11-letter words containing e, m, s, i
- minesweeper — a specially equipped ship used for dragging a body of water in order to remove or destroy enemy mines.
- mineworkers — Plural form of mineworker.
- mini-course — a brief intensive course of study
- mini-series — a short series of events or presentations.
- miniaturise — (British) alternative spelling of miniaturize.
- minicourses — Plural form of minicourse.
- minidresses — Plural form of minidress.
- minimalised — to make minimal: to minimalize tax increases.
- miniskirted — Wearing a miniskirt.
- ministerial — pertaining to the ministry of religion, or to a minister or other member of the clergy.
- ministering — a person authorized to conduct religious worship; member of the clergy; pastor.
- ministerium — an organization of local ministers or religious leaders who work with other community leaders on social or educational programs.
- ministrokes — Plural form of ministroke.
- minneapolis — a city in SE Minnesota, on the Mississippi.
- minnesinger — one of a class of German lyric poets and singers of the 12th, 13th, and 14th centuries.
- minor scale — Also called harmonic minor scale. a scale having half steps between the second and third, fifth and sixth, and seventh and eighth degrees, with whole steps for the other intervals.
- minoritised — Simple past tense and past participle of minoritise.
- miphiboseth — Mephibosheth.
- mirror lens — a lens of long focal length in which some of the lens elements are replaced by mirrors in order to shorten its overall length and reduce its weight
- mirror site — (networking) An archive site or website which keeps a copy of some or all files at another site so as to make them more quickly available and to reduce the load on the source site. It is generally best to use the mirror that is physically closest to you as this will usually give the fastest download. Such mirroring is usually done for specific whole directories or files on a specific remote server as opposed to a cache or proxy server which keeps copies of everything that is requested via it. For example, src.doc.ic.ac.uk is the main UK mirror for the GNU archive at gnu.org.
- mirrorscope — (dated) A slide projector.
- mirthlessly — In a mirthless manner; sadly.
- mis-defined — to state or set forth the meaning of (a word, phrase, etc.): They disagreed on how to define “liberal.”.
- mis-package — a bundle of something, usually of small or medium size, that is packed and wrapped or boxed; parcel.
- mis-phrased — Grammar. a sequence of two or more words arranged in a grammatical construction and acting as a unit in a sentence. (in English) a sequence of two or more words that does not contain a finite verb and its subject or that does not consist of clause elements such as subject, verb, object, or complement, as a preposition and a noun or pronoun, an adjective and noun, or an adverb and verb.
- mis-selling — the act or an instance of mis-selling
- mis-shipped — a vessel, especially a large oceangoing one propelled by sails or engines.
- misadjusted — to change (something) so that it fits, corresponds, or conforms; adapt; accommodate: to adjust expenses to income.
- misalliance — an improper or incompatible association, especially in marriage; mésalliance.
- misallocate — to allocate mistakenly or improperly: to misallocate resources.
- misanalyzed — Simple past tense and past participle of misanalyze.
- misanthrope — a comedy (1666) by Molière.
- misappraise — to estimate the monetary value of; determine the worth of; assess: We had an expert appraise the house before we bought it.
- misassemble — to assemble incorrectly
- misassigned — to give or allocate; allot: to assign rooms at a hotel.
- misbalanced — badly balanced
- misbecoming — Present participle of misbecome.
- misbefallen — Simple past tense and past participle of misbefall.
- misbegotten — unlawfully or irregularly begotten; born of unmarried parents; illegitimate: his misbegotten son.
- misbehaving — to behave badly or improperly: The children misbehaved during our visit.
- misbehavior — improper, inappropriate, or bad behavior.
- misbelieved — Simple past tense and past participle of misbelieve.
- misbeliever — Someone who holds an unauthorised belief; a heretic, an unbeliever.
- misbestowal — a wrong or improper bestowal
- miscarriage — the expulsion of a fetus before it is viable, especially between the third and seventh months of pregnancy; spontaneous abortion. Compare abortion (def 1).
- miscegenate — (US) to mix or blend.
- miscegenist — advocating miscegenation
- miscegenous — Of, pertaining to, or being miscegenation; interracial (said primarily of marriages and other sexual or romantic relationships).
- miscellanea — Miscellaneous items, especially literary compositions, that have been collected together.
- misch metal — a pyrophoric alloy, containing approximately 50 percent cerium and 45 percent lanthanum, made from a mixture of various rare-earth chlorides by electrolysis.