English words: missile silo to mistfrog
300 English words, part 105 of 159 of the words starting with M, A to Z. 25 have a page of their own.
English words missile silo to mistfrog
- missile silo noun: An underground vertical cylindrical container for the storage and launching of ICBMs.
- missileer noun: One who launches missiles.
- missilelike adjective: Resembling or characteristic of a missile.
- missileman noun /ˈmɪsaɪl ˌmæn/: A member of the military responsible for missile launches.
- missileproof adjective: Resistant to missiles.
- missilery noun: The science of missiles.
- missilry noun: Alternative form of missilery.
- missing adjective, noun, verb /ˈmɪsɪŋ/: Not able to be located; gone, misplaced.
- missing boundary adjective: Having had some but not all of its boundary removed.
- missing heritability noun: The problematic difference between heritability estimates obtained from early genomewide association studies and those from twin and family data across many...
- missing in action adjective /ˈmɪsɪŋ ɪn ˈækʃən/: The designation for a member of an organization (usually military) with whom contact is lost and whose whereabouts are not known, but whose death is not...
- missing in time adjective: Synonym of lost in time (“having happened so long ago that it is lost or forgotten”).
- missing link noun: A hypothetical primate once thought necessary to explain a perceived evolutionary gap between apes and humans.
- missing man formation noun: An aerial salute to commemorate a deceased person, consisting of a formation of flying aircraft with a space where one plane should be flying.
- missing market noun: a situation in microeconomics where a competitive market allowing the exchange of a commodity would be Pareto-efficient, but no such market exists
- missing middle noun: medium-density housing, between detached single-family housing and midrise housing; the lack thereof, especially in North America where zoning restrictions...
- missing person noun: A person whose whereabouts are unknown and who is being sought.
- missing piece noun: A crucial element of a solution, concept, etc. that has yet to be found.
- missing stair noun: A member of a community who is widely but privately known within that community for abusiveness or other harmful behavior that has not been addressed.
- missing time noun: A time period of amnesia or a gap in conscious memory reported by individuals who have experienced alien abduction.
- missing trader fraud noun: Synonym of carousel fraud.
- missing white girl syndrome noun: Synonym of missing white woman syndrome.
- missingly adverb: With a sense of loss.
- missingness noun /ˈmɪs.ɪŋ.nəs/: Absence.
- missiological adjective: Of or pertaining to missiology.
- missiologically adverb: In terms of, or by means of, missiology.
- missiologist noun: One who studies missiology.
- missiology noun: The area of practical theology which studies the mandate, message and work of the Christian missionary.
- mission noun, verb /ˈmɪʃ.ən/: A set of tasks that fulfills a purpose or duty; an assignment set by an employer, or by oneself.
- mission accomplished phrase: Used to express that a task, or set of tasks, has been completed.
- Mission burrito noun: A dish in American cuisine usually consisting of a tortilla wrapped around meat, rice, beans, sour cream, as well as various vegetables and sauces. The...
- mission creep noun: Gradual unplanned expansion of the objectives, scope, and/or cost of a project, especially a military mission.
- mission-critical adjective: Of a process or part within a larger system, vital to the operations of the system as a whole.
- Mission fig noun: A variety of the edible fig Ficus carica, introduced to the United States in 1768 by Franciscan missionaries.
- Mission golden-eyed treefrog noun: Synonym of Amazon milk frog.
- Mission grape noun: The European grapevine (Vitis vinifera), introduced from Spain to the western coasts of North and South America by Catholic New World missionaries for use...
- mission home noun: The official residence of a mission president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
- mission impossible noun: An extremely difficult, if not impossible, task.
- Mission Indian noun: A Native American who lived in one of the Catholic missions in California.
- mission kill noun: An attack or damage inflicted by a weapon that does not destroy a military vehicle but results in it taking no further part in its intended mission.
- mission manzanita noun: Xylococcus bicolor, a tree or shrub of Baja California.
- mission mix noun: Bulk stamps which include duplication accumulated by missions and charities, then sold to the collecting trade.
- mission mixture noun: bulk stamps which include duplication accumulated by missions and charities, then sold to the collecting trade.
- Mission olive noun: A cultivar of olive developed in California by Spanish missions along El Camino Real in the late 18th century.
- mission school noun: A school for religious, and sometimes also secular, education for the poor, funded by charitable donations.
