11-letter words containing m, i, s, o
- 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.
- misallocate — to allocate mistakenly or improperly: to misallocate resources.
- misanthrope — a comedy (1666) by Molière.
- misanthropy — hatred, dislike, or distrust of humankind.
- misbecoming — Present participle of misbecome.
- misbegotten — unlawfully or irregularly begotten; born of unmarried parents; illegitimate: his misbegotten son.
- misbehavior — improper, inappropriate, or bad behavior.
- misbestowal — a wrong or improper bestowal
- miscegenous — Of, pertaining to, or being miscegenation; interracial (said primarily of marriages and other sexual or romantic relationships).
- mischevious — Misconstruction of mischievous.
- mischievous — maliciously or playfully annoying.
- miscitation — an erroneous citation
- misconceive — Fail to understand correctly.
- misconstrue — to misunderstand the meaning of; take in a wrong sense; misinterpret.
- miscounting — Present participle of miscount.
- miscreation — miscreated.
- misdemeanor — Law. a criminal offense defined as less serious than a felony.
- misdevotion — mistaken devotion
- misdiagnose — to make an incorrect diagnosis.
- misdivision — the act or process of dividing; state of being divided.
- misdoubtful — doubting; distrustful
- misdoubting — Present participle of misdoubt.
- misemployed — Simple past tense and past participle of misemploy.
- misericorde — (Middle English) an act of clemency; pity, mercy.
- misericords — Plural form of misericord.
- misfortuned — (archaic) unlucky, unfortunate.
- misfortunes — adverse fortune; bad luck.
- misfunction — malfunction.
- misgoverned — Simple past tense and past participle of misgovern.
- mishallowed — falsely hallowed or revered
- misinformed — to give false or misleading information to.
- misjoinders — Plural form of misjoinder.
- mislocation — to misplace.
- misocapnist — (rare) One who hates tobacco smoke.
- misogynists — Plural form of misogynist.
- misoneistic — hatred or dislike of what is new or represents change.
- misoprostol — A drug used for various purposes including the prevention of drug-induced gastric ulcers and the inducement of abortions, having the chemical formula C22H38O5.
- misordering — an authoritative direction or instruction; command; mandate.
- misorganize — to form as or into a whole consisting of interdependent or coordinated parts, especially for united action: to organize a committee.
- misposition — condition with reference to place; location; situation.
- misrelation — an erroneous or imperfect relation
- misreported — Simple past tense and past participle of misreport.
- miss out on — to fail to hit or strike: to miss a target.
- missionizer — a missionary
- missolonghi — a town in W Greece, on the Gulf of Patras: Byron died here 1824.