6-letter words starting with mi
- minden — a city in NW Louisiana.
- minder — Chiefly British. a person who looks after something (usually used in combination): a baby-minder.
- miners — Plural form of miner.
- minged — Simple past tense and past participle of ming.
- minger — an ugly, unpleasant, or smelly person or thing.
- minges — Plural form of minge.
- mingle — to become mixed, blended, or united.
- mingus — Charles ("Charlie") 1922–79, U.S. jazz bass player and composer.
- minhag — a custom or procedure among Jews that is so firmly established as to have almost the binding force of law.
- minhah — the daily Jewish religious service conducted in the afternoon.
- minhow — Older Spelling. former name of Fuzhou.
- minify — to make less.
- minima — a plural of minimum.
- minims — Plural form of minim.
- mining — an excavation made in the earth for the purpose of extracting ores, coal, precious stones, etc.
- minion — a servile follower or subordinate of a person in power.
- minish — (archaic) To lessen or cause to seem to be less.
- minium — red lead.
- minnie — a female given name, form of Mary.
- minnit — (nonstandard, or, eye dialect) minute.
- minnow — a small, European cyprinoid fish, Phoxinus phoxinus.
- minoan — of or relating to the ancient civilization of the island of Crete, dating from about 3000 to 1100 b.c.
- minors — Plural form of minor.
- minour — Obsolete form of minor.
- minted — intent; purpose.
- minter — One who mints.
- minthe — a nymph who was changed into a mint plant by Persephone to protect her from Hades.
- minton — fine-quality porcelain ware produced in Stoke-on-Trent since 1793
- minuet — a slow, stately dance in triple meter, popular in the 17th and 18th centuries.
- minuit — Peter, 1580–1638, Dutch colonial administrator in America: director general of the New Netherlands 1626–31.
- minute — the sixtieth part (1/60) of an hour; sixty seconds.
- minxes — Plural form of minx.
- minyae — descended from Minyas.
- minyan — the number of persons required by Jewish law to be present to conduct a communal religious service, traditionally a minimum of 10 Jewish males over 13 years of age.
- minyas — a king of Orchomenus, famed for his wealth.
- miombo — (in E Africa) a dry wooded area with sparse deciduous growth
- miosis — excessive constriction of the pupil of the eye, as a result of drugs, disease, or the like.
- miotic — pertaining to or producing miosis.
- mirage — an optical phenomenon, especially in the desert or at sea, by which the image of some object appears displaced above, below, or to one side of its true position as a result of spatial variations of the index of refraction of air.
- mirchi — hot
- mirena — a type of intrauterine system
- mirfac — Mathematics in Recognizable Form Automatically Compiled
- miriam — the sister of Moses and Aaron. Num. 26:59.
- miring — a tract or area of wet, swampy ground; bog; marsh.
- miriti — any of several palms of the genus Mauritia, which are native to South America and Trinidad and which have pinnate leaves
- mirren — Dame Helen, original name Ilyena Vasilievna Mironov, born 1945, English actor; her films include Savage Messiah (1972), The Long Good Friday (1980), The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover (1989) and The Queen (2006), for which she won an Academy Award for Best Actress
- mirror — any reflecting surface, as the surface of calm water under certain lighting conditions.
- mirvis — Ephraim (ˈiːfreɪɪm). born 1956, British rabbi, born in South Africa; Commonwealth chief rabbi from 2013
- misact — anything done, being done, or to be done; deed; performance: a heroic act.
- misadd — to unite or join so as to increase the number, quantity, size, or importance: to add two cups of sugar; to add a postscript to her letter; to add insult to injury.