6-letter words containing s, i
- maquis — the French underground movement, or Resistance, that combatted the Nazis in World War II.
- marais — a swamp or bayou.
- marias — a female given name, form of Mary.
- marish — a marsh.
- marist — a member of a religious order founded in Lyons, France, in 1816 for missionary and educational work in the name of the Virgin Mary.
- marius — Gaius, c155–86 b.c, Roman general and consul: opponent of Lucius Cornelius Sulla.
- mashie — a club with an iron head, the face having more slope than a mashie iron but less slope than a mashie niblick.
- masjid — a mosque.
- maskil — an advocate or supporter of the Haskalah.
- maslin — a mixture of different grains, flours, or meals, especially rye mixed with wheat.
- massif — a compact portion of a mountain range, containing one or more summits.
- mastic — Also called mastic tree, lentisk. a small Mediterranean tree, Pistacia lentiscus, of the cashew family, that is the source of an aromatic resin used in making varnish and adhesives.
- mastix — mastic, being an aromatic resin obtained from the mastic tree
- maties — Plural form of maty.
- matins — (often initial capital letter) matins, Also, especially British, mattins. (usually used with a singular verb) Ecclesiastical. the first of the seven canonical hours. the service for it, properly beginning at midnight, but sometimes beginning at daybreak. Also called Morning Prayer. the service of public prayer, said in the morning, in the Anglican Church.
- mavins — an expert or connoisseur.
- maxims — Plural form of maxim.
- mbasic — Microsoft BASIC.
- mbiras — Plural form of mbira.
- mecism — abnormal prolongation of one or more parts of the body.
- medias — Plural form of media.
- medics — Plural form of medic.
- medius — the middle finger.
- meishi — A Japanese business card.
- melies — Georges [zhawrzh] /ʒɔrʒ/ (Show IPA), 1861–1938, French film director.
- merils — an old-fashioned game played by two people, involving the placing of counters at the intersections of lines drawn on a board or on the ground.
- merise — Methode d'Etude et de Realisation Informatique pour les Systemes d'Enteprise. A software engineering method popular in France; many IPSEs are based on it.
- merism — (literature, rhetoric) Referring to something by its polar extremes, as in
- merits — claim to respect and praise; excellence; worth.
- mersin — a seaport in S Turkey, on the NW coast of the Mediterranean Sea.
- mesail — a pivoted piece on a helmet between a visor and a beaver.
- mesiad — relating to or situated at the middle or centre
- mesial — medial.
- meslin — Alternative form of maslin.
- messin — a lap dog; small pet dog.
- metics — Plural form of metic.
- miaous — the characteristic sound a cat makes.
- 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.
- mice's — any of numerous small Old World rodents of the family Muridae, especially of the genus Mus, introduced widely in other parts of the world.
- micros — Plural form of micro.
- midest — Obsolete form of midst.
- midges — Plural form of midge.
- midsea — A point out at sea, away from the shore.
- midsts — Plural form of midst.
- mieres — a city in N Spain, south of Oviedo: steel and chemical industries; iron and coal mines. Pop: 47 618 (2003 est)
- mights — Plural form of might.
- milers — Plural form of miler.