7-letter words containing a, m, s
- mis-add — to unite or join so as to increase the number, quantity, size, or importance: to add two cups of sugar; to add a postscript to her letter; to add insult to injury.
- misacts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of misact.
- misally — to ally improperly or unsuitably.
- misaver — to state incorrectly
- misbias — to bias or prejudice incorrectly
- miscall — to call by a wrong name.
- miscast — to assign an unsuitable role to (an actor): Tom was miscast as Romeo.
- misdate — to assign or affix a wrong date to.
- misdeal — Cards. a deal in which the wrong number of cards have been distributed or in which the cards were dealt in the wrong order or manner, necessitating a new deal and the cancellation of any points made on the hand, sometimes with a penalty to the dealer.
- misdial — an act or instance of misdialing.
- misdraw — to cause to move in a particular direction by or as if by a pulling force; pull; drag (often followed by along, away, in, out, or off).
- misease — Archaic. discomfort; distress; suffering.
- misfall — to suffer bad luck or misfortune
- misfare — to get on or fare badly
- misgave — Simple past form of misgive.
- mishaps — Plural form of mishap.
- mishave — (intransitive, reflexive) To misbehave or misconduct (oneself); do wrong.
- mishear — to hear incorrectly or imperfectly: to mishear a remark.
- mishima — Yukio [yoo-kee-oh;; Japanese yoo-kee-aw] /ˈyu kiˌoʊ;; Japanese ˈyu kiˌɔ/ (Show IPA), (Kimitake Hiraoka) 1925–70, Japanese novelist and playwright.
- mishnah — the collection of oral laws compiled about a.d. 200 by Rabbi Judah ha-Nasi and forming the basic part of the Talmud.
- mishuga — meshuga
- mislaid — to lose temporarily; misplace: He mislaid his keys.
- mislays — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mislay.
- mislead — to lead or guide wrongly; lead astray.
- misload — (transitive) To load incorrectly.
- mismake — to make badly
- mismark — (transitive) To mark incorrectly; err in noting or marking.
- mismate — (transitive) To mate or match wrongly or unsuitably; mismatch.
- misname — to name incorrectly or wrongly; miscall.
- mispage — page wrongly
- mispaid — Simple past tense and past participle of mispay.
- mispart — to part wrongly
- misplan — (transitive) To plan badly or incorrectly.
- misplay — a wrong or bad play.
- misrate — to rate or estimate incorrectly
- misread — Read (a piece of text) wrongly.
- missaid — to say or speak ill of; vilify; slander.
- missals — Plural form of missal.
- misseat — to seat wrongly
- mistake — an error in action, calculation, opinion, or judgment caused by poor reasoning, carelessness, insufficient knowledge, etc.
- mistral — Frédéric [frey-dey-reek] /freɪ deɪˈrik/ (Show IPA), 1830–1914, French Provençal poet: Nobel prize 1904.
- miswart — /mis-wort/ [By analogy with misbug] A feature that superficially appears to be a wart but has been determined to be the Right Thing. For example, in some versions of the Emacs text editor, the "transpose characters" command exchanges the character under the cursor with the one before it on the screen, *except* when the cursor is at the end of a line, in which case the two characters before the cursor are exchanged. While this behaviour is perhaps surprising, and certainly inconsistent, it has been found through extensive experimentation to be what most users want. This feature is a miswart.
- mithras — the god of light and truth, later of the sun.
- mitsvah — mitzvah.
- mobcaps — Plural form of mobcap.
- mobcast — a podcast created and uploaded using a mobile phone
- mobsman — (obsolete) A pickpocket working in groups.
- mohawks — Plural form of mohawk.
- moissan — Henri [ahn-ree] /ɑ̃ˈri/ (Show IPA), 1852–1907, French chemist: Nobel prize 1906.
- molasse — (geology) A shallow deposit of sandstone, shale and conglomerate in front of a rising mountain chain.