6-letter words containing i, m, u
- marius — Gaius, c155–86 b.c, Roman general and consul: opponent of Lucius Cornelius Sulla.
- maudit — cursed; damned; wretched
- maukin — (Scotland) Alternative form of malkin.
- maulvi — (in India) an expert in Islamic law: used especially as a term of respectful address among Muslims.
- medium — a middle state or condition; mean.
- medius — the middle finger.
- mergui — a seaport in S Burma, on the Andaman Sea.
- miaous — the characteristic sound a cat makes.
- miauls — Plural form of miaul.
- mibuna — a Japanese leafy salad vegetable
- midgut — Zoology. the middle portion of the vertebrate alimentary canal, posterior to the stomach or gizzard and extending to the cecum, functioning in the digestion and absorption of food; the small intestine. the anterior portion of the arthropod colon, composed of endodermal tissue.
- mifune — Toshiro [tuh-sheer-oh;; Japanese taw-shee-raw] /təˈʃɪər oʊ;; Japanese tɔˈʃi rɔ/ (Show IPA), 1920–97, Japanese film actor, born in China.
- milieu — surroundings, especially of a social or cultural nature: a snobbish milieu.
- milium — a small white or yellowish nodule resembling a millet seed, produced in the skin by the retention of sebaceous secretion.
- mimune — Member of the Institution of Municipal Engineers
- mingus — Charles ("Charlie") 1922–79, U.S. jazz bass player and composer.
- minium — red lead.
- minour — Obsolete form of minor.
- minuet — a slow, stately dance in triple meter, popular in the 17th and 18th centuries.
- minuit — Peter, 1580–1638, Dutch colonial administrator in America: director general of the New Netherlands 1626–31.
- minute — the sixtieth part (1/60) of an hour; sixty seconds.
- misbug — /mis-buhg/ [MIT] An unintended property of a program that turns out to be useful; something that should have been a bug but turns out to be a feature. Usage: rare. Compare green lightning. See miswart.
- miscue — a stroke in which the cue fails to make solid contact with the cue ball.
- miscut — to penetrate with or as if with a sharp-edged instrument or object: He cut his finger.
- misrun — an incomplete casting, the metal of which has solidified prematurely.
- missus — missis.
- misuse — wrong or improper use; misapplication.
- miurus — a type of metre in poetry consisting of a hexameter with a short second last syllable
- mix up — an act or instance of mixing.
- mix-up — a confused state of things; muddle; tangle.
- mizuna — a variety of rape having thin, wispy leaves used in salads.
- mobius — August Ferdinand [ou-goo st fer-di-nahnt] /ˈaʊ gʊst ˈfɛr dɪˌnɑnt/ (Show IPA), 1790–1868, German mathematician.
- modius — a measure of capacity or quantity for dry substances that equates to about 9 litres
- moduli — Physics. a coefficient pertaining to a physical property.
- moujik — a Russian peasant.
- moulin — a nearly vertical shaft or cavity worn in a glacier by surface water falling through a crack in the ice.
- moulvi — maulvi.
- mousie — (diminutive) A mouse.
- msggui — (library) A graphical user interface for GNU Smalltalk. The msgGUI package contains the basics for creating window applications in the manner available in other graphical Smalltalk implementations. Version 1.0 of the library was by Mark Bush, ECS, Oxford University, UK.
- mucins — Plural form of mucin.
- mucoid — Biochemistry. any of a group of substances resembling the mucins, occurring in connective tissue, cysts, etc.
- muddie — (games) Synonym mudhead. More common in Great Britain, possibly because system administrators there like to mutter "bloody muddies" when annoyed at the species.
- muesli — a breakfast cereal similar to granola, usually consisting of rolled oats and dried fruit.
- muffin — an individual cup-shaped quick bread made with wheat flour, cornmeal, or the like, and baked in a pan (muffin pan) containing a series of cuplike forms.
- muftis — Plural form of mufti.
- mujiks — Plural form of mujik.
- mulier — a legitimate child.
- mulish — of or like a mule, as being very stubborn, obstinate, or intractable.
- mullis — Kary Banks [kair-ee,, kar-ee] /ˈkɛər i,, ˈkær i/ (Show IPA), born 1944, U.S. biochemist: Nobel prize 1993.
- multi- — Multi- is used to form adjectives indicating that something consists of many things of a particular kind.