English Words: M

36,575 words · Page 473 of 732

Describing a chain of nucleic acid containing nucleotides that are not complementary to those in the corresponding position of the other chain.

misparaphraseverb

To paraphrase incorrectly.

Badly or wrongly raised by one's parents.

To park badly or wrongly.

simple past and past participle of mispark

To parrot incorrectly; to make an imperfect attempt to repeat what one has heard.

To parse incorrectly.

To part or divide badly.

A bad or wrong pass of the ball.

Wrong passion or feeling.

To paste incorrectly.

To patch wrongly.

To follow or copy a pattern imperfectly; to deviate from a pattern.

mispatternedadj

Having an incorrect pattern

mispatterningnoun

The formation of an incorrect pattern

Having broken or uneven pavement.

To pay incorrectly, or to the wrong person.

incorrect payment

To incorrectly ascribe a value or attribute to.

To pen badly or wrongly.

Alternative form of misspense.

A missing person.

misperceiveverb

To perceive erroneously.

misperceivernoun

One who misperceives.

misperceptionnoun

An incorrect perception.

misperceptiveadj

Perceiving incorrectly.

A misperforated stamp.

misperforatedadj

Incorrectly perforated.

misperforationnoun

Bad or incorrect perforation.

To perform badly or wrongly.

misperformancenoun

incorrect performance

misperformernoun

One who misperforms.

To assail with abusive language.

mispersuadeverb

To persuade wrongly; to persuade into doing something wrong

mispersuasionnoun

A false persuasion; a wrong notion or opinion.

To put or become out of phase.

misphenotypeverb

To phenotype incorrectly

To phrase incorrectly.

A defect in woven fabric in which a yarn across the warp is in the wrong place.

The mineral arsenopyrite

To pile badly.

To pin incorrectly.

To sing or play one or more notes at the wrong pitch.

To put something somewhere and then forget its location; to mislay.

misplaceableadj

Able to be misplaced.

Uncomfortable, especially due to one's surroundings.

In a misplaced manner; in the wrong place.

misplacednessnoun

The quality of being misplaced.

misplacementnoun

Bad placement.

One who misplaces something.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The English alphabetical index for the letter M contains 36,575 headwords drawn from our Wiktionary-derived dictionary table. At 50 entries per page the browse splits into 732 pages, and you are currently viewing page 473. Every row above is a dictionary-backed entry with a canonical slug, and each links through to a full definition page with pronunciation, senses, etymology, and related-word data where available.

On this page 50 of 50 entries carry a part-of-speech tag and 50 carry at least one stored definition. Coverage varies across letters because Wiktionary volunteers build entries at different speeds for different parts of the alphabet, letters with common starting sounds (S, C, T, P) usually have the densest coverage, while less frequent starters (X, Q, Z) tend to have shorter but more specialised lists. PlainSpell surfaces whatever data is present and links back to the source when a definition is not yet recorded.

For readers using this index as a spelling reference, the guarantee is that every form you see on the list is a documented English headword, not a guess, not a derived inflection lacking a lemma row. If a word you expected to find is absent from the "M" list, it usually means the form exists only as an inflection of another lemma (e.g. a past participle stored under the infinitive) or the entry has not yet been imported from Wiktionary. Use the search bar or the misspelling lookup to resolve these cases.