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English words: mirthlessness to miscarriage

300 English words, part 99 of 159 of the words starting with M, A to Z. 28 have a page of their own.

English words mirthlessness to miscarriage

  1. mirthlessness noun: The state or condition of being mirthless.
  2. mirthquake noun: An eruption of hilarity.
  3. mirthsome adjective: Full of mirth.
  4. mirthsomeness noun: Quality of being mirthsome.
  5. mirthy adjective: Characteristic of mirth
  6. mirtron noun: A short, hairpin intron
  7. mirudhangam noun: Alternative form of mridangam.
  8. mirusvirus noun: A virus of the phylum Mirusviricota, a widespread group of plankton-infecting viruses which forms a "missing link" between giant viruses and herpesviruses.
  9. miruthangam noun: Alternative form of mridangam.
  10. mirv noun, verb: Initialism of multiple independently-targettable reentry vehicle; the independently targettable reentry capsule for a ballistic missile's payload, typically...
  11. mirvetuximab soravtansine noun: A medication used to treat Fallopian tube cancer or primary peritoneal cancer.
  12. miry adjective /ˈmaɪ(ə)ɹi/: Resembling or characteristic of a mire; swampy, boggy.
  13. miryachit noun: A nervous disorder said to have been encountered in Siberia, characterized by a jumping tic and the involuntary imitation of the words and actions of other...
  14. Miryang dog noun: A type of South Korean street food, made of a mixture of potato, corn, minced meat, onion, bean sprouts, cheese, garlic, soy sauce, and salt, served in a...
  15. mirza noun /ˈmɪəzə/: An educated man in India or Iran (Persia); an official, a clerk.
  16. mirza ghasemi noun: A Persian dish made from fried aubergine (eggplant), egg, garlic, and tomato
  17. Mirzapur proper noun: A city and district of Uttar Pradesh, India.
  18. MIS noun, prefix: Bad or wrong; badly or wrongly.
  19. mis-apostrophize verb: To add an apostrophe inappropriately
  20. mis-association noun: Alternative form of misassociation.
  21. MIS-C noun: Initialism of multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children.
  22. mis-dealer noun: Alternative form of misdealer.
  23. mis-hire noun, verb: The act of mishiring.
  24. mis-history noun: Inaccurate history.
  25. mis-hit verb: Alternative form of mishit.
  26. mis-housed adjective: Alternative spelling of mishoused.
  27. mis lit noun: Synonym of misery lit.
  28. mis-pass noun: Alternative form of mispass
  29. mis-sell verb: To sell misleadingly, fraudulently, or in violation of laws or regulations.
  30. mis-shapen adjective: Alternative form of misshapen.
  31. mis-shoe verb: To shoe incorrectly; put a shoe on wrong
  32. mis-shunt noun: An incorrectly made shunting operation, possibly causing a mishap.
  33. mis-sing verb /mɪsˈsɪŋ/: To sing incorrectly.
  34. mis-spell verb: Alternative form of misspell.
  35. mis-spelling noun, verb: Alternative form of misspelling.
  36. mis-step noun: Alternative form of misstep.
  37. mis-swing noun, verb: To swing incorrectly.
  38. mis-theorise verb: Alternative form of mistheorize.
  39. mis-theorize verb: Alternative form of mistheorize.
  40. mis-tucked adjective: Alternative form of mistucked.
  41. mis-typing noun: Alternative spelling of mistyping.
  42. Misa proper noun: A surname.
  43. misability noun: The quality of being misable; solubility.
  44. misable adjective: Able to dissolve; soluble
  45. misabort verb: To spontaneously abort.
  46. misabsorb verb: To absorb wrongly.
  47. misaccent verb: To accent incorrectly.
  48. misaccentuate verb: To accentuate incorrectly.
  49. misaccentuation noun: Incorrect accentuation.
  50. misacceptation noun: misunderstanding
  51. misaccount noun, verb /mɪsəˈkaʊnt/: to account badly, wrongfully, or in error
  52. misaccumulated adjective: wrongly accumulated
  53. misaccumulation noun: Incorrect accumulation.
  54. misaccusation noun: An act of misaccusing; a false accusation.
  55. misaccuse verb: To accuse wrongly.
  56. misachievement noun: Bad or wrong achievement.
  57. misacknowledge verb /ˌmɪsəkˈnɒlɪdʒ/: To fail to acknowledge; to acknowledge wrongly.
