English words: misguidance to mismanners

300 English words, part 102 of 159 of the words starting with M, A to Z. 27 have a page of their own.

English words misguidance to mismanners

misguidance noun: Bad guidance.
misguide verb: To guide poorly or incorrectly; to lead astray or into error.
misguided adjective, verb /(ˌ)mɪsˈɡaɪdɪd/: Of a person: lacking proper guidance; misled or mistaken in one's actions or thinking.
misguidedly adverb: In a misguided manner.
misguidedness noun: The state or condition of being misguided.
misguider noun: One who misguides.
misguidingly adverb: So as to misguide.
misguilt noun, verb /mɪsˈɡɪlt/: Offense; misdeed; crime; fault.
mish noun: Clipping of mission
mish-mash noun, verb: Alternative form of mishmash
Misha proper noun /ˈmɪʃ.ɑː/: A male given name from Russian, Ukrainian.
Mishael proper noun: Synonym of Meshach (“one of the captives in the biblical Book of Daniel who came out of the fiery furnace unharmed”).
mishallowed adjective: Consecrated to evil uses, or by unhallowed means.
mishammer verb: To hammer improperly.
Mishan proper noun: A county-level city of Jixi, Heilongjiang, China.
mishandle noun, verb /mɪsˈhændəl/: To manipulate something roughly, causing physical damage.
mishandler noun: One who mishandles.
mishandling noun, verb: Incorrect handling; mismanagement.
mishang verb: To hang improperly.
mishap noun, verb /ˈmɪshæp/: An accident, mistake, or problem.
mishappen verb /mɪsˈhap(ə)n/: To encounter grief or misfortune.
mishappening noun, verb: An unfortunate incident.
mishappiness noun: Unhappiness; wretchedness; misery.
mishappy adjective: Unfortunate; unhappy.
Mishar noun: A person belonging to a major subgroup of Tatars, a.k.a. Volga Tatars, mainly populating the western part of Tatarstan and neighbouring regions of Russia.
misharmonized adjective: Failing to harmonize; discordant.
misharvest noun, verb /ˈmɪsˌhɑː(ɹ)vɪst/: A poor harvest; a crop failure.
mishaul verb: To haul incorrectly, such as to the wrong location, at the wrong time, or involving the wrong load.
mishave verb: To misbehave or misconduct (oneself); do wrong.
Mishawaka proper noun: A city in St. Joseph County, Indiana, United States.
mishcup noun: A fish: the scup or porgy.
misheal verb: To heal improperly.
mishealed adjective, verb: Improperly healed.
mishear verb /mɪsˈhɪə(ɹ)/: To hear wrongly.
mishearer noun: One who mishears.
mishearing noun, verb: The act of hearing something incorrectly.
misheed noun, verb /mɪsˈhiːd/: To heed amiss; fail to heed.
mishegaas noun: Alternative spelling of mishegoss.
mishegas noun: Alternative spelling of mishegoss.
mishegass noun: Alternative spelling of mishegoss.
mishegos noun: Alternative spelling of mishegoss.
mishegoss noun /ˌmɪʃəˈɡɒs/: Madness; silliness.
mishellene noun: Someone who hates or is opposed to Greeks or Greece.
misherd verb /ˈmɪs.hɝd/: To herd into the wrong place.
mishew verb: To hew incorrectly or improperly.
mishigas noun: Alternative spelling of mishegoss.
Mishikhwutmetunne noun: A Native American group, the Upper Coquille Indians.
Mishima noun: A slip inlay style of ceramic pottery adopted from Korea, probably in the 16th century.
Mishing noun: A member of an indigenous Assamese community, formerly called the Miris.
mishire noun, verb /mɪsˈhaɪə(ɹ)/: To hire an unsuitable person for a job.
mishit noun, verb /ˈmɪshɪt/: An incorrect or bad hit.
mishkal noun: a constructive morphological pattern, a nonconcatenative morphological pattern/template used to form nouns and adjectives from a consonantal root
Mishkin proper noun: A surname from Russian.