- mission statement noun: A formal declaration of the overall goal or purpose of an organization.
- mission station noun: A reserve or other tract of land administered by religious missionaries for the spiritual and material welfare of Aboriginal people.
- mission stiff noun: A tramp or vagrant who often frequents missions or charitable organizations for food and shelter.
- missional adjective: Of or pertaining to a religious mission; missionary.
- missionality noun: The quality of being missional.
- missionally adverb: In a missional manner.
- missionar noun: A missionary.
- missionaress noun: A female missionary.
- missionaries and cannibals problem noun: A logic puzzle in which a number of missionaries and cannibals must cross a river using a boat which can carry only a limited number of people, under the...
- missionarily adverb: In a missionary manner.
- missionarise verb: Alternative spelling of missionarize
- missionarize verb: Alternative form of missionaryize.
- missionary adjective, noun /ˈmɪʃ.əˌnɛɹ.ɪ/: One who is sent on a mission.
- missionary bishop noun: A bishop assigned in the Anglican Communion (and, until 1964, in Methodist churches) to an area that is not already organized under a bishop of a church.
- missionary linguist noun: A missionary who seeks to study a people's language in order to facilitate religious conversion.
- missionary plant noun: Synonym of money plant (“Pilea peperomioides”).
- missionary position noun: A position for sexual intercourse in which the man and woman face each other, with the man on top.
- missionary rector noun: A Roman Catholic priest appointed to the charge of some important mission in England.
- missionary zeal noun: great enthusiasm
- missionarying noun: The religious work of a missionary.
- missionaryism noun: The work of a missionary, attempting to spread a religion or creed.
- missionaryize verb: To spread religion to, in the role of a missionary.
- missionarylike adjective: Resembling or characteristic of a missionary.
- missionaryship noun: The state or business of a missionary.
- missionee noun: The person whom a missionary attempts to convert to a religion.
- missioneering noun: The religious work done by missionaries.
- missioner noun: A missionary.
- missionisation noun: Alternative spelling of missionization
- missionise verb: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of missionize.
- missioniser noun: Alternative form of missionizer
- missionization noun: The religious work of a missionary.
- missionize verb /ˈmɪʃənʌɪz/: To work as a missionary; to do missionary work.
- missionizer noun: One who missionizes; a missionary.
- missionless adjective: Without a mission.
- missionlessness noun: Absence of a mission.
- missionology noun: Alternative form of missiology.
- missis noun: Pronunciation spelling of missus, representing African-American Vernacular English.
- Missisauga noun: Alternative form of Mississauga (“member of an Algonquian people”).
- missish adjective: Prim and prudish.
- missishly adverb: In a missish manner.
- missishness noun: The quality of being missish.
- Mississauga noun /ˌmɪ.sɪˈsɔː.ɡə/: A member of an Algonquian people now living in southern Ontario, Canada; also a member of this race.
- Mississaugan noun: A native or inhabitant of Mississauga, Canada.
- Mississippi interjection, noun /ˌmɪ.sɪˈsɪ.pi/: Used in a common chronometric counting scheme, in which each iteration is sequentially numbered and supposed to equal approximately one second in length.
- Mississippi catfish noun: Synonym of blue catfish.
- Mississippi gopher frog noun: Lithobates sevosus, an endangered ranid frog endemic to the southern United States.
- Mississippi kite noun: Ictinia mississippiensis, a small bird of prey found across the central and southern United States.
- Mississippi mud pie noun: A dessert pie with gooey chocolate sauce on a crumbly chocolate crust.
- Mississippi rifle noun: The Model 1841 percussion rifle, a muzzleloading rifle used in the Mexican-American War and the American Civil War.
- Mississippi sax noun: A simple harmonica.
- Mississippian adjective, noun /ˌmɪ.sɪˈsɪ.pi.ən/: Of a geologic epoch within the Carboniferous period from about 359 to 318 million years ago; marked by glaciation and the appearance of the first trees.
- missituate verb: To situate incorrectly.
- missive adjective, noun /ˈmɪsɪv/: A written message; a letter, note or memo.
- missized adjective: Of the wrong size.
- misslanted adjective: Improperly slanted (any sense).
- misslaughter noun, verb: To slaughter improperly.
- misslice verb: To slice incorrectly.
- missment noun: A mistake; an error.
- misso noun: Missus (“wife or girlfriend”).
- Missolonghi proper noun: A town in western Greece.
