English words: misprioritise to missile gap

300 English words, part 104 of 159 of the words starting with M, A to Z. 19 have a page of their own.

English words misprioritise to missile gap

misprioritise verb: Alternative form of misprioritize.
misprioritize verb: To prioritize inappropriately.
misprisal noun: Alternative form of misprizal.
misprise verb: Alternative spelling of misprize.
misprised adjective, verb: Despised, unappreciated.
misprision noun /ˌmɪsˈpɹɪʒn̩/: Criminal neglect or wrongful execution of duty, especially by a public official; (countable) a specific instance of this.
misprison noun: Misconstruction of misprision.
misprizal noun: misprize; contempt
misprize noun, verb /mɪsˈpɹʌɪz/: To despise or hold in contempt; to undervalue.
misprobe noun, verb: To probe incorrectly.
misproceeding noun: Wrong or irregular proceeding.
misprocess verb: To process incorrectly.
misproclaim verb: To proclaim wrongly, such as by proclaiming false information, or proclaiming in the wrong manner.
misprocure verb: To procure incorrectly; to procure in a manner not in accordance with official policies and procedures.
misprocurement noun: The act of misprocuring.
misproduce verb: To produce something poorly, or in an improper way
misproduction noun: Bad or incorrect production.
misprofess verb: To profess falsely; to teach incorrectly or make an incorrect claim.
misprognosticate verb: To make an incorrect prediction.
misprognostication noun: Faulty prediction.
misprogram verb: To program incorrectly.
misprogramme verb: Rare spelling of misprogram.
misproject verb: To project incorrectly.
misprojection noun: Incorrect projection (in any of several contexts)
mispromise noun, verb: A false promise; A promise that is made insincerely.
mispromote verb: To promote incorrectly; to advertise or advocate for something other than the intended use.
mispromotion noun: The act of mispromoting; the advertisement of something as having properties it does not have.
mispronoun verb: To refer to (someone) using third-person pronouns other than their preferred gender pronouns, either unknowingly or intentionally.
mispronounce verb /ˌmɪspɹəˈnaʊns/: To pronounce (a word, phrase, etc.) incorrectly.
mispronounced adjective, verb: Pronounced incorrectly.
mispronouncement noun: Synonym of mispronunciation.
mispronouncer noun: One who mispronounces.
mispronouncing noun, verb: mispronunciation
mispronunciation noun /mɪspɹəˌnʌn.siˈeɪ.ʃən/: The act of mispronouncing.
misproof noun: A mathematical proof that contains logical errors.
misproportion noun, verb: A deviation from proper proportions.
misproportionate adjective: misproportioned; disproportionate
misproportioned adjective, verb: Having incorrect or distorted proportions.
misprosecute verb: To prosecute badly or ineptly.
misproud adjective: Unduly or unwarrantably proud or vain; wrongly proud; arrogant; haughty.
misprove verb: To disprove; to provide evidence that contradicts.
misprovide verb: To provide badly or wrongly.
mispublicize verb: To publicize in a misleading, biased, or inaccurate manner.
mispublish verb: To publish in a way that contains errors.
mispull noun, verb: To pull badly, using incorrect technique.
mispump noun, verb: To pump incorrectly.
mispunch noun, verb: To punch the wrong key or button on a keyboard, keypad, keypunch, or similar device.
mispunctuate verb: To punctuate incorrectly.
mispunctuation noun: Incorrect or missing punctuation.
mispunish verb: To punish inappropriately; to give the wrong amount or type of punishment, or to punish someone for an offense they did not commit.
mispurchase noun: An erroneous purchase; the buying of incorrect goods or services.
mispurpose noun: An incorrect or inappropriate purpose.
mispursue verb: To pursue in the wrong way.
mispursuit noun: A bad or wrong pursuit.
misput verb: To put badly or wrongly.
misputt verb: To putt badly or wrongly.
misqualification noun: The act or process of qualifying wrongly or incorrectly
misqualify verb: To qualify incorrectly.
misquantification noun: Incorrect quantification
misquantified adjective, verb: Incorrectly quantified
misquantify verb: To quantify incorrectly.
misquotation noun: An incorrect quotation.
misquote noun, verb /mɪsˈkwəʊt/: To incorrectly recite or record a quotation.
misquoter noun: One who misquotes.
misr noun: An Arab frontier outpost or garrison town, chiefly in the period of early Islamic expansion.
