Words that start with M

Mild mannered mice melt marshmallows in Minnesota.

Something is miniature if it is a very small copy of something else. A miniature can either be a model of something, like a miniature car, or a word for a very small animal, such as a miniature horse.

Mis forMinimum

Minimum means the smallest amount of something allowed or needed. You often see minimums in forms and rules, like "minimum age" or "minimum wage." In math, minimum can mean the lowest value of a number or in a graph. The opposite of minimum is maximum.

Mis forMink

Scientific name: neovison vison (American mink) and mustela lutreola (European Mink)
Mink are a small, dark brown member of the weasel family. Their coat is thick and glossy and has been used for making fur coats from. Mink like to live around water, and eat fish, crayfish, rabbits and water birds.
Minnesota, abbreviated to MN, is a state in the northern edge of the United States of America. The capital of Minnesota is Saint Paul and the largest city in Minnesota is Minneapolis.

Mis forMint

Scientific name: family: mentha
Mint is a family of small plants with a strong taste and smell. It is used most often to make tea, jellies and sweets or candy. Most chewing gums, toothpastes and breath fresheners are mint flavoured. Fresh mint can be added to drinks, salads or as a garnish on many meals. Mint is often used in sweets, biscuits or cookies along with chocolate. The leaves of the mint are used for their flavour, either fresh or dried. The flavour is carried in oil in the leaves, and the very strongly flavoured oil can be extracted and stored for later use. Mint is an easy plant to grow. It prefers a lightly shaded spot with good, moist soil but will grow almost anywhere under almost any conditions. It grows a vigorous root system that can spread very fast. Mint is best grown in a pot so it doesn't invade the rest of the garden. You can grow new mint plants by taking a cutting of a mint runner. Just digging down a little at the edge of a clump of mint should loosen up a runner that already has roots, and can be clipped off and used to grow a new plant.
A minute is a time period of sixty (60) seconds. There are 60 minutes in an hour.

Mis forMirage

A mirage happens when there are areas of air close to each other at different temperatures, which causes light to bend. This often happens when there is a layer of very hot air just above a road. The result is that something that should be seen in one place is seen in another place. Mirages can look a lot like water on the ground, reflecting the sky.

Mis forMirror

A mirror is something that lets you see your reflection. You can use a mirror so you can see yourself brushing your hair, or to see behind you when you are driving a car. Not all animals know that their reflection is them, the only animals that do know are elephants, chimpanzees, dolphins, magpies and orangutans.
If something is misplaced it is lost or in the wrong place. If you misplace your car keys, they're not in their usual location. If you find one pineapple in the cereal aisle instead of with the rest of the pineapples at the grocery store, the pineapple has been misplaced.

Mis forMissile

Missiles are anything you can throw or fire, generally as a weapon. Missiles include the stones you put in a sling, arrows and modern self-propelled missiles.