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English words: mismanufacture to misprints

300 English words, part 103 of 159 of the words starting with M, A to Z. 16 have a page of their own.

English words mismanufacture to misprints

  1. mismanufacture noun, verb: To manufacture improperly.
  2. mismap verb: To map incorrectly.
  3. mismapping noun, verb: A faulty mapping
  4. mismark verb: To mark incorrectly; err in noting or marking.
  5. mismarket verb: To market ineffectively or inappropriately.
  6. mismarking noun, verb: An incorrect marking.
  7. mismarriage noun: Bad or unsuitable marriage.
  8. mismarry verb: To get married to an unsuitable person.
  9. mismatch noun, verb /ˌmɪsˈmæt͡ʃ/: To match unsuitably; to fail to match
  10. mismatch repair cancer syndrome noun: A cancer syndrome associated with biallelic DNA mismatch repair mutations.
  11. mismatched adjective, verb: Unsuitably matched; ill joined.
  12. mismatchedness noun: The quality of being mismatched.
  13. mismatcher noun: One who or that which mismatches.
  14. mismatching noun, verb: An incorrect match or pairing; a mismatch.
  15. mismatchment noun: mismatching; a bad or unsuitable match
  16. mismate verb: To mate or match wrongly or unsuitably; mismatch.
  17. mismated adjective, verb: Provided with an unsuitable mate
  18. mismating noun, verb: An unsuitable or incorrect mating between organisms.
  19. mismean verb: To mean or intend wrongly; mistake the meaning of; misinterpret.
  20. mismeasure noun, verb /mɪsˈmɛʒə(ɹ)/: To measure incorrectly or inaccurately.
  21. mismeasurement noun: Incorrect or inaccurate measurement.
  22. mismedication noun: Inappropriate use of medication, or use of a wrong medication.
  23. mismeet verb: To come together but fail to properly communicate or connect in positive ways.
  24. mismeeting noun, verb: A situation where a person fails to interact properly with another.
  25. mismemorize verb: To memorize inaccurately.
  26. mismend verb: To mend improperly; to attempt to fix without success.
  27. mismenstruation noun: Abnormal menstruation.
  28. mismerge noun, verb: To merge incorrectly.
  29. mismessage noun: A message that conveys information that the sender does not wish to convey.
  30. mismessaging noun: The process of sending mismessages.
  31. mismetabolize verb: To metabolize improperly.
  32. mismetallation noun: Incorrect metallation (of enzymes)
  33. mismeter verb: To give the wrong meter to, as to a line of verse.
  34. mismethylate verb: To methylate incorrectly.
  35. mismethylation noun: Incorrect methylation (of a gene)
  36. mismetre verb: Alternative form of mismeter.
  37. mismigrate verb: To migrate incorrectly.
  38. mismigrated adjective: Incorrectly migrated
  39. mismigration noun: Incorrect migration
  40. misminded adjective: Holding the wrong opinion or belief.
  41. mismirror verb: To provide a distorted reflection of
  42. mismix noun, verb: To mix improperly.
  43. mismodel verb: To incorrectly model.
  44. mismold noun, verb: To mold improperly, producing an unintended result.
  45. mismother verb: To fail to care for her own offspring, and/or to steal others' offspring and mother it.
  46. mismothered adjective, verb: Neglected by its mother, cared for by another that is not its mother, or both.
  47. mismothering noun, verb: Failure of an animal to take maternal care of its young, and/or stealing another's offspring to mother it.
  48. mismotion noun: Bad or wrong motion.
  49. mismotivate verb: To motivate toward the wrong goal.
  50. mismould verb: Alternative form of mismold.
  51. mismount noun, verb: To mount improperly.
  52. mismove noun, verb /mɪsˈmuːv/: To move wrongly, incorrectly, or in error.
  53. mismumble verb: To mumble the wrong words.
  54. misnaged noun: An opponent of Hasidism.
  55. misnail verb: To nail improperly.
  56. misname noun, verb /ˈmɪsneɪm/: A wrong, unsuitable, misleading, or injurious name or designation; misnomer.
  57. misnamed adjective, verb: Named with a misleading or otherwise poorly suited name, whether poorly chosen or unfortunately evolved.
  58. misnamer noun: One who misnames something.
  59. misnaming noun, verb: The act of calling something by its wrong name
  60. misnarrate verb: To narrate incorrectly.
