12-letter words starting with m
- misgoverning — Present participle of misgovern.
- mishappening — Present participle of mishappen.
- misinference — Incorrect inference.
- misinforming — Present participle of misinform.
- misintention — an act or instance of determining mentally upon some action or result.
- misinterpret — Interpret (something or someone) wrongly.
- misjudgement — Alternative form of misjudgment.
- misjudgments — Plural form of misjudgment.
- misknowledge — a misunderstanding or misconception
- misleadingly — In a misleading manner.
- mismatchment — an inappropriate match
- misogynistic — reflecting or exhibiting hatred, dislike, mistrust, or mistreatment of women.
- misoperation — an act or instance, process, or manner of functioning or operating.
- misorientate — misorient.
- misperceived — Simple past tense and past participle of misperceive.
- misperceives — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of misperceive.
- misplacement — to put in a wrong place.
- mispleadings — Plural form of mispleading.
- misportrayal — the act of portraying.
- misprescribe — to lay down, in writing or otherwise, as a rule or a course of action to be followed; appoint, ordain, or enjoin.
- mispronounce — Pronounce (a word) incorrectly.
- mispunctuate — to punctuate incorrectly.
- misquotation — the act of misquoting.
- misreckoning — Present participle of misreckon.
- misrecognize — (psychology, computing) To recognize in error.
- misrecollect — to recall to mind; recover knowledge of by memory; remember.
- misreference — to reference (an academic work, a publication, etc) inaccurately or incorrectly
- misrepresent — to represent incorrectly, improperly, or falsely.
- miss the bus — lose opportunity
- miss the cut — to achieve a greater score after the first two rounds of a strokeplay tournament than that required to play in the remaining two rounds
- missile base — a military base used for storing and firing missiles
- missing link — a hypothetical form of animal assumed to have constituted a connecting link between the anthropoid apes and humans, identified by some authorities as constituting the genus Australopithecus.
- missing mass — the difference in mass in the universe between that observed to exist and that necessary for the closed universe model.
- missiologies — Plural form of missiology.
- missiologist — One who studies missiology.
- missionaries — Plural form of missionary.
- missionarize — to undertake missionary work
- misspecified — to mention or name specifically or definitely; state in detail: He did not specify the amount needed.
- misspellings — Plural form of misspelling.
- misstatement — to state wrongly or misleadingly; make a wrong statement about.
- missummation — an incorrect summation
- mistakenness — The state or condition of being mistaken.
- mistranslate — Translate (something) incorrectly.
- mistreatment — to treat badly or abusively.
- mistressless — having no mistress
- mistrustless — having no distrust or misgiving
- misventurous — characterized by a mishap
- miter square — an instrument for laying out miter joints, consisting of two straightedges joined at a 45° angle.
- mithridatism — the production of immunity against the action of a poison by taking the poison in gradually increased doses.
- mithridatize — to induce a state of mithridatism in (a person).