  58. misacquisition noun: The acquiring of something badly or wrongly.
  59. misact verb: To act badly or wrongly.
  60. misaction noun: incorrect action
  61. misactivate verb: To activate incorrectly
  62. misactivated adjective: wrongly activated
  63. misactivation noun: incorrect activation
  64. misacylated adjective: Incorrectly acylated; especially, combined with the wrong amino acid
  65. misacylation noun: Incorrect or unusual acylation (typically of tRNA)
  66. misadapt verb: To adapt in the wrong way.
  67. misadaptation noun: Incorrect or inappropriate (genetic) adaptation
  68. misadd verb: To add incorrectly.
  69. misaddition noun: Incorrect addition.
  70. misaddress verb: To address (a letter, etc.) incorrectly.
  71. misadjust verb: To adjust wrongly or unsuitably.
  72. misadjustment noun: Wrong or unsuitable adjustment.
  73. misadminister verb: To administer wrongly or badly.
  74. misadministration noun: Bad or wrong administration.
  75. misadorn verb: To adorn badly; to embellish with unflattering adornments.
  76. misadvantage noun: Disadvantage.
  77. misadventur'd adjective: Alternative form of misadventured.
  78. misadventure noun: Synonym of misfortune, bad luck or mishap, an instance of bad luck.
  79. misadventured adjective: unfortunate
  80. misadventurer noun: One who experiences misadventures.
  81. misadventurous adjective: unfortunate; doomed
  82. misadventurously adverb: In a misadventurous manner.
  83. misadvertence noun: inadvertence; carelessness
  84. misadvice noun: bad advice
  85. misadvise verb: To give bad advice
  86. misadvised adjective, verb: Showing poor judgement, ill-advised, injudicious.
  87. misadvisedly adverb: In a misadvised manner.
  88. misadvisedness noun: The property of being misadvised.
  89. Misael proper noun: A male given name from Hebrew.
  90. misaffect verb: To dislike.
  91. misaffected adjective: lacking sympathy
  92. misaffection noun: An evil or wrong affection; the state of being ill affected.
  93. misaffirm verb: To affirm incorrectly.
  94. misaggregation noun: An invalid aggregation (of data)
  95. misagree verb: to agree on the basis of a misunderstanding, or without full engagement in what is being agreed to
  96. misagreement noun: When the number (singular vs plural in subject and verb do not match. or when the tense of verbs in a sentence does not correspond (less commonly used in...
  97. misaim verb: To aim incorrectly.
  98. Misak noun: Synonym of Guambiano.
  99. Misaki proper noun: A female given name from Japanese.
  100. misakinolide noun: A macrolide lactone related to swinholide
  101. Misako proper noun: A female given name from Japanese.
  102. misal noun: An Indian dish of vegetables in a spicy gravy.
  103. misalign verb: To align incorrectly
  104. misaligned adjective, verb: Out of alignment.
  105. misaligner noun: One who misaligns something.
  106. misalignment noun: The state, or an instance, of being misaligned.
  107. misallegation noun: An erroneous statement or allegation.
  108. misallege verb: To state erroneously.
  109. misalliance noun /ˌmɪsəˈlaɪəns/: An unsuitable alliance, especially an unsuitable marriage.
  110. misallied adjective: Wrongly allied or associated.
  111. misallocate verb: To allocate incorrectly or inappropriately.
  112. misallocation noun: An improper or unwise allocation, especially of money.
  113. misallocative adjective: Of or pertaining to the misallocation of resources.
  114. misallot verb: To allot or apportion badly or wrongly.
  115. misallotment noun: Incorrect allotment.
  116. misallotted adjective: allotted badly or wrongly
  117. misallowance noun: A bad or wrong allowance; something allotted in error.
  118. misally verb: To wrongly join together; to wrongly ally with or to.
  119. misalphabetized adjective: alphabetized incorrectly
  120. misalter verb: To make a change that leaves (something) worse than before.
  121. misaminoacylate verb: To modify by misaminoacylation
  122. misaminoacylated adjective, verb: Incorrectly aminoacylated
  123. misaminoacylation noun: Incorrect or unusual aminoacylation (typically of tRNA)
  124. Misamis proper noun: A former province of the Philippines.
  125. misamplification noun: Incorrect amplification (typically of DNA)
  126. misanalyse verb: Alternative form of misanalyze.
