4-letter words starting with m
- meve — Obsolete spelling of move.
- mewl — to cry, as a baby, young child, or the like; whimper.
- mews — a cage for hawks, especially while molting.
- meze — several small dishes served as an appetizer or with alcoholic drinks, or as a light meal.
- mfat — Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade
- mfr. — manufacture.
- mftl — My Favourite Toy Language
- mgcp — Media Gateway Control Protocol
- mhdl — 1. MIMIC Hardware Description Language. 2. Microwave Hardware Description Language.
- mheg — Multimedia and Hypermedia information coding Expert Group
- mhra — Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
- miao — Also, Meo. a member of a diverse group of seminomadic farming people of the mountains of southeastern China and adjacent areas of Laos, North Vietnam, and Thailand.
- mic. — A mic. is the same as a microphone.
- mica — any member of a group of minerals, hydrous silicates of aluminum with other bases, chiefly potassium, magnesium, iron, and lithium, that separate readily into thin, tough, often transparent, and usually elastic laminae; isinglass.
- mice — Multimedia Integrated Conferencing for European Researchers
- mich — Alternative form of mitch.
- mick — a contemptuous term for a person of Irish birth or descent.
- mico — A small South American monkey (Mico melanurus), allied to the marmoset.
- micr — (business, printer) (MICR) A character recognition system using special ink and characters which can be magnetised and read automatically. MICR is used almost exclusively in the banking industry where it is used to print details on cheques to enable automatic processing.
- mics — Plural form of mic.
- mid- — Mid- is used to form nouns or adjectives that refer to the middle part of a particular period of time, or the middle point of a particular place.
- midi — Musical Instrument Digital Interface
- mids — Plural form of mid.
- mien — air, bearing, or demeanor, as showing character, feeling, etc.: a man of noble mien.
- miff — petulant displeasure; ill humor.
- migg — a playing marble, especially one that is not used as a shooter.
- miha — a young fern frond which has not yet opened
- mihi — A greeting, in Maori culture.
- mihl — music-induced hearing loss; a condition that can afflict both rock and classical musicians in which loss of sensitivity to high notes can be followed by headaches and tinnitus
- miis — (language) /Meese/ An interpreted language with one-letter keywords.
- mike — Micro Interpreter for Knowledge Engineering
- mild — amiably gentle or temperate in feeling or behavior toward others.
- mile — Also called statute mile. a unit of distance on land in English-speaking countries equal to 5280 feet, or 1760 yards (1.609 kilometers).
- milf — an attractive older woman, usually a mother, who is regarded as a sexual object by a younger man.
- milk — cow's milk for food
- 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.