5 Letter Words That Start With MI

minor

Adjective : Lesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option

Adjective : (law) Underage, not having reached legal majority.

Adjective : (medicine, sometimes figurative) Not serious, not involving risk of death, permanent injury, dangerous surgery, or extended hospitalization.

mimic

Verb : To imitate, especially in order to ridicule.

Verb : (biology) To take on the appearance of another, for protection or camouflage.

Noun : A person who practices mimicry; especially:

might

Noun : (countable, uncountable) Power, strength, force or influence held by a person or group.

Noun : (uncountable) Physical strength or force.

Noun : (uncountable) The ability to do something.

mirth

Noun : The emotion usually following humour and accompanied by laughter

Noun : That which causes merriment.

misdo

Verb : (archaic, intransitive) To do evil; to commit misdeeds.

Verb : (transitive) To do (something) incorrectly or improperly.

Verb : (archaic, transitive) To do harm to; to injure, mistreat.

micro

Adjective : Small, relatively small; used to contrast levels of the noun modified.

Noun : (computing, dated, countable) short form of microcomputer

Noun : (gaming, slang, uncountable) micromanagement

midst

Noun : (often literary) A place in the middle of something; may be used of a literal or metaphorical location.

mince

Noun : (uncountable) Finely chopped meat; minced meat.

Noun : (uncountable) Finely chopped mixed fruit used in Christmas pies; mincemeat.

Noun : (countable) An affected (often dainty or short and precise) gait.

miser

Noun : (derogatory) A person who hoards money rather than spending it; one who is cheap or extremely parsimonious.

Noun : A kind of earth auger, typically large-bored and often hand-operated.

Noun : A surname.

miter

Verb : (American spelling) Alternative form of mitre (“to unite at an angle of 45°”) [To adorn with a mitre.]

Noun : (American spelling) Alternative form of mitre [A covering for the head, worn on solemn occasions by church dignitaries, which has been made in many forms, mostly recently a tall cap with two points or peaks.]

miner

Noun : A person who works in a mine.

Noun : An operator of ordnance mines and similar explosives.

Noun : Any bird of one of several species of South American ovenbirds in the genus Geositta.

mitre

Noun : A covering for the head, worn on solemn occasions by church dignitaries, which has been made in many forms, mostly recently a tall cap with two points or peaks.

Noun : The surface forming the bevelled end or edge of a piece where a miter joint is made; also, a joint formed or a junction effected by two beveled ends or edges; a miter joint.

Noun : (historical, numismatics) A 13th-century coin minted in Europe which circulated in Ireland as a debased counterfeit sterling penny, outlawed under Edward I.

mired

Noun : A unit of measurement for color temperature.

minim

Noun : (music) A half note, drawn as a semibreve with a stem.

Noun : A unit of volume, in the Imperial and U.S. customary systems, 1⁄60 fluid drachm. Approximately equal to 1 drop, 62 μL or 0.9 grain (weight) of water.

Noun : A short vertical stroke used in handwriting.

mixer

Noun : A surname.

Noun : (slang) A fan of the British girl group Little Mix.

Noun : One who, or a device that, mixes or merges things together.

miata

mitch

Verb : (transitive, dialectal) To pilfer; filch; steal.

Verb : (intransitive, dialectal) To shrink or retire from view; lurk out of sight; skulk.

Verb : (Ireland, Wales) To be absent from school without a valid excuse; to play truant.

minus

Noun : (mathematics) The minus sign (−).

Noun : (mathematics) A negative quantity.

Noun : A downside or disadvantage.

midge

Noun : any of various small two-winged flies, for example, from the family Chironomidae or non-biting midges, the family Chaoboridae or phantom midges, and the family Ceratopogonidae or biting midges, all belonging to the order Diptera

Noun : (fishing) any bait or lure designed to resemble a midge

Noun : A female given name of rare usage, variant of Madge.

misty

Adjective : Covered in mist; foggy.

Adjective : (figuratively) Dim; vague; obscure.

