Words that start with M

Midday is another word for noon, the time of day when the sun is at its highest point in the sky.

Middle-aged is a way of describing someone who is about 40 to 60 years old. It describes someone who is no longer young, but not yet old.

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.

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!

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

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.

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.

A millstone is a very large, heavy, round stone that was used to grind things up inside a mill. Modern mills are highly mechanized, so used millstones tend to be set out on display like the one in the picture.

Mines are very large holes that people dig to get minerals out of the ground. Minerals can then be processed into useful things like metal.
Mines can be underground tunnels or they can be open cut mines like in the picture. Open cut mines are more common today as they can be mined easier and more safely than underground mines, using enormous trucks and digging machinery.

Minerals are something naturally occurring, often called rock, stone or if they are to be used for mining, ores.
People often break nature into three groups, animal, mineral and vegetable.