7-letter words containing s, m, a, i
- 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.
- moissan — Henri [ahn-ree] /ɑ̃ˈri/ (Show IPA), 1852–1907, French chemist: Nobel prize 1906.
- monesia — a preparation extracted from the bark of a South American tree, Pradosia lactescens, and used chiefly as an astringent and as an expectorant.
- mosaics — Plural form of mosaic.
- ms mail — Microsoft Mail
- musical — of, relating to, or producing music: a musical instrument.
- musicam — (audio, compression) A name for MPEG-1 Layer 2 used for broadcasting. Common data rates are 192, 224, and 256 kbps.
- myalism — a kind of witchcraft, similar to obi, practised esp in the Caribbean
- myiases — Plural form of myiasis.
- myiasis — any disease that results from the infestation of tissues or cavities of the body by larvae of flies.
- myriads — Plural form of myriad.
- narcism — inordinate fascination with oneself; excessive self-love; vanity. Synonyms: self-centeredness, smugness, egocentrism.
- naziism — the principles or methods of the Nazis.
- nemesia — any plant of the southern African scrophulariaceous genus Nemesia: cultivated for their brightly coloured (often reddish) flowers
- onanism — withdrawal of the penis in sexual intercourse so that ejaculation takes place outside the vagina; coitus interruptus.
- oralism — the theory, practice, or advocacy of education for the deaf chiefly or exclusively through lipreading, training in speech production, and training of residual hearing.
- osman i — 1259–1326, Turkish sultan; founder of the Ottoman Empire
- osmanli — an Ottoman.