- missolve verb: To solve incorrectly; to arrive at the wrong solution.
- Misson proper noun: A village and civil parish in Bassetlaw district, Nottinghamshire, England (OS grid ref SK6895).
- missorium noun: A decorated plate, which in late Roman and Byzantine times was donated on the occasion of solemn anniversaries to dignitaries
- missort noun, verb /mɪsˈsɔː(ɹ)t/: To sort incorrectly; to misorder.
- Missoula proper noun /mɪˈzuːlə/: A city, the county seat of Missoula County, Montana, United States.
- Missoulian adjective, noun: Of or relating to Missoula, Montana, United States.
- missound noun, verb: To sound or pronounce wrongly.
- Missouran noun /məˈzɝən/: Alternative form of Missourian.
- missource verb: To source inappropriately or incorrectly.
- Missouri proper noun /mɪˈzʊɹ.i/: A state in the Midwestern region of the United States. Capital: Jefferson City. Largest city: Kansas City.
- Missouri canary noun: A mule; a sterile hybrid of a donkey and a horse.
- Missouri currant noun: Synonym of Missouri gooseberry.
- Missouri evening primrose noun: Synonym of bigfruit evening primrose.
- Missouri Fox Trotter noun: A horse of a midsized, muscular breed with an ambling gait, bred in Missouri, United States.
- Missouri gooseberry noun: A prickly, many-stemmed shrub with edible fruit, Ribes missouriense, native to the northcentral United States.
- Missouri gourd noun: Synonym of calabazilla.
- Missouri grape noun: Vitis palmata, a New World species of tall, climbing lianas in the grape family, native to the south-central and southeastern United States.
- Missouri mule noun: A type of mule bred in Missouri known for its hardiness and stubbornness.
- Missouri primrose noun: Synonym of bigfruit evening primrose.
- Missouri Sucker noun: Synonym of Blue Sucker.
- Missouri toothpick noun: A Bowie knife.
- Missourian adjective, noun /mɪˈzʊɹi.ən/: From, of or pertaining to Missouri.
- Missourianism noun: The beliefs and practices of the Missouri Synod, a Lutheran denomination.
- missourite noun: A leucite-augite rock, resembling ijolite but with leucite in place of nepheline.
- missout noun: A situation where something is skipped or omitted.
- misspace verb: To space badly or incorrectly.
- misspeak verb /mɪsˈspiːk/: To fail to pronounce, utter, or speak correctly.
- misspeaker noun: One who misspeaks.
- misspeaking noun, verb /mɪsˈspiːkɪŋ/: The fact or instance of speaking incorrectly, falsely, or unclearly.
- misspecification noun: An incorrect specification.
- misspecified adjective, verb: Incorrectly specified
- misspecify verb: To specify wrongly.
- misspeculate verb: To speculate incorrectly; to make or act on a false conjecture.
- misspeculation noun: An instance of misspeculating.
- misspeech noun: Incorrect speech.
- misspeed verb: To fail in an attempt to speed something along.
- misspell verb /mɪsˈspɛl/: To spell incorrectly.
- misspellable adjective: Vulnerable to being misspelt.
- misspelled adjective, verb: Not spelled correctly.
- misspeller noun: One who spells incorrectly.
- misspelling noun, verb: Incorrect spelling.
- misspellingly adverb: In a misspelt manner; with misspelling.
- misspend verb: To spend poorly, incorrectly or unwisely.
- misspender noun: Someone who misspends.
- misspending noun, verb: Improper, wasteful, or incorrect spending; squandering
- misspense noun: Improper spending; waste.
- misspent adjective, verb: Spent in a bad way, squandered
- misspin noun, verb: To spin badly (any sense)
- misspit verb: To spit badly, such as missing the location where one is aiming.
- missplice verb: To incorrectly splice (typically of nucleic acid strands)
- misspliced adjective: Incorrectly spliced.
- missplit noun, verb: To split incorrectly.
- missplitting noun, verb: An instance of missplitting.
- misspool verb: To spool incorrectly.
- misspot noun, verb /mɪsˈspɒt/: To mark (dice) with the wrong number of spots, generally in order to cheat.
- misspotted adjective, verb: Incorrectly marked with spots.
- misspray noun, verb: To spray incorrectly.
- misspread noun, verb: To spread incorrectly or inappropriately.