  127. misanalysis noun: Incorrect analysis.
  128. misanalyze verb: To analyze incorrectly
  129. misandric adjective, noun: Exhibiting or pertaining to misandry: hating or prejudiced against men.
  130. misandrism noun: The principle or disposition of misandry, the hatred of men.
  131. misandrist adjective, noun: Exhibiting or pertaining to misandry; hating or prejudiced against men.
  132. misandristic adjective: Exhibiting or pertaining to misandry: hating or prejudiced against men.
  133. misandronist noun: A person who hates men.
  134. misandrous adjective: Exhibiting or pertaining to misandry: hating or prejudiced against men.
  135. misandry noun /mɪˈsændɹi/: Hatred of, contempt for, or prejudice against men.
  136. misanga noun: A friendship bracelet
  137. misanneal verb: To incorrectly anneal
  138. misannotate verb: To annotate incorrectly
  139. misannotated adjective: Incorrectly annotated.
  140. misannotation noun: A faulty annotation
  141. misanswer noun, verb /mɪsˈænsə(ɹ)/: to answer badly, wrongly, or incorrectly
  142. misanthrope noun /ˈmɪs.ənˌθɹəʊp/: One who has a negative view of the entire human race.
  143. misanthropic adjective /ˌmɪsənˈθɹɒpɪk/: Having a negative view of mankind. This may express itself as, e.g., distrust, dislike, hate, or contempt.
  144. misanthropical adjective: misanthropic
  145. misanthropically adverb: In a misanthropic manner.
  146. misanthropise verb: Alternative form of misanthropize.
  147. misanthropism noun: misanthropy
  148. misanthropist noun: A misanthrope; a person who has a negative view of all humankind.
  149. misanthropize verb: To hate mankind.
  150. misanthropy noun /mɪˈsæn.θɹə.pi/: A negative view or hatred of the human race.
  151. misappear verb: To give a false appearance; to seem to be something other than the true form.
  152. misappearance noun: A false appearance; An instance of seeming as other than what is the true form; an illusion.
  153. misappellation noun: Synonym of misnomer.
  154. misappliance noun: Misapplication; the act of misapplying something.
  155. misapplication noun: The misuse of something, incorrectly using (applying) something, a wrong application.
  156. misapplier noun: One who misapplies something.
  157. misapply verb /ˌmɪsəˈplaɪ/: To apply incorrectly; to misuse.
  158. misappointment noun: The act of appointing badly or wrongly; the appointment of an unsuitable person.
  159. misappraisal noun: A bad or inaccurate appraisal.
  160. misappraise verb: To appraise wrongly.
  161. misappraisement noun: Synonym of misappraisal.
  162. misappreciate verb: To appreciate improperly; to fail to understand in the right way.
  163. misappreciation noun: A failure to correctly and completely understand; an incorrect notion or belief that is a result of such a failure.
  164. misappreciative adjective: Failing to appreciate properly.
  165. misapprehend verb /mɪsapɹɪˈhɛnd/: To interpret incorrectly; to misunderstand.
  166. misapprehended adjective, verb: Misunderstood.
  167. misapprehender noun: One who misapprehends.
  168. misapprehendingly adverb: So as to misunderstand.
  169. misapprehensible adjective: Able to be misapprehended.
  170. misapprehension noun: A failure to understand something; an illusion, misconception, or misunderstanding.
  171. misapprehensive adjective: Of or pertaining to misapprehension.
  172. misapprehensively adverb: By, or with, misapprehension.
  173. misapprehensiveness noun: The quality of being misapprehensive.
  174. misappropriate verb /ˌmɪs.əˈpɹəʊ.pɹɪ.eɪt/: To take something for wrong or illegal purposes.
  175. misappropriately adverb: inappropriately
  176. misappropriation noun: The wrongful, fraudulent or corrupt use of other's funds in one's care.
  177. misappropriator noun: A person who misappropriates.
  178. misapproximation noun: An incorrect approximation
  179. misarchism noun: Synonym of misarchy.
  180. misarchist noun: One who dislikes and distrusts all government.
  181. misarchy noun: The dislike of all forms of government.
  182. misargument noun: incorrect argument
  183. misarrange verb: To incorrectly arrange
  184. misarrangement noun: Wrong or incorrect arrangement.
