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English words: misdetermination to misguggle

300 English words, part 101 of 159 of the words starting with M, A to Z. 17 have a page of their own.

English words misdetermination to misguggle

  1. misdetermination noun: incorrect determination
  2. misdetermine verb: To determine incorrectly.
  3. misdevelop verb: To develop badly or wrongly.
  4. misdevelopment noun: Bad or wrong development.
  5. misdevote verb: To devote mistakenly or unwisely.
  6. misdevotion noun: Mistaken, ineffective, or fake devotion.
  7. misdiagnose verb: To incorrectly diagnose.
  8. misdiagnosis noun: An incorrect diagnosis.
  9. misdiagnostic adjective: Relating to misdiagnosis.
  10. misdiagram verb: To diagram incorrectly.
  11. misdial noun, verb /mɪsˈdaɪəl/: To dial or use a keypad incorrectly, especially on a telephone.
  12. misdialing noun, verb: An instance of reaching an unintended phone number due to an error in dialing or in using a keypad.
  13. misdictate verb: To utter the wrong words when giving dictation.
  14. misdiet noun, verb /mɪsˈdaɪət/: Bad diet.
  15. misdifferentiate verb: To fail to differentiate correctly.
  16. misdifferentiated adjective, verb: Incorrectly differentiated
  17. misdifferentiation noun: Incorrect differentiation.
  18. misdig verb: To dig incorrectly, such as in the wrong place.
  19. misdigest verb: To improperly break down (food) in the alimentary canal.
  20. misdight adjective: Arrayed, prepared, or furnished unsuitably.
  21. misdirect verb /ˌmɪs.daɪˈɹɛkt/: To direct something wrongly
  22. misdirectedly adverb: In a misdirected manner; in the wrong direction.
  23. misdirectedness noun: Quality of being misdirected.
  24. misdirection noun: An act of misleading, of convincing someone to concentrate in an incorrect direction.
  25. misdirectional adjective: Employing or relating to misdirection.
  26. misdirective adjective: Synonym of misleading.
  27. misdirector noun: One who misdirects.
  28. misdiscern verb: To discern incorrectly.
  29. misdiscover verb: To discover in a wrong or unacceptable way.
  30. misdispense noun, verb /mɪsdɪsˈpɛns/: To dispense incorrectly or amiss.
  31. misdisplay noun, verb /ˈmɪsdɪspleɪ/: incorrect display
  32. misdispose verb: To dispose badly or wrongly.
  33. misdisposition noun: Erroneous disposal or application.
  34. misdistinguish verb: To make wrong distinctions in or concerning.
  35. misdistribute verb: To distribute incorrectly or unfairly.
  36. misdistribution noun: Incorrect or unfair distribution.
  37. misdivide verb: To divide wrongly.
  38. misdivision noun: Incorrect division, e.g. of a word.
  39. misdo verb /mɪsˈduː/: To do evil; to commit misdeeds.
  40. misdoctor verb: To doctor improperly; to give the wrong medical treatment.
  41. misdocument verb: To document incorrectly; to falsify or make an error in documentation.
  42. misdoer noun: A person who commits a misdeed; an offender.
  43. misdoing noun, verb: Wrongdoing.
  44. misdoom verb: To misjudge.
  45. misdoubt noun, verb /mɪsˈdaʊt/: To doubt the existence or reality of.
  46. misdoubtful adjective /mɪsˈdaʊtfəl/: Misgiving; doubting, suspicious.
  47. misdoubting noun, verb: doubt
  48. misdraft noun, verb /ˈmɪsdɹæft/: An error in the process of drafting (any sense).
  49. misdrape verb: To drape badly.
  50. misdraw verb: To draw badly or wrongly.
  51. misdrawing noun, verb: An inaccurate drawing.
  52. misdread verb /mɪsˈdɹɛd/: To dread.
  53. misdrive verb: To drive badly or wrongly.
  54. misdrop noun, verb /mɪsˈdɹɒp/: To drop (especially, to airdrop) incorrectly or in the wrong place.
  55. misdub verb: To dub incorrectly (any sense).
  56. misdubbed adjective, verb: Dubbed incorrectly.
  57. misdump noun, verb /mɪsˈdʌmp/: To dump incorrectly, such as at the wrong place or time, or to dump something that should not have been dumped.
  58. misduplicate verb: To duplicate incorrectly.
  59. misduplication noun: incorrect duplication
  60. mise noun, verb /miːz/: The issue in a writ of right.
  61. mise en abyme noun: A recursive image; an image that contains a smaller representation of itself; especially where the smaller representation itself likewise contains a still...
