5-letter words containing m, o, i
- minor — lesser, as in size, extent, or importance, or being or noting the lesser of two: a minor share.
- minos — Minho.
- minot — George Richards [rich-erdz] /ˈrɪtʃ ərdz/ (Show IPA), 1885–1950, U.S. physician: Nobel prize 1934.
- minow — Archaic form of minnow.
- minto — Gilbert John Elliot-Murray-Kynynmond [el-ee-uh t-mur-ee-ki-nin-muh nd,, -muhr-ee-,, el-yuh t-] /ˈɛl i ətˈmɜr i kɪˈnɪn mənd,, -ˈmʌr i-,, ˈɛl yət-/ (Show IPA), 4th Earl of, 1845–1914, British colonial administrator: governor general of Canada 1898–1904; viceroy of India 1905–10.
- misdo — to do badly or wrongly; botch.
- misgo — to go the wrong way
- miso- — indicating hatred
- miwok — a member of an American Indian people formerly living in several noncontiguous areas of California north of San Francisco Bay and eastward from the San Joaquin-Sacramento delta to the Sierras.
- mo ti — (Mo Ti) flourished 5th century b.c, Chinese philosopher.
- mo-zi — ?470–?391 bc, Chinese religious philosopher; his teaching, expounded in the book Mo-Zi, emphasizes love, frugality, avoidance of aggressive war, and submission to Heaven
- mobie — a mobile phone
- mochi — cooked and pounded glutinous rice formed into various shapes and used to make traditional Japanese sweets and other dishes (often used attributively): mochi balls; mochi ice cream.
- moile — A kind of high shoe worn in ancient times.
- moira — Classical Mythology. the personification of fate. Moirai, the Fates.
- moire — (of silks and other fabrics) presenting a watery or wavelike appearance.
- moism — the religious and ethical teaching of Mo-Zi and his followers, emphasizing universal love, ascetic self-discipline, and obedience to the will of Heaven
- moist — moderately or slightly wet; damp.
- moity — full of moits.
- molvi — maulvi.
- monic — (of a polynomial) having the coefficient of the term of highest degree equal to 1.
- monie — Archaic spelling of money.
- moniz — Antonio Caetano de Abreu Freire Egas [ahn-taw-nyoo kah-uh-tah-noo duh uh-bre-oo fruh-ee-ruh ee-guh sh] /ɑ̃ˈtɔ nyʊ ˌkɑ əˈtɑ nʊ də əˈbrɛ ʊ frəˈi rə ˈi gəʃ/ (Show IPA), 1874–1955, Portuguese neurosurgeon: Nobel prize 1949.
- mooli — A white radish-like vegetable originating in Asia.
- moqui — Moki.
- moria — a mountainous region in S Palestine, where Abraham prepared to sacrifice Isaac. Gen. 22:3.
- moric — Derived or extracted from (a member of) the Morus genus (the mulberries).
- morid — (zoology) Any member of the Moridae family of fish.
- morin — (organic compound) A yellow flavonoid, extracted from fustic, once used to dye wool.
- moshi — a city in N Tanzania.
- mossi — an agricultural people of Africa living mainly in Burkina Faso.
- motif — a recurring subject, theme, idea, etc., especially in a literary, artistic, or musical work.
- movie — motion picture.
- moxie — vigor; verve; pep.
- myoid — (anatomy) Composed of, or resembling muscle.
- naomi — the mother-in-law of Ruth and the great-grandmother of David. Ruth 1.
- noemi — Naomi (def 1).
- nomic — (dated) customary; ordinary; applied to the usual spelling of a language, in distinction from strictly phonetic methods.
- nomoi — a subdivision or department of Greek government
- odism — the teaching of, study of, or belief in the concept of od
- odium — intense hatred or dislike, especially toward a person or thing regarded as contemptible, despicable, or repugnant.
- ohmic — the standard unit of electrical resistance in the International System of Units (SI), formally defined to be the electrical resistance between two points of a conductor when a constant potential difference applied between these points produces in this conductor a current of one ampere. The resistance in ohms is numerically equal to the magnitude of the potential difference. Symbol: Ω.
- ojime — a Japanese bead which is used to secure cords in place
- omani — of or relating to Oman or its people.
- omics — Any of several biochemical or genetic studies that aim to identify the totality of a certain type of compound, gene etc in a specific organism.
- omits — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of omit.
- omiya — a city on E Honshu, in Japan, NW of Tokyo.
- omni- — all or everywhere
- onium — (chemistry) any cation derived by the addition of a proton to the hydride of any element of the nitrogen, chalcogen or halogen families.
- opium — the dried, condensed juice of a poppy, Papaver somniferum, that has a narcotic, soporific, analgesic, and astringent effect and contains morphine, codeine, papaverine, and other alkaloids used in medicine in their isolated or derived forms: a narcotic substance, poisonous in large doses.