  61. misnarration noun: Bad or wrong narration.
  62. misnatured adjective: Of a bad or wrong nature; malformed.
  63. misnavigate verb: To navigate incorrectly.
  64. misnavigation noun: Bad or wrong navigation.
  65. misnegation noun: The unintended combination of semantic and grammatical negation such that the resulting statement actually means the opposite of what is wanted.
  66. misnegotiate verb: To make a mistake when trying to make one's way over (difficult terrain); to misstep or stumble when trying to avoid (obstacles).
  67. Misner proper noun: A surname.
  68. misnest verb: To err when nesting one item or set of items within another.
  69. misnested adjective, verb: Incorrectly nested.
  70. misnomed adjective: Given the wrong name; referred to by a misnomer.
  71. misnomer noun, verb /(ˌ)mɪsˈnəʊmə/: A mistake in the naming of a person or place; a misidentification.
  72. misnomered adjective, verb: Misnamed by way of an instance of misnomering.
  73. misnomial adjective: Being a misnomer.
  74. misnominal adjective: Being a misnomer.
  75. misnormalize verb: To normalize incorrectly.
  76. misnote verb: To note incorrectly.
  77. misnotification noun: The act of misnotifying.
  78. misnotify verb: To notify improperly, giving inaccurate information, or giving the correct information to the wrong people or in the wrong manner.
  79. misnourished adjective: Having sufficient food, but lacking the proper nutrients.
  80. misnucleation noun: Incorrect or inappropriate nucleation
  81. misnumber verb: To assign numbers nonsequentially where sequential numbering was due.
  82. misnumbering noun, verb: An incorrect numbering.
  83. misnumerate verb: To numerate incorrectly; to misnumber.
  84. misnurture verb: To nurture or train wrongly.
  85. misnutrition noun: A condition of disordered eating, such as overeating or pica.
  86. miso noun, prefix /ˈmisoʊ/: hatred; dislike; aversion
  87. miso-Christian adjective, noun: Exhibiting or pertaining to hatred towards Christians or Christianity.
  88. miso soup noun: A traditional Japanese soup consisting of a stock (dashi) into which softened miso paste is mixed.
  89. misobedience noun: Mistaken obedience, or disobedience
  90. misobey verb: To obey incorrectly; to make a mistake in following orders.
  91. misoblige verb: To disoblige.
  92. misobliging adjective, verb: Disobliging.
  93. misobservance noun: An instance or the practice of not complying with a law, custom, command or rule, or doing so wrongly.
  94. misobservation noun: incorrect observation
  95. misobserve verb: To observe inaccurately; to mistake in observing.
  96. misocainea noun /ˌmɪsəˈkeɪniə/: A dislike of new ideas.
  97. misocapnic adjective: Disliking smoking and tobacco smoke.
  98. misocapnist adjective, noun: One who hates tobacco smoke.
  99. misoccupation noun: Bad or wrong occupation.
  100. misoccupy verb: To occupy with something inappropriate; to focus or spend on something unworthy.
  101. misocyclone noun: Synonym of landspout.
  102. misodendraceous adjective: Of or relating to the Misodendraceae.
  103. misogallic adjective: Having a dislike of France or the French.
  104. misogamic adjective: averse to marriage
  105. misogamist noun: A person with a dislike or hatred of marriage
  106. misogamous adjective: Hating or opposing marriage.
  107. misogamy noun: Hatred of or opposition to marriage
  108. misogelast noun: One who hates laughter.
  109. misogelastic adjective: Having a hatred of laughter.
  110. misogi noun /mɪˈsoʊɡi/: A Shinto form of ritual purification by washing the entire body.
  111. misogyn noun: Synonym of misogynist.
  112. misogyne noun: Alternative spelling of misogyn.
  113. misogynic adjective: Misogynistic; woman-hating.
  114. misogynical adjective: misogynistic
  115. misogynise verb: Alternative form of misogynize.
  116. misogynism noun: The principle or disposition of misogyny, the hatred of women.
  117. misogynist adjective, noun /mɪˈsɒd͡ʒ.ən.ɪst/: One who professes misogyny; a hater of women.
  118. misogynistic adjective /ˈmɪs.ɒdʒ.ən.ɪst.ɪk/: Of, relating to, or exhibiting misogyny.