  62. mise en cadre noun: The arrangement, composition, and elements within a single film frame in order to guide viewer attention, convey meaning, and establish a mood.
  63. mise en espace noun: The spatial arrangement of performers and props for a semistaged play, opera, oratorio, etc.
  64. mise-en-page noun: layout (process, and result, of arranging media content for publishing)
  65. mise en place noun /mizɑ̃ˈplas/: A form of preparation that involves having ingredients and equipment ready in advance, so that only cooking is required.
  66. mise en scene noun /ˌmizɑ̃ˈsɛn/: Alternative spelling of mise en scène.
  67. mise en shot noun: The specific arrangement and presentation of visual elements within a single shot in a film.
  68. misease noun /mɪsˈiːz/: Suffering, distress.
  69. miseased adjective: Suffering, in pain; having discomfort or misery; troubled.
  70. miseat verb: To eat badly or wrongly; to make poor dietary choices.
  71. miseating noun: Bad or wrong eating.
  72. misedit verb: To edit badly or wrongly.
  73. misedition noun: An incorrect or spurious edition.
  74. miseducate verb: To educate wrongly.
  75. miseducation noun: The act or process of miseducating; incorrect education.
  76. miseducative adjective: Serving to educate in a bad or wrong way.
  77. miseducator noun: One who miseducates.
  78. miseleden noun: Synonym of mistletoe
  79. misemphasis noun: Bad or wrong emphasis.
  80. misemphasise verb: Alternative form of misemphasize.
  81. misemphasize verb: To emphasize incorrectly or inappropriately.
  82. misemploy verb: To employ incorrectly; to misuse.
  83. misemployment noun: Wrong or unsuitable employment; misuse.
  84. misempower verb: To empower inappropriately.
  85. misencapsidation noun: Incorrect encapsidation
  86. misencode verb: To encode incorrectly.
  87. misencoding noun, verb: Incorrect encoding.
  88. misencounter noun: A bad or wrong encounter.
  89. misendeavor noun: A bad or wrong endeavor.
  90. misendeavour noun: Alternative form of misendeavor.
  91. misendow verb: To provide or endow with something that is not a benefit.
  92. misendowment noun: A bad or wrong endowment.
  93. Misener proper noun: A surname.
  94. misenforce verb: To enforce incorrectly.
  95. misengender verb: To engender wrongly or badly; to misbeget.
  96. misengineer verb: To engineer badly or wrongly.
  97. misengrave verb: To engrave incorrectly.
  98. misenite noun: A monoclinic mineral containing hydrogen, oxygen, potassium, and sulfur.
  99. misenlightened adjective: Having been enlightened incorrectly; misinformed.
  100. misenrol verb: To enrol incorrectly.
  101. misenter verb: To enter or insert wrongly.
  102. misentitle verb: To give an inappropriate title to; to mistitle.
  103. misentreat verb: To treat wrongfully.
  104. misentry noun: An erroneous entry or charge, as of an account.
  105. misenumerate verb: To enumerate incorrectly; miscount.
  106. misenunciate verb: To mispronounce due to poor articulation.
  107. misenunciation noun: Incorrect enunciation; the act of misenunciating.
  108. misequalization noun: Incorrect equalization; the act or result of misequalizing.
  109. misequalize verb: To equalize badly.
  110. miser noun /ˈmaɪzə(ɹ)/: A person who hoards money rather than spending it; one who is cheap or extremely parsimonious.
  111. miserabilism noun /ˈmɪzɹəbəlɪz(ə)m/: A tendency to take a miserable or pessimistic view on life; a consistently miserable outlook, negativity.
  112. miserabilist adjective, noun /ˈmɪzəɹəbəlɪst/: One who is unhappy, or extols being miserable as a virtue; a philosopher of pessimism.
  113. miserabilistic adjective: Exhibiting or relating to miserabilism.
  114. miserability noun: miserableness
  115. miserable adjective, noun /ˈmɪz(ə)ɹəbəl/: In a state of misery: very sad, ill, or poor.
  116. miserable as a wet hen adjective: Thoroughly miserable or dejected.
  117. miserableness noun: The property of being miserable.
  118. miserablism noun: Alternative form of miserabilism.
  119. miserablist noun: Alternative spelling of miserabilist.
  120. miserably adverb: In a miserable manner.
  121. miserate verb /ˈmɪ.zəɹˌeɪt/: To feel unhappy, to experience sadness.
  122. miseration noun: commiseration; compassion.
  123. miserdom noun: The condition of being a miser.
  124. misère adjective, noun /mɪˈzɛə(ɹ)/: A bid to lose every trick, or the majority of tricks, with no trumps.