Misra proper noun: A surname. Alternative form of Mishra.
misrace verb: To incorrectly identify someone's race.
misraise verb: To raise unreasonably.
misrank verb: To rank wrongly or incorrectly
Misrata proper noun: A port city on the Mediterranean, in northwestern Libya.
misrate verb: To rate erroneously.
misrated adjective: rated incorrectly.
misreach noun, verb: To reach inaccurately.
misreact verb: To react inappropriately.
misreaction noun: Inappropriate reaction.
misread noun, verb /mɪsˈɹiːd/: To read wrongly; misconstrue; misinterpret; mistake the sense or significance of.
misreadable adjective: Capable of being misread.
misreader noun: One who misreads.
misreading noun, verb: An incorrect reading.
misrear verb: To rear improperly.
misreason noun, verb: To reason badly; to form an irrational conclusion.
misrecall verb: To recall incorrectly.
misreceipt noun: An act of receiving something illegitimately or in error.
misreceive verb: To receive illegitimately or in error.
misrecital noun: An inaccurate recital.
misrecitation noun: An inaccurate recitation.
misrecite verb: To recite erroneously.
misreckon verb /mɪsˈɹɛkən/: To add (something) up incorrectly, make a wrong calculation of (an amount etc.).
misreckoning noun, verb: A false reckoning; a miscalculation.
misrecognise verb: Alternative form of misrecognize.
misrecognised adjective, verb: Alternative form of misrecognized.
misrecognition noun: incorrect recognition
misrecognize verb: To recognize in error
misrecollect verb: To recollect incorrectly; to misremember.
misrecollection noun: Erroneous or inaccurate recollection or memory
misrecommend verb: To recommend without good reason.
misrecord verb: To record incorrectly.
misrecount verb: To recount inaccurately; misrelate; to tell an untrue version of events.
misrecover verb: To recover inaccurately; to restore or recreate imperfectly.
misrecovery noun: The act or process of misrecovering.
misrecruit noun, verb: To recruit someone who is inappropriate.
misrectify verb: To err when attempting to rectify (a problem or mistake).
misrede verb: To advise unwisely or to bad purpose; miscounsel; misadvise.
misredeem verb: To redeem inappropriately; to convert to cash under invalid circumstances.
misree noun: Alternative form of misri.
misrefer verb: To refer incorrectly.
misreference noun, verb /mɪsˈɹɛfəɹəns/: An incorrect reference.
misreflect verb: To mirror inaccurately; to reflect a distorted image of.
misreflection noun: The act or result of misreflecting; a bad or wrong reflection.
misreform noun, verb /ˈmɪsɹəfɔː(ɹ)m/: A reform that ends up making things worse.
misregard noun, verb /ˌmɪsɹɪˈɡɑːd/: Wrong understanding; misconstruction.
misregardful adjective: Heedless; unmindful; neglectful; uncaring.
misregister noun, verb /mɪsˈɹɛd͡ʒɪstə(ɹ)/: To register incorrectly.
misregistration noun: Incorrect registration (in any sense).
misregulate verb: To regulate incorrectly or imperfectly.
misregulated adjective, verb: Wrongly regulated
misregulation noun: Faulty regulation (of gene expression)
misrehearse verb: To rehearse or quote incorrectly.
misrelate verb: To relate inaccurately.
misrelation noun: erroneous relation or narration
misrelay noun, verb: To relay incorrectly; to garble while transferring.