  119. misogynistical adjective: Synonym of misogynistic.
  120. misogynistically adverb: In a misogynistic manner.
  121. misogynize verb: To treat in a misogynistic manner.
  122. misogynoir noun /mɪˌsɒd͡ʒəˈnwɑː/: Contempt for, hatred of, or prejudice against black women.
  123. misogynoirist adjective, noun: A person who exhibits misogynoir.
  124. misogynous adjective /mɪˈsɒd͡ʒ.ɪ.nəs/: Of, relating to, or exhibiting misogyny; misogynistic.
  125. misogynously adverb: In a misogynous manner.
  126. misogyny noun /mɪˈsɒd͡ʒ.ɪ.ni/: Hatred of, contempt for, or prejudice against women.
  127. misoka noun: In the Japanese lunar/lunisolar calendars, the last day of the month.
  128. misokinesia noun: An extreme psychological aversion to observing small repetitive movements, such as another person's fidgeting.
  129. misological adjective: Relating to, or exhibiting, misology; hating reasoning or argument.
  130. misologist noun: One who hates or dislikes reasoning or argument.
  131. misology noun /mɪˈsɒlədʒi/: Hatred or fear of reasoning or argument.
  132. misomania noun: A mania of hatred for everything.
  133. misomaniac noun: A person who shows symptoms of misomania (hating everything).
  134. misomaniacal adjective: Having the tendencies of misomania.
  135. misomusist noun /ˈmɪsəʊˌmjuːzɪst/: One who hates or opposes culture.
  136. misoneism noun /ˌmɪsəˈniː.ɪzəm/: The distrust or hatred of new ideas or things.
  137. misoneist noun /ˌmɪsəˈniː.ɪst/: One who hates or dislikes what is new or innovative.
  138. misoneistic noun: Hostile to change and dismissive of new ideas or innovations.
  139. misonidazole noun: A radiosensitizer.
  140. misonomy noun: The phenomenon of being misnamed.
  141. misopaedia noun: Alternative spelling of misopedia.
  142. misopedia noun: Hatred of, or contempt for, children.
  143. misopedic adjective: Having hatred or contempt for children.
  144. misopedist noun: A person who dislikes children.
  145. misopen verb: To open what one should not open.
  146. misoperate verb: To operate incorrectly.
  147. misoperation noun: Incorrect operation.
  148. misophobia noun: Alternative form of mysophobia.
  149. misophone noun: A person who suffers from misophonia.
  150. misophonia noun /ˌmɪ.səˈfəʊ.ni.ə/: A neurological disorder in which negative experiences, such as anger or disgust, are triggered by specific sounds.
  151. misophonic adjective: Exhibiting or relating to misophonia.
  152. misopinion noun: A wrong opinion.
  153. misoplegia noun: A morbid dislike or hatred of a paralyzed limb in patients with hemiplegia
  154. misopogon noun /ˌmɪsəˈpəʊɡɒn/: A person with hate or contempt for beards.
  155. misopogonistically adverb: With a hatred of beards.
  156. misoprostol noun /mʌɪ.sə(ʊ)ˈpɹɒs.tɒl/: A drug used for various purposes including the prevention of drug-induced gastric ulcers and the inducement of abortions, having the chemical formula C₂₂H₃₈O₅.
  157. misoptimization noun: Bad or wrong optimization.
  158. misoptimize verb: To optimize badly, emphasizing the wrong criteria or failing to take advantage of potential improvements.
  159. misorchestrate verb: To orchestrate badly; to arrange diverse elements in a way that fails to achieve the desired goal.
  160. misordain verb: To improperly ordain into a ministry.
  161. misorder noun, verb /mɪsˈɔː(ɹ)də(ɹ)/: Disorder; irregularity.
  162. misordering noun, verb /mɪsˈɔɹdəɹɪŋ/: The process or result of putting things in the wrong order.
  163. misorderly adjective: irregular; disorderly
  164. misordination noun: Bad or wrong ordination; the act of misordaining.
  165. misorganise verb: Alternative form of misorganize.
  166. misorganization noun: Bad or wrong organization.
  167. misorganize verb: To organize incorrectly
  168. misorganized adjective, verb: organized incorrectly
  169. misorient verb: To orient badly or wrongly.
  170. misorientate verb: To position (something) incorrectly, especially so that it faces in the wrong direction.
