5-letter words starting with m
- minim — the smallest unit of liquid measure, 1/60 (0.0167) of a fluid dram, roughly equivalent to one drop. Symbol: ♍, ♏. Abbreviation: min, min.;
- minis — Plural form of mini.
- minix — (operating system) /MIN-ix/ A small operating system that is very similar to UNIX. MINIX was written for educational purposes by Prof. Andrew S. Tanenbaum of Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam. MINIX has been written from scratch and contains no AT&T code -- neither in the kernel, the compiler, the utilities, nor the libraries. Although copyrighted by Prentice-Hall, all sources, binaries and documentation can be obtained via Internet for educational or research purposes. Current versions as of 1996-11-15: MINIX 2.0 - Intel CPUs from Intel 8088 to Pentium MINIX 1.5 - Intel, Macintosh (MacMinix), Amiga, Atari ST, Sun SPARC.
- minke — a dark-colored baleen whale, Baleanoptera acutorostrata, inhabiting temperate and polar seas and growing to a length of 33 feet (10 meters): reduced in numbers.
- minks — Plural form of mink.
- minn. — Minnesota
- minna — a female given name.
- minni — an ancient people of Asia Minor.
- minny — minnow.
- 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.
- minsk — Official name Belarus. Formerly White Russian Soviet Socialist Republic, Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic. a republic in E Europe, N of Ukraine: formerly a part of the Soviet Union. 80,154 sq. mi. (207,600 sq. km). Capital: Minsk.
- 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.
- mints — Plural form of mint.
- minty — homosexual.
- minum — (printing, obsolete) A small kind of printing type; minion.
- minus — less by the subtraction of; decreased by: Ten minus six is four.
- minxy — Characteristic of a minx (flirtatious young woman).
- minya — Al (æl ) ; al) city in central Egypt, on the Nile: pop. 179,000
- miraj — Muhammad's miraculous ascension from Jerusalem, through the seven heavens, to the throne of God. The site from which he ascended is now the shrine of the Dome of the Rock.
- miras — 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.
- mired — a tract or area of wet, swampy ground; bog; marsh.
- mires — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mire.
- mirex — A synthetic insecticide of the organochlorine type used chiefly against ants.
- mirid — An active plant bug of a large family that includes numerous plant pests.
- mirim — Lake, a lake on the E Uruguay-S Brazil border. About 108 miles (174 km) long.
- mirin — a Japanese cooking wine made from rice, sweeter than sake.
- mirky — dark, gloomy, and cheerless.
- mirth — gaiety or jollity, especially when accompanied by laughter: the excitement and mirth of the holiday season.
- mirza — a royal prince (placed after the name when used as a title).
- misc. — miscellaneous
- misce — (in prescriptions) mix.
- misdo — to do badly or wrongly; botch.
- miser — a comedy (1668) by Molière.
- mises — a settlement or agreement.
- misgo — to go the wrong way
- misle — A fine rain or thick mist; mizzle.
- misly — Raining in very small drops.
- miso- — indicating hatred
- missa — Mass.
- missy — young miss; girl.
- misti — a volcano in S Peru, in the Andes. 19,200 feet (5880 meters).
- mists — Plural form of mist.
- misty — abounding in or clouded by mist.
- mitch — (transitive, dialectal) To pilfer; filch; steal.
- miter — the official headdress of a bishop in the Western Church, in its modern form a tall cap with a top deeply cleft crosswise, the outline of the front and back resembling that of a pointed arch.
- mites — Plural form of mite.
- mitis — a malleable iron, fluid enough for casting, made by adding a small amount of aluminium to wrought iron