English words: miscarriage of justice to misdetection

300 English words, part 100 of 159 of the words starting with M, A to Z. 30 have a page of their own.

English words miscarriage of justice to misdetection

miscarriage of justice noun /ˈmɪs.kæ.ɹɪd͡ʒ ɒv ˈd͡ʒʌ.stɪs/: An error at a trial which led to an unjust outcome, such as the conviction of a person for a crime they did not commit.
miscarry verb /ˌmɪsˈkæɹi/: To have an unfortunate accident of some kind; to be killed, or come to harm.
miscarrying noun, verb: Something that has gone astray or been made wrongly.
miscast adjective, noun, verb /mɪsˈkæst/: To cast or reckon incorrectly.
miscatalog verb: catalog incorrectly.
miscatalogue verb: Alternative form of miscatalog.
miscatch noun, verb /ˈmɪskætʃ/: A catch in which the wrong type of fish is caught, and so must be released.
miscategorisation noun: Alternative spelling of miscategorization.
miscategorise verb: Alternative spelling of miscategorize.
miscategorization noun: The act or process of miscategorizing.
miscategorize verb: To categorize incorrectly.
Miscavige proper noun /mɪsˈkævɪd͡ʒ/: A surname from Polish.
miscegen noun: A mixed-race person.
miscegenate noun, verb: To mix or blend.
miscegenation noun /mɪˌsɛd͡ʒ.əˈneɪ.ʃən/: The mixing or blending of race in marriage or breeding, interracial marriage.
miscegenational adjective: Relating to miscegenation.
miscegenationist noun: One who favours miscegenation.
miscegenative adjective: Miscegenous.
miscegenator noun: Somebody who breeds with a person of another race.
miscegene noun: Alternative form of miscegen.
miscegenetic adjective /mɪ.sɛ.d͡ʒəˈnɛ.tɪk/: Of, pertaining to, or being miscegenation; interracial (said primarily of marriages and other sexual or romantic relationships).
miscegenic adjective: Miscegenous.
miscegenist noun: One who favours miscegenation.
miscegenistic adjective: Miscegenous.
miscegenous adjective: Of, pertaining to, or being miscegenation; interracial (said primarily of marriages and other sexual or romantic relationships).
miscegeny noun: Miscegenation.
miscegine noun: Alternative form of miscegen.
miscell. adjective: Abbreviation of miscellaneous.
miscellanarian noun: A miscellanist.
miscellane noun: A mixture of two or more sorts of grain; maslin; meslin.
miscellanea noun /ˌmɪsəˈleɪnɪə/: A miscellaneous collection of different things; a miscellany.
miscellaneity noun: The quality of being miscellaneous.
miscellaneous adjective /ˌmɪsəˈleɪnɪəs/: Consisting of a variety of ingredients or parts.
miscellaneous charge order noun: An accountable document similar to an airline ticket, used to pay for travel related services such as hotels and car hire.
miscellaneously adverb: In a miscellaneous manner.
miscellaneousness noun: The quality of being miscellaneous.
miscellaneum noun /ˌmɪsəˈleɪnɪəm/: A miscellany.
miscellanist adjective, noun: Having the characteristics of a miscellany.
miscellany noun /mɪˈsɛləni/: An assortment of miscellaneous items.
miscensure noun, verb /mɪsˈsɛnʃə(ɹ)/: To misjudge.
miscentering noun: A mistaken centering
miscertification noun: Invalid certification.
miscertify verb: To certify something that does not meet the criteria for certification.
misch metal noun: Alternative form of mischmetal.
mischallenge noun: A false or misguided challenge.
mischance noun, verb /mɪsˈtʃɑːns/: Bad luck, misfortune.
mischanceful adjective /mɪsˈt͡ʃænsfəl/: unlucky
mischancy adjective: unfortunate
mischannel verb: To channel badly or wrongly.
mischaracterisation noun: Alternative spelling of mischaracterization.
mischaracterise verb: Alternative spelling of mischaracterize.
mischaracterization noun /mɪsˌkæɹəktəɹ(a)ɪˈzeɪʃən/: The act of characterizing something in an inaccurate or misleading way.
mischaracterize verb: To characterize falsely or mistakenly
mischarge noun, verb /mɪsˈtʃɑː(ɹ)dʒ/: To charge wrongly.
mischarging noun, verb: An instance of charging the wrong amount of money.
mischeck noun, verb /mɪsˈtʃɛk/: To enter a check mark inaccurately.