  171. misorientated adjective, verb: Improperly orientated
  172. misorientation noun: An incorrect or inappropriate orientation.
  173. misoriented adjective: oriented incorrectly
  174. misoscale adjective: Having a scale of between 40 metres and 4 kilometres (or 130 feet and 2 miles).
  175. misoshiru noun: miso soup
  176. misosopher noun: One who hates wisdom or knowledge.
  177. misosophical adjective: Of, or pertaining to, misosophy.
  178. misosophist noun: Synonym of misosopher.
  179. misosophy noun: A hatred of wisdom.
  180. misotheism noun: Hatred of God or gods.
  181. misotheist adjective, noun /maɪsəʊˈθiːɪst/: Of or pertaining to misotheism
  182. misotheistic adjective: Hating God or gods; exhibiting misotheism.
  183. misown verb: To own, claim, or appropriate wrongly or amiss; fail to own; disown.
  184. misoxeny noun: Aversion to foreigners or strangers.
  185. misozoic adjective: life-hating
  186. misozuke noun: A Japanese pickle (made from vegetables or other foods) preserved in miso.
  187. mispace verb: To do (something) at the wrong pace or speed.
  188. mispack verb: To pack badly or wrongly.
  189. mispackage verb: To package badly or wrongly.
  190. mispaddle verb: To paddle incorrectly.
  191. mispage verb: To paginate incorrectly.
  192. mispaginated adjective: paginated wrongly
  193. mispagination noun: incorrect pagination
  194. mispaging noun: The incorrect arrangement of pages in a document.
  195. mispaint verb: To paint incorrectly; paint falsely or in wrong colours.
  196. mispair verb: To pair incorrectly; to mismatch in twos.
  197. mispaired adjective: Describing a chain of nucleic acid containing nucleotides that are not complementary to those in the corresponding position of the other chain.
  198. mispairing noun, verb: An incorrect pairing.
  199. misparaphrase verb: To paraphrase incorrectly.
  200. misparented adjective: Badly or wrongly raised by one's parents.
  201. mispark verb: To park badly or wrongly.
  202. misparked adjective, verb: Badly or wrongly parked.
  203. misparrot verb: To parrot incorrectly; to make an imperfect attempt to repeat what one has heard.
  204. misparse noun, verb /mɪsˈpɑː(ɹ)s/: To parse incorrectly.
  205. misparsing noun, verb: An instance of incorrect parsing.
  206. mispart verb: To part or divide badly.
  207. mispass noun, verb: A bad or wrong pass of the ball.
  208. mispassion noun: Wrong passion or feeling.
  209. mispaste verb: To paste incorrectly.
  210. mispatch verb: To patch wrongly.
  211. mispattern noun, verb /mɪsˈpætə(ɹ)n/: To follow or copy a pattern imperfectly; to deviate from a pattern.
  212. mispatterned adjective, verb: Having an incorrect pattern
  213. mispatterning noun, verb: The formation of an incorrect pattern
  214. mispaved adjective /mɪsˈpeɪvd/: Having broken or uneven pavement.
  215. mispay verb: To pay incorrectly, or to the wrong person.
  216. mispayment noun: incorrect payment
  217. mispeg verb: To incorrectly ascribe a value or attribute to.
  218. mispen verb: To pen badly or wrongly.
  219. mispense noun: Alternative form of misspense.
  220. misper noun: A missing person.
  221. misperceive verb: To perceive erroneously.
  222. misperceiver noun: One who misperceives.
  223. misperception noun /mɪspə(ɹ)ˈsɛpʃən/: An incorrect perception.
  224. misperceptive adjective /mɪspə(ɹ)ˈsɛptɪv/: Perceiving incorrectly.
  225. misperf adjective, noun: Clipping of misperforated.
  226. misperforated adjective: Incorrectly perforated.
  227. misperforation noun: Bad or incorrect perforation.
  228. misperform verb: To perform badly or wrongly.
  229. misperformance noun: incorrect performance
  230. misperformer noun: One who misperforms.
  231. misperson verb: To assail with abusive language.
  232. mispersuade verb: To persuade wrongly; to persuade into doing something wrong
  233. mispersuasion noun: A false persuasion; a wrong notion or opinion.
  234. misphase noun, verb: To put or become out of phase.