- misstack noun, verb: To stack improperly.
- misstaff verb: To staff inappropriately, to hire for the wrong types of positions.
- misstage verb: To stage improperly.
- misstamp noun, verb /mɪsˈstæmp/: To stamp incorrectly.
- misstaple verb: To staple improperly.
- misstart verb: To start badly or wrongly.
- misstate verb: To make a statement that is in error, inadvertently; to say (something) incorrectly, through a slip of the tongue.
- misstatement noun: Something stated wrongly; a (usually unintentionally) incorrect statement.
- misstater noun: One who misstates something.
- misstation verb: To station improperly.
- misstay verb: To become caught in irons when changing tack.
- missteer verb: To steer badly or wrongly.
- misstep noun, verb /ˈmɪs.stɛp/: A step that is wrong, a false step.
- misstepper noun: One who missteps.
- misstepping noun, verb: A misstep or mistake.
- misstitch noun, verb: An improperly sewn stitch.
- misstitched adjective, verb: Containing misstitches; poorly sewn.
- misstock verb: To stock improperly.
- misstop verb: To stop badly or wrongly.
- misstore verb: To store improperly.
- misstowed adjective: Stowed wrongly, incorrectly, or improperly.
- misstress verb: To stress incorrectly.
- misstrike noun, verb /mɪsˈstɹaɪk/: To strike badly or incorrectly.
- misstring verb: To string incorrectly.
- misstrip noun, verb: To strip wrongly or in error.
- misstroke noun, verb: To stroke badly. (any sense)
- misstructure verb: To structure badly or wrongly.
- misstudied adjective: Studied wrongly, incorrectly, or in error.
- misstuff verb: To stuff incorrectly.
- misstyle verb: To style or name incorrectly.
- missubmit verb: To submit incorrectly.
- missubtract verb: To subtract incorrectly.
- missubtraction noun: An instance of missubtracting; incorrect subtraction.
- missuggest verb: To make a missuggestion; to suggest erroneously.
- missuggestion noun: Wrong or evil suggestion.
- missuit verb /mɪsˈsuːt/: To fail to suit.
- missummarise verb: Alternative form of missummarize.
- missummarize verb: To summarize incorrectly; to give an inaccurate summary.
- missummation noun: Wrong summation; incorrect addition.
- missuppose verb: To suppose incorrectly.
- missupposition noun: A wrong supposition.
- missurvey noun, verb: An inaccurate survey.
- missus noun /ˈmɪs.əz/: Wife or girlfriend.
- Missus President noun: Informal spelling of Mrs. President.
- missuspect verb: To suspect something that is not, in fact, the case.
- missuture noun, verb: To suture improperly.
- misswallow verb: To swallow incorrectly.
- missway verb: To sway or influence to an unfortunate result.
- misswear verb: To swear falsely or wrongly.
- misswing noun, verb: Alternative form of mis-swing.
- misswitch noun, verb: To switch incorrectly or by mistake.
- missy adjective, noun /ˈmɪs.i/: A young female, or miss; as a term of mild disparagement, typically used jokingly or rebukingly.
- missyllabication noun: Incorrect syllabication.
- missymbolize verb: To symbolize incorrectly.
- missynchronization noun: Incorrect synchronization.
- missynchronize verb: To synchronize incorrectly.
- missynthesize verb: To synthesize badly or incorrectly.
- mist noun, verb /mɪst/: Water or other liquid finely suspended in air. (Compare fog, haze.)
- mist belt noun: A region at middle altitude that is regularly misty, as opposed to the areas above and below.
- mist cap noun: A cap that provides invisibility to the one who wears it.
- mist coat noun: A thin layer of paint applied to new plaster to seal its porous surface and allow the final paint to adhere.
- mist frog noun: Any of several species of the genus Litoria of Australian tree frogs, but especially of the species Litoria rheocola.
- mist net noun: A net, made from fine strands that are nearly invisible, used to catch birds so that they may be ringed or studied.
- mist over verb: To become covered with mist.
- mist-pond noun: A dewpond.
- mist up verb: To become misty.
- mistabulate verb: To tabulate incorrectly.
- mistabulation noun: Incorrect tabulation.
- mistackle noun, verb: To tackle improperly, such as when it is not legal, or not in the correct manner.
- mistag verb: To tag incorrectly; to mislabel.
- mistagging noun, verb: An instance of incorrect tagging.
