Words that start with M

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.

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 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.

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.

Mississippi, abbreviated to MS, is a state in the south of the United States of America. The capital of Mississippi is Jackson. The Mississippi is also a river in the United States of America, which forms the western border of the state of Mississippi.