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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

  1. missile silo noun: An underground vertical cylindrical container for the storage and launching of ICBMs.
  2. missileer noun: One who launches missiles.
  3. missilelike adjective: Resembling or characteristic of a missile.
  4. missileman noun /ˈmɪsaɪl ˌmæn/: A member of the military responsible for missile launches.
  5. missileproof adjective: Resistant to missiles.
  6. missilery noun: The science of missiles.
  7. missilry noun: Alternative form of missilery.
  8. missing adjective, noun, verb /ˈmɪsɪŋ/: Not able to be located; gone, misplaced.
  9. missing boundary adjective: Having had some but not all of its boundary removed.
  10. missing heritability noun: The problematic difference between heritability estimates obtained from early genomewide association studies and those from twin and family data across many...
  11. 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...
  12. missing in time adjective: Synonym of lost in time (“having happened so long ago that it is lost or forgotten”).
  13. 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.
  14. 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
  15. missing middle noun: medium-density housing, between detached single-family housing and midrise housing; the lack thereof, especially in North America where zoning restrictions...
  16. missing person noun: A person whose whereabouts are unknown and who is being sought.
  17. missing piece noun: A crucial element of a solution, concept, etc. that has yet to be found.
  18. 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.
  19. missing time noun: A time period of amnesia or a gap in conscious memory reported by individuals who have experienced alien abduction.
  20. missing trader fraud noun: Synonym of carousel fraud.
  21. missing white girl syndrome noun: Synonym of missing white woman syndrome.
  22. missingly adverb: With a sense of loss.
  23. missingness noun /ˈmɪs.ɪŋ.nəs/: Absence.
  24. missiological adjective: Of or pertaining to missiology.
  25. missiologically adverb: In terms of, or by means of, missiology.
  26. missiologist noun: One who studies missiology.
  27. missiology noun: The area of practical theology which studies the mandate, message and work of the Christian missionary.
  28. mission noun, verb /ˈmɪʃ.ən/: A set of tasks that fulfills a purpose or duty; an assignment set by an employer, or by oneself.
  29. mission accomplished phrase: Used to express that a task, or set of tasks, has been completed.
  30. 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...
  31. mission creep noun: Gradual unplanned expansion of the objectives, scope, and/or cost of a project, especially a military mission.
  32. mission-critical adjective: Of a process or part within a larger system, vital to the operations of the system as a whole.
  33. Mission fig noun: A variety of the edible fig Ficus carica, introduced to the United States in 1768 by Franciscan missionaries.
  34. Mission golden-eyed treefrog noun: Synonym of Amazon milk frog.
  35. 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...
  36. mission home noun: The official residence of a mission president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
  37. mission impossible noun: An extremely difficult, if not impossible, task.
  38. Mission Indian noun: A Native American who lived in one of the Catholic missions in California.
  39. 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.
  40. mission manzanita noun: Xylococcus bicolor, a tree or shrub of Baja California.
  41. mission mix noun: Bulk stamps which include duplication accumulated by missions and charities, then sold to the collecting trade.
  42. mission mixture noun: bulk stamps which include duplication accumulated by missions and charities, then sold to the collecting trade.
  43. Mission olive noun: A cultivar of olive developed in California by Spanish missions along El Camino Real in the late 18th century.
  44. mission school noun: A school for religious, and sometimes also secular, education for the poor, funded by charitable donations.
  45. mission statement noun: A formal declaration of the overall goal or purpose of an organization.
  46. mission station noun: A reserve or other tract of land administered by religious missionaries for the spiritual and material welfare of Aboriginal people.
  47. mission stiff noun: A tramp or vagrant who often frequents missions or charitable organizations for food and shelter.
  48. missional adjective: Of or pertaining to a religious mission; missionary.
  49. missionality noun: The quality of being missional.
  50. missionally adverb: In a missional manner.
  51. missionar noun: A missionary.
  52. missionaress noun: A female missionary.
  53. 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...
  54. missionarily adverb: In a missionary manner.
  55. missionarise verb: Alternative spelling of missionarize
  56. missionarize verb: Alternative form of missionaryize.
  57. missionary adjective, noun /ˈmɪʃ.əˌnɛɹ.ɪ/: One who is sent on a mission.
  58. 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.