misrelease noun, verb: To release incorrectly, i.e. to release something that should not be released, or to release in the wrong way.
misrelegate verb: To relegate inappropriately.
misreliance noun: The act of misrelying; reliance on something that cannot be safely relied upon.
misreligion noun: False or wrong religion.
misrely verb: To rely wrongly.
misremember verb /mɪsɹɪˈmɛmbɚ/: To remember incorrectly.
misremembering noun, verb: An instance of remembering something incorrectly.
misremembrance noun: An incorrect remembrance; something remembered wrongly.
misremunerate verb: To remunerate with an inappropriate amount.
misrender verb: To render incorrectly.
misrendering noun, verb: An incorrect rendering.
misrepair noun, verb /mɪsɹɪˈpɛə(ɹ)/: A repair that was done badly or wrongly.
misrepeat verb: To repeat wrongly; to give a wrong version of.
misreplicate verb: To make an error during replication.
misreplication noun: Incorrect replication of DNA.
misreply verb: To reply inappropriately.
misreport noun, verb /ˌmɪsɹɪˈpɔː(ɹ)t/: To report erroneously; to give an incorrect account of.
misreporter noun: One who misreports.
misreporting noun, verb: Incorrect reporting
misrepresent verb /ˌmɪsˌɹɛpɹəˈzɛnt/: To represent falsely; to inaccurately portray something.
misrepresentation noun /mɪsˌɹɛpɹɪzɛnˈteɪʃən/: Erroneous or false representation; an unfair or dishonest account or exposition; a false statement.
misrepresentational adjective: Relating to misrepresentation.
misrepresentative adjective: Purporting or seeming to be representative without actually being so.
misrepresenter noun: One who misrepresents.
misrepresenting noun, verb: A misrepresentation.
misrepute verb: To disrepute
misresearch verb: To make errors while researching (a subject).
misresemblance noun: A wrong or misleading resemblance.
misresolve verb: To resolve incorrectly.
misrespect noun, verb /mɪsɹɪˈspɛkt/: Lack of respect; improper respect; disrespect.
misrespond verb: To respond incorrectly or inappropriately.
misresponse noun: The act of misresponding or an instance of misresponding.
misrestoration noun: The act or process of misrestoring.
misrestore verb: To restore improperly; to err in the restoration of.
misresult noun: An erroneous or unwanted result.
misreturn noun, verb: The return of a process or other document that was done improperly.
misreveal verb: To reveal something that is not true.
misreview verb: To review (make a critical evaluation) from the wrong perspective.
misrevise verb: To revise in a manner that makes something worse.
misreward verb: To reward inappropriately.
misrhyme noun, verb /ˈmɪsɹaɪm/: A false rhyme.
misri noun: Rock sugar.
misride verb: To ride badly or wrongly.
misring noun, verb: To enter an incorrect amount into a cash register.
misroll noun, verb: To roll incorrectly (any sense)
misrotate verb: To rotate incorrectly
misrotated adjective: Incorrectly rotated
misrotation noun: incorrect rotation
misroute verb: To route incorrectly; to send the wrong way.
misrouting noun, verb: An incorrect routing.
misru noun: Alternative form of mushru.
misrule noun, verb /mɪsˈɹuːl/: The state of being ruled badly; disorder, lawlessness, anarchy.
misruler noun: One who rules badly.
misruling noun, verb: A bad or wrong ruling.
misruly adjective: unruly
misrun noun, verb: A casting that does not completely fill the mold, leaving unfilled spaces.
miss noun, verb /mɪs/: To fail to hit, catch, grasp, etc.
miss a beat verb: Alternative form of skip a beat.
miss a cog verb: To go wrong.
miss a trick verb: To allow an advantageous opportunity to pass by.
Miss Austenish adjective: Synonym of Austenish.
miss click noun, verb: Alternative form of misclick.
miss fire verb: Dated form of misfire.
miss girl noun: A superficial woman.
miss gurl noun: Alternative form of Miss Girl.
