English Words: M

36,575 words · Page 478 of 732

misrulernoun

One who rules badly.

misrulingnoun

A bad or wrong ruling.

misrulyadj

unruly

misrunnoun

A casting that does not completely fill the mold, leaving unfilled spaces.

missverb

To fail to hit, catch, grasp, etc.

miss a beatverb

Alternative form of skip a beat.

miss a trickverb

To allow an advantageous opportunity to pass by.

Miss Austenishadj

Synonym of Austenish.

Miss Emmaname

The drug morphine.

Miss Fidditchnoun

A pedantic, prescriptivist language teacher.

miss fireverb

Dated form of misfire.

Miss Havisham-esqueadj

Alternative form of Miss Havishamesque.

Miss Havishamesqueadj

Synonym of Havishamesque.

miss offverb

To drop; leave off; omit.

miss one's guessverb

To be incorrect in one's assumption.

miss one's tipverb

To fail in one's plan or attempt.

miss oneselfverb

To miss an enjoyable experience through not being in the right place at the right time.

miss outverb

To miss an experience or lose an opportunity, etc. that should not be missed.

Miss Piggynoun

An overweight woman.

Miss Rightnoun

A perfect, ideal or suitable female companion, especially a wife.

Miss Ronaname

A personification of COVID-19, sometimes as a villain.

miss the boatverb

To fail to take advantage of an opportunity; to overlook or be too late to pursue an option or course of action.

miss the markverb

Of a projectile, to fail to hit the target.

miss the memoverb

To be unaware of the current state of affairs.

miss the pointverb

To fail to grasp the meaning of an utterance or situation.

Miss Thingnoun

A conceited person, usually a woman or a gay man.

Miss Waldron's red colobusnoun

Piliocolobus waldronae, a red colobus native to West Africa.

missanoun

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, Agnus Dei and/or Sanctus) to music, notably when the text in Latin is used (as long universally prescribed by Rome)

Missa Cantataname

A Catholic Mass that is less elaborate than a High Mass, but with equivalent sung liturgical parts.

missableadj

Able to avoid detection.

missalnoun

A prayer book; a church service (book).

missalettenoun

A small missal, especially one published periodically.

Missaukee Countyname

One of 83 counties in Michigan, United States. County seat: Lake City.

missayverb

To speak ill of (someone).

missayernoun

One who missays; a misspeaker.

misscanverb

To scan incorrectly.

misscheduleverb

To schedule badly or wrongly.

misschoolverb

To school improperly; to teach or train in incorrect or problematic material or by the wrong methods.

misscoreverb

To assign the wrong score to.

misscreenverb

To screen (examine in order to assess the status of) improperly.

misscrewverb

To screw in incorrectly.

misscribeverb

To write or inscribe incorrectly.

misscriptionnoun

The act or result of misscribing.

missealverb

To seal improperly.

misseasonedadj

Badly seasoned.

misseatverb

To seat badly or wrongly.

missedverb

simple past and past participle of miss

missed abortionnoun

A miscarriage where the products of that miscarriage are not expelled.

missed callverb

To deliberately terminate a call before the recipient answers in order to communicate a pre-agreed message.

misseeverb

To see incorrectly; to misperceive visually; take a wrong view of; see in a false or distorted light.

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 478. 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.

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