The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 1 letter word M
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M
More clues leading to the result M
- On a dry day no one will want this wine
- M
- See 5 Down
- Second one aboard coach journey after son — there seems to be no end to it
- See 21a
- See 15a
- The setter’s punctilious nature pointlessly requiring permission
- ‘Mass plus one’ shown by American mathematician
- Most of wine goes up in flames, making Spaniards’ point
- Organise team, creating a crowded alliance?
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What does M mean?
M noun- Abbreviation of million.
- Thousand
- Make
- Of or pertaining to the male gender; manly.
- Of or pertaining to the male sex; biologically male, not female.
- Belonging to males; typically used by males.
- Having the qualities stereotypically associated with men: virile, aggressive, not effeminate.
- (grammar) Of, pertaining or belonging to the male grammatical gender, in languages that have gender distinctions.
- A prescribed quantity or extent.
- The act or result of measuring.
- Metrical rhythm.
- A course of action.
- (always meter) A device that measures things.
- (always meter) A parking meter or similar device for collecting payment.
- (always meter) One who metes or measures.
- (elsewhere metre) The base unit of length in the International System of Units (SI), conceived of as 1/10000000 of the distance from the North Pole to the Equator, and now defined as the distance light will travel in a vacuum in 1/299792458 second.
- (elsewhere metre) An increment of music; the overall rhythm; particularly, the number of beats in a measure.
- (elsewhere metre) The rhythm pattern in a poem.
- (elsewhere metre) A line above or below a hanging net, to which the net is attached in order to strengthen it.
- A poem.
- The international mile: a unit of length precisely equal to 1.609344 kilometers established by treaty among Anglophone nations in 1959, divided into 5,280 feet or 1,760 yards.
- Any of several customary units of length derived from the 1593 English statute mile of 8 furlongs, equivalent to 5,280 feet or 1,760 yards of various precise values.
- Any of many customary units of length derived from the Roman mile (mille passus) of 8 stades or 5,000 Roman feet.
- The Scandinavian mile: a unit of length precisely equal to 10 kilometers defined in 1889.
- Any of many customary units of length from other measurement systems of roughly similar values, as the Chinese (里) or Arabic mile (al-mīl).
- (travel) An airline mile in a frequent flier program.
- Any similarly large distance.
- A race of 1 mile's length; a race of around 1 mile's length (usually 1500 or 1600 meters)
- One mile per hour, as a measure of speed.
- A half note, drawn as a semibreve with a stem.
- 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.
- A short vertical stroke used in handwriting.
- Anything very minute; applied to animalcula and the like.
- The smallest kind of worker in a leaf-cutter ant colony.
- A little man or being; a dwarf.
- A small fish; a minnow.
- A short poetical encomium.
- A unit of time equal to sixty seconds (one-sixtieth of an hour).
- A short but unspecified time period.
- A unit of angle equal to one-sixtieth of a degree.
- (chiefly in the plural, minutes) A (usually formal) written record of a meeting or a part of a meeting.
- A unit of purchase on a telephone or other network, especially a cell phone network, roughly equivalent in gross form to sixty seconds' use of the network.
- A point in time; a moment.
- A nautical or a geographic mile.
- An old coin, a half farthing.
- A very small part of anything, or anything very small; a jot; a whit.
- A fixed part of a module.
- A while or a long unspecified period of time
- A period into which a year is divided, historically based on the phases of the moon.
- A period of 30 days, 31 days, or some alternation thereof.
- (in the plural) A woman's period; menstrual discharge.