Miss Havisham-esque adjective: Alternative form of Miss Havishamesque.
Miss Havishamesque adjective /ˌmɪs ˌhævɪʃəmˈɛsk/: Synonym of Havishamesque.
Miss Lucy noun: Chrysoblephus gibbiceps, a species of sea bream in South Africa.
Miss Marple noun: A detective, especially an older woman.
miss-meal colic noun: weight loss via missing meals
miss off verb: To drop; leave off; omit.
miss one's guess verb: To be incorrect in one's assumption.
miss one's tip verb: To fail in one's plan or attempt.
miss oneself verb: To miss an enjoyable experience through not being in the right place at the right time.
miss out verb: To miss an experience or lose an opportunity, etc. that should not be missed.
Miss Priss noun: A prissy girl or woman.
Miss Right noun: A perfect, ideal or suitable female companion, especially a wife.
miss someone's point verb: Alternative form of miss the point.
miss stays verb: To fail in going about from one tack to another.
Miss Thang noun: Alternative form of Miss Thing.
miss the boat verb: To fail to take advantage of an opportunity; to overlook or be too late to pursue an option or course of action.
miss the bus verb: Synonym of miss the boat.
miss the forest for the trees verb: Alternative form of cannot see the forest for the trees.
miss the mark verb: Of a projectile, to fail to hit the target.
miss the memo verb: To be unaware of the current state of affairs.
miss the point verb: To fail to grasp the meaning of an utterance or situation.
miss the wood for the trees verb: Alternative form of cannot see the forest for the trees.
miss the woods for the trees verb: Alternative form of cannot see the forest for the trees.
Miss Thing noun: A conceited person, usually a woman or a gay man.
Miss Waldron's red colobus noun: Piliocolobus waldronae, a red colobus native to West Africa.
Miss Wrong noun: An unsuitable female companion, especially a wife.
missa noun: a mass, in the sense of a composition setting several sung parts of the liturgical service (most often chosen from the ordinary parts Kyrie, Gloria, Credo,...
missable adjective /ˈmɪsəbl̩/: Able to avoid detection.
missal noun /ˈmɪsəl/: A prayer book; a church service (book).
missalette noun: A small missal, especially one published periodically.
missay verb: To speak ill of (someone).
missayer noun: One who missays; a misspeaker.
missaying noun, verb: A mistake in speech.
misscan noun, verb: To scan incorrectly.
misschedule verb: To schedule badly or wrongly.
misschool verb: To school improperly; to teach or train in incorrect or problematic material or by the wrong methods.
misscore verb: To assign the wrong score to.
misscreen verb: To screen (examine in order to assess the status of) improperly.
misscrew verb: To screw in incorrectly.
misscribe verb: To write or inscribe incorrectly.
misscription noun: The act or result of misscribing.
misseal verb: To seal improperly.
misseasoned adjective: Badly seasoned.
misseat verb: To seat badly or wrongly.
missed abortion noun /mɪst əˈbɔɹ.ʃn̩/: A miscarriage where the products of that miscarriage are not expelled.
missed approach noun: A go-around from an instrument approach performed, for whatever reason, at a time when the aircraft is at or above the applicable decision height or minimum...
missed approach point noun: The point during descent at which a pilot must initiate a go-around maneuver if the runway is not in clear sight.
missed call noun, verb: A telephone call which the responder does not answer.
missed connection noun: A type of personal advertisement which arises after two people meet but are too shy or otherwise unable to exchange contact details.
missed miscarriage noun: A missed abortion.
missee verb: To see incorrectly; to misperceive visually; take a wrong view of; see in a false or distorted light.
misseek verb: To seek for wrongly.
misseem verb /mɪsˈsiːm/: To be unbecoming to; not to suit.
misseeming adjective: Unseemly, unbecoming.
