Words that start with M

Mild mannered mice melt marshmallows in Minnesota.

Mongolian means anything relating to Mongolia, people from Mongolia or the language spoken in Mongolia.

Mis forMongoose

Scientific name: family: herpestidae
Mongooses are a small animal that live in southern Asia, Africa, and southern Europe. They eat insects, crabs, worms, lizards, snakes, chickens, and rodents. They will also eat eggs and dead animals they find.

Mis forMongrel

A mongrel is a dog that you cannot tell what breed it is. Mongrels might simply be cross breeds, but are usually stray dogs that have been mixed breed for so long there is no way of telling what their ancestry is.
A computer monitor is a device that is used for displaying information from a computer. Modern monitors tend to be quite wide, and also quite thin from front-to-back, so they take up less space on your desk.

Mis forMonk

A monk is a man who lives a strict religious life, usually as a member of a religious or monastic group.

Mis forMonkey

Monkeys are distantly related to people. There are many different kinds of monkey, ranging in size from a few inches long to as big as a person. Different kinds of monkey eat different things, but usually they eat at least some of fruit, leaves, insects, eggs and small animals. All monkeys have tails.
Monkey bars are a piece of playground equipment that looks like a ladder held horizontally by some posts at each end. You use it by going across the ladder holding on with your hands.
Something is monochrome if it is made up of shades of the same color.

Mis forMonorail

A monorail is similar to a train in that it travels along a fixed track. The main difference is a monorail has only one track, not two like regular trains. Some kinds of monorail hover above their track (also called a rail or beam). These are called maglev monorails. Many monorails travel on raised tracks above a city. Not all monorails are raised like this. The beams a monorail travels on are large and solid and are often cast out of concrete, like the raised platform itself.

Mis forMonsoon

A monsoon is a seasonal heavy rain brought about by wind from the Indian Ocean. The monsoon season typically lasts for part of the year, with the rest of the year being quite dry.