Adjective : (figuratively) With tears in the eyes; dewy-eyed.

misle

Noun : A fine rain or thick mist; mizzle.

Verb : To rain in fine drops; to mizzle.

Verb : (nonstandard, rare or humorous) To mislead.

milky

Adjective : Resembling milk in color, consistency, smell, etc.; consisting of milk.

Adjective : (color science, informal) Of the black in an image, appearing as dark gray rather than black.

Adjective : (of a drink) Containing (an especially large amount of) milk.

minit

miami

Noun : Alternative form of Mayaimi

Noun : an extinct indigenous people of Florida.

Noun : an extinct language spoken by those people.

minge

Noun : (Britain, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, vulgar, slang) The pubic hair and vulva.

Noun : (US, archaic, dialectal) Synonym of midge (“small biting fly”).

Verb : (obsolete) Synonym of ming (“to mix”)

mimsy

Adjective : (nonce word) A nonce word in Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky

Noun : (vulgar, slang) The vagina.

mingy

Adjective : (colloquial) Mean, miserly, stingy.

mixed

Adjective : Having two or more separate aspects.

Adjective : Not completely pure, tainted or adulterated.

Adjective : Including both male(s) and female(s).

milch

Adjective : (dated, of a cow or other livestock) Used to produce milk; dairy.

Adjective : (dated, of a mammal) Currently producing milk for its offspring.

Adjective : (obsolete) Tender; pitiful; weeping.

milan

Noun : The capital city of Lombardy, Italy.

Noun : A metropolitan city of Lombardy, Italy.

Noun : A small city, the county seat of Sullivan County, Missouri, United States.

midas

Noun : (Greek mythology) A king who sought and was for a while granted the cherished but subtly dangerous magical power to turn anything he touched into gold.

Noun : A very large champagne bottle (named after the King) with the capacity of about 30 liters, equivalent to 40 standard bottles.

mimir

Noun : a joint music project started by The Legendary Pink Dots member Edward Ka-Spel and the father of numerous other projects Christoph Heemann.

Noun : Mímir is a primal figure of Norse mythology.

Noun : an outdoor bronze and concrete sculpture by Keith Jellum, installed in northwest Portland, Oregon, United States.

miles

Noun : (informal) A great distance in space or time.

Verb : much; a lot (used to emphasise a comparative)

Noun : A male given name from the Germanic languages.

mille

Noun : a thousan

missy

Noun : A diminutive of the female given name Melissa.

Noun : A young female, or miss; as a term of mild disparagement, typically used jokingly or rebukingly.

Noun : (Singapore, Malaysia) A female nurse.

mindy

Noun : A diminutive of the female given name Melinda and of Miranda.

mixup

Noun : Alternative form of mix-up [A confusion, mistake, muddle or misunderstanding]

mimeo

Noun : A mimeograph.

Noun : An unpublished academic paper.

Verb : To mimeograph.

micah

Noun : A book of the Old Testament of Bible, and of the Tanakh.

Noun : (biblical) Any of several men in the Old Testament:

Noun : (especially) The minor prophet and author of the Book of Micah.

minty

Adjective : Having a flavour or essence of mint.

minch

Noun : A strait in Scotland, between the north-west Highlands and the northern Inner Hebrides.

Noun : A surname.

Noun : (obsolete) A nun.

miche

Verb : Obsolete form of mitch. [(transitive, dialectal) To pilfer; filch; steal.]

mingo

Noun : A polysynthetic language of the Northern Iroquoian language family, once spoken across eastern Ohio, western Pennsylvania, and West Virginia, now spoken fluently by fewer than five fluent people, but in the process of being revitalized.

minds

Noun : an open source, distributed social network.

miaow

Noun : (chiefly dated) Britain spelling of meow [The cry of a cat.]

