4-letter words containing mi
- mill — Arithmetic and Logic Unit
- milo — a grain sorghum having white, yellow, or pinkish seeds, grown chiefly in Africa, Asia, and the U.S.
- mils — Slang. a million.
- milt — the sperm-containing secretion of the testes of fishes.
- mimd — Multiple Instruction/Multiple Data
- mime — the art or technique of portraying a character, mood, idea, or narration by gestures and bodily movements; pantomime.
- mimi — a female given name.
- mimo — a technology for optimizing the speed, range, and reliability of wireless data transmission by using two or more antennas at the source and destination.
- mims — the twenty-fourth letter of the Arabic alphabet.
- min. — minim
- mina — an ancient unit of weight and value equal to the sixtieth part of a talent.
- mind — (in a human or other conscious being) the element, part, substance, or process that reasons, thinks, feels, wills, perceives, judges, etc.: the processes of the human mind.
- mine — an excavation made in the earth for the purpose of extracting ores, coal, precious stones, etc.
- ming — a dynasty in China, 1368–1644, marked by the restoration of traditional institutions and the development of the arts, especially in porcelain, textiles, and painting.
- mini — miniskirt.
- mink — a semiaquatic weasellike animal of the genus Mustela, especially the North American M. vison.
- mino — Minho.
- mins — Minutes; Plural form of min.
- mint — Mint Is Not TRAC
- minu — Genitive singular form of mina.
- minx — a pert, impudent, or flirtatious girl.
- miny — Of or resembling a mine.
- mips — 1. (unit, benchmark) Million instructions per second. The unit commonly used to give the rate at which a processor executes instructions. Often rendered by hackers as "Meaningless Indication of Processor Speed" or in other unflattering ways. This expresses a nearly universal attitude about the value of most benchmark claims, said attitude being one of the great cultural divides between hackers and marketroids. The etymologically incorrect singular "1 MIP" is sometimes heard. See also KIPS and GIPS. 2. VAX MIPS. 3. (processor) Microprocessor without Interlocked Pipeline Stages. 4. (company) MIPS Technologies, Inc.
- mira — 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.
- mire — a tract or area of wet, swampy ground; bog; marsh.
- miri — a village commune of peasant farmers in prerevolutionary Russia.
- mirk — darkness; gloom: the murk of a foggy night.
- miro — Gabriel [gah-vree-el] /ˌgɑ vriˈɛl/ (Show IPA), 1879–1930, Spanish novelist, short-story writer, and essayist.
- mirv — multiple independently targetable reentry vehicle.
- miry — of the nature of mire; swampy: miry ground.
- mis- — Mis- is added to some verbs and nouns to form new verbs and nouns which indicate that something is done badly or wrongly.
- misc — Abbreviation of miscellaneous.
- mise — a settlement or agreement.
- mish — (British, slang) mission.
- miso — a fermented seasoning paste of soybeans, often with rice or barley added, used to flavor soups and sauces.
- misr — Arabic name of Egypt.
- miss — to fail to hit or strike: to miss a target.
- mist — a cloudlike aggregation of minute globules of water suspended in the atmosphere at or near the earth's surface, reducing visibility to a lesser degree than fog.
- misy — (mineralogy) An impure yellow sulphate of iron; yellow copperas or copiapite.
- mita — a colonial system in Peru by which the Spanish government required Indians to perform periodic forced labor, especially in the mines.
- mite — a contribution that is small but is all that a person can afford.
- miti — SQRIBE
- mito — a city in Ibaraki prefecture, E central Honshu, Japan.
- mits — Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems
- mitt — Baseball. a rounded glove with one internal section for the four fingers and another for the thumb and having the side next to the palm of the hand protected by a thick padding, used by catchers. a somewhat similar glove but with less padding and having sections for the thumb and one or two fingers, used by first basemen. Compare baseball glove.
- mity — Having mites.
- mixt — a simple past tense and past participle of mix.
- mixy — adjusted or modified to allow mixing
- mizz — Spoken form of Ms.
- momi — Also, Momos [moh-mos] /ˈmoʊ mɒs/ (Show IPA). Classical Mythology. the god of ridicule.