  185. misarray noun: disarray; disorder; confusion
  186. misarrayed adjective: disorganised; disarrayed; jumbled up; confused
  187. misarticulate verb: To articulate badly or wrongly.
  188. misarticulation noun: Incorrect articulation.
  189. misascertainment noun /ˌmɪsəˈsɜːtənmənt/: Incorrect ascertainment.
  190. misascribe verb: To ascribe wrongly.
  191. misascription noun: The act or process of misascribing.
  192. misask verb: to ask amiss; ask badly, wrongfully, or incorrectly
  193. misasked adjective, verb: asked amiss, for the wrong purpose, or incorrectly
  194. misassemble verb: To assemble badly or wrongly.
  195. misassembled adjective, verb: Incorrectly assembled
  196. misassembly noun: Wrong or defective assembly.
  197. misassert verb: To assert incorrectly or falsely.
  198. misassess verb: To assess incorrectly.
  199. misassessment noun: An incorrect assessment.
  200. misassign verb: to assign incorrectly
  201. misassignment noun: An incorrect or unsuitable assignment, especially of a teacher.
  202. misassociate verb: To have or create an incorrect or bad association.
  203. misassociation noun: A false, misleading, or incorrect association.
  204. misassume verb: To assume incorrectly.
  205. misassumption noun: An incorrect assumption.
  206. Misato proper noun: A town and city in Saitama Prefecture, Japan.
  207. misattach verb: To attach incorrectly.
  208. misattached adjective: Incorrectly attached
  209. misattachment noun: An incorrect attachment (e.g. to an email, or of a kinetochore)
  210. misattend verb: To misunderstand something; to disregard or fail to pay attention.
  211. misattribute verb: To erroneously attribute; to falsely ascribe; used especially of authorship.
  212. misattribution noun: The act or process of misattributing.
  213. misattune verb: To attune badly or wrongly.
  214. misattunement noun: Bad or wrong attunement.
  215. misaudit verb: To audit incorrectly.
  216. misauthorization noun: Erroneous authorization.
  217. misauthorize verb: To authorize erroneously.
  218. misavise verb: To misadvise.
  219. misaward verb: To award incorrectly or inappropriately.
  220. misawite noun: δ-FeOOH, a compound said to be found on the iron pillar of Delhi
  221. MISB adjective: Initialism of mint in sealed box.
  222. misbaha noun: A set of Islamic prayer beads.
  223. misbalance noun, verb /mɪsˈbæləns/: To balance badly or wrongly.
  224. misband verb: To categorize (a parcel etc.) in the wrong weight or size band.
  225. misbear verb: To carry or bear improperly; (reflexive) to carry (oneself) wrongly i.e. misbehave.
  226. misbearing noun, verb: bearing amiss, especially as pertaining to one's conduct; misconduct
  227. misbeat noun, verb /ˈmɪsbiːt/: A false, wrong, or incorrect beat; a beat in the wrong time or rhythm.
  228. misbecome verb: To be unsuitable for; not to befit.
  229. misbecoming adjective, verb: unbecoming; unbefitting
  230. misbecomingly adverb: In a misbecoming manner.
  231. misbecomingness noun: Quality of being misbecoming.
  232. misbefall verb: Of an event, to happen unfortunately to (a person).
  233. misbefitting adjective: Not befitting; unfit or unsuitable
  234. misbeget verb: To produce children from an illicit or inappropriate union, especially when such children suffer birth defects.
  235. misbegot adjective, verb: Misbegotten; unlawfully or irregularly begotten; of bad origin
  236. misbegotten adjective, noun, verb /ˌmɪsbɪˈɡɒtn̩/: Born out of wedlock; illegitimate.
  237. misbegun adjective: begun badly or incorrectly
  238. misbehadden adjective: Alternative form of misbeholden.
  239. misbehave verb: To act or behave in an inappropriate, improper, incorrect, or unexpected manner.
  240. misbehaver noun /mɪsbəˈheɪvə(ɹ)/: One who misbehaves.
  241. misbehavin' verb: Pronunciation spelling of misbehaving.
  242. misbehaving noun, verb: bad conduct or actions
  243. misbehavior noun /ˌmɪsbɪˈheɪvjə(ɹ)/: Action or conduct that is inappropriate, improper, incorrect, or unexpected.
  244. misbehavioral adjective: Alternative form of misbehavioural.