  59. missionary linguist noun: A missionary who seeks to study a people's language in order to facilitate religious conversion.
  60. missionary plant noun: Synonym of money plant (“Pilea peperomioides”).
  61. missionary position noun: A position for sexual intercourse in which the man and woman face each other, with the man on top.
  62. missionary rector noun: A Roman Catholic priest appointed to the charge of some important mission in England.
  63. missionary zeal noun: great enthusiasm
  64. missionarying noun: The religious work of a missionary.
  65. missionaryism noun: The work of a missionary, attempting to spread a religion or creed.
  66. missionaryize verb: To spread religion to, in the role of a missionary.
  67. missionarylike adjective: Resembling or characteristic of a missionary.
  68. missionaryship noun: The state or business of a missionary.
  69. missionee noun: The person whom a missionary attempts to convert to a religion.
  70. missioneering noun: The religious work done by missionaries.
  71. missioner noun: A missionary.
  72. missionisation noun: Alternative spelling of missionization
  73. missionise verb: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of missionize.
  74. missioniser noun: Alternative form of missionizer
  75. missionization noun: The religious work of a missionary.
  76. missionize verb /ˈmɪʃənʌɪz/: To work as a missionary; to do missionary work.
  77. missionizer noun: One who missionizes; a missionary.
  78. missionless adjective: Without a mission.
  79. missionlessness noun: Absence of a mission.
  80. missionology noun: Alternative form of missiology.
  81. missis noun: Pronunciation spelling of missus, representing African-American Vernacular English.
  82. Missisauga noun: Alternative form of Mississauga (“member of an Algonquian people”).
  83. missish adjective: Prim and prudish.
  84. missishly adverb: In a missish manner.
  85. missishness noun: The quality of being missish.
  86. Mississauga noun /ˌmɪ.sɪˈsɔː.ɡə/: A member of an Algonquian people now living in southern Ontario, Canada; also a member of this race.
  87. Mississaugan noun: A native or inhabitant of Mississauga, Canada.
  88. 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.
  89. Mississippi catfish noun: Synonym of blue catfish.
  90. Mississippi gopher frog noun: Lithobates sevosus, an endangered ranid frog endemic to the southern United States.
  91. Mississippi kite noun: Ictinia mississippiensis, a small bird of prey found across the central and southern United States.
  92. Mississippi mud pie noun: A dessert pie with gooey chocolate sauce on a crumbly chocolate crust.
  93. Mississippi rifle noun: The Model 1841 percussion rifle, a muzzleloading rifle used in the Mexican-American War and the American Civil War.
  94. Mississippi sax noun: A simple harmonica.
  95. 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.
  96. missituate verb: To situate incorrectly.
  97. missive adjective, noun /ˈmɪsɪv/: A written message; a letter, note or memo.
  98. missized adjective: Of the wrong size.
  99. misslanted adjective: Improperly slanted (any sense).
  100. misslaughter noun, verb: To slaughter improperly.
  101. misslice verb: To slice incorrectly.
  102. missment noun: A mistake; an error.
  103. misso noun: Missus (“wife or girlfriend”).
  104. missocialisation noun: Inadequate or disadvantageous socialisation; especially of a child
  105. missocialise verb: Alternative form of missocialize.
  106. missocialization noun: Alternative form of missocialisation.
  107. missocialize verb: To socialize inappropriately; to treat in a manner that encourages socially inappropriate behavior.
  108. Missolonghi proper noun: A town in western Greece.
  109. missolve verb: To solve incorrectly; to arrive at the wrong solution.
  110. Misson proper noun: A village and civil parish in Bassetlaw district, Nottinghamshire, England (OS grid ref SK6895).
  111. missorium noun: A decorated plate, which in late Roman and Byzantine times was donated on the occasion of solemn anniversaries to dignitaries
  112. missort noun, verb /mɪsˈsɔː(ɹ)t/: To sort incorrectly; to misorder.
  113. Missoula proper noun /mɪˈzuːlə/: A city, the county seat of Missoula County, Montana, United States.
  114. Missoulian adjective, noun: Of or relating to Missoula, Montana, United States.
  115. missound noun, verb: To sound or pronounce wrongly.
  116. Missouran noun /məˈzɝən/: Alternative form of Missourian.
  117. missource verb: To source inappropriately or incorrectly.
