8-letter words starting with mil
- milliary — of, relating to, or designating the ancient Roman mile of a thousand paces.
- millibar — a centimeter-gram-second unit of pressure equal to one thousandth of a bar or 1000 dynes per square centimeter, used to measure air pressure. Abbreviation: mb.
- millieme — a cupronickel coin of Egypt and Sudan, the 1000th part of a pound or the 10th part of a piaster.
- milligal — a unit of acceleration, equal to one thousandth of a gal; one thousandth of a centimeter per second per second. Abbreviation: mGal.
- milligan — Spike, real name Terence Alan Milligan. 1918–2002, Irish radio, stage, and film comedian and author, born in India. He appeared in The Goon Show (with Peter Sellers and Harry Secombe; BBC Radio, 1952–60) and his films include Postman's Knock (1962), Adolf Hitler, My Part in his Downfall (1972), The Three Musketeers (1974), The Last Remake of Beau Geste (1977), and Yellowbeard (1982). He was awarded an honorary knighthood in 2000
- millikan — Robert Andrews, 1868–1953, U.S. physicist: Nobel prize 1923.
- millilux — a unit of illumination, equal to one thousandth of a lux. Abbreviation: mlx.
- millimho — one thousandth of a mho
- milliner — a person who designs, makes, or sells hats for women.
- millings — Plural form of milling.
- milliohm — one thousandth of an ohm
- millions — a cardinal number, a thousand times one thousand.
- millirem — one thousandth of a rem. Abbreviation: mrem.
- millpond — a pond for supplying water to drive a mill wheel.
- millrace — the channel in which the current of water driving a mill wheel flows to the mill.
- millrind — rind2 .
- millrynd — Alternative form of millrind.
- milltail — the channel carrying water that has flown through the mill wheel away from the mill
- millwell — Altform milwell.
- millwork — ready-made carpentry work from a mill.
- milpitas — a town in W California.
- milstein — Cesar, 1927–2002, Argentinian immunologist: Nobel prize 1984.
- miltonia — any of various epiphytic tropical American orchids of the genus Miltonia, having sprays of showy, flat, variously colored flowers.
- miltonic — of or relating to the poet Milton or his writings.
- milyukov — Pavel Nikolaevich [pah-vuh l nik-uh-lah-yuh-vich;; Russian pah-vyil nyi-kuh-lah-yi-vyich] /ˈpɑ vəl ˌnɪk əˈlɑ yə vɪtʃ;; Russian ˈpɑ vyɪl nyɪ kʌˈlɑ yɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1859–1943, Russian statesman and historian.