  125. misère ouvert noun: A bid to lose every trick, with no trumps and the bidder's hand placed face-up on the table after the first trick.
  126. misereatur noun: The first part of the absolution service in the Roman Catholic liturgy, beginning "Misereatur vestri omnipotens Deus" (may almighty God have mercy on you).
  127. miserection noun: The process of setting in an upright, erect position in a faulty or incorrect way.
  128. miserere noun: An expression of lamentation or complaint.
  129. miserhood noun: The condition of being a miser.
  130. misericord noun /mɪˈzɛɹɪkɔːd/: Relaxation of monastic rules.
  131. misericorde noun: An act of clemency; pity, mercy.
  132. misericordia noun /mɪˌzɛɹɪˈkɔːdi.ə/: An amercement.
  133. misericordious adjective: Merciful.
  134. miserism noun: miserliness
  135. miserite noun: A lilac-pink or red triclinic-pinacoidal rare-earth mineral of interest also for cleaning up radioactive and other wastes and for ceramics.
  136. miserlily adverb: In a miserly manner.
  137. miserliness noun /ˈmaɪzə(ɹ)linəs/: The property of being miserly: excessive parsimony.
  138. miserly adjective /ˈmaɪ.zə(ɹ).li/: Like a miser, very or objectionably cautious with money.
  139. misery noun /ˈmɪz(ə)ɹɪ/: Great unhappiness; extreme pain of body or mind; wretchedness; distress; woe.
  140. misery enjoys company proverb: Alternative form of misery loves company
  141. misery guts noun: Alternative form of miseryguts.
  142. misery index noun: An economic indicator calculated by adding the unemployment rate to the inflation rate.
  143. misery lit noun: A genre of supposedly biographical literature mostly concerned with the protagonist's triumph over personal trauma or abuse.
  144. misery loves company proverb /ˈmɪz(ə)ɹɪ lʌvz ˈkʌmp(ə)ni/: Misery is easier to bear when one is not the only one miserable.
  145. misery porn noun: Synonym of misery lit.
  146. misery whip noun: A two-man crosscut saw, often more than ten feet in length, used to fell large trees.
  147. miseryguts noun: A miserable, negative person.
  148. Misesean adjective, noun: Alternative form of Misesian.
  149. Misesian adjective, noun /ˌmiˈzɛs.i.ən/: Of, pertaining to, or advocating the praxeological or economic theories of Ludwig von Mises.
  150. misesteem noun, verb /ˌmɪsɪsˈtiːm/: Lack of esteem; disrespect.
  151. misestimate noun, verb: To estimate erroneously.
  152. misestimation noun: inaccurate estimation.
  153. misetymologize verb: To derive erroneously; to provide an incorrect etymology.
  154. misetymology noun: Incorrect etymology.
  155. misevaluate verb: To evaluate inaccurately or incorrectly.
  156. misevaluation noun: Inaccurate or incorrect evaluation.
  157. misevent noun: A bad or unfortunate event.
  158. misexchange noun, verb /ˌmɪsɪksˈt͡ʃeɪnd͡ʒ/: To exchange what should not be exchanged, either in error or fraudulently
  159. misexecute verb: To execute or carry out improperly.
  160. misexecution noun: Faulty or improper execution
  161. misexpand verb: To give a false full form of (an abbreviation or acronym)
  162. misexpectation noun: Bad or wrong expectation.
  163. misexpend verb: To expend badly or wrongly.
  164. misexpenditure noun: Bad or wrong expenditure.
  165. misexplain verb: To explain incorrectly.
  166. misexplanation noun: Incorrect explanation.
  167. misexplicate verb: To explicate incorrectly.
  168. misexplication noun: Wrong explanation.
  169. misexploit verb: To exploit wrongly.
  170. misexposition noun: Wrong exposition.
  171. misexpound verb: To expound erroneously; to misexplain
  172. misexpress verb: To express incorrectly.
  173. misexpression noun: Incorrect expression, especially of a gene
  174. misexpressional adjective: Relating to the misexpression of a gene
  175. misexpressive adjective: Wrongly expressive; expressing the wrong meaning.
  176. misextend verb: To extend wrongly.
  177. misextrapolate verb: To extrapolate wrongly, not merely with reasonable hypotheses and projections that turn out to be incorrect but furthermore on the basis of preventably...
  178. misextrapolation noun: The act or process of misextrapolating.
  179. misfabricate verb: To fabricate incorrectly.
  180. misfact noun: A wrong or untrue piece of information.
  181. misfactor noun, verb /mɪsˈfæktə(ɹ)/: To err when determining the factors of.
  182. misfaith noun: Lack of faith; distrust.