Mischel proper noun: A surname from German.
mischevious adjective /mɪsˈt͡ʃiː.vi.əs/: Alternative form of mischievous.
mischief noun, verb /ˈmɪsˌt͡ʃiːf/: Conduct that playfully causes petty annoyance.
mischief-maker noun: A person who makes mischief.
mischief rule noun: One of three rules of statutory interpretation traditionally applied by English courts, used to determine the exact scope of the mischief that the statute...
mischiefful adjective: mischievous
mischiefless adjective: Devoid of mischief.
mischiefmaker noun: Alternative form of mischief-maker.
mischiefmaking adjective, noun: Making mischief; naughty, prankish.
mischieve verb /mɪsˈtʃiːv/: To destroy.
mischieving noun: The causing of damage or terror; rampaging.
mischievous adjective /ˈmɪs.t͡ʃɪ.vəs/: Causing mischief; injurious.
mischievously adverb: In a mischievous manner.
mischievousness noun /ˈmɪst͡ʃɪvəsnəs/: The characteristic of being mischievous; the tendency to make mischief.
mischio noun: A colorful variety of marble (metamorphic rock of crystalline limestone).
mischling noun /ˈmɪʃlɪŋ/: In certain (especially Nazi) racial theories, someone of mixed race; especially one who is partly of Jewish descent.
mischmasch noun: Alternative form of mishmash.
mischmetal noun: An alloy of rare earth elements containing about 50% cerium and 50% lanthanum, neodymium, and similar elements used especially as a flint in cigarette lighters
mischoice noun: A bad or incorrect choice.
mischoose verb: To choose incorrectly or badly; to make a wrong choice.
mischristen verb: To christen wrongly, for example giving the wrong name.
mischunk verb: To chunk incorrectly.
miscibility noun: The property of being able to be mixed.
miscible adjective: Able to be mixed together in all proportions.
miscibly adverb: In a miscible way.
miscirculate verb: To circulate badly, such as among the wrong people or not widely enough.
miscirculation noun: Bad or wrong circulation.
miscitation noun: incorrect citation
miscite verb: To cite erroneously.
miscl. adjective: Abbreviation of miscellaneous.
misclaim noun, verb /ˈmɪskleɪm/: A mistaken claim.
misclass verb: To class incorrectly.
misclassification noun: The act or process of misclassifying.
misclassifier noun: One who or that which misclassifies.
misclassify verb: To classify incorrectly.
misclean noun, verb /mɪsˈkliːn/: To clean improperly.
miscleavage noun: Faulty cleavage (of a protein etc)
miscleave verb: To cleave wrongly.
miscleaved adjective, verb: Wrongly cleaved
misclick noun, verb /ˈmɪsklɪk/: A click of a computer mouse that is inaccurate and therefore fails to perform the desired action.
misclimb verb: To make a mistake while climbing; to climb too far or in the wrong direction.
misclock noun, verb /ˈmɪsklɒk/: An error in the synchronization or coordination of the sequence or timing of actions by a device.
misclose noun, verb /ˈmɪskləʊz/: The discrepancy between the starting point the endpoint of the shape reconstructed from the measured dimensions and bearings of a boundary.
misclosure noun: The situation where the last in a series of linked traverse lines fails to join up exactly with the first.
miscluster noun, verb /mɪsˈklʌstə(ɹ)/: To cluster incorrectly.
misclustered adjective, verb: Incorrectly clustered.
misclustering noun, verb: Incorrect clustering.
miscode noun, verb /mɪsˈkəʊd/: To code incorrectly.
miscoded adjective: wrongly coded
miscodify verb: To codify in an incorrect way.
miscoding noun, verb: Faulty coding
miscognise verb: Alternative form of miscognize.
miscognition noun: incorrect or false cognition
miscognizant adjective: ignorant; not knowing; unaware
miscognize verb: To fail to apprehend; to misunderstand.
