5 letter words starting with min

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  • MINAE
  • MINAR
  • MINAS
  • MINCE
  • MINCY
  • MINDI
  • MINDS
  • MINED
  • MINER
  • MINES
  • MINGE
  • MINGI
  • MINGS
  • MINGY
  • MINIM
  • MINIS
  • MINKE
  • MINKS
  • MINNY
  • MINOR
  • MINOS
  • MINSE
  • MINTS
  • MINTY
  • MINUS
  • MINXY

Sometimes the solution is an uncommon word, then It’s time to learn something new. Here’s the definition of a few of these words:


Definition of mines

mines (noun)

  1. Demeanor; facial expression or attitude, especially one which is intended by its bearer.
  2. A specific facial expression.

mines (noun)

  1. An excavation from which ore or solid minerals are taken, especially one consisting of underground tunnels.
  2. Any source of wealth or resources.
  3. A passage dug toward or underneath enemy lines, which is then packed with explosives.
  4. A device intended to explode when stepped upon or touched, or when approached by a ship, vehicle, or person.
  5. A type of firework that explodes on the ground, shooting sparks upward.
  6. The cavity made by a caterpillar while feeding inside a leaf.
  7. A machine or network of machines used to extract units of a cryptocurrency.

mines (verb)

  1. To remove (ore) from the ground.
  2. To dig into, for ore or metal.
  3. To sow mines (the explosive devices) in (an area).
  4. To damage (a vehicle or ship) with a mine (an explosive device).
  5. To dig a tunnel or hole; to burrow in the earth.
  6. To dig away, or otherwise remove, the substratum or foundation of; to lay a mine under; to sap; to undermine.
  7. (by extension) To ruin or destroy by slow degrees or secret means.
  8. To pick one's nose.
  9. To earn new units of cryptocurrency by doing certain calculations.

mines (pronoun)

  1. Variation of mine, formed through analogy based on the final -s of the other possessive pronouns (ours, yours, hers, theirs, his)

Definition of mingy

mingy (adjective)

  1. Mean, miserly, stingy.

Definition of minor

minor (noun)

  1. A person who is below the age of majority, consent, criminal responsibility or other adult responsibilities and accountabilities.
  2. A subject area of secondary concentration of a student at a college or university, or the student who has chosen such a secondary concentration.
  3. Determinant of a square submatrix
  4. (British slang) A younger brother (especially at a public school).
  5. A small worker in a leaf-cutter ant colony, sized between a minim and a media.
  6. The term of a syllogism which forms the subject of the conclusion.
  7. (campanology) Bell changes rung on six bells.

minor (verb)

  1. To choose or have an area of secondary concentration as a student in a college or university.

minor (adjective)

  1. Of little significance or importance.
  2. Of a scale which has lowered scale degrees three, six, and seven relative to major, but with the sixth and seventh not always lowered
  3. Being the smaller of the two intervals denoted by the same ordinal number

Definition of minus

minus (noun)

  1. The minus sign (−).
  2. A negative quantity.
  3. A downside or disadvantage.

minus (verb)

  1. To subtract.

minus (adjective)

  1. Being a negative quantity; pertaining to a deficit or reduction.
  2. That is below zero by (a specified amount) on a scale.
  3. Worse off than before; out of pocket.
  4. Ranking just below (a designated rating).

minus (preposition)

  1. Made less or reduced by (followed by an expression of number or quantity).
  2. Without; deprived of.