11-letter words starting with mi
- minidresses — Plural form of minidress.
- minifundium — A smallholding, in Latin America, that is too small to support a family.
- minimal art — a chiefly American style in painting and sculpture that developed in the 1960s largely in reaction against abstract expressionism, shunning illusion, decorativeness, and emotional subjectivity in favor of impersonality, simplification of form, and the use of often massive, industrially produced materials for sculpture, and extended its influence to architecture, design, dance, theater, and music.
- minimalised — to make minimal: to minimalize tax increases.
- minimalists — Plural form of minimalist.
- minimalized — to make minimal: to minimalize tax increases.
- mining area — a place where mining, esp for coal, is a traditional industry
- miniskirted — Wearing a miniskirt.
- ministerial — pertaining to the ministry of religion, or to a minister or other member of the clergy.
- ministering — a person authorized to conduct religious worship; member of the clergy; pastor.
- ministerium — an organization of local ministers or religious leaders who work with other community leaders on social or educational programs.
- ministrants — Plural form of ministrant.
- ministrokes — Plural form of ministroke.
- minke whale — 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.
- minneapolis — a city in SE Minnesota, on the Mississippi.
- minnesinger — one of a class of German lyric poets and singers of the 12th, 13th, and 14th centuries.
- minocycline — a long-acting, broad-spectrum, semisynthetic antibiotic drug, C 2 3 H 2 7 N 3 O 7 , derived from tetracycline.
- minor canon — a canon attached to a cathedral or collegiate church, though not necessarily a member of the chapter.
- minor order — the degree or grade of acolyte, exorcist, lector, or ostiary.
- minor party — a political party with so little electoral strength that its chance of gaining control of the government is slight.
- minor piece — a bishop or knight.
- minor scale — Also called harmonic minor scale. a scale having half steps between the second and third, fifth and sixth, and seventh and eighth degrees, with whole steps for the other intervals.
- minor triad — a triad consisting in root position of a root tone with a minor third and a perfect fifth above.
- minoritaire — a member of a minority in a political party
- minoritised — Simple past tense and past participle of minoritise.
- mint family — the large plant family Labiatae (or Lamiaceae), characterized by aromatic herbaceous plants having square stems, simple leaves, clusters of two-lipped flowers, and fruit in the form of small nutlets, and including basil, bee balm, catnip, coleus, lavender, marjoram, oregano, peppermint, rosemary, sage, spearmint, and thyme.
- minus sight — a foresight used in leveling.
- minute book — a book in which the minutes of a meeting are recorded
- minute hand — the hand that indicates the minutes on a clock or watch, usually longer than the hour hand.
- minute mark — the symbol ′ used for minutes of arc and linear feet
- miphiboseth — Mephibosheth.
- miracle man — a person who performs or appears to perform miracles.
- miracle-man — a man who is capable of miraculous feats
- mirifically — in a mirific manner
- mirror ball — a large revolving ball covered with small pieces of mirror glass so that it reflects light in changing patterns: used in discos and ballrooms
- mirror carp — a variety of the common carp, Cyprinus carpio, with reduced scales, giving a smooth shiny body surface
- mirror lens — a lens of long focal length in which some of the lens elements are replaced by mirrors in order to shorten its overall length and reduce its weight
- mirror site — (networking) An archive site or website which keeps a copy of some or all files at another site so as to make them more quickly available and to reduce the load on the source site. It is generally best to use the mirror that is physically closest to you as this will usually give the fastest download. Such mirroring is usually done for specific whole directories or files on a specific remote server as opposed to a cache or proxy server which keeps copies of everything that is requested via it. For example, src.doc.ic.ac.uk is the main UK mirror for the GNU archive at gnu.org.
- mirrorscope — (dated) A slide projector.
- mirtazapine — (medicine) A tetracyclic antidepressant drug.
- mirthlessly — In a mirthless manner; sadly.
- mis-defined — to state or set forth the meaning of (a word, phrase, etc.): They disagreed on how to define “liberal.”.
- mis-package — a bundle of something, usually of small or medium size, that is packed and wrapped or boxed; parcel.
- mis-phrased — Grammar. a sequence of two or more words arranged in a grammatical construction and acting as a unit in a sentence. (in English) a sequence of two or more words that does not contain a finite verb and its subject or that does not consist of clause elements such as subject, verb, object, or complement, as a preposition and a noun or pronoun, an adjective and noun, or an adverb and verb.
- mis-selling — the act or an instance of mis-selling
- mis-shipped — a vessel, especially a large oceangoing one propelled by sails or engines.
- misadjusted — to change (something) so that it fits, corresponds, or conforms; adapt; accommodate: to adjust expenses to income.
- misadvising — Present participle of misadvise.
- misalliance — an improper or incompatible association, especially in marriage; mésalliance.
- misallocate — to allocate mistakenly or improperly: to misallocate resources.