miscoinage noun: A bad or wrong coinage.
miscoined adjective: coined badly or incorrectly (in any sense)
miscollate verb: To collate incorrectly.
miscollation noun: Incorrect collation.
miscollect verb: To make errors in the process of collecting.
miscollocation noun: Wrong collocation.
miscolocalization noun: Incorrect colocalization
miscolor verb: Alternative form of miscolour.
miscoloration noun: Incorrect coloration.
miscolored adjective: Alternative spelling of miscoloured.
miscoloring noun, verb: miscoloration
miscolour verb: To give a wrong colour to.
miscolouration noun: Alternative spelling of miscoloration.
miscoloured adjective, verb: Incorrectly coloured.
miscolouring noun, verb: miscoloration
miscome adjective, noun, verb /mɪsˈkʌm/: To come wrongly or amiss; come at the wrong time; be inappropriate.
miscomfort noun, verb /mɪsˈkʌmfə(ɹ)t/: Discomfort
miscommand noun, verb /ˌmɪskəˈmænd/: To command incompetently.
miscomment noun, verb /mɪsˈkɒmɛnt/: A comment that is untrue.
miscommit verb: To incorrectly or improperly commit.
miscommunicado adjective: Having a miscommunication; failing to understand each other.
miscommunicate verb: To communicate incorrectly.
miscommunication noun: An interaction between two parties in which information is/was not communicated as desired.
miscommunicative adjective: Relating to, or exhibiting, miscommunication.
miscompare verb: To compare incorrectly.
miscompartmentalization noun: Incorrect or inappropriate compartmentalization
miscompensate verb: To err when attempting to adapt to a condition.
miscompile verb: To compile (put together) incorrectly.
miscompliment noun: An insult.
miscompose verb: To produce a defective product or outcome.
miscomprehend verb: To misunderstand.
miscomprehension noun: An incorrect understanding of something.
miscomputation noun: The incorrect performance of a computation.
miscompute noun, verb /ˈmɪskəmpjuːt/: An erroneous computation.
misconceit noun, verb /mɪskənˈsiːt/: misconception
misconceivable adjective: Able to be misconceived.
misconceive verb /ˌmɪskənˈsiːv/: To misunderstand.
misconceived adjective, verb: Badly or wrongly conceived.
misconceivedly adverb: In a misconceived manner.
misconceivedness noun: The state or quality of being misconceived.
misconceiver noun: One who misconceives.
misconceiving adjective, verb: Having false ideas; misleading.
misconception noun /ˌmɪs.kənˈsɛp.ʃən/: A mistaken belief, a wrong idea.
misconceptualisation noun: Alternative form of misconceptualization.
misconceptualization noun: An incorrect conceptualization
misconceptualize verb: To form a misconception about something
misconceptualized adjective: Treated as a misconception
misconcern noun: A false, wrong, or incorrect concern
misconclude verb: To arrive at the wrong conclusion.
misconclusion noun: An erroneous inference or conclusion.
miscondition verb: To condition badly or wrongly.
misconduct noun, verb /mɪsˈkɒndʌkt/: Behavior that is considered to be unacceptable.
misconfide verb: To confide in someone who does not deserve such trust.
misconfidence noun: Lack of confidence or trust.
misconfident adjective: Having a mistaken confidence; wrongly trusting.
misconfiguration noun: An incorrect or inappropriate configuration.
misconfigure verb: To configure something incorrectly or suboptimally.
misconfirm verb: To confirm in error.
misconform verb: To form a misconformation
misconformation noun: An incorrect or inappropriate conformation.
misconformed adjective, verb: Having a misconformation
misconjecture noun, verb /mɪskənˈd͡ʒɛkt͡ʃə(ɹ)/: To conjecture wrongly; to misguess
misconjugate verb /mɪs.kɒn.dʒəɡ.eɪt/: To conjugate (a verb) incorrectly.
misconjugation noun: Incorrect conjugation.
misconjunction noun: A bad or wrong conjunction.
misconnect noun, verb /mɪskəˈnɛkt/: To connect incorrectly.
misconnection noun: Incorrect connection.
misconnote verb: To connote incorrectly; to imply something that is not true or valid.
