5-letter words starting with m
- meta- — indicating change, alteration, or alternation
- metae — (in ancient Rome) a column or post, or a group of columns or posts, placed at each end of a racetrack to mark the turning places.
- metal — any of a class of elementary substances, as gold, silver, or copper, all of which are crystalline when solid and many of which are characterized by opacity, ductility, conductivity, and a unique luster when freshly fractured.
- meted — to distribute or apportion by measure; allot; dole (usually followed by out): to mete out punishment.
- meter — an instrument for measuring, especially one that automatically measures and records the quantity of something, as of gas, water, miles, or time, when it is activated.
- metes — to distribute or apportion by measure; allot; dole (usually followed by out): to mete out punishment.
- meth- — indicating a chemical compound derived from methane or containing methyl groups
- methi — In Indian cooking, fenugreek.
- metho — (Australia, colloquial) Methylated spirits.
- meths — methamphetamine; Methedrine.
- methy — (US, Canada, dated) The burbot.
- metic — an alien resident of an ancient Greek city who paid a tax for the right to live there.
- metif — Alternative form of metis (person of mixed parentage).
- metis — any person of mixed ancestry.
- metol — a colourless soluble organic substance used, in the form of its sulphate, as a photographic developer; p-methylaminophenol
- metr- — metro-2
- metra — (medicine) The uterus.
- metre — an instrument for measuring, especially one that automatically measures and records the quantity of something, as of gas, water, miles, or time, when it is activated.
- metro — the underground electric railway of Paris, France, Montreal, Canada, Washington, D.C., and other cities.
- metta — (in Theravada Buddhism) meditation focused on the development of unconditional love for all beings.
- metts — Plural form of mett.
- metty — a female given name, form of Matilda or Martha.
- meuse — Dutch Maas. a river in W Europe, flowing from NE France through E Belgium and S Netherlands into the North Sea. 575 miles (925 km) long.
- mewar — Udaipur (def 2).
- mewed — a cage for hawks, especially while molting.
- mewls — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mewl.
- mexsp — Mexican Spanish
- meyer — Adolf, 1866–1950, U.S. psychiatrist, born in Switzerland.
- mezes — Plural form of meze.
- mezzo — middle; medium; half.
- mhorr — A large gazelle native to the Sahara desert, Nanger dama, formerly Gazella dama.
- miami — a member of a North American Indian tribe of the Algonquian family, formerly located in northern Indiana, southern Michigan, and possibly Illinois, now extinct as a tribe.
- miaou — the characteristic sound a cat makes.
- miaow — to make the sound of a cat.
- miasm — (in homeopathy) any of the three underlying chronic diseases that afflict humankind: sycosis, syphilis, and psora.
- miass — a city in the S Russian Federation in Asia, near the Ural Mountains, W of Chelyabinsk.
- miaul — the characteristic sound a cat makes.
- mic-1 — Microprogramming language, used in Andrew Tanenbaum's book. See Mac-1.
- mic-2 — Microprogramming language, used in Tanenbaum's book. See Mac-1.
- micah — a Minor Prophet of the 8th century b.c.
- micas — Plural form of mica.
- miche — to lurk out of sight.
- micky — Mickey (def 2).
- micra — a plural of micron.
- micro — microprocessor
- midas — Classical Mythology. a Phrygian king, son of Gordius, who was given by Dionysus the power of turning whatever he touched into gold.
- middx — Middlesex
- middy — Informal. a midshipman.
- midge — any of numerous minute dipterous insects, especially of the family Chironomidae, somewhat resembling a mosquito. Compare gnat (def 1).
- midi- — of medium or middle size, length, etc