14-letter words starting with mi
- mind uploading — (application) The science fiction concept of copying one's mind into an artificial body or computer.
- mind-expanding — heightening perceptions in a hallucinatory way: mind-expanding drugs.
- mindbogglingly — In a mindboggling manner; in such a way as to boggle the mind; so as to be beyond comprehension or understanding.
- miner's anemia — hookworm (def 2).
- mineral rights — right to extract minerals from land
- mineral spring — a spring of water that contains a significant amount of dissolved minerals.
- mineralisation — Alternative spelling of mineralization.
- mineralization — to convert into a mineral substance.
- miniature golf — a game or amusement modeled on golf and played with a putter and golf ball, in which each very short, grassless “hole” constitutes an obstacle course, consisting of wooden alleys, tunnels, bridges, etc., through which the ball must be driven to hole it.
- minicalculator — a very small handheld calculator
- miniconvention — a small-scale or preliminary convention, especially a political convention prior to a larger or national convention.
- minicoy island — a small island in the S Laccadive Islands, off the SW coast of India. 1.25 sq. mi. (3.24 sq. km).
- minilaparotomy — Surgery. laparotomy with a small incision into the abdomen, often no more than 1 inch (2.5 cm), used especially for tubal ligation.
- 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.