5 Letter Words That Start With M

mirth

Noun : The emotion usually following humor and accompanied by laughter.

Noun : That which causes merriment.

merit

Noun : (countable) A claim to commendation or a reward.

Noun : (countable) A mark or token of approbation or to recognize excellence.

Noun : (countable, uncountable) Something deserving or worthy of positive recognition or reward.

maven

Noun : (chiefly US) An expert in a given field; also, a person who is interested in and knowledgeable about a particular activity or thing; an aficionado.

Noun : (NASA, space science) Acronym of Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution Mission (a space probe designed to investigate the Martian climate)

magus

Noun : A magician; (derogatory) a conjurer or sorcerer, especially one who is a charlatan or trickster.

Noun : (Zoroastrianism) A Zoroastrian priest.

model

Noun : A person who serves as a human template for artwork or fashion.

Noun : A person, usually an attractive male or female, who is hired to show items or goods to the public, such as items that are given away as prizes on a TV game show.

Noun : A representation of a physical object.

muted

Adjective : Not expressed strongly or openly; subdued and understated

Adjective : (of a sound) Quiet or soft.

Adjective : (of color) Subdued.

mauve

Noun : (historical) A rich purple synthetic dye, which faded easily, briefly popular c. 1859‒1873 and now called mauveine.

Noun : A pale purple or violet colour, like the colour of the dye after it has faded.

Adjective : Having a pale purple colour.

motif

Noun : A recurring or dominant element; an artistic theme.

Noun : (music) A short melodic or lyrical passage that is repeated in several parts of a work.

Noun : A decorative figure that is repeated in a design or pattern.

maxim

Noun : (now rare) A self-evident axiom or premise; a pithy expression of a general principle or rule.

Noun : A precept; a succinct statement or observation of a rule of conduct or moral teaching.

Noun : A surname

moxie

Noun : Nerve, spunk, strength of character.

Noun : Verve.

Noun : Wit, smarts, skill.

muzzy

Adjective : (dialect, Northern England) Blurred, hazy, indistinct, unfocussed.

Adjective : Bewildered; dazed.

Adjective : Tipsy; drunk; involving drunkenness.

moral

Adjective : Of or relating to principles of right and wrong in behaviour, especially for teaching right behaviour.

Adjective : Conforming to a standard of right behaviour; sanctioned by or operative on one's conscience or ethical judgment.

Adjective : Capable of right and wrong action.

mimic

Verb : (transitive) To imitate, especially in order to ridicule.

Verb : (biology, transitive) To take on the appearance of another, for protection or camouflage.

Noun : A person who practices mimicry; especially:

moron

Noun : (informal, derogatory) A stupid person; an idiot; a fool.

Noun : (psychology, dated, originally) A person of mild mental subnormality in the former classification of mental retardation, having an intelligence quotient of 50–70.

Noun : (philosophy) A hypothetical particle whose existence and configuration can make a moral judgment true.

mount

Noun : A hill or mountain.

Noun : (palmistry) Any of seven fleshy prominences in the palm of the hand, taken to represent the influences of various heavenly bodies.

Noun : (obsolete) A bulwark for offence or defence; a mound.

murky

Adjective : Hard to see through, as a fog or mist.

Adjective : Dark, dim, gloomy.

Adjective : Cloudy, indistinct, obscure.

major

Adjective : (attributive):

Adjective : Greater in dignity, rank, importance, significance, or interest.

Adjective : Greater in number, quantity, or extent.

mania

Noun : Violent derangement of mind; madness; insanity.

Noun : Excessive or unreasonable desire; insane passion affecting one or many people; fanaticism.

Noun : (psychiatry) The state of abnormally elevated or irritable mood, arousal, and/or energy levels.

mogul

Noun : (rail transport) A steam locomotive of the 2-6-0 wheel arrangement.

Noun : A census-designated place in Washoe County, Nevada, United States.

Noun : A rich or powerful person; a magnate, nabob.

march

Noun : A formal, rhythmic way of walking, used especially by soldiers, by bands, and in ceremonies.

Noun : A journey so walked.

Noun : A political rally or parade.

mouth

Noun : (anatomy) The front opening of a creature through which food is ingested.

Noun : The end of a river out of which water flows into a sea or other large body of water; or the end of a tributary out of which water flows into a larger river.

