6-letter words containing m, i, a, s
- miaows — Plural form of miaow.
- miasma — noxious exhalations from putrescent organic matter; poisonous effluvia or germs polluting the atmosphere.
- miasms — Plural form of miasm.
- miauls — Plural form of miaul.
- midsea — A point out at sea, away from the shore.
- milpas — Plural form of milpa.
- mimosa — any of numerous plants, shrubs, or trees belonging to the genus Mimosa, of the legume family, native to tropical or warm regions, having small flowers in globular heads or cylindrical spikes and often sensitive leaves.
- minyas — a king of Orchomenus, famed for his wealth.
- misact — anything done, being done, or to be done; deed; performance: a heroic act.
- misadd — to unite or join so as to increase the number, quantity, size, or importance: to add two cups of sugar; to add a postscript to her letter; to add insult to injury.
- misaim — to position or direct (a firearm, ball, arrow, rocket, etc.) so that, on firing or release, the discharged projectile will hit a target or travel along a certain path.
- miseat — to eat unhealthily or improperly
- mishap — an unfortunate accident.
- mishna — the collection of oral laws compiled about a.d. 200 by Rabbi Judah ha-Nasi and forming the basic part of the Talmud.
- miskal — a unit of weight used esp in Iran, usually equal to about 4.6 grams
- mislay — to lose temporarily; misplace: He mislaid his keys.
- mispay — (transitive) To pay incorrectly, or to the wrong person.
- missal — (sometimes initial capital letter) Roman Catholic Church. the book containing the prayers and rites used by the priest in celebrating Mass over the course of the entire year.
- missay — to say or speak ill of; vilify; slander.
- mistag — (transitive) To tag incorrectly; to mislabel.
- mistal — a cow shed; byre
- misway — (obsolete) A wrong way.
- misyar — A temporary marriage in Sunni Islam.
- moesia — an ancient country in S Europe, S of the Danube and N of ancient Thrace and Macedonia: later a Roman province.
- mosaic — a picture or decoration made of small, usually colored pieces of inlaid stone, glass, etc.
- mosiac — Do you mean Mosaic?
- musial — Stanley Frank ("Stan the Man") 1920–2013, U.S. baseball player.
- myasis — myiasis.
- mysian — an ancient country in NW Asia Minor.
- mzansi — a low-cost national banking account
- nanism — the condition of being unusually or abnormally small in size or stature; dwarfism.
- nazism — the principles or methods of the Nazis.
- pamirs — the, a mountainous region in central Asia, largely in Tajikistan, where the Hindu Kush, Tien Shan, and Himalaya mountain ranges converge: highest peaks, about 25,000 feet (7600 meters).
- papism — Roman Catholicism.
- passim — so throughout: used especially as a footnote to indicate that a word, phrase, or idea recurs throughout the book being cited.
- racism — a belief or doctrine that inherent differences among the various human racial groups determine cultural or individual achievement, usually involving the idea that one's own race is superior and has the right to dominate others or that a particular racial group is inferior to the others.
- s-mail — snail mail.
- sadism — Psychiatry. the condition in which sexual gratification depends on causing pain or degradation to others. Compare masochism.
- saimaa — Lake, a lake in SE Finland. About 500 sq. mi. (1295 sq. km).
- saimin — a Hawaiian dish of noodles
- salami — a kind of sausage, originally Italian, often flavored with garlic.
- salmis — salmi.
- samain — a festival of the ancient Celts, held around November 1 to celebrate the beginning of winter.
- samian — of or relating to the Greek island of Samos.
- samite — a heavy silk fabric, sometimes interwoven with gold, worn in the Middle Ages.
- samiti — (in India) an association, esp one formed to organize political activity
- sammie — a sandwich.
- sarmie — a sandwich
- scampi — a large shrimp or prawn.
- shamir — Yitzhak [yits-hahk] /yɪtsˈhɑk/ (Show IPA), 1915–2012, Israeli political leader: prime minister 1986–92.