Mishler proper noun: A surname.
mishloach manot noun: The sending of gifts of food for Purim, or the food given.
mishmash noun, verb /ˈmɪʃˌmæʃ/: A collection containing a variety of miscellaneous things.
Mishmee noun: Dated form of Mishmi.
Mishmee bitter noun: Alternative form of Mishmi bitter.
Mishmi noun: A member of an ethnic group of Tibet and Arunachal Pradesh.
Mishmi bitter noun: The bitter tonic root of a Chinese species of goldthread, Coptis teeta.
Mishmic adjective: Of or relating to the Mishmi people.
mishmosh noun: Alternative form of mishmash.
Mishnah proper noun: The oldest part of the Talmud, rabbinical writings collected by Rabbi Judah ha-Nasi and published in 250 C.E. in Javneh (יבנה, in Israel).
Mishnaic adjective: From or referring to the Mishnah, the first part of the Talmud.
Mishnic adjective: Mishnaic.
Mishnical adjective: Mishnaic
mishold noun, verb /mɪsˈhoʊld/: To hold wrongly, badly, or amiss; lose hold (of); abuse; neglect.
mishoon noun: A dugout canoe.
mishope noun, verb /mɪsˈhəʊp/: To fail to hope (in); hope amiss; lose hope; despair.
mishoused adjective: Provided with a dwelling or setting that is inadequate.
mishpachah noun: Alternative form of mishpocha.
mishpocha noun /mɪʃˈpɒkə/: An (extended) family or clan.
mishpoche noun: Alternative form of mishpocha.
mishpocheh noun: Alternative form of mishpocha.
mishpucha noun: Alternative form of mishpocha.
mishpuche noun: Alternative form of mishpocha.
mishpucheh noun: Alternative form of mishpocha.
mishpucka noun: Alternative form of mishpocha.
Mishra proper noun: A surname from Sanskrit.
mishti doi noun: a fermented sweet dahi popular in Bangladesh and India.
mishuga adjective: Alternative form of meshugge.
mishugas noun: Alternative form of mishegoss.
mishybridization noun: Incorrect or faulty hybridization.
mishybridize verb: To hybridize incorrectly.
mishyphen verb: Synonym of mishyphenate.
mishyphenate verb: To hyphenate a word at an inappropriate point, especially one that is not between two syllables.
mishyphenation noun: The incorrect placement of a hyphen.
-misia suffix: Hatred; dislike; aversion.
-misic suffix: Hating (something); averse to (something).
misidentifiable adjective: Able to be misidentified.
misidentification noun: An instance of misidentifying; an erroneous identification.
misidentified adjective, verb: identified incorrectly
misidentifier noun: One who misidentifies something.
misidentify verb: To mistake the identity of (something or someone).
misidentity noun: Wrong or false identity.
misimagination noun: Wrong imagination; delusion.
misimagine verb: To imagine incorrectly; to form an inaccurate mental image of.
Misiman adjective, noun: Of or relating to the island of Misima.
misimitate verb: To imitate badly; to produce a defective imitation of
misimitation noun: The act of misimitating; defective imitation.
misimplant noun, verb /ˌmɪsɪmˈplænt/: To implant incorrectly.
misimplantation noun: An implantation that occurs improperly; the act of misimplanting.
misimplement verb: To implement incorrectly or poorly
misimplementation noun: An incorrect implementation
misimplication noun: An erroneous implication.
misimply verb: To imply something that is not true.
misimpression noun: An inaccurate or misleading impression
misimprint verb: To imprint wrongly.
misimprisonment noun: Wrongful or false imprisonment.
misimprove verb: To use for a bad purpose; to misuse or squander.
misimprovement noun: improper usage; use for bad purposes.
misimputation noun: A wrong or misleading imputation.
misimpute verb: To impute erroneously.