Noun : An outlet, aperture or orifice.

minor

Adjective : Lesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option, particularly:

Adjective : (law) Underage, not having reached legal majority.

Adjective : (medicine, sometimes figurative) Not serious, not involving risk of death, permanent injury, dangerous surgery, or extended hospitalization.

merge

Verb : (transitive, intransitive) To combine into a whole.

Verb : To blend gradually into something else.

Noun : The joining together of multiple sources.

manse

Verb : (transitive) To excommunicate; curse.

Noun : A house inhabited by the minister of a parish.

Noun : (archaic) A family dwelling, an owner-occupied house.

moony

Adjective : Resembling the moon.

Adjective : Moonlit.

Adjective : (figurative) Absent-minded.

mused

Noun : (of people) A source of inspiration.

Noun : (archaic) A poet; a bard.

Verb : (intransitive) To become lost in thought, to ponder.

moody

Adjective : Given to sudden or frequent changes of mind; temperamental.

Adjective : Sulky or depressed.

Adjective : Dour, gloomy or brooding.

magic

Noun : The application of rituals or actions, especially those based on occult knowledge, to subdue or manipulate natural or supernatural beings and forces in order to have some benefit from them.

Noun : The supernatural forces which are drawn on in such a ritual.

Noun : (rare, countable) A specific ritual or procedure associated with such magic; a spell; a magical ability.

mould

Noun : Commonwealth standard spelling of mold.

Verb : Commonwealth standard spelling of mold.

Noun : Commonwealth spelling of mold (“growth of tiny fungi”)

might

Noun : (countable, uncountable) Power, strength, force, or influence held by a person or group.

Noun : (uncountable) Physical strength or force.

Noun : (uncountable) The ability to do something.

mince

Noun : (uncountable) Finely chopped meat; minced meat.

Noun : (uncountable) Finely chopped mixed fruit used in Christmas pies; mincemeat.

Noun : (countable) An affected (often dainty or short and precise) gait.

means

Noun : An instrument or condition to achieve a result.

Noun : (uncountable) Financial resources; wealth.

Noun : Substantial wealth.

melee

Noun : (especially military, gaming) A battle fought at close range, (especially) one not involving ranged weapons; hand-to-hand combat; brawling.

Noun : A loud, confused or tumultuous fight, argument or scrap.

Noun : Any confused, disorganised, disordered or chaotic situation.

mynde

Noun : Obsolete spelling of mind. [The capability for rational thought.]

match

Noun : (sports) A competitive sporting event such as a boxing meet (commonly called a "bout"), a baseball game, or a cricket match.

Noun : Any contest or trial of strength or skill, or to determine superiority.

Noun : Someone with a measure of an attribute equaling or exceeding the object of comparison.

manna

Noun : (biblical) Food miraculously produced for the Israelites in the desert in the book of Exodus.

Noun : (by extension) Any boon which comes into one's hands by good luck.

Noun : The sugary sap of the manna gum tree which oozes out from holes drilled by insects and falls to the ground around the tree.

modal

Adjective : Of, or relating to a mode or modus.

Adjective : (grammar) Of, relating to, or describing the mood of a clause.

Adjective : (music) Of, relating to, or composed in the musical modi by which an octave is divided, associated with emotional moods in Ancient — and in medieval ecclesiastical — music.

musty

Adjective : Affected by dampness or mould; damp, mildewed, mouldy.

Adjective : Having an odour or taste of mould; also (generally), having a stale or unfresh odour or taste.

Adjective : Characteristic of or relating to mould or mouldiness.

manus

Noun : (formal) A hand, as the part of the fore limb below the forearm in a human, or the corresponding part in other vertebrates.

Noun : (obsolete, Roman law) The power over other people, especially that of a man over his wife.

Noun : A surname from Irish.

mired

Adjective : Stuck in mud; plunged or fixed in mud.

Adjective : (figuratively) Involved in trouble or difficulty.

Adjective : (figuratively) Confused or perplexed.

miaul

Noun : (dated) The cry of a cat.

Verb : (intransitive, dated) To give the cry of a cat.

merry

Adjective : Jolly and full of high spirits; happy.

Adjective : Festive and full of fun and laughter.

