3-letter words starting with m
- mip — monthly investment plan
- mir — a village commune of peasant farmers in prerevolutionary Russia.
- mis — the syllable used for the third tone of a diatonic scale.
- mit — Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
- mix — to combine (substances, elements, things, etc.) into one mass, collection, or assemblage, generally with a thorough blending of the constituents.
- miz — (slang) miserable.
- mjs — (language) An early system on the UNIVAC I or II.
- mk. — plural mks. mark2 (def 1).
- mks — meter-kilogram-second (system)
- mkt — market
- mla — In Australia and some other countries, an MLA is a person who has been elected as a member of parliament. MLA is an abbreviation for 'member of the legislative assembly'.
- mlb — middle linebacker
- mlc — Member of the Legislative Council
- mld — minimum lethal dose (the smallest amount of a drug or toxic agent that will kill a laboratory animal)
- mle — multicultural London English: a London dialect of English, characterized by West Indian and South Asian inflections, and frequent use of slang
- mlf — multilateral (nuclear) force
- mlg — Middle Low German
- mlk — Martin Luther King, Jr.
- mll — Medium-Level Language. Sometimes used half-jokingly to describe C, alluding to its "structured-assembler" image.
- mln — Million.
- mlr — law: minimum lending rate
- mls — Master of Library Science.
- mma — A fast Mathematica-like system, in Allegro CL by R. Fateman, 1991.
- mmc — Monopolies and Mergers Commission
- mme — Madame
- mmf — magnetomotive force
- mmi — 1. Man-Machine Interface. 2. (company) The company which developed the first Programmable Array Logic devices. MMI was bought by AMD.
- mml — Human-Machine Language. A language from ITU-T for telecommunications applications. It has a complex natural-language syntax.
- mmm — Member of the Order of Military Merit
- mmo — Massively Multiplayer Online Game
- mmp — mixed member proportional: a system of proportional representation, used in Germany and New Zealand
- mmr — vaccine against measles, mumps, rubella
- mms — Multimedia Messaging Services
- mmu — Memory Management Unit
- mmv — Medal of Military Valour
- mmx — Matrix Math eXtensions
- mna — Alternative form of mina (weight unit).
- mne — Montenegro (international car registration)
- mnp — Microcom Networking Protocol
- mnt — (chemistry) maleonitriledithiolate.
- mo. — plural mos. month.
- moa — any of several flightless birds of the family Dinornithidae, of New Zealand, related to the kiwis but resembling the ostrich: extinct since about the end of the 18th century.
- mob — Digital Technology. (in a video game) a hostile nonplayer character that the player may target and fight.
- moc — moccasin.
- mod — very modern; up-to-date; being in the vanguard in style, dress, etc.
- moe — a male given name, form of Morris or Moses.
- mog — to move on, depart, or decamp (usually followed by off or on).
- moh — Medical Officer of Health
- moi — Me? (used especially when accused of something that one knows one is guilty of).
- mol — the basic unit in the International System of Units (SI), representing the amount of a substance expressed in grams containing as many atoms, molecules, or ions as the number of atoms in 12 grams of carbon-12 (which is Avogadro's number, or 6.022 × 10 23).