misin noun: A particular antibiotic peptide
misincentive noun: Something that is meant to be an incentive but has no (or the opposite) effect
misinclination noun: A bad or wrong inclination.
misincline verb: To cause to have a wrong inclination or tendency; to affect wrongly.
misinclude verb: To include (something) that should not be included.
misincorporate verb: To incorporate badly or wrongly.
misincorporated adjective: wrongly incorporated
misincorporation noun: Faulty incorporation
misindex verb: To index incorrectly.
misindicate verb: To indicate incorrectly.
misindoctrinate verb: To indoctrinate with an invalid ideology.
misindoctrination noun: Indoctrination with a bad or wrong ideology.
misinfer verb: To infer incorrectly.
misinference noun: Incorrect inference.
misinflate verb: To inflate improperly.
misinflect verb: To inflect incorrectly.
misinflection noun: Incorrect inflection.
misinfluence noun, verb /mɪsˈɪnfluəns/: To influence in a detrimental manner; to act as a bad influence on.
misinfo noun: Misinformation.
misinfographic noun: An infographic that shows false or misleading information or information that can be misunderstood.
misinform verb: To give or deliver false, fake, or misleading information to.
misinformant noun: One who gives wrong information; a misinformer.
misinformation noun /ˌmɪs.ɪn.fəˈmeɪ.ʃən/: Information that is incorrect, whether intentionally or unintentionally.
misinformational adjective: Relating to misinformation.
misinformationist noun: A purveyor of misinformation.
misinformative adjective /mɪsɪnˈfɔːmətɪv/: Providing incorrect information; misleading.
misinformedly adverb: In a misinformed manner.
misinformedness noun: The property of being misinformed.
misinformer noun: One who misinforms.
Mising proper noun: A Tani language of Assam.
misingest verb: To ingest by accident.
misinhale verb: To have trouble when inhaling.
misinherit verb: To inherit incorrectly.
misinheritance noun: Incorrect inheritance (especially of characteristics)
misinject verb: To inject (a substance) incorrectly.
misinjection noun: Incorrect injection
misinput noun, verb: Incorrect input.
misinsert verb: To insert incorrectly.
misinserted adjective: inserted by misinsertion
misinsertion noun: Faulty insertion
misinspect verb: To misinterpret or overlook something when inspecting.
misinspection noun: An inspection that fails to identify something important; the act of misinspecting.
misinspiration noun: bad or wrong inspiration
misinspire verb: To inspire falsely or wrongly.
misinstall verb: To install improperly or by mistake.
misinstallation noun: An improper installation or the act of misinstalling.
misinstruct verb: To instruct badly or wrongly.
misinstruction noun: Wrong or improper instruction.
misinstructive adjective: Constituting misinstruction; instructing wrongly.
misintegrate verb: To integrate incorrectly.
misintegrated adjective, verb: incorrectly or inappropriately integrated
misintegration noun: Incorrect integration.
misintelligence noun: Incorrect intelligence; wrong information; misinformation
misintelligible adjective: Liable to be misunderstood.
misintend verb: To intend, purpose, or direct amiss or wrongfully; mismean.
misintended adjective, verb /ˌmɪsɪnˈtɛndɪd/: Aimed amiss or wrongly.
misintention noun: A wrong intention.
misinteract verb: To interact incorrectly; to take part in an inappropriate interaction.
misinteraction noun: The act of misinteracting; interaction that should not occur or that occurs improperly.
misinterpolate verb: To misestimate an interpolated data value.
misinterpret verb /ˌmɪs.ɪnˈtɜː.pɹɪt/: To make an incorrect interpretation; to misunderstand.
misinterpretability noun: The condition of being misinterpretable
misinterpretable adjective: Capable of being misinterpreted; liable to be misunderstood.
misinterpretation noun: An instance of misinterpreting.
misinterpreter noun: A person who misinterprets, or makes misinterpretations
misintroduce verb: To name or describe (someone or something) incorrectly when making an introduction; to present (someone or something) by the wrong name or description.
misinvest verb: To invest incorrectly or unwisely
misinvestment noun: An incorrect or unwise investment.
misinvocation noun: An invalid invocation.
misinvoice verb: To invoice incorrectly.
misinvoke verb: To invoke (any sense) in error.