Adjective : Brisk

madam

Noun : A polite form of address for a woman or lady.

Noun : The mistress of a household.

Noun : (colloquial) A conceited or quarrelsome girl.

maker

Noun : Someone who makes; a person or thing that makes or produces something.

Noun : (usually capitalized and preceded by the) God, the Creator.

Noun : (now rare) A poet.

manor

Noun : A landed estate.

Noun : The main house of such an estate or a similar residence; a mansion.

Noun : A district over which a feudal lord could exercise certain rights and privileges in medieval western Europe.

miser

Noun : (derogatory) A person who hoards money rather than spending it; one who is cheap or extremely parsimonious.

Noun : (obsolete) A person who is wretched or despicable; a wretch.

Noun : A kind of earth auger, typically large-bored and often hand-operated.

munch

Verb : (often with "on") To chew with a grinding, crunching sound, and with the mouth closed.

Verb : To eat vigorously or with excitement.

Noun : (countable, colloquial) A location or restaurant where good food can be expected, or an instance of eating at such a place.

maund

Noun : A wicker basket.

Noun : A unit of capacity with various specific local values.

Noun : (regional) A handbasket with two lids.

moved

Adjective : Emotionally affected; touched.

Adjective : (obsolete) Convinced.

metis

Noun : (Canada) One of three recognized Aboriginal peoples of Canada, descendants of marriages of Cree, Ojibwa, Saulteaux, and Menominee Aboriginal people with French Canadians, Scots and English.

Noun : (chiefly Canada, US) A member of one of these three Canadian Aboriginal peoples.

Noun : (chiefly Canada) A person of mixed European and Aboriginal descent.

meter

Noun : A device that measures things.

Noun : A parking meter or similar device for collecting payment.

Noun : (dated) One who metes or measures.

mouse

Noun : Any small rodent of the genus Mus.

Noun : (informal) A member of the many small rodent and marsupial species resembling mice, typically having a small body, dark fur, long tail, and nocturnal sleeping pattern compared to rats.

Noun : A quiet or shy person.

moist

Adjective : Characterized by the presence of moisture; not dry; slightly wet; damp.

Adjective : Of eyes: wet with tears; tearful; also (obsolete), watery due to some illness or to old age.

Adjective : Of a climate, the weather, etc.: damp, humid, rainy.

manic

Adjective : Characterized by mania or craziness; wicked.

Adjective : (psychiatry) Suffering from mania (the state of an abnormally elevated or irritable mood, arousal, and/or energy levels).

Noun : A person exhibiting mania.

misty

Adjective : Covered in mist; foggy.

Adjective : (figuratively) Dim; vague; obscure.

Adjective : (figuratively) With tears in the eyes; dewy-eyed.

mosey

Verb : (chiefly US, dialectal, intransitive) To set off, get going; to start a journey.

Verb : (chiefly US, dialectal, intransitive) To go off quickly: to hurry up.

Verb : (chiefly US, dialectal, intransitive) To amble; to walk or proceed in a leisurely manner.

mingy

Adjective : (colloquial) Mean, miserly, stingy.

mound

Noun : An artificial hill or elevation of earth; a raised bank; an embankment thrown up for defense

Noun : A natural elevation appearing as if thrown up artificially; a regular and isolated hill, hillock, or knoll.

Noun : (baseball) Elevated area of dirt upon which the pitcher stands to pitch.

muggy

Adjective : (of the weather, air, etc.) Humid, or hot and humid.

Adjective : (obsolete) Wet or mouldy.

Adjective : (obsolete, slang) Drunk.

mangy

Adjective : Afflicted, or looking as if afflicted, with mange.

Adjective : (by extension) Worn and squalid-looking; bedraggled or decrepit.

Adjective : Contemptible, despicable, low.

mores

Noun : A set of moral norms or customs derived from generally accepted practices rather than written laws.

midst

Noun : (often literary) A place in the middle of something; may be used of a literal or metaphorical location.

mousy

Adjective : Resembling a mouse.

Adjective : Quiet; stealthy.

Adjective : Timid.

modus

Noun : (law, obsolete) The arrangement of, or mode of expressing, the terms of a contract or conveyance.

Noun : (law) A qualification involving the idea of variation or departure from some general rule or form, in the way of either restriction or enlargement, according to the circumstances of the case, as in the will of a donor, an agreement between parties, etc.

