| miscellany | (noun) an anthology of short literary pieces and poems and ballads etc. | Synonyms: florilegium, garland |
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| (noun) a collection containing a variety of sorts of things | Synonyms: assortment, miscellanea, mixed bag, mixture, motley, potpourri, salmagundi, smorgasbord, variety |
| mischance | (noun) an instance of misfortune | Synonyms: misadventure, mishap |
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| (noun) an unpredictable outcome that is unfortunate | Synonyms: bad luck, mishap |
| mischief | (noun) reckless or malicious behavior that causes discomfort or annoyance in others | Synonyms: devilment, devilry, deviltry, mischief-making, mischievousness, rascality, roguery, roguishness, shenanigan |
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| (noun) the quality or nature of being harmful or evil | Synonyms: balefulness, maleficence |
| mischievousness | (noun) reckless or malicious behavior that causes discomfort or annoyance in others | Synonyms: devilment, devilry, deviltry, mischief-making, mischief, rascality, roguery, roguishness, shenanigan |
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| (noun) an attribute of mischievous children | Synonyms: badness, naughtiness |
| (noun) the trait of behaving like an imp | Synonyms: impishness, puckishness, whimsicality |
| misconception | (noun) an incorrect conception | - |
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| misconduct | (noun) activity that transgresses moral or civil law | Synonyms: actus reus, wrongdoing, wrongful conduct |
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| (noun) bad or dishonest management by persons supposed to act on another's behalf | - |
| misconstrual | (noun) a kind of misinterpretation resulting from putting a wrong construction on words or actions (often deliberately) | Synonyms: misconstruction |
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| misconstruction | (noun) an ungrammatical constituent | - |
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| (noun) a kind of misinterpretation resulting from putting a wrong construction on words or actions (often deliberately) | Synonyms: misconstrual |
| miscount | (noun) an inaccurate count | - |
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| miscreant | (noun) a person without moral scruples | Synonyms: reprobate |
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| miscreation | (noun) something abnormal or anomalous | Synonyms: malformation |
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| miscue | (noun) a faulty shot in billiards; the cue tip slips off the cue ball | - |
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| (noun) a minor inadvertent mistake usually observed in speech or writing or in small accidents or memory lapses etc. | Synonyms: parapraxis, slip-up, slip |
| misdating | (noun) something located at a time when it could not have existed or occurred | Synonyms: anachronism, mistiming |
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| misdeal | (noun) an incorrect deal | - |
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| misdeed | (noun) improper or wicked or immoral behavior | Synonyms: misbehavior, misbehaviour |
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| misdemeanor | (noun) a crime less serious than a felony | Synonyms: infraction, infringement, misdemeanour, violation |
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| misdemeanour | (noun) a crime less serious than a felony | Synonyms: infraction, infringement, misdemeanor, violation |
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| misdirection | (noun) management that is careless or inefficient | Synonyms: mismanagement |
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| (noun) the act of distracting; drawing someone's attention away from something | Synonyms: distraction |
| (noun) incorrect directions or instructions | - |
| (noun) an incorrect charge to a jury given by a judge | - |
| miser | (noun) a stingy hoarder of money and possessions (often living miserably) | - |
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| miserabilism | (noun) mid-20th century French art movement. | - |
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| miserableness | (noun) a state of ill-being due to affliction or misfortune | Synonyms: misery, wretchedness |
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| miserliness | (noun) total lack of generosity with money | - |
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| misery | (noun) a feeling of intense unhappiness | - |
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| (noun) a state of ill-being due to affliction or misfortune | Synonyms: miserableness, wretchedness |
| misestimation | (noun) a mistake in calculating | Synonyms: miscalculation, misreckoning |
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| misfeasance | (noun) doing a proper act in a wrongful or injurious manner | - |
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| misfire | (noun) an explosion that fails to occur | Synonyms: dud |
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| (noun) a failure to hit (or meet or find etc) | Synonyms: miss |
| misfit | (noun) someone unable to adapt to their circumstances | - |
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| misfortune | (noun) unnecessary and unforeseen trouble resulting from an unfortunate event | Synonyms: bad luck |
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| (noun) an unfortunate state resulting from unfavorable outcomes | Synonyms: bad luck, ill luck, tough luck |
| misgiving | (noun) doubt about someone's honesty | Synonyms: distrust, mistrust, suspicion |
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| (noun) painful expectation | Synonyms: apprehension |
| (noun) uneasiness about the fitness of an action (particularly for reasons of ethics, morals or propriety) | Synonyms: qualm, scruple |
| misgovernment | (noun) government that is inefficient or dishonest | Synonyms: misrule |
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| mishap | (noun) an instance of misfortune | Synonyms: misadventure, mischance |
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| (noun) an unpredictable outcome that is unfortunate | Synonyms: bad luck, mischance |
| mishegaas | (noun) (Yiddish) craziness; senseless behavior or activity | Synonyms: meshugaas, mishegoss |
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| mishegoss | (noun) (Yiddish) craziness; senseless behavior or activity | Synonyms: meshugaas, mishegaas |
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| mishmash | (noun) a motley assortment of things | Synonyms: farrago, gallimaufry, hodgepodge, hotchpotch, melange, mingle-mangle, oddments, odds and ends, omnium-gatherum, ragbag |
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| mishpachah | (noun) (Yiddish) the entire family network of relatives by blood or marriage (and sometimes close friends) | Synonyms: mishpocha |
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| mishpocha | (noun) (Yiddish) the entire family network of relatives by blood or marriage (and sometimes close friends) | Synonyms: mishpachah |
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| misinformation | (noun) information that is incorrect | - |
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| misinterpretation | (noun) putting the wrong interpretation on | Synonyms: mistaking, misunderstanding |
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| misleader | (noun) someone who leads astray (often deliberately) | - |
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| misleadingness | (noun) The quality of being deceptive or tending to mislead or create a false impression. | - |
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| mismanagement | (noun) management that is careless or inefficient | Synonyms: misdirection |
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| mismatch | (noun) a bad or unsuitable match | - |