  118. Missouri proper noun /mɪˈzʊɹ.i/: A state in the Midwestern region of the United States. Capital: Jefferson City. Largest city: Kansas City.
  119. Missouri canary noun: A mule; a sterile hybrid of a donkey and a horse.
  120. Missouri currant noun: Synonym of Missouri gooseberry.
  121. Missouri evening primrose noun: Synonym of bigfruit evening primrose.
  122. Missouri Fox Trotter noun: A horse of a midsized, muscular breed with an ambling gait, bred in Missouri, United States.
  123. Missouri gooseberry noun: A prickly, many-stemmed shrub with edible fruit, Ribes missouriense, native to the northcentral United States.
  124. Missouri gourd noun: Synonym of calabazilla.
  125. 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.
  126. Missouri mule noun: A type of mule bred in Missouri known for its hardiness and stubbornness.
  127. Missouri primrose noun: Synonym of bigfruit evening primrose.
  128. Missouri Sucker noun: Synonym of Blue Sucker.
  129. Missouri toothpick noun: A Bowie knife.
  130. Missourian adjective, noun /mɪˈzʊɹi.ən/: From, of or pertaining to Missouri.
  131. Missourianism noun: The beliefs and practices of the Missouri Synod, a Lutheran denomination.
  132. missourite noun: A leucite-augite rock, resembling ijolite but with leucite in place of nepheline.
  133. missout noun: A situation where something is skipped or omitted.
  134. misspace verb: To space badly or incorrectly.
  135. misspeak verb /mɪsˈspiːk/: To fail to pronounce, utter, or speak correctly.
  136. misspeaker noun: One who misspeaks.
  137. misspeaking noun, verb /mɪsˈspiːkɪŋ/: The fact or instance of speaking incorrectly, falsely, or unclearly.
  138. misspecification noun: An incorrect specification.
  139. misspecified adjective, verb: Incorrectly specified
  140. misspecify verb: To specify wrongly.
  141. misspeculate verb: To speculate incorrectly; to make or act on a false conjecture.
  142. misspeculation noun: An instance of misspeculating.
  143. misspeech noun: Incorrect speech.
  144. misspeed verb: To fail in an attempt to speed something along.
  145. misspell verb /mɪsˈspɛl/: To spell incorrectly.
  146. misspellable adjective: Vulnerable to being misspelt.
  147. misspelled adjective, verb: Not spelled correctly.
  148. misspeller noun: One who spells incorrectly.
  149. misspelling noun, verb: Incorrect spelling.
  150. misspellingly adverb: In a misspelt manner; with misspelling.
  151. misspend verb: To spend poorly, incorrectly or unwisely.
  152. misspender noun: Someone who misspends.
  153. misspending noun, verb: Improper, wasteful, or incorrect spending; squandering
  154. misspense noun: Improper spending; waste.
  155. misspent adjective, verb: Spent in a bad way, squandered
  156. misspin noun, verb: To spin badly (any sense)
  157. misspit verb: To spit badly, such as missing the location where one is aiming.
  158. missplice verb: To incorrectly splice (typically of nucleic acid strands)
  159. misspliced adjective: Incorrectly spliced.
  160. missplit noun, verb: To split incorrectly.
  161. missplitting noun, verb: An instance of missplitting.
  162. misspool verb: To spool incorrectly.
  163. misspot noun, verb /mɪsˈspɒt/: To mark (dice) with the wrong number of spots, generally in order to cheat.
  164. misspotted adjective, verb: Incorrectly marked with spots.
  165. misspray noun, verb: To spray incorrectly.
  166. misspread noun, verb: To spread incorrectly or inappropriately.
  167. misstack noun, verb: To stack improperly.
  168. misstaff verb: To staff inappropriately, to hire for the wrong types of positions.
  169. misstage verb: To stage improperly.
  170. misstamp noun, verb /mɪsˈstæmp/: To stamp incorrectly.
  171. misstaple verb: To staple improperly.
  172. misstart verb: To start badly or wrongly.
  173. misstate verb: To make a statement that is in error, inadvertently; to say (something) incorrectly, through a slip of the tongue.
  174. misstatement noun: Something stated wrongly; a (usually unintentionally) incorrect statement.