  245. misbehaviour noun /ˌmɪsbəˈheɪvjɚ/: Alternative spelling of misbehavior.
  246. misbehavioural adjective: Of, pertaining to, or causing misbehaviour.
  247. misbeholden adjective: Disobliging; offensive or unkind.
  248. misbelief noun: an erroneous belief
  249. misbelieve verb: To believe incorrectly; hold to a false belief.
  250. misbeliever noun /mɪsbɪˈlivɚ/: Someone who holds a bad or wrong belief; a heretic, an unbeliever.
  251. misbelieving noun, verb /mɪsbɪˈliːvɪŋ/: The refusal to believe something; disbelief, or an instance of this.
  252. misbelievingly adverb: Synonym of disbelievingly.
  253. misbeseem verb: To be unseemly on or from; to fail to suit.
  254. misbestow verb: To bestow improperly.
  255. misbestowal noun: The act of misbestowing.
  256. misbid noun, verb /mɪsˈbɪd/: To injure; mistreat.
  257. misbidding noun: Incorrect bidding.
  258. misbill verb: To bill incorrectly.
  259. misbind verb: To bind incorrectly.
  260. misbirth noun: A miscarriage; also, a miscarried foetus, a stillborn baby.
  261. misbisection noun: Incorrect bisection (typically of chromosomes).
  262. misblame verb: To blame wrongly; to blame one who is not guilty.
  263. misblend noun, verb /mɪsˈblɛnd/: To blend incorrectly.
  264. misblow noun, verb /ˈmɪsbləʊ/: A blow that lands incorrectly.
  265. misboard verb: To board incorrectly (the wrong vehicle).
  266. misbode verb: To sense or foreshadow impending disaster.
  267. misboding adjective, noun, verb: Feeling a sense of impending disaster.
  268. misborn adjective /mɪsˈbɔːn/: Born prematurely; abortive.
  269. misbox noun, verb /mɪsˈbɒks/: To put in the wrong box.
  270. misbrand verb: To make a mistake in branding a product or service, as by poor association of the name in a significant group of potential customers.
  271. misbranded adjective, verb: Of a product, containing incorrect information on the label that would tend to deceive consumers as to any aspect of the product.
  272. misbreathe verb: To breathe wrongly, to breathe irregularly
  273. misbreed noun, verb /mɪsˈbɹiːd/: To breed with the wrong mate, resulting in inferior offspring.
  274. misbrew verb: To brew incorrectly.
  275. misbrief verb: To brief incorrectly; to supply with wrong preparatory information.
  276. misbudget verb: To budget too much or too little.
  277. misbuild verb: To build wrongly or badly.
  278. misbutton verb: To button wrongly.
  279. misbuy noun, verb: To buy in error or regretfully.
  280. misbuying noun, verb: The act of buying or purchasing in error.
  281. misc adjective: Abbreviation of miscellaneous.
  282. miscal noun: Alternative form of miskal.
  283. miscalculate verb /mɪsˈkælkjʊleɪt/: To calculate incorrectly.
  284. miscalculation noun: An incorrect or mistaken calculation.
  285. miscalculator noun: A person who miscalculates
  286. miscalendar verb: To enter an appointment on the wrong date in a schedule.
  287. miscalibrate verb /mɪsˈkælɪbɹeɪt/: To calibrate poorly or wrongly.
  288. miscalibration noun: An incorrect calibration.
  289. miscall noun, verb /mɪskɔːl/: To call (someone) bad names; to insult, abuse.
  290. miscaller noun: One who calls something by the wrong name.
  291. miscancel verb: To cancel by mistake.
  292. miscanthus noun /ˌmɪsˈkænθəs/: Any of several perennial grasses, of genus Miscanthus, native to subtropical and tropical regions of Africa and southern Asia, varieties of which are...
  293. miscapitalisation noun: Alternative form of miscapitalization.
  294. miscapitalise verb: Alternative spelling of miscapitalize.
  295. miscapitalization noun: Incorrect capitalization; an act of miscapitalizing.
  296. miscapitalize verb: To capitalize incorrectly.
  297. miscaption noun, verb /mɪsˈkæpʃən/: An erroneous caption.
  298. miscaptioned adjective: Having an incorrect caption
  299. miscare noun: Faulty or improper care.
  300. miscarriage noun /ˈmɪskaɹɪd͡ʒ/: A failure; a mistake or error.

Part 98 · Part 100 · 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.