misconsecrate verb: To consecrate amiss.
misconsequence noun: A wrong consequence; a false deduction.
misconsider verb: To consider wrongly; to misjudge.
misconstitutional adjective: Synonym of unconstitutional.
misconstruable adjective: Capable of being misconstrued.
misconstrual noun: A misinterpretation of the meaning of something.
misconstruance noun: Synonym of misconstrual.
misconstruation noun /mɪskənˈstɹuːeɪʃən/: The act or process of misconstruing.
misconstruct verb /ˌmɪskənˈstɹʌkt/: To construct wrongly.
misconstruction noun: A misunderstanding or misinterpretation resulting from a different meaning than intended of a word that has multiple meanings.
misconstructive adjective: Being or relating to a misconstruction.
misconstrue verb /mɪskənˈstɹuː/: To interpret erroneously, to understand incorrectly; to misunderstand.
misconstrued adjective, verb: Interpreted erroneously, understood incorrectly; misunderstood.
misconstruer noun: One who misconstrues.
misconstruing noun, verb: An instance of something being misconstrued; a misconstrual.
misconsume verb: To consume in an incorrect manner; to consume the wrong amount, the wrong things, or at the wrong place or time.
miscontact noun, verb /mɪsˈkɒntækt/: Failure to make a proper contact.
miscontent adjective, verb: discontent
miscontentment noun: discontent; dissatisfaction
miscontinuance noun: discontinuance
miscontinue verb: To continue wrongly.
miscontrol noun, verb /mɪskənˈtɹoʊl/: poor control
misconverge verb: To (cause to) converge incorrectly.
misconvergence noun: Incorrect convergence.
misconversion noun: Incorrect conversion.
misconvert verb: To convert incorrectly.
misconvey verb: To convey wrongly or incorrectly; give a wrong or false impression of.
misconveyance noun: Bad or wrong conveyance.
misconvicted adjective: Wrongly convicted of a crime.
misconviction noun: The erroneous conviction of a person who is not guilty of the crime of which they are convicted.
miscook verb: To cook badly or incorrectly.
miscoordinate verb: To fail to coordinate properly.
miscoordinated adjective, verb: Incorrectly coordinated
miscoordination noun: lack of coordination
miscopy noun, verb /mɪsˈkɒpi/: An imperfect copy.
miscopying noun, verb: The act of something being miscopied.
miscorrect verb: To correct erroneously; to make a mistake in attempting to correct another mistake.
miscorrection noun: An erroneous correction; a mistake in correcting a previous mistake.
miscorrelate verb: To correlate incorrectly.
miscorrelation noun: incorrect correlation
miscost verb: To cost incorrectly.
miscounsel verb: To counsel or advise wrongly.
miscounseling noun, verb: Wrong, bad, or incorrect counselling
miscounselling noun, verb: Wrong, bad, or incorrect counselling
miscount noun, verb /mɪsˈkaʊnt/: To count incorrectly.
miscounter noun: One who counts incorrectly.
miscounting noun, verb: An act of counting incorrectly.
miscover verb: To cover (all senses) wrongly or incorrectly.
miscoverage noun: Incorrect or inappropriate coverage
miscreance noun: The quality of being miscreant; adherence to a false religion; false faith.
miscreancy noun: Alternative form of miscreance.
miscreant adjective, noun /ˈmɪs.kɹi.ənt/: Lacking in conscience or moral principles; unscrupulous.
miscreate adjective, verb /mɪskɹɪˈeɪt/: To create wrongly or poorly.
miscreated adjective, verb: Created unnaturally or wrongly; deformed, misshapen.
miscreation noun: A faulty or unnatural making or creation.
miscreative adjective /ˌmɪskɹɪˈeɪtɪv/: Tending to create badly or wrongly.
miscreator noun /mɪskɹɪˈeɪtə/: Someone or something which creates things wrongly or badly.
miscredent noun: A believer in a false religious doctrine.
miscredit noun, verb /mɪsˈkɹɛdɪt/: To discredit.
miscredulity noun: Wrong credulity or belief; misbelief.
miscreed noun: A bad or wrong creed.
miscrna noun: Alternative form of miscRNA.