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| misnomer | (noun) an incorrect or unsuitable name | - |
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| miso | (noun) a thick paste made from fermented soybeans and barley or rice malt; used in Japanese cooking to make soups or sauces | - |
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| misocainea | (noun) hatred of new ideas | - |
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| misogamist | (noun) a person who hates marriage | - |
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| misogamy | (noun) hatred of marriage | - |
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| misogynism | (noun) hatred of women | Synonyms: misogyny |
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| misogynist | (noun) a misanthrope who dislikes women in particular | Synonyms: woman hater |
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| misogyny | (noun) hatred of women | Synonyms: misogynism |
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| misology | (noun) hatred of reasoning | - |
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| misoneism | (noun) hatred of change or innovation | - |
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| misopedia | (noun) hatred of children | - |
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| mispickel | (noun) a silver-white or grey ore of arsenic | Synonyms: arsenopyrite |
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| misplacement | (noun) faulty position | Synonyms: malposition |
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| misplay | (noun) (baseball) a failure of a defensive player to make an out when normal play would have sufficed | Synonyms: error |
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| misprint | (noun) a mistake in printed matter resulting from mechanical failures of some kind | Synonyms: erratum, literal, literal error, typo, typographical error |
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| mispronunciation | (noun) incorrect pronunciation | - |
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| misquotation | (noun) an incorrect quotation | Synonyms: misquote |
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| misquote | (noun) an incorrect quotation | Synonyms: misquotation |
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| misreading | (noun) misinterpretation caused by inaccurate reading | - |
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| misreckoning | (noun) a mistake in calculating | Synonyms: miscalculation, misestimation |
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| misrepresentation | (noun) a willful perversion of facts | Synonyms: falsification |
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| (noun) a misleading falsehood | Synonyms: deceit, deception |
| misrule | (noun) government that is inefficient or dishonest | Synonyms: misgovernment |
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| miss | (noun) a failure to hit (or meet or find etc) | Synonyms: misfire |
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| (noun) a young female | Synonyms: fille, girl, missy, young lady, young woman |
| missal | (noun) (Roman Catholic Church) a book containing all the prayers and responses needed to celebrate Mass throughout the year | - |
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| misshapenness | (noun) an affliction in which some part of the body is misshapen or malformed | Synonyms: deformity, malformation |
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| missile | (noun) a weapon that is forcibly thrown or projected at a targets but is not self-propelled | Synonyms: projectile |
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| (noun) a rocket carrying a warhead of conventional or nuclear explosives; may be ballistic or directed by remote control | - |
| mission | (noun) a special assignment that is given to a person or group | Synonyms: charge, commission |
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| (noun) an operation that is assigned by a higher headquarters | Synonyms: military mission |
| (noun) the organized work of a religious missionary | Synonyms: missionary work |
| (noun) a group of representatives or delegates | Synonyms: commission, delegacy, delegation, deputation |
| (noun) an organization of missionaries in a foreign land sent to carry on religious work | Synonyms: foreign mission, missionary post, missionary station |
| missionary | (noun) someone who attempts to convert others to a particular doctrine or program | - |
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| (noun) someone sent on a mission--especially a religious or charitable mission to a foreign country | Synonyms: missioner |
| missioner | (noun) someone sent on a mission--especially a religious or charitable mission to a foreign country | Synonyms: missionary |
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| missis | (noun) informal term of address for someone's wife | Synonyms: missus |
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| missive | (noun) a written message addressed to a person or organization | Synonyms: letter |
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| misspelling | (noun) a spelling that is incorrect | - |
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| misstatement | (noun) a statement that contains a mistake | - |
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| misstep | (noun) an unintentional but embarrassing blunder | Synonyms: stumble, trip-up, trip |
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| missus | (noun) informal term of address for someone's wife | Synonyms: missis |
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| missy | (noun) a young female | Synonyms: fille, girl, miss, young lady, young woman |
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| mist | (noun) a thin fog with condensation near the ground | - |
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| mistake | (noun) a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention | Synonyms: error, fault |
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| (noun) an understanding of something that is not correct | Synonyms: misapprehension, misunderstanding |
| (noun) part of a statement that is not correct | Synonyms: error |
| mistaking | (noun) putting the wrong interpretation on | Synonyms: misinterpretation, misunderstanding |
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| mistflower | (noun) rhizomatous plant of central and southeastern United States and West Indies having large showy heads of clear blue flowers; sometimes placed in genus Eupatorium | Synonyms: ageratum, Conoclinium coelestinum, Eupatorium coelestinum, mist-flower |
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| mistiming | (noun) something located at a time when it could not have existed or occurred | Synonyms: anachronism, misdating |
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| mistiness | (noun) cloudiness resulting from haze or mist or vapor | Synonyms: haziness, steaminess, vaporousness, vapourousness |
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| mistletoe | (noun) Old World parasitic shrub having branching greenish stems with leathery leaves and waxy white glutinous berries; the traditional mistletoe of Christmas | Synonyms: Old World mistletoe, Viscum album |
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| (noun) American plants closely resembling Old World mistletoe | Synonyms: false mistletoe |
| (noun) shrub of central and southeastern Europe; partially parasitic on beeches, chestnuts and oaks | Synonyms: Loranthus europaeus |
| mistral | (noun) a strong north wind that blows in France during the winter | - |
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| mistranslation | (noun) an incorrect translation | - |
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| mistreatment | (noun) the practice of treating (someone or something) badly | - |
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| mistress | (noun) a woman master who directs the work of others