  175. misstater noun: One who misstates something.
  176. misstation verb: To station improperly.
  177. misstay verb: To become caught in irons when changing tack.
  178. missteer verb: To steer badly or wrongly.
  179. misstep noun, verb /ˈmɪs.stɛp/: A step that is wrong, a false step.
  180. misstepper noun: One who missteps.
  181. misstepping noun, verb: A misstep or mistake.
  182. misstitch noun, verb: An improperly sewn stitch.
  183. misstitched adjective, verb: Containing misstitches; poorly sewn.
  184. misstock verb: To stock improperly.
  185. misstop verb: To stop badly or wrongly.
  186. misstore verb: To store improperly.
  187. misstowed adjective: Stowed wrongly, incorrectly, or improperly.
  188. misstress verb: To stress incorrectly.
  189. misstrike noun, verb /mɪsˈstɹaɪk/: To strike badly or incorrectly.
  190. misstring verb: To string incorrectly.
  191. misstrip noun, verb: To strip wrongly or in error.
  192. misstroke noun, verb: To stroke badly. (any sense)
  193. misstructure verb: To structure badly or wrongly.
  194. misstudied adjective: Studied wrongly, incorrectly, or in error.
  195. misstuff verb: To stuff incorrectly.
  196. misstyle verb: To style or name incorrectly.
  197. missubmit verb: To submit incorrectly.
  198. missubtract verb: To subtract incorrectly.
  199. missubtraction noun: An instance of missubtracting; incorrect subtraction.
  200. missuggest verb: To make a missuggestion; to suggest erroneously.
  201. missuggestion noun: Wrong or evil suggestion.
  202. missuit verb /mɪsˈsuːt/: To fail to suit.
  203. missummarise verb: Alternative form of missummarize.
  204. missummarize verb: To summarize incorrectly; to give an inaccurate summary.
  205. missummation noun: Wrong summation; incorrect addition.
  206. missuppose verb: To suppose incorrectly.
  207. missupposition noun: A wrong supposition.
  208. missurvey noun, verb: An inaccurate survey.
  209. missus noun /ˈmɪs.əz/: Wife or girlfriend.
  210. Missus President noun: Informal spelling of Mrs. President.
  211. missuspect verb: To suspect something that is not, in fact, the case.
  212. missuture noun, verb: To suture improperly.
  213. misswallow verb: To swallow incorrectly.
  214. missway verb: To sway or influence to an unfortunate result.
  215. misswear verb: To swear falsely or wrongly.
  216. misswing noun, verb: Alternative form of mis-swing.
  217. misswitch noun, verb: To switch incorrectly or by mistake.
  218. missy adjective, noun /ˈmɪs.i/: A young female, or miss; as a term of mild disparagement, typically used jokingly or rebukingly.
  219. missyllabication noun: Incorrect syllabication.
  220. missymbolize verb: To symbolize incorrectly.
  221. missynchronization noun: Incorrect synchronization.
  222. missynchronize verb: To synchronize incorrectly.
  223. missynthesize verb: To synthesize badly or incorrectly.
  224. mist noun, verb /mɪst/: Water or other liquid finely suspended in air. (Compare fog, haze.)
  225. mist belt noun: A region at middle altitude that is regularly misty, as opposed to the areas above and below.
  226. mist cap noun: A cap that provides invisibility to the one who wears it.
  227. mist coat noun: A thin layer of paint applied to new plaster to seal its porous surface and allow the final paint to adhere.
  228. mist frog noun: Any of several species of the genus Litoria of Australian tree frogs, but especially of the species Litoria rheocola.
  229. 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.
  230. mist over verb: To become covered with mist.
  231. mist-pond noun: A dewpond.
  232. mist up verb: To become misty.
  233. mistabulate verb: To tabulate incorrectly.
  234. mistabulation noun: Incorrect tabulation.
  235. mistackle noun, verb: To tackle improperly, such as when it is not legal, or not in the correct manner.
  236. mistag verb: To tag incorrectly; to mislabel.
  237. mistagging noun, verb: An instance of incorrect tagging.
  238. mistah noun: Pronunciation spelling of mister.
  239. mistailored adjective: Badly fitted;
  240. mistakability noun: The quality of being mistakable.