Misiones proper noun: A province in the far northeast of Argentina
misissuance noun: The act of misissuing something; issuance in error.
misissue verb: To issue in error.
misíthra noun: Alternative form of mizithra.
misjoin noun, verb: To join wrongly or improperly.
misjoinder noun /ˌmɪsˈdʒɔɪn.də(ɹ)/: An incorrect union of parties or of causes of action in a procedure in court.
misjudge verb: To make an error in judging, to incorrectly assess.
misjudgement noun: Alternative form of misjudgment.
misjudger noun: One who misjudges.
misjudgingly adverb: In a misjudging manner.
misjudgment noun: An act of misjudging; a mistake in judgment.
misjuncture noun: A poorly articulated connection; a joining of things that functions poorly.
misjustice noun: Synonym of injustice.
Miska proper noun: A surname from Czech.
miskal noun: Alternative spelling of mithqal.
miskeen adjective: Poor, pathetic, innocent; (by extension) not affiliated with criminal gangs.
miskeep verb: To keep ill or wrongly.
misken verb /mɪsˈkɛn/: To mistake one for another; mistake in point of knowledge or recognition; misconceive.
miskenning noun, verb: A wrong citation.
miskey verb: To key or key in erroneously; make a mistake in typing.
miskeying noun, verb: An instance of keying erroneously; a typing error.
miskick noun, verb /ˈmɪskɪk/: A bad kick.
Miskin proper noun: A surname.
miskindle verb: To kindle amiss; inflame to a bad purpose.
Miskito adjective, noun /ˈmɪs.kɪ.təʊ/: Pertaining to a Native American people living in the region of Moskitia in Central America.
misknit adjective, verb: To knit incorrectly; to make an error in one's knitting.
misknitted adjective, verb: Alternative form of misknit.
misknot verb: To tie a knot incorrectly.
misknotted adjective, verb: Incorrectly knotted.
misknow verb: to misunderstand
misknowledge noun: Misapprehension; imperfect or incorrect knowledge; misunderstanding.
Misko proper noun: A surname.
Miskolc proper noun: A city in Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén, Hungary.
misl noun: Any of the twelve sovereign states in the Sikh Confederacy that rose during the eighteenth century in the Punjab.
mislabel verb /mɪsˈleɪbəl/: To label incorrectly.
mislabeler noun: One who mislabels something.
mislabeling noun, verb: An incorrect labeling.
mislabeller noun: Alternative form of mislabeler.
mislabelling noun, verb: An incorrect labelling.
mislabour verb: To work badly or wrongly; to mismanage and thereby damage (farmland, etc.).
mislace verb: To lace improperly.
mislaid adjective, verb /mɪsˈleɪd/: That cannot be currently found, put in an obscure place, lost - often temporarily.
mislaid property noun: Property that is found in such a state as to make it likely that the original owner intentionally placed it somewhere, but then forgot to retrieve it from...
misland verb: To land wrongly, incorrectly, or amiss.
mislaunch noun, verb /ˈmɪslɔːntʃ/: An attempt to launch something which results in it not following the intended trajectory.
mislaunder verb: To launder incorrectly.
mislay verb /mɪsˈleɪ/: To leave or lay something in the wrong place and then forget where one put it.
mislayal noun: The act of mislaying something.
mislayer noun: One who mislays.
mislaying noun, verb: The act of something being mislaid or lost.
misle noun, verb /ˈmɪzəɫ/: A fine rain or thick mist; mizzle.
mislead noun, verb /mɪsˈliːd/: To lead astray, in a false direction.
misleadable adjective: That can be misled.
misleader noun: One who leads into error.
misleadership noun: Bad or wrong leadership.
