5-letter words starting with mi
- mimir — a giant who guarded the well of wisdom near the roots of Yggdrasil
- mimsy — (nonce) A nonce word in w Lewis Carroll's w Jabberwocky combining the senses of
- minae — an ancient unit of weight and value equal to the sixtieth part of a talent.
- minah — any of several Asian birds of the starling family Sturnidae, especially those of the genera Acridotheres and Gracula, certain species of which have the ability to mimic speech and are kept as pets.
- minar — a tower or turret in southern or eastern Asia
- minas — an ancient unit of weight and value equal to the sixtieth part of a talent.
- mince — to cut or chop into very small pieces.
- minch — a sea channel between mainland Scotland and the Outer Hebrides islands. 25–45 miles (40–70 km) wide. See also Little Minch.
- mincy — excessively particular or fussy, esp with regards to eating
- minde — Obsolete spelling of mind.
- minds — Plural form of mind.
- mined — an excavation made in the earth for the purpose of extracting ores, coal, precious stones, etc.
- miner — Also called mineworker. a person who works in a mine, especially a commercial mine producing coal or metallic ores.
- mines — Plural form of mine.
- minge — (British, Australia, NZ, vulgar, slang) The pubic hair and vulva.
- mings — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ming.
- mingy — mean and stingy; niggardly.
- minho — a river in SW Europe, flowing SSW from NW Spain along the N boundary of Portugal into the Atlantic. 171 miles (275 km) long.
- mini- — Mini- is used before nouns to form nouns which refer to something which is a smaller version of something else.
- minim — the smallest unit of liquid measure, 1/60 (0.0167) of a fluid dram, roughly equivalent to one drop. Symbol: ♍, ♏. Abbreviation: min, min.;
- minis — Plural form of mini.
- minix — (operating system) /MIN-ix/ A small operating system that is very similar to UNIX. MINIX was written for educational purposes by Prof. Andrew S. Tanenbaum of Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam. MINIX has been written from scratch and contains no AT&T code -- neither in the kernel, the compiler, the utilities, nor the libraries. Although copyrighted by Prentice-Hall, all sources, binaries and documentation can be obtained via Internet for educational or research purposes. Current versions as of 1996-11-15: MINIX 2.0 - Intel CPUs from Intel 8088 to Pentium MINIX 1.5 - Intel, Macintosh (MacMinix), Amiga, Atari ST, Sun SPARC.
- minke — 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.
- minks — Plural form of mink.
- minn. — Minnesota
- minna — a female given name.
- minni — an ancient people of Asia Minor.
- minny — minnow.
- minor — lesser, as in size, extent, or importance, or being or noting the lesser of two: a minor share.
- minos — Minho.
- minot — George Richards [rich-erdz] /ˈrɪtʃ ərdz/ (Show IPA), 1885–1950, U.S. physician: Nobel prize 1934.
- minow — Archaic form of minnow.
- minsk — Official name Belarus. Formerly White Russian Soviet Socialist Republic, Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic. a republic in E Europe, N of Ukraine: formerly a part of the Soviet Union. 80,154 sq. mi. (207,600 sq. km). Capital: Minsk.
- minto — Gilbert John Elliot-Murray-Kynynmond [el-ee-uh t-mur-ee-ki-nin-muh nd,, -muhr-ee-,, el-yuh t-] /ˈɛl i ətˈmɜr i kɪˈnɪn mənd,, -ˈmʌr i-,, ˈɛl yət-/ (Show IPA), 4th Earl of, 1845–1914, British colonial administrator: governor general of Canada 1898–1904; viceroy of India 1905–10.
- mints — Plural form of mint.
- minty — homosexual.
- minum — (printing, obsolete) A small kind of printing type; minion.
- minus — less by the subtraction of; decreased by: Ten minus six is four.
- minxy — Characteristic of a minx (flirtatious young woman).
- minya — Al (æl ) ; al) city in central Egypt, on the Nile: pop. 179,000
- miraj — Muhammad's miraculous ascension from Jerusalem, through the seven heavens, to the throne of God. The site from which he ascended is now the shrine of the Dome of the Rock.
- miras — Astronomy. the first long-period pulsating variable star to be discovered, with a period averaging 331 days. It is a red giant and a component of a binary star in the constellation Cetus.
- mired — a tract or area of wet, swampy ground; bog; marsh.
- mires — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mire.
- mirex — A synthetic insecticide of the organochlorine type used chiefly against ants.
- mirid — An active plant bug of a large family that includes numerous plant pests.
- mirim — Lake, a lake on the E Uruguay-S Brazil border. About 108 miles (174 km) long.
- mirin — a Japanese cooking wine made from rice, sweeter than sake.
- mirky — dark, gloomy, and cheerless.
- mirth — gaiety or jollity, especially when accompanied by laughter: the excitement and mirth of the holiday season.