Noun : (law) A fixed compensation or equivalent given instead of payment of tithes in kind, expressed in full by the phrase modus decimandi.

mirky

Adjective : Dated form of murky. [Hard to see through, as a fog or mist.]

miasm

Noun : An unhealthy vapor or atmosphere; a miasma.

Noun : (homeopathy) A predisposition to a particular disease, which interferes with subsequent treatment of it.

manas

Noun : (philosophy, chiefly theosophy) The mind; that which distinguishes man from the animals.

Noun : A county of Changji prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.

Noun : A town in Manas County, Changji prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.

metal

Noun : (heading) Chemical elements or alloys, and the mines where their ores come from.

Noun : Any of a number of chemical elements in the periodic table that form a metallic bond with other metal atoms; generally shiny, somewhat malleable and hard, often a conductor of heat and electricity.

Noun : Any material with similar physical properties, such as an alloy.

mural

Noun : A large painting, usually drawn on a wall.

Adjective : Of or relating to a wall; on, or in, or against a wall.

Adjective : Resembling a wall; perpendicular or steep.

minim

Noun : (music) A half note, drawn as a semibreve with a stem.

Noun : A unit of volume, in the Imperial and U.S. customary systems, ¹⁄₆₀ fluid drachm. Approximately equal to 1 drop, 62 μL or 0.9 grain (weight) of water.

Noun : A short vertical stroke used in handwriting.

muddy

Adjective : Covered or splashed with, or full of, mud (“wet soil”).

Adjective : Of water or some other liquid: containing mud or (by extension) other sediment in suspension; cloudy, turbid.

Adjective : Of or relating to mud; also, having the characteristics of mud, especially in colour or taste.

motto

Noun : A personal slogan.

Noun : (heraldry) A sentence, phrase, or word, forming part of an heraldic achievement.

Noun : A sentence, phrase, or word, prefixed to an essay, discourse, chapter, canto, or the like, suggestive of its subject matter; a short, suggestive expression of a guiding principle; a maxim.

mourn

Verb : (ambitransitive) To express sadness or sorrow for; to grieve over (especially a death).

Verb : (transitive) To utter in a sorrowful manner.

Verb : (intransitive) To wear mourning.

mater

Noun : (British, slang, now chiefly archaic or humorous) Mother.

Noun : (anatomy) A meninx; the dura mater, arachnoid mater, or pia mater of the brain.

Noun : (biology) Someone or something that mates.

meido

Noun : (chiefly Japanese fiction) A female fictional character who is employed as a maid, typically wearing a stylized French maid outfit.

Noun : A waitress at a maid café.

music

Noun : A series of sounds organized in time, usually employing some combination of harmony, melody, rhythm, tempo, etc., often to convey a mood.

Noun : (figuratively) Any interesting or pleasing sounds.

Noun : An art form, created by organizing pitch, rhythm, and sounds made using musical instruments and/or singing.

magma

Noun : (geology) The molten matter within the earth, the source of the material of lava flows, dikes of eruptive rocks, etc.

Noun : (mathematics) A basic algebraic structure consisting of a set equipped with a single binary operation.

Noun : Any soft doughy mass.

mulch

Noun : (agriculture, horticulture) Any material used to cover the top layer of soil to protect, insulate, or decorate it, or to discourage weeds or retain moisture.

Verb : (agriculture) To apply mulch.

Verb : (agriculture) To turn into mulch.

mecca

Noun : (sometimes proscribed)

Noun : A province of Saudi Arabia.

Noun : A large city, the provincial capital of Mecca Province in the in the Hejaz region, Saudi Arabia, the holiest place in Islam, location of the sacred Ka'ba, and to which Muslims are required to make a hajj at least once in their lifetime, if possible.

morph

Noun : (grammar, linguistics) A recurrent distinctive sound or sequence of sounds representing an indivisible morphological form; especially as representing a morpheme.

Noun : (linguistics) An allomorph: one of a set of realizations that a morpheme can have in different contexts.

Noun : (zoology) A variety of a species, distinguishable from other individuals of the species by morphology or behaviour.

mulct

Noun : (law) A fine or penalty, especially a pecuniary one.

Verb : To impose such a fine or penalty.