  183. misfall noun, verb /mɪsˈfɔːl/: To befall badly or incorrectly; happen unfortunately (to); mishappen; turn out badly.
  184. misfare noun, verb /mɪsˈfɛː/: To go astray; to transgress, to sin.
  185. misfarm verb: To do a poor job of farming.
  186. misfashion verb: To form, make, or fashion wrongly.
  187. misfasten verb: To fasten incorrectly.
  188. misfavor noun, verb /mɪsˈfeɪvə(ɹ)/: To dislike or disapprove of; to view with displeasure or dislike.
  189. misfavored adjective, verb: Unfortunate or unpopular.
  190. misfavour noun, verb: Alternative form of misfavor.
  191. misfavoured adjective, verb: Alternative form of misfavored.
  192. misfeasance noun: An actual or alleged wrong that arises from an action; often, the wrongful use of legal authority.
  193. misfeasant noun: A criminal or evildoer.
  194. misfeasor noun: A criminal or evildoer.
  195. misfeature noun /ˌmɪsˈfiː.tjə(ɹ)/: An undesirable or incorrect feature.
  196. misfeatured adjective: Having ugly or misshapen features.
  197. misfeed noun, verb /mɪsˈfiːd/: To feed incorrectly, as for example with the wrong foodstuff.
  198. misfeel verb: To feel wrongly or incorrectly
  199. misfeeling noun: A bad, wrong, or negative feeling.
  200. misfertilize verb: To fertilize incorrectly, especially to use the wrong type of fertilizer.
  201. misfetch noun, verb /ˈmɪsfɛtʃ/: An error that occurs when the wrong block of code is fetched in advance.
  202. misfield noun, verb /ˌmɪsˈfiːld/: To field (“catch or intercept and play”) (a ball) clumsily or ineptly; in cricket this can result in the batsman scoring another run.
  203. misfigure noun, verb /mɪsˈfɪɡə(ɹ)/: To miscalculate; to make a computational error.
  204. misfile verb /mɪsˈfaɪ.əl/: To file incorrectly; to file in the wrong place or the wrong way.
  205. misfiling noun, verb: An incorrect filing.
  206. misfill noun, verb /mɪsˈfɪl/: To supply the wrong thing in response to an order, prescription, or requirement.
  207. misfilm noun, verb /mɪsˈfɪlm/: To make an error when microfilming documents.
  208. misfilter verb: To filter incorrectly.
  209. misfinger verb: To make a mistake in the finger positions when playing an instrument, resulting in a wrong note.
  210. misfingered adjective, verb: Having deformed or missing fingers.
  211. misfire noun, verb /ˈmɪs.faɪ(ɹ)/: An act of misfiring.
  212. misfirer noun: One who misfires.
  213. misfiring noun, verb: The situation where something misfires.
  214. misfit noun, verb /ˈmɪs.fɪt/: An ill-fitting garment.
  215. misfit stream noun: A river that is either too large or too small to have eroded the valley or passage in which it flows.
  216. misfitdom noun: The realm or sphere of being a misfit.
  217. misfix verb: To fix improperly.
  218. misflag verb: To flag incorrectly.
  219. misflavor verb: Alternative form of misflavour.
  220. misflavour noun, verb /mɪsˈfleɪvə(ɹ)/: To impair the flavour of.
  221. misflip noun, verb /mɪsˈflɪp/: To flip badly or in error.
  222. misflung adjective: Having been flung in error or ineptly.
  223. misfocus noun, verb: To focus badly or wrongly.
  224. misfold noun, verb /mɪsˈfoʊld/: To fold into an unusual or incorrect tertiary structure; misfolded proteins occur in various diseases, including amyloidoses and dementias, although the...
  225. misfolded adjective, verb: folded into an incorrect tertiary structure
  226. misfolding noun, verb: An incorrect folding (especially of a protein).
  227. misfool verb: To fool or deceive; to cause to be mistaken.
  228. misforecast noun, verb /mɪsˈfɔː(ɹ)kæst/: To forecast incorrectly; to make an erroneous prediction.
  229. misforge verb: To forge improperly.
  230. misforgive verb: To misgive.
  231. misform verb: To form badly or wrongly.
  232. misformat verb: To format incorrectly.
  233. misformation noun: Incorrect formation.
  234. misformulate verb: To formulate incorrectly.
  235. misformulated adjective, verb: Incorrectly formulated
  236. misformulation noun: A mistaken formulation
  237. misfortunate adjective: Having suffered misfortune; pitiable or habitually unfortunate.
  238. misfortunately adverb: In a misfortunate manner.
  239. misfortune noun /mɪsˈfɔɹt͡ʃən/: Synonym of bad luck.
