11-letter words containing s, e, m, i, r
- mimeographs — Plural form of mimeograph.
- mince words — speak tentatively, tactfully
- mineralised — Simple past tense and past participle of mineralise.
- mineralizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mineralize.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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-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.
- 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.
- misbehavior — improper, inappropriate, or bad behavior.
- misbeliever — Someone who holds an unauthorised belief; a heretic, an unbeliever.
- 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).
- misconstrue — to misunderstand the meaning of; take in a wrong sense; misinterpret.
- miscreation — miscreated.
- miscreative — creating evil
- misdemeanor — Law. a criminal offense defined as less serious than a felony.
- misdescribe — Describe inaccurately or misleadingly.
- misdirected — Simple past tense and past participle of misdirect.
- miserablest — Superlative form of miserable.
- misericorde — (Middle English) an act of clemency; pity, mercy.
- misericords — Plural form of misericord.
- miserliness — of, like, or befitting a miser; penurious; stingy; niggardly.
- misery guts — if you describe someone as a misery guts, you mean they are miserable when they could or should be happy
- misfeatured — Having ugly or misshapen features.
- misfortuned — (archaic) unlucky, unfortunate.
- misfortunes — adverse fortune; bad luck.
- misgoverned — Simple past tense and past participle of misgovern.
- misinformed — to give false or misleading information to.
- misjoinders — Plural form of misjoinder.
- mislearning — Present participle of mislearn.
- mismarriage — an unsuitable or unhappy marriage.
- misnumbered — a numeral or group of numerals.
- misordering — an authoritative direction or instruction; command; mandate.