8-letter words starting with mi
- militran — A discrete simulation system for military applications produced by the Sys Res Group at ONR in 1964.
- milk bar — a simple restaurant, often with an open front, or a counter or booth where milk drinks, sandwiches, etc., are sold.
- milk can — large metal container for milk
- milk cap — any of a large genus (Lactarius) of basidiomycetous fungi that are brittle to touch and exude a milky liquid when crushed. Some are funnel-shaped and some parasol-shaped, and most, except for L. deliciosus, are inedible
- milk cow — a cow that is raised for its milk rather than for beef.
- milk jug — a jug for holding and pouring milk, usually intended for use on the table
- milk leg — a painful swelling of the leg soon after childbirth, due to thrombosis of the large veins.
- milk run — a routine trip or undertaking, especially one presenting little danger or difficulty: The flight from New York to Chicago was a milk run for the experienced pilot and crew.
- milkfish — a herringlike fish, Chanos chanos, of warm ocean waters in southeastern Asia.
- milkings — Plural form of milking.
- milkless — Without milk.
- milklike — Resembling milk.
- milkmaid — a woman who milks cows or is employed in a dairy; dairymaid.
- milkshed — a region producing milk for a specific community: the St. Louis milkshed.
- milksops — Plural form of milksop.
- milkweed — any of several plants that secrete a milky juice or latex, especially those of the genus Asclepias, as A. syriaca. Compare milkweed family.
- milkwood — any of various trees having a milky juice, as Pseudomedia spuria, of Jamaica.
- milkwort — any plant or shrub of the genus Polygala, formerly supposed to increase the secretion of milk.
- mill end — one of the finished edges of a roll of carpet or fabric.
- mill run — a quantity of ore whose quality or mineral content is tested by milling
- mill-run — coming directly from a mill, especially without having been sorted: mill-run carpets.
- millable — capable of being milled: millable wheat.
- millbrae — a city in W California, on San Francisco Bay.
- millburn — a township in NE New Jersey.
- millbury — a city in central Massachusetts.
- millcake — linseed cake.
- milldams — Plural form of milldam.
- millenia — Misspelling of millennia.
- milliamp — One thousandth ( 10-3 ) of an ampere, abbreviated as mA.
- milliard — one thousand millions; equivalent to U.S. billion.
- milliare — an ancient Roman unit of distance equal to 0.1478 centimetres
- milliary — of, relating to, or designating the ancient Roman mile of a thousand paces.
- millibar — a centimeter-gram-second unit of pressure equal to one thousandth of a bar or 1000 dynes per square centimeter, used to measure air pressure. Abbreviation: mb.
- millieme — a cupronickel coin of Egypt and Sudan, the 1000th part of a pound or the 10th part of a piaster.
- milligal — a unit of acceleration, equal to one thousandth of a gal; one thousandth of a centimeter per second per second. Abbreviation: mGal.
- milligan — Spike, real name Terence Alan Milligan. 1918–2002, Irish radio, stage, and film comedian and author, born in India. He appeared in The Goon Show (with Peter Sellers and Harry Secombe; BBC Radio, 1952–60) and his films include Postman's Knock (1962), Adolf Hitler, My Part in his Downfall (1972), The Three Musketeers (1974), The Last Remake of Beau Geste (1977), and Yellowbeard (1982). He was awarded an honorary knighthood in 2000
- millikan — Robert Andrews, 1868–1953, U.S. physicist: Nobel prize 1923.
- millilux — a unit of illumination, equal to one thousandth of a lux. Abbreviation: mlx.
- millimho — one thousandth of a mho
- milliner — a person who designs, makes, or sells hats for women.
- millings — Plural form of milling.
- milliohm — one thousandth of an ohm
- millions — a cardinal number, a thousand times one thousand.
- millirem — one thousandth of a rem. Abbreviation: mrem.
- millpond — a pond for supplying water to drive a mill wheel.
- millrace — the channel in which the current of water driving a mill wheel flows to the mill.
- millrind — rind2 .
- millrynd — Alternative form of millrind.
- milltail — the channel carrying water that has flown through the mill wheel away from the mill
- millwell — Altform milwell.