  240. misfortuned adjective: unlucky, unfortunate
  241. misfortunes never come alone proverb: Alternative form of misfortunes never come singly.
  242. misfortunes never come singly proverb: Bad things or situations always come in groups or streaks; they never come in a single way.
  243. misforward verb: To forward to the wrong destination.
  244. misframe verb: To frame wrongly.
  245. misframing noun, verb: The act of framing something incorrectly.
  246. misfriend verb: To friend wrongly, incorrectly, or by mistake; be a bad friend to.
  247. misfuel verb: To fill a vehicle with the wrong type of fuel (usually petrol for diesel)
  248. misfunction noun, verb: Synonym of malfunction.
  249. misfunctioning adjective, verb: That is not functioning properly; malfunctioning
  250. misgage verb: Alternative form of misgauge.
  251. misgather verb: To accumulate or assemble incorrectly.
  252. misgating noun: Faulty gating.
  253. misgauge verb: To gauge (measure) incorrectly
  254. misgender verb /mɪsˈd͡ʒɛndɚ/: To refer to (someone) using terms that express the wrong gender, either unknowingly or intentionally.
  255. misgenderer noun: One who misgenders.
  256. misgendering noun, verb: The act of referring to somebody by the wrong gender.
  257. misgeneralisation noun: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of misgeneralization.
  258. misgeneralise verb: Alternative form of misgeneralize.
  259. misgeneralization noun: An incorrect generalization.
  260. misgeneralize verb: To make an incorrect generalization.
  261. misgenerate verb: To generate incorrectly.
  262. misgenotype verb: To genotype incorrectly
  263. misgenotyped adjective, verb: Incorrectly genotyped
  264. misgenotyping noun, verb: Incorrect genotyping
  265. misgesture noun, verb /mɪsˈd͡ʒɛst͡ʃə(ɹ)/: To make the wrong gesture.
  266. misget verb: To get wrongly or unlawfully; to procure by unlawful means.
  267. misgive verb: Of the mind, heart, etc.: to give fear or doubt to; to make irresolute.
  268. misgiving noun /mɪsˈɡɪvɪŋ/: Doubt, apprehension, a feeling of dread
  269. misgivingly adverb: With doubt or apprehension.
  270. misgloss noun, verb /mɪsˈɡlɒs/: To provide an incorrect translation or synopsis of
  271. misglue verb: To glue incorrectly.
  272. misglycosylated adjective: Incorrectly glycosylated
  273. misglycosylation noun: Incorrect glycosylation
  274. misgo noun, verb /mɪsˈɡəʊ/: To go wrong, make a mistake, go astray, become lost, miscarry.
  275. misgotten adjective: ill-gotten
  276. misgovern verb /mɪsˈɡʌvən/: To govern badly or wrongly.
  277. misgovernance noun: Bad governance.
  278. misgovernment noun: Bad government.
  279. misgovernor noun: One who misgoverns.
  280. misgrab noun, verb /ˈmɪsɡɹæb/: A failed attempt to grab something.
  281. misgrace noun, verb /mɪsˈɡɹeɪs/: To grace or treat wrongly; disgrace; offend; ill-treat; disrespect
  282. misgrade verb: To grade incorrectly.
  283. misgraffed adjective: grafted wrongly; misgrafted
  284. misgraft verb: To graft wrongly.
  285. misgrasp noun, verb /ˈmɪsɡɹæsp/: A failure to grasp or understand; misapprehension.
  286. misgreet verb: To greet wrongly; (by extension) to affront or insult
  287. misgrieve verb: To injure in a way that creates grief.
  288. misgrind noun, verb /mɪsˈɡɹaɪnd/: To grind improperly.
  289. misgrip noun, verb /mɪsˈɡɹɪp/: To grip improperly.
  290. misgroom verb: To groom badly or wrongly.
  291. misground adjective, verb: To found erroneously; to base on invalid grounds.
  292. misgroup verb: To group wrongly.
  293. misgrow verb: To grow incorrectly or amiss.
  294. misgrown adjective, verb: Grown out of shape; misshapen.
  295. misgrowth noun: An unnatural or abnormal growth.
  296. misgrudge verb: To hold a grudge for no reason or in error due to misunderstanding
  297. misguard verb: To fail to guard properly.
  298. misguess verb: To guess incorrectly
  299. misguesstimate verb: To guesstimate incorrectly.
  300. misguggle noun, verb /mɪsˈɡʌɡəl/: To spoil by rough or careless handling; handle roughly; rumple; crumple; maul; mangle or disfigure; mar; spoil; bungle.

Part 100 · Part 102 · English words: M

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.