Verb : (transitive) To swindle (someone) out of money.

manga

Noun : (countable, comics) A comic originating in Japan.

Noun : (uncountable) An artistic style heavily used in, and associated with, Japanese comics, and that has also been adopted by a comparatively low number of comics from other countries.

Noun : (countable, loosely, sometimes proscribed) Any comic in such a style, regardless of the country of origin.

mesne

Adjective : (law) Intermediate.

Noun : (law) A mesne lord.

malus

Noun : (business) The loss or return of performance-related compensation originally paid by an employer to an employee as a result of the discovery of a defect in the performance.

Noun : (rare) A penalty or negative thing.

Noun : A plant of the genus Malus (the apples).

mazed

Adjective : (archaic) Amazed, astonished, bewildered.

moros

Noun : (uncommon) A dish of black beans and white riced cooked together; congri.

Noun : (Greek mythology) The personification of impending doom, who drives mortals to their deadly fate

mesel

Adjective : (medicine, obsolete) Synonym of leprous: having leprosy or a similar skin disorder.

Adjective : (figurative, obsolete) Synonym of wretched.

Adjective : (figurative, obsolete) Synonym of repulsive.

moone

Noun : Obsolete spelling of moon. [(informal, by extension of Moon) Any natural satellite of a planet.]

Noun : Obsolete spelling of moan. [A low, mournful cry of pain, sorrow or pleasure.]

Noun : Obsolete spelling of mone. [(obsolete) Mind; preference.]

memor

meare

Noun : Obsolete form of mere. [Boundary, limit; a boundary-marker; boundary-line.]

Noun : Obsolete form of mare. [An adult female horse.]

Adjective : Obsolete form of mere. [Just, only; no more than, pure and simple, neither more nor better than might be expected.]

motor

Noun : A machine or device that converts other energy forms into mechanical energy, or imparts motion.

Noun : (now colloquial outside attributive use) A motor car, or automobile, sometimes extended to other powered vehicles, such as goods vehicles.

Noun : (figuratively) A source of power for something; an inspiration; a driving force.

marsh

Noun : An area of low, wet land, often with tall grass or herbaceous plants. (Compare swamp, bog, fen.)

Noun : A topographic surname from Middle English for someone living by a marsh.

Noun : A number of places in England:

mango

Noun : A tropical Asian fruit tree, Mangifera indica.

Noun : The fruit of the mango tree.

Noun : A pickled vegetable or fruit with a spicy stuffing; a vegetable or fruit which has been mangoed.

milky

Adjective : Resembling milk in color, consistency, smell, etc.; consisting of milk.

Adjective : (color science, informal) Of the black in an image, appearing as dark gray rather than black.

Adjective : (of a drink) Containing (an especially large amount of) milk.

mitre

Noun : A covering for the head, worn on solemn occasions by church dignitaries, which has been made in many forms, mostly recently a tall cap with two points or peaks.

Noun : The surface forming the bevelled end or edge of a piece where a miter joint is made; also, a joint formed or a junction effected by two beveled ends or edges; a miter joint.

Noun : (historical, numismatics) A 13th-century coin minted in Europe which circulated in Ireland as a debased counterfeit sterling penny, outlawed under Edward I.

manes

Noun : The souls or spirits of dead ancestors, conceived as deities or the subjects of reverence, or of other deceased relatives.

mensa

Noun : Mensa International, an organization for people with very high IQs.

Noun : (astronomy) A summer constellation of the southern sky, originally named after Table Mountain in South Africa. It lies between the constellations of Hydrus and Volans.

Noun : In planetary geology, a large mesa-like area of raised land.

matey

Adjective : (UK) Sociable or friendly.

Noun : (nautical, slang) A fellow sailor; often used affectedly, especially when portraying a pirate.

Noun : (nautical, slang) A dockyard worker.

mussy

Adjective : Having been mussed: messy, rumpled.

Noun : Pronunciation spelling of mercy, representing African-American Vernacular English. [(uncountable) Relenting; forbearance to cause or allow harm to another.]

minge

Noun : (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, vulgar, slang) The pubic hair and vulva.

Noun : (US, archaic, dialectal) Synonym of midge (“small biting fly”).

Verb : (obsolete) Synonym of ming (“to mix”)

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