  241. mistakable adjective /mɪˈsteɪkəbəl/: Possible to be mistaken or misunderstood.
  242. mistakably adverb: In a mistakable manner
  243. mistake noun, verb /mɪˈsteɪk/: To understand wrongly, taking one thing or person for another.
  244. 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.
  245. 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...
  246. mistakeability noun: Alternative form of mistakability.
  247. mistakeable adjective: Alternative form of mistakable.
  248. mistakeably adverb: Alternative form of mistakably.
  249. mistakeful adjective: Full of mistakes.
  250. mistakeless adjective: Without any mistakes.
  251. mistakelessness noun: Freedom from mistakes.
  252. mistaken adjective, verb /mɪˈsteɪkn̩/: Erroneous.
  253. mistaken identity noun: A case of false belief that a certain individual is someone else.
  254. mistakenly adverb /mɪˈsteɪ.kən.li/: Wrongly; erroneously.
  255. mistakenness noun: The state or condition of being mistaken.
  256. mistakeproof adjective: Resistant to mistakes.
  257. mistaker noun /mɪsˈteɪkə(ɹ)/: One who mistakes.
  258. mistaking noun, verb: A mistake.
  259. mistakingly adverb: Alternative form of mistakenly.
  260. mistal noun /ˈmɪstəl/: A cowshed.
  261. mistalk noun, verb: To speak badly; to stutter, garble one's words, mispronounce words, substitute incorrect words, or make other such errors.
  262. mistally noun, verb /mɪsˈtæli/: To miscount.
  263. mistap noun, verb /ˈmɪstæp/: A tap on a touch screen device that is misplaced or otherwise accidental.
  264. mistarget verb: To target incorrectly.
  265. Mistassini noun: A member of a Cree people living around Lake Mistassini.
  266. mistaste noun, verb /mɪsˈteɪst/: To overindulge in food or drink
  267. mistax verb: To tax inappropriately.
  268. mistbelt noun: Alternative form of mist belt.
  269. mistbow noun: Synonym of fogbow.
  270. misteach verb: To teach incorrectly.
  271. misteacher noun: One who misteaches.
  272. misteaching noun, verb: Wrong, false, or incorrect teaching.
  273. misted adjective, verb: misty
  274. mistell noun, verb /mɪsˈtɛl/: To tell inaccurately.
  275. mistella noun /mɪˈstɛlə/: Alternative form of mistelle (alcoholic drink)
  276. mistelle noun /mɪˈstɛl/: A drink produced by adding alcohol to grape juice.
  277. mistelling noun, verb: An incorrect telling.
  278. mistemper verb: To temper (something) ill; to disorder.
  279. mistend verb: To tend poorly
  280. misteous adjective: Misty; obscure; vague.
  281. mister noun, verb /ˈmɪstə/: Alternative spelling of Mister, especially when used as a form of address without a name.
  282. Mister Big noun: Alternative form of Mr. Big.
  283. Mister Mom noun: A househusband who looks after his children.
  284. Mister Nice Guy noun: Alternative form of Mr. Nice Guy.
  285. Mister President noun: Alternative form of Mr. President.
  286. Mister Right noun: A perfect, ideal or suitable male companion, especially a husband.
  287. Mister Wrong noun: An unsuitable male companion, especially a husband.
  288. misteress noun: A male partner in an extramarital relationship; a male paramour; a kept man.
  289. misterm verb: To call by a wrong name; to misname or give a misnomer
  290. misterminate verb: To terminate incorrectly.
  291. misters before sisters proverb: A woman should prioritize her boyfriend or husband over her female friends.
  292. mistest noun, verb: To incorrectly test.
  293. mistetch verb: To misteach; teach badly or wrongly.
  294. mistext noun, verb: To make an error trying to send a text; to text the wrong person or send a garbled text.
  295. mistextured adjective: Incorrectly textured.
  296. mistfall noun: A waterfall that falls in the form of fine mist.
  297. mistflower noun: Any of several plants in the tribe Eupatorieae, especially Ageratina riparia and members of the genus Conoclinium.
  298. mistfly noun: Any of various species of dragonfly of the genus Pseudocordulia, endemic to tropical northeastern Australia.
  299. mistfrog noun: Alternative form of mist frog.

Part 104 · Part 106 · 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.