Verb : (chiefly dated) Britain spelling of meow [(intransitive) Of a cat, to make its cry.]

milne

Noun : A surname from Old English.

minsk

Noun : The capital city of Belarus.

milia

Noun : (dermatology) A keratin-filled cyst that can appear just under the epidermis or on the roof of the mouth.

mills

Noun : An English and Scottish surname from Middle English [in turn originating as an occupation] for mill owners and workers.

Noun : A habitational surname from Irish, an anglicization of an Mhuilinn (“of the mill”).

Noun : A male given name transferred from the surname

miasm

Noun : An unhealthy vapor or atmosphere; a miasma.

Noun : (homeopathy) A predisposition to a particular disease, which interferes with subsequent treatment of it.

minos

Noun : (Greek mythology) The mythological first king of Crete, a son of Zeus by Europa, who imprisoned the Minotaur in a labyrinth and after death was made a judge of the dead in Hades; a putative corresponding historical person.

mirin

Noun : A form of Japanese rice wine, less alcoholic than sake and used in cooking.

mix up

Verb : (transitive, idiomatic) To mix or blend thoroughly and completely.

Verb : (intransitive, idiomatic) To combine thoroughly.

Verb : (transitive, idiomatic) To prepare something from ingredients that are mixed.

mitty

Noun : (UK, dialect) The storm petrel.

mites

Noun : Any of many minute arachnids which, along with the ticks, comprise subclass Acarina (aka Acari).

Noun : A small coin formerly circulated in England, rated at about a third of a farthing.

Noun : A lepton, a small coin used in Palestine in the time of Christ.

miler

Noun : (sports, often in combination) An athlete or a horse who specializes in running races of one mile, or a specified number of miles.

Noun : (in combination) A race whose length is the specified number of miles.

Noun : A surname.

minot

Noun : A surname.

Noun : A city, the county seat of Ward County, North Dakota, United States.

mizen

Noun : Alternative spelling of mizzen [(nautical) Mizzenmast.]

miens

Noun : (countable, uncountable) Demeanor; facial expression or attitude, especially one which is intended by its bearer.

Noun : (countable) A specific facial expression.

Noun : A group of related languages spoken by the Yao people.

middy

Noun : (nautical, slang) a midshipman

Noun : (Australia) A measure of 285 ml (10 fl oz) of beer; a pot.

minet

mirza

Noun : (historical) An educated man in India or Iran (Persia); an official, a clerk.

Noun : A title denoting the rank of a high nobleman or prince, signifying a male-line descent and relationship to the Imperial Families of Turkey, Persia and later South Asia, and was the title borne by members of the highest aristocracies in Tatar states, such as the khanates of Kazan and Astrakhan.

Noun : A surname.

milli

mines

Noun : An excavation from which ore or solid minerals are taken, especially one consisting of underground tunnels.

Noun : (figurative) Any source of wealth or resources.

Noun : (military) A passage dug toward or underneath enemy lines, which is then packed with explosives.

minke

Noun : Synonym of minke whale

mirex

Noun : (organic chemistry) The pesticide and fire retardant perchloropentacyclodecane, which is a persistent organic pollutant.

mitra

Noun : A person who is interested in becoming a Buddhist and elects to join a Buddhist community to learn more.

Noun : A divinity of Vedic culture, hypostasis of friendship and one-half of the dvandva (compound divinity) Varuna-Mitra.

Noun : (uncommon) A deity invoked in the Hurrian Mitanni of ca. 1400 BC.

mined

Adjective : That has been mined (in various senses).

miaou

Noun : Alternative spelling of miaow

Verb : Alternative spelling of miaow

missa

Noun : (music) a mass, in the sense of a composition setting several sung parts of the liturgical service (most often chosen from the ordinary parts Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Agnus Dei and/or Sanctus) to music, notably when the text in Latin is used (as long universally prescribed by Rome)

miver

miaul

Noun : (dated) The cry of a cat.

Verb : (intransitive, dated) To give the cry of a cat.

mitis

Noun : (attributive) A process for producing malleable iron castings by melting wrought iron, to which from 0.05 to 0.1 per cent of aluminum is added to lower the melting point, usually in a petroleum furnace, keeping the molten metal at the bubbling point until it becomes quiet, and then pouring the molten metal into a mold lined with a special mixture consisting essentially of molasses and ground burnt fire clay.

