14-letter words starting with m
- minimalization — to make minimal: to minimalize tax increases.
- mining geology — geology applied to the exploitation of mineral deposits.
- ministerialist — A supporter of the ministers, or the party in power.
- minor prophets — a subdivision of the books constituting the second main part of the Hebrew Bible which in Christian tradition are alone called the Prophets
- minor seminary — a Roman Catholic preparatory school where persons planning to enter the priesthood follow a course of secondary education.
- minor sentence — any sentence that is not a true full sentence; a transformation by deletion from a full sentence.
- minority group — minority (defs 3, 4).
- mint condition — pristine state
- minucius felix — Marcus, Roman writer of the 2nd century a.d. whose dialogue Octavius is the earliest known work of Latin-Christian literature.
- minus infinity — The most negative value, not necessarily or even usually the simple negation of plus infinity. In N bit twos-complement arithmetic, infinity is 2^(N-1) - 1 but minus infinity is -(2^(N-1)), not -(2^(N-1) - 1).
- minus quantity — a quantity less than zero
- mirabile dictu — wonderful to relate; amazing to say
- miracle worker — If you describe someone as a miracle worker, you mean that they have achieved or are able to achieve success in something that other people have found very difficult.
- miraculousness — performed by or involving a supernatural power or agency: a miraculous cure.
- mirror writing — backward writing that resembles a mirror image of ordinary script.
- mirror-writing — backward writing that resembles a mirror image of ordinary script.
- mis-assessment — the act of assessing; appraisal; evaluation.
- mis-coordinate — of the same order or degree; equal in rank or importance.
- mis-estimation — to estimate wrongly or inadequately.
- misacceptation — misinterpretation
- misadventurous — (obsolete) unfortunate.
- misadvisedness — the state of being ill-advised or misguided
- misallocations — Plural form of misallocation.
- misanthropical — of, relating to, or characteristic of a misanthrope.
- misanthropists — Plural form of misanthropist.
- misapplication — to make a wrong application or use of.
- misapprehended — Simple past tense and past participle of misapprehend.
- misappropriate — to put to a wrong use.
- misarrangement — incorrect or poor arrangement
- misattribution — the act of attributing; ascription.
- miscalculating — Present participle of miscalculate.
- miscalculation — An act of miscalculating; an error or misjudgment.
- miscategorized — to arrange in categories or classes; classify.
- miscellanarian — a person who writes miscellanies
- mischief night — Halloween or, in some areas, the night before Halloween, as an occasion for pranks and minor vandalism by young people.
- mischief-maker — a person who causes mischief, especially one who stirs up discord, as by talebearing.
- misclassifying — Present participle of misclassify.
- miscommunicate — (ambitransitive) To communicate incorrectly.
- miscomputation — an act, process, or method of computing; calculation.
- misconceptions — Plural form of misconception.
- misconstructed — Simple past tense and past participle of misconstruct.
- miscontentment — discontent; dissatisfaction
- miscorrelation — mutual relation of two or more things, parts, etc.: Studies find a positive correlation between severity of illness and nutritional status of the patients. Synonyms: similarity, correspondence, matching; parallelism, equivalence; interdependence, interrelationship, interconnection.
- miscounselling — the act of giving bad or incorrect counselling
- misdeclaration — An incorrect declaration, especially in an official context.
- misdescription — an incorrect or misleading description
- misgovernaunce — misgovernment
- misidentifying — Present participle of misidentify.
- misimprovement — a flaw or shortcoming arising from an attempt to make better
- misinformation — to give false or misleading information to.