misleading adjective, noun, verb /(ˌ)mɪsˈliːdɪŋ/: Deceptive or tending to mislead or create a false impression, even if technically true.
misleadingly adverb: In a misleading manner.
misleadingness noun: The quality of being misleading.
mislearn verb: To learn wrongly.
mislest verb: To molest, mistreat.
mislevel noun, verb: To fail to move to the exact level of the intended floor.
mislexicalize verb: To lexicalize incorrectly; to assign the wrong meaning to a word or group of words.
mislie verb: To lie awkwardly, uncomfortably, or amiss.
misligation noun: Incorrect ligation
mislight noun, verb: To deceive or lead astray with a false light.
mislike adjective, noun, verb /(ˌ)mɪsˈlaɪk/: To disapprove of or dislike (someone or something); to have an aversion to.
mislikeness noun: A misleading resemblance.
misliker noun: One who mislikes.
misliking noun, verb: dislike; disapproval
mislin noun: Alternative form of maslin.
misline verb: To incorrectly divide into lines.
mislineation noun: incorrect lineation (errors in the way in which line breaks are inserted in a poem)
mislink verb: To link incorrectly.
mislinkage noun: incorrect linkage
mislippen verb: To neglect.
mislist verb: To list incorrectly.
mislisten verb: To misunderstand or misinterpret something to which one listens, especially as a result of poor attention.
mislive verb /mɪsˈlɪv/: To lead a wrong, corrupt, or evil life; to live wrongly.
misliver noun: One who leads an evil or sinful life.
misliving noun, verb: Sinful living.
misload verb: To load incorrectly.
misloading noun, verb: The act of loading something incorrectly.
mislocalisation noun: Alternative form of mislocalization.
mislocalise verb: Alternative form of mislocalize.
mislocalised adjective, verb: Alternative form of mislocalized.
mislocalization noun: An incorrect or faulty localization.
mislocalize verb: To localize incorrectly.
mislocate verb: To locate incorrectly.
mislocation noun: misplacement
mislocution noun: incorrect locution
mislodge verb: To lodge incorrectly, amiss, or in the wrong place.
mislodged adjective: Badly or incorrectly lodged; kept in an unsuitable place.
mislog verb: To log incorrectly; to record incorrect information in a log.
mislook noun, verb /mɪsˈlʊk/: To sin by looking.
mislore noun: Evil teaching or counsel; wrong or false teaching; misinformation.
mislove noun, verb: To love wrongly, insufficiently, inadequately, or imperfectly.
misloved adjective, verb: Filled with or indicative of with mislove.
mislubricate verb: To lubricate incorrectly.
misluck noun, verb /mɪsˈlʌk/: Ill luck; misfortune.
misly adjective: Alternative spelling of mizzly.
mismachine verb: To machine incorrectly; to fail to shape perfectly.
mismail verb: To mail incorrectly; to send (a letter etc.) to the wrong place.
mismaintain verb: To maintain improperly; to provide inadequate maintenance.
mismake verb: To unmake; depose.
mismanage verb /mɪsˈmæ.nədʒ/: To manage an area of responsibility in a way which is inept, incompetent, or dishonest.
mismanageable adjective: That can be mismanaged.
mismanagement noun /ˌmɪsˈmænɪd͡ʒmənt/: The process or practice of managing ineptly, incompetently, or dishonestly.
mismanager noun: One who mismanages.
mismanaging noun, verb: Synonym of mismanagement.
mismaneuver noun, verb: To maneuver in a way that has an unfortunate result.
mismaneuvre noun, verb: Alternative form of mismaneuver.
mismangle verb: To mangle in a destructive way; to disfigure or rearrange with bad results.
mismanipulate verb: To manipulate badly; to operate in a way that does not achieve the intended result.
mismanned adjective: Having inappropriate personnel; improperly manned.
mismannered adjective: Having bad manners; impolite.
mismanners noun: bad manners

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.