Words that start with M

Mild mannered mice melt marshmallows in Minnesota.

Mis forMidnight

Midnight is the middle of the night, 12am, or twelve o'clock at night. The opposite of midnight is midday, or noon.

Mis forMidwife

Midwives offer care to pregnant women through their pregnancy, the delivery of their babies and for some time after the birth. Compared to obstetricians, midwives generally take care of women with low-risk pregnancies, and strive to help women have a natural birthing experience and try to intervene as little as possible.

Mis forMigraine

A migraine is a severe headache that usually affects one side of your head. Migraines cause nausea and sensitivity to light and sound. Migraines can sometimes cause hallucinations. Migraines can last for several days, and stop you from being able to do anything.

Mis forMigrate

Birds or animals migrate when they all move to a new area at the same time. Migrations happen with the seasons at the same time each year so the birds or animals follow their food source. Sometimes they travel an incredible distance - some kinds of bird travel halfway around the world!

Mis forMile

A mile is 5280 feet, 1760 yards, or 1.609 kilometers.

Mis forMilitary

Military means anything relating to the armed forces, particularly the army.

Mis forMilk

Milk is something that mother animals make for their baby animals. People collect milk from mother cows and put it into bottles and packets for people to drink. Many people have milk on their breakfast cereal, and add milk to their tea and coffee.

Mis forMill

Mills are places or devices where some kind of raw material is turned into something more useful. There are many different kinds of mills. Older mills usually consist of a large, heavy millstone which is turned either by the power of flowing water or by the wind, hence the commonly seen windmills. Mills might be used to grind grain into flour, press olives into oil, process cotton into cloth, or even for processing lumber in a sawmill.

Mis forMillet

Millet is a general name given to a number of similar looking but unrelated grasses with small seeds that are used as animal food, or as human food. There are many different kinds of millet.
Scientific name: subphylum: myriapoda, class: diplopoda
Millipedes are a type of creature that has many body segments, and two pairs of legs on each segment. They are related to centipedes, but they move a lot slower. Centipedes have only one pair of legs per segment.