  235. misphenotype verb: To phenotype incorrectly
  236. misphenotyped adjective, verb: phenotyped incorrectly
  237. misphrase verb: To phrase incorrectly.
  238. misphrasing noun, verb: An instance of something being phrased badly or wrongly.
  239. mispick noun, verb: A defect in woven fabric in which a yarn across the warp is in the wrong place.
  240. mispickel noun: The mineral arsenopyrite
  241. mispile verb: To pile badly.
  242. mispin noun, verb: To pin incorrectly.
  243. mispitch noun, verb: To sing or play one or more notes at the wrong pitch.
  244. misplace verb /mɪsˈpleɪs/: To put something somewhere and then forget its location; to mislay.
  245. misplaceable adjective: Able to be misplaced.
  246. misplaced adjective, verb: Uncomfortable, especially due to one's surroundings.
  247. misplacedly adverb: In a misplaced manner; in the wrong place.
  248. misplacedness noun: The quality of being misplaced.
  249. misplacement noun: Bad placement.
  250. misplacer noun: One who misplaces something.
  251. misplacing noun, verb: Incorrect placement.
  252. misplan noun, verb: To plan badly or incorrectly.
  253. misplant noun, verb /mɪsˈplænt/: To plant badly or wrongly.
  254. misplate noun, verb: To plate incorrectly. (any sense)
  255. misplay noun, verb /mɪsˈpleɪ/: To play incorrectly or poorly.
  256. misplead verb: To plead amiss wrongly; to make an error in pleading.
  257. mispleading noun, verb: An error in pleading.
  258. misplease verb: To fail in pleasing; displease.
  259. mispledge verb: To pledge foolishly or in error.
  260. misplot noun, verb: To incorrectly mark the position of.
  261. mispluck verb: To pluck incorrectly.
  262. misplug noun, verb: To plug incorrectly.
  263. mispoint verb: To point wrongly
  264. mispolarization noun: Incorrect polarization
  265. mispolarize verb: To cause, or to undergo mispolarization
  266. mispolarized adjective, verb: Subject to mispolarization
  267. mispolicy noun: Wrong or ill-advised policy.
  268. mispolyadenylation noun: Faulty polyadenylation, typically of mRNA
  269. misportray verb: To portray inaccurately.
  270. misportrayal noun: An inaccurate portrayal.
  271. misposition verb: To position incorrectly.
  272. mispositioned adjective: Wrongly positioned
  273. mispositioning noun: Wrong positioning.
  274. mispossess verb: To possess illicitly, as by theft.
  275. mispost noun, verb /mɪsˈpəʊst/: To post badly or wrongly.
  276. misposting noun, verb: A bad or wrong posting.
  277. mispour noun, verb: To make a mistake while pouring.
  278. mispractice noun, verb: Wrong or bad practice; misconduct
  279. mispraise verb: To praise falsely, injudiciously, or without good reason.
  280. mispreach verb: To preach a mistaken or erroneous sermon.
  281. mispredict verb: To predict incorrectly.
  282. misprediction noun: An instance of mispredicting; an incorrect prediction.
  283. mispredictor noun: One who predicts something incorrectly.
  284. misprejudiced adjective: Holding a bad or wrong prejudice.
  285. mispreparation noun: Bad or wrong preparation.
  286. misprepare verb: To prepare badly; to provide inadequate or inappropriate preparation.
  287. misprescribe verb: To prescribe (a medicine) erroneously.
  288. misprescription noun: The erroneous prescription of a medicine.
  289. mispresent verb: To present badly or wrongly.
  290. mispreserve verb: To preserve badly or to preserve something that does not merit preservation.
  291. mispress noun, verb /ˈmɪspɹɛs/: A vinyl record with incorrect content pressed, due to a manufacturing mistake.
  292. mispressing noun, verb: An instance of a record being pressed incorrectly.
  293. misprice verb: To price incorrectly or unsuitably.
  294. mispricing noun, verb: A situation in which something has been mispriced
  295. misprime verb: To prime incorrectly.
  296. mispriming noun, verb: Faulty priming
  297. misprincipled adjective: Having bad or wrong principles or moral values.
  298. misprint noun, verb /ˈmɪspɹɪnt/: An accidental mistake in print.
  299. misprinter noun: One who prints incorrectly.
  300. misprints noun, verb: plural of misprint

Part 102 · Part 104 · 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.