14-letter words starting with mi
- 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.
- misinformative — to give false or misleading information to.
- misinstruction — Wrong or improper instruction.
- misinterpreted — Simple past tense and past participle of misinterpret.
- mismanagements — Plural form of mismanagement.
- mismeasurement — an inaccurate or incorrect measurement
- misorientation — a bad or incorrect orientation
- misperceptions — Plural form of misperception.
- misperformance — a musical, dramatic, or other entertainment presented before an audience.
- mispronouncing — Present participle of mispronounce.
- mispunctuation — incorrect punctuation
- misrecognition — Incorrect recognition.
- misrecognizing — Present participle of misrecognize.
- misremembering — Present participle of misremember.
- misremembrance — An incorrect remembrance; something remembered wrongly.
- misrepresented — Simple past tense and past participle of misrepresent.
- miss the point — fail to understand
- missed'em-five — (operating system, abuse) (Or "SysVile" /sis-vi:l'/) A pejorative hackerism for AT&T System V Unix, generally used by BSD partisans in a bigoted mood. See software bloat, Berzerkeley.
- missing person — sb who has disappeared
- missionization — the work and practice of missionaries
- missouri river — a state in the central United States. 69,674 sq. mi. (180,455 sq. km). Capital: Jefferson City. Abbreviation: MO (for use with zip code), Mo.
- mister charlie — a term used to refer to a white person.
- mistletoe bird — a small Australian flower-pecker, Dicaeum hirundinaceum, that feeds on mistletoe berries
- mistranscribed — to make a written copy, especially a typewritten copy, of (dictated material, notes taken during a lecture, or other spoken material).
- mistranslating — Present participle of mistranslate.
- mistranslation — An incorrect translation.
- misunderstands — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of misunderstand.
- misutilization — to put to use; turn to profitable account: to utilize a stream to power a mill.
- mithridates vi — ("the Great") 132?–63 b.c, king of Pontus 120–63.
- mittag-leffler — Magnus Gösta [mahng-nuhs yœ-stah] /ˈmɑŋ nʌs ˈyœ stɑ/ (Show IPA), 1846–1927, Swedish mathematician.
- mixed blessing — something that, although generally favorable or advantageous, has one or more unfavorable or disadvantageous features.
- mixed feelings — conflicted emotions
- mixed foursome — a foursome of two teams, each comprised of a man and a woman.
- mixed language — any language containing items of vocabulary or other linguistic characteristics borrowed from two or more existing languages
- mixed marriage — a marriage between persons of different racial, ethnic, or religious groups, as between a black person and a white person or between a Christian and a Jew.
- mixed metaphor — the use in the same expression of two or more metaphors that are incongruous or illogical when combined, as in “The president will put the ship of state on its feet.”.