a musical instrument of Africa usually made out of a gourd that serves as a resonating box, to which vibrating metal or wooden strips are attached for plucking.
- media — an ancient country in W Asia, S of the Caspian Sea, corresponding generally to NW Iran. Capital: Ecbatana.
- miami — a member of a North American Indian tribe of the Algonquian family, formerly located in northern Indiana, southern Michigan, and possibly Illinois, now extinct as a tribe.
- miaou — the characteristic sound a cat makes.
- miaow — to make the sound of a cat.
- miasm — (in homeopathy) any of the three underlying chronic diseases that afflict humankind: sycosis, syphilis, and psora.
- miass — a city in the S Russian Federation in Asia, near the Ural Mountains, W of Chelyabinsk.
- miaul — the characteristic sound a cat makes.
- micah — a Minor Prophet of the 8th century b.c.
- micas — Plural form of mica.
- micra — a plural of micron.
- midas — Classical Mythology. a Phrygian king, son of Gordius, who was given by Dionysus the power of turning whatever he touched into gold.
- milan — an industrial city in central Lombardy, in N Italy: cathedral.
- milia — a small white or yellowish nodule resembling a millet seed, produced in the skin by the retention of sebaceous secretion.
- milpa — (in certain tropical regions) a tract of land cleared from the jungle, usually by burning, farmed for a few seasons, and then abandoned.
- mimas — Astronomy. one of the moons of Saturn.
- mimba — (formerly, especially in creole-speaking cultures) a name given at birth to a black child, in accordance with African customs, indicating the child's sex and the day of the week on which he or she was born, as the male and female names for Sunday (Quashee and Quasheba) Monday (Cudjo or Cudjoe and Juba) Tuesday (Cubbena and Beneba) Wednesday (Quaco and Cuba or Cubba) Thursday (Quao and Abba) Friday (Cuffee or Cuffy and Pheba or Phibbi) and Saturday (Quamin or Quame and Mimba)
- minae — an ancient unit of weight and value equal to the sixtieth part of a talent.
- minah — any of several Asian birds of the starling family Sturnidae, especially those of the genera Acridotheres and Gracula, certain species of which have the ability to mimic speech and are kept as pets.
- minar — a tower or turret in southern or eastern Asia
- minas — an ancient unit of weight and value equal to the sixtieth part of a talent.
- minna — a female given name.
- minya — Al (æl ) ; al) city in central Egypt, on the Nile: pop. 179,000
- miraj — Muhammad's miraculous ascension from Jerusalem, through the seven heavens, to the throne of God. The site from which he ascended is now the shrine of the Dome of the Rock.
- miras — Astronomy. the first long-period pulsating variable star to be discovered, with a period averaging 331 days. It is a red giant and a component of a binary star in the constellation Cetus.
- mirza — a royal prince (placed after the name when used as a title).
- missa — Mass.
- mitla — the ruins of a Zapotec Indian city near Oaxaca, Mexico, yielding elaborate remains of temples and other artifacts.
- mitra — the Vedic god of justice.
- mitta — An old English measure of volume, perhaps equal to two bushels. Also mett.
- mixal — MIX Assembly Language. The assembly language for Donald Knuth's hypothetical MIX machine.
- mizar — a double star in the middle of the constellation Ursa Major.
- moira — Classical Mythology. the personification of fate. Moirai, the Fates.
- moria — a mountainous region in S Palestine, where Abraham prepared to sacrifice Isaac. Gen. 22:3.
- mulai — A title for the ruler of Morocco.
- munia — Any of certain estrildid finches of the genera Lonchura (most instances) and Amandava (two species).
- mysia — an ancient country in NW Asia Minor.
- naima — a female given name: from an Arabic word meaning “benevolent.”.
- naomi — the mother-in-law of Ruth and the great-grandmother of David. Ruth 1.
- ngami — Lake, a shallow marshy lake in NW Botswana, N of the Kalahari desert. About 40 miles (64 km) long.
- nicam — near-instantaneous companding system: a technique for coding audio signals into digital form
- nizam — the title of the ruler of Hyderabad from the beginning of the 18th century to 1950.
- omani — of or relating to Oman or its people.
- omiya — a city on E Honshu, in Japan, NW of Tokyo.
- panim — a heathen or pagan
- piman — any of various groupings of Uto-Aztecan languages, of varying degrees of inclusiveness, comprising Pima and its closest relatives.
- priam — a king of Troy, the son of Laomedon, husband of Hecuba, and father of Paris, Cassandra, Hector, Polyxena, and many others. He was killed during the capture of Troy.
- prima — (of a female) first among equals.