Noun : The malleable iron produced by this technique.

misly

Adjective : Alternative form of mizzly [Raining in very small drops; misty; drizzly.]

misha

Noun : A male given name from Russian.

Noun : A female given name from Russian.

minae

Noun : (historical) A monetary unit of ancient Greece and the Middle East, originally equivalent to the weight of a mina of silver.

Noun : (historical) A unit of weight of varying value used in the ancient Middle East, especially Babylonia, Mesopotamia and Egypt; also an ancient Greek measure of weight equivalent to 1/60th of a talent, approximately 400-700 grams.

Noun : A number of places in the United States:

minto

Noun : A village in the Scottish Borders council area, Scotland, where the seat of the Earl of Minto is located.

Noun : A habitational surname.

Noun : Any of various places named after an Earl of Minto, including:

milly

Noun : A diminutive of the female given names Mildred, Millicent, Emily and Camilla, also used as a formal given name.

miffy

Adjective : (informal) Easily irritated or offended.

Adjective : (informal, dated) Particular; fussy.

mizzy

Noun : (obsolete) A bog or quagmire.

minna

Noun : The largest city and state capital of Niger State, Nigeria.

mirna

Noun : (genetics) A microRNA.

Noun : microRNA

mists

Noun : (countable, uncountable) Water or other liquid finely suspended in air. (Compare fog, haze.)

Noun : (countable) A layer of fine droplets or particles.

Noun : (figurative) Anything that dims, darkens, or hinders vision.

minks

Noun : (plural mink or minks) Any of various semi-aquatic, carnivorous mammals in the Mustelinae subfamily, similar to weasels, with dark fur, native to Europe and America, of which two species in different genera are extant: the American mink (Neovison vison) and the European mink (Mustela lutreola).

Noun : (plural mink) The fur or pelt of a mink, used to make apparel.

Noun : (plural minks) An article of clothing made of mink.

minah

Noun : (Singapore, colloquial, derogatory) A Malay girl.

Noun : A female given name from Arabic

Noun : Alternative spelling of myna [One of the South and East Asian birds of the starling family Sturnidae.]

mimer

Noun : Someone who mimes during a performance of a song

mitts

Noun : A mitten

Noun : An oversized, protective glove such as an oven mitt or a baseball mitt.

Noun : (informal, especially in the plural) A hand.

milos

Noun : An island in the Cyclades, Greece.

Noun : A male given name of Slavic origin

Noun : A surname from Serbo-Croatian.

mintz

Noun : A surname.

mimes

Noun : A form of acting without words; pantomime.

Noun : A pantomime actor.

Noun : A classical theatrical entertainment in the form of farce.

mints

Noun : A building or institution where money (originally, only coins) is produced under government licence.

Noun : (informal) A vast sum of money; (by extension) a large amount of something.

Noun : (figuratively) Any place regarded as a source of unlimited supply; the supply itself.

miffs

Noun : A small argument; a quarrel.

Noun : A state of being offended.

Verb : (transitive, usually used in the passive) To offend slightly.

mineo

mirky

Adjective : Alternative form of murky [Hard to see through, as a fog or mist.]

minas

Noun : A surname.

Noun : A male given name.

milka

Noun : a brand of chocolate confectionary, originally made in Switzerland since 1901 by Suchard.

Noun : a feminine given name found in Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, Serbia and Montenegro.

mirid

Noun : (entomology) Any insect of the family Miridae, a plant bug.

mixes

Verb : (transitive) To stir together.

Verb : (transitive) To combine (items from two or more sources normally kept separate).

Verb : (transitive, intransitive) To form by mingling; to produce by the stirring together of ingredients; to concoct from different parts.

mieux

mizar

Noun : (astronomy) A binary star in the constellation Ursa Major; Zeta (ζ) Ursae Majoris.

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