Phrase Hound found 83 phrases and 24 compound words that contain mice. The most common are listed below. Open mice in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 83
- Transgenic mice
- knockout miceplural of knockout mouse: Any of several forms of mice that have been genetically engineered by inactivating specific genes.
- church miceplural of church mouse: A mouse living in a church; used in similes to suggest a very poor person.
- country miceplural of country mouse: A countryperson; someone with country ways.
- desert miceplural of desert mouse: Pseudomys desertor, a murid found only in Australia.
- dust miceplural of dust mouse: A dust bunny.
- fat miceplural of fat mouse: Steatomys pratensis, an African rodent.
- field miceplural of field mouse: A small vole such as the meadow vole.
- flying miceplural of flying mouse: Any species of rodent in the genus Idiurus, native to parts of tropical Africa, which have the ability to glide.
- house miceplural of house mouse: The universally common mouse of the species Mus musculus.
- lab miceplural of lab mouse: A laboratory mouse.
- laboratory miceplural of laboratory mouse: A small mammal of the order Rodentia, usually Mus musculus, which is bred and kept for scientific research.
- pocket miceplural of pocket mouse: A mouse of the subfamily Perognathinae
- sea miceplural of sea mouse: A marine polychaete worm (genus Aphrodita) with the body covered in a dense mat of setae.
- sugar miceplural of sugar mouse: A traditional sweet, based on icing sugar, in the shape of a mouse, often fitted with a piece of string for a tail.
- wood miceplural of wood mouse: A European rodent, Apodemus sylvaticus, that tends to live in hedgerows.
- deer miceplural of deer mouse: Any of the muroid rodents in the genus Peromyscus, especially Peromyscus maniculatus.
- harvest miceplural of harvest mouse: Micromys minutus, a species of the sub-family Murinae (Old World rats and mice).
- fancy miceplural of fancy mouse: A domesticated mouse, usually a house mouse (Mus musculus), common as a pet.
- jumping miceplural of jumping mouse: Any species of the taxonomic family Zapodidae of rodents, variously endemic to North America and China.
- when the cat's away the mice will playIn the absence of a controlling entity, subordinates will take advantage of circumstances.
- meadow miceplural of meadow mouse: A vole.
- glacier miceplural of glacier mouse: A ball of moss, often surrounding a rock, that moves across a glacier.
- New World miceplural of New World mouse: Any mouse in the subfamilies Neotominae and Sigmodontinae.
- Old World miceplural of Old World mouse: Any mouse in the subfamily Murinae.
Compound words 24
- micelikeSynonym of mouselike: Resembling or characteristic of a mouse (rodent); as, a mouselike squeak, mouselike timidity.
- miceproofSynonym of mouseproof: Resistant to damage caused by mice.
- micelessWithout mice.
- micellea colloidal aggregate, in a simple geometric form, of a specific number of amphipathic molecules which forms at a well-defined concentration, called the critical micelle concentration
- titmiceplural of titmouse: Any small passerine bird mostly of the genus Baeolophus, which are found in the woods of the Northern Hemisphere and of Africa.
- churchmiceplural of churchmouse: A mouse living in a church; used in similes to suggest a very poor person.
- coalmiceplural of coalmouse: Any of species Periparus ater of small titmouses with a black head; a coaltit.
- creepmiceplural of creepmouse: Timid and unassuming in the extreme.
- deermiceplural of deermouse: Any of the muroid rodents in the genus Peromyscus, especially Peromyscus maniculatus.
- doormiceMisspelling of dormice: Any of several species of small, mostly European rodents of the family Gliridae.