- mistah noun: Pronunciation spelling of mister.
- mistailored adjective: Badly fitted;
- mistakability noun: The quality of being mistakable.
- mistakable adjective /mɪˈsteɪkəbəl/: Possible to be mistaken or misunderstood.
- mistakably adverb: In a mistakable manner
- mistake noun, verb /mɪˈsteɪk/: To understand wrongly, taking one thing or person for another.
- mistake fare noun: A type of pricing error in the airline industry, when an airline accidentally puts the wrong price for a ticket listing on their website.
- mistake windmills for giants verb: To perceive ordinary, nonthreatening objects or situations as significant dangers or adversaries, often due to an overly romantic, idealistic, or deluded...
- mistakeability noun: Alternative form of mistakability.
- mistakeable adjective: Alternative form of mistakable.
- mistakeably adverb: Alternative form of mistakably.
- mistakeful adjective: Full of mistakes.
- mistakeless adjective: Without any mistakes.
- mistakelessness noun: Freedom from mistakes.
- mistaken adjective, verb /mɪˈsteɪkn̩/: Erroneous.
- mistaken identity noun: A case of false belief that a certain individual is someone else.
- mistakenly adverb /mɪˈsteɪ.kən.li/: Wrongly; erroneously.
- mistakenness noun: The state or condition of being mistaken.
- mistakeproof adjective: Resistant to mistakes.
- mistaker noun /mɪsˈteɪkə(ɹ)/: One who mistakes.
- mistaking noun, verb: A mistake.
- mistakingly adverb: Alternative form of mistakenly.
- mistal noun /ˈmɪstəl/: A cowshed.
- mistalk noun, verb: To speak badly; to stutter, garble one's words, mispronounce words, substitute incorrect words, or make other such errors.
- mistally noun, verb /mɪsˈtæli/: To miscount.
- mistap noun, verb /ˈmɪstæp/: A tap on a touch screen device that is misplaced or otherwise accidental.
- mistarget verb: To target incorrectly.
- Mistassini noun: A member of a Cree people living around Lake Mistassini.
- mistaste noun, verb /mɪsˈteɪst/: To overindulge in food or drink
- mistax verb: To tax inappropriately.
- mistbelt noun: Alternative form of mist belt.
- mistbow noun: Synonym of fogbow.
- misteach verb: To teach incorrectly.
- misteacher noun: One who misteaches.
- misteaching noun, verb: Wrong, false, or incorrect teaching.
- misted adjective, verb: misty
- mistell noun, verb /mɪsˈtɛl/: To tell inaccurately.
- mistella noun /mɪˈstɛlə/: Alternative form of mistelle (alcoholic drink)
- mistelle noun /mɪˈstɛl/: A drink produced by adding alcohol to grape juice.
- mistelling noun, verb: An incorrect telling.
- mistemper verb: To temper (something) ill; to disorder.
- mistend verb: To tend poorly
- misteous adjective: Misty; obscure; vague.
- mister noun, verb /ˈmɪstə/: Alternative spelling of Mister, especially when used as a form of address without a name.
- Mister Big noun: Alternative form of Mr. Big.
- Mister Mom noun: A househusband who looks after his children.
- Mister Nice Guy noun: Alternative form of Mr. Nice Guy.
- Mister President noun: Alternative form of Mr. President.
- Mister Right noun: A perfect, ideal or suitable male companion, especially a husband.
- Mister Wrong noun: An unsuitable male companion, especially a husband.
- misteress noun: A male partner in an extramarital relationship; a male paramour; a kept man.
- misterm verb: To call by a wrong name; to misname or give a misnomer
- misterminate verb: To terminate incorrectly.
- misters before sisters proverb: A woman should prioritize her boyfriend or husband over her female friends.
- mistest noun, verb: To incorrectly test.
- mistetch verb: To misteach; teach badly or wrongly.
- mistext noun, verb: To make an error trying to send a text; to text the wrong person or send a garbled text.
- mistextured adjective: Incorrectly textured.
- mistfall noun: A waterfall that falls in the form of fine mist.
- mistflower noun: Any of several plants in the tribe Eupatorieae, especially Ageratina riparia and members of the genus Conoclinium.
- mistfly noun: Any of various species of dragonfly of the genus Pseudocordulia, endemic to tropical northeastern Australia.
- mistfrog noun: Alternative form of mist frog.
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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.