missegmented adjective: Incorrectly segmented
missegregate verb: To segregate incorrectly (typically, chromosomes)
missegregation noun: The faulty segregation of chromosomes.
missegregative adjective: Relating to missegregation
missel noun /ˈmɪsəl/: A missel thrush.
missel thrush noun: Alternative form of mistle thrush (Turdus viscivorus).
misselden noun: Synonym of mistletoe
misseldine noun: Mistletoe.
misselect noun, verb /mɪs.səˈlɛkt/: To select incorrectly.
misselection noun: Bad or incorrect selection.
missell verb: To sell something wrongly or fraudulently.
misseller noun: One who missells.
misselling noun, verb: The act of one who missells.
missen noun, pronoun: Myself.
missend verb /mɪsˈsɛnd/: To send incorrectly or to the wrong destination.
Missenden proper noun: A surname.
missense noun, verb: A damaged DNA sequence that is meaningful but has an incorrect meaning, with the result that its products do not do what they are supposed to do.
missense mutation noun: A point mutation that results in the substitution of one amino acid by another.
missequence noun, verb: An error in sequencing.
misser noun: One who misses.
misserve noun, verb: To serve incorrectly or unfaithfully.
misservice noun: Synonym of disservice.
misses noun, verb /ˈmɪsɪz/: Eye dialect spelling of Mrs; alternative spelling of Missus.
misses and kisses phrase: An affectionate ending to a letter: I miss you and I am sending imaginary kisses.
missess noun: Alternative form of missus.
misset adjective, verb: To set, adjust or calibrate incorrectly.
missew verb: To sew badly, with errors.
missewn adjective, verb: Containing sewing errors.
missex verb: To sex incorrectly; to incorrectly determine the sex of.
missey noun: Alternative form of missy (term of address for young woman)
misshade verb: To shade improperly.
misshaded adjective, verb: Having incorrect shading.
misshading noun, verb: An instance of misshading
misshape noun, verb /ˈmɪsʃeɪp/: A misshapen person; a misshapen body.
misshapen adjective, verb /mɪsˈʃeɪ.pən/: Having a bad, ugly or awkward shape; deformed; malformed; ill-shapen.
misshapenly adverb: In a misshapen manner.
misshapenness noun: Quality of being misshapen.
misshaper noun: Someone who misshapes.
misshare verb: To share something that should not be shared.
missharpen verb: To sharpen incorrectly.
misshelve verb: To place on the wrong shelf; to misclassify.
misshelving noun, verb: An instance of something being misshelved.
misshift noun, verb: To change gears incorrectly, such as switching into the wrong gear or ending up in a state when the vehicle is not in gear, or being in the wrong gear for a...
misship verb: To ship incorrectly, such as to the wrong location or at the wrong time.
misshipment noun: A shipment that is misdelivered; an instance of misshipping.
misshod adjective: Badly or wrongly shod.
misshoe verb: Alternative form of mis-shoe.
misshood noun: girlhood
misshoot noun, verb: To shoot incorrectly (any sense).
misshot noun, verb: A shot that was made incorrectly; an instance of misshooting.
misshuffle noun, verb: To shuffle incorrectly.
missie noun: A young woman; miss.
missight noun: Sight proved to be wrong; an instance of seeing something that turned out to be something else or nothing at all.
missign verb: To sign improperly or incorrectly.
missignal noun, verb /mɪsˈsɪɡnəl/: To signal wrongly or in error
missignify verb: To signify falsely; to give the appearance of something that is not true.
missigning noun, verb: An incorrect signing.
missile noun /ˈmɪs.aɪl/: Any object used as a weapon by being thrown or fired through the air, such as stone, arrow or bullet.
missile farm noun: An integrated facility with factories, silos, etc. for the production and recycling of missiles.
missile gap noun: The perceived superiority during the Cold War of the number and power of the USSR's missiles in comparison with those of the United States.

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.