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5-letter words starting with m

  • mitla — the ruins of a Zapotec Indian city near Oaxaca, Mexico, yielding elaborate remains of temples and other artifacts.
  • mitra — the Vedic god of justice.
  • mitre — to bestow a miter upon, or raise to a rank entitled to it.
  • mitta — An old English measure of volume, perhaps equal to two bushels. Also mett.
  • mitts — 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.
  • mitty — Walter Mitty.
  • mitzi — a female given name.
  • miwok — a member of an American Indian people formerly living in several noncontiguous areas of California north of San Francisco Bay and eastward from the San Joaquin-Sacramento delta to the Sierras.
  • mixal — MIX Assembly Language. The assembly language for Donald Knuth's hypothetical MIX machine.
  • mixed — put together or formed by mixing.
  • mixel — (geographical sciences) In field-based conceptualisation, a raster cell which indicates elements of mixed or multiple land cover categories.
  • mixen — a pile of dung
  • mixer — a person or thing that mixes.
  • mixes — Plural form of mix.
  • mixte — (mostly, attributive) A kind of bicycle frame where the top tube of the traditional diamond frame is replaced with a pair of smaller lateral tubes running from the top of the head tube all the way back to the rear axle, connecting at the seat tube on the way.
  • mixup — an act or instance of mixing.
  • mizar — a double star in the middle of the constellation Ursa Major.
  • mizen — a fore-and-aft sail set on a mizzenmast. Compare crossjack, spanker (def 1a).
  • mlisp — 1. M-expression LISP. 2. Meta-LISP. D.C. Smith & H. Enea. LISP variant with ALGOL-like syntax. Not just a surface syntax, a full language. "MLISP", D.C. Smith, TR CS-179, CS Dept, Stanford (Oct 1970). Version: MLISP2. 3. A hybrid of M-expression LISP and Scheme. "M-LISP: Its Natural Semantics and Equational Logic", R. Muller, SIGPLAN Notices 26(9):234-242 (Sept 1991) (PEPM '91).
  • mlitt — Master of Letters
  • mlowg — Middle Low German
  • mmes. — a title of respect prefixed to the surname or full name of a married woman: Mrs. Jones; Mrs. Susan Jones.
  • mmus. — Master of Music
  • mneme — Psychology. the retentive basis or basic principle in a mind or organism accounting for memory.
  • mo ti — (Mo Ti) flourished 5th century b.c, Chinese philosopher.
  • mo-zi — ?470–?391 bc, Chinese religious philosopher; his teaching, expounded in the book Mo-Zi, emphasizes love, frugality, avoidance of aggressive war, and submission to Heaven
  • moans — Plural form of moan.
  • moany — Tending to grumble or complain, typically about trivial issues.
  • moats — Plural form of moat.
  • mobad — A Zoroastrian cleric of a particular rank, qualified to serve as celebrant priest at the Yasna ceremony and to train other priests.
  • mobby — a drink fermented in the West Indies from sweet potatoes
  • mobed — Alternative form of mobad.
  • mobes — Plural form of mobe.
  • mobie — a mobile phone
  • moble — to wrap the head of, as in a hood.
  • mobot — A mobile autonomous robot, especially one used in artificial intelligence research, or as a toy.
  • mocha — (initial capital letter). Also, Mukha. a seaport in the Republic of Yemen on the Red Sea.
  • moche — of, relating to, or characteristic of a pre-Inca culture that flourished on the northern coast of Peru from the 3rd century b.c. to the 7th century a.d. and is especially noted for fine pottery vessels with stirrup spouts, some bearing drawings of all aspects of cultural life.
  • mochi — cooked and pounded glutinous rice formed into various shapes and used to make traditional Japanese sweets and other dishes (often used attributively): mochi balls; mochi ice cream.
  • mocks — Plural form of mock.
  • modal — of or relating to mode, manner, or form.
  • modam — (spelling)   Do you mean modem?
  • moded — Simple past tense and past participle of mode.
  • modef — Pascal-like language with polymorphism and data abstraction. "Definition of the Programming Language MODEF", J. Steensgard-Madsen et al, SIGPLAN Notices 19(2):92-110 (Feb 1984).
  • model — a standard or example for imitation or comparison.
  • modem — an electronic device that makes possible the transmission of data to or from a computer via telephone or other communication lines.
  • moder — (obsolete) To moderate.
  • modes — Plural form of mode.
  • modge — to do shoddily; make a mess of
  • modgr — Modern Greek
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