miscrop verb: To plant the wrong crops, so as to harm the usefulness of the land.
miscue noun, verb /ˈmɪskjuː/: In a cue sport, an error in hitting the ball with the cue.
miscueing noun, verb: An instance of something being miscued; a miscue.
miscuing noun, verb: An instance of something being miscued; a miscue.
miscultivate verb: To cultivate badly or wrongly.
miscultivation noun: Bad or wrong cultivation.
miscultured adjective: Badly or wrongly cultured.
miscure verb: To cure incorrectly.
miscurvature noun: Bad or wrong curvature.
miscut adjective, noun, verb /mɪsˈkʌt/: Cut incorrectly.
MISD noun: misdemeanor
misdate noun, verb /ˈmɪsdeɪt/: A wrong date.
misdeal noun, verb /mɪsˈdiːl/: To deal or distribute wrongly.
misdealer noun: One who misdeals.
misdealing noun, verb: fraudulent dealing
misdecide verb: To decide unwisely or incorrectly.
misdecipher verb: To decipher incorrectly.
misdecision noun: A wrong decision; an instance of wrongly deciding.
misdeclaration noun: An incorrect declaration, especially relating to how much tax one owes.
misdeclare verb: To declare wrongly; to declare erroneously.
misdecline verb: To decline (a noun or adjective) incorrectly, applying the wrong inflection.
misdecode verb: To incorrectly decode
misdecoded adjective, verb: Incorrectly decoded
misdecorate verb: To decorate incorrectly.
misdeed noun /mɪsˈdiːd/: That which was done that should not have been, ranging from any sin or moral offense to various degrees of crime.
misdeeder noun: One who commits or is guilty of misdeed.
misdeedy adjective: Given to misdeeds; naughty or criminal.
misdeem verb: To misjudge, to deem wrongly.
misdeemful adjective: suspicious
misdeeming adjective, noun, verb /mɪsˈdiːmɪŋ/: Judging wrongly; mistaken.
misdefend verb: To defend incorrectly.
misdefense noun: A faulty defense that allows one's opponent to take advantage
misdefine verb: To define a term in a manner that is not correct; to define wrongly.
misdefinition noun: A definition that explains something incorrectly; a wrong definition.
misdeliver verb: To deliver incorrectly.
misdelivery noun /ˌmɪsdɪˈlɪvəɹi/: an incorrect delivery, e.g. to the wrong person
misdemean verb: With a reflexive pronoun: to cause (oneself) to behave badly.
misdemeanant noun: Someone convicted of a misdemeanor.
misdemeanist noun: One who commits a misdemeanor.
misdemeanor noun /ˌmɪsdɪˈmiːnə(ɹ)/: A lesser criminal act in most common law legal systems, generally punished less severely than a felony.
misdemeanorization noun: The act of making a previously non-misdemeanor activity a misdemeanor
misdemeanorize verb: To reclassify (an offense) as a misdemeanor.
misdemeanorous adjective: Of, relating to, being, or having the quality of a misdemeanor.
misdemeanour noun: Alternative form of misdemeanor.
misdentition noun: Abnormal dentition.
misdeposited adjective: Wrongly deposited
misdeposition noun: An incorrect deposition
misderivation noun: An incorrect derivation, especially of the etymology of a word.
misderive verb: To derive erroneously.
misdescribe verb: To incorrectly explain or detail something or someone.
misdescriber noun: One who misdescribes something.
misdescription noun: An inaccurate description, often fraudulent.
misdescriptive adjective: In United States trademark law, tending to mislead consumers about the qualities of the product represented by the mark.
misdescriptiveness noun: In United States trademark law, the characteristic of a trademark being misdescriptive.
misdesert noun /ˈmɪsdəˌzɜː(ɹ)t/: The state or fact of deserving bad things.
misdesign noun, verb: To design badly or incorrectly.
misdesire noun: A bad or wrong desire.
misdetect verb: To detect wrongly, or where not actually present.
misdetection noun: An incorrect or faulty detection

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0): each word's first meaning. A word with a page of its own links to it; for the rest, this line is PlainSpell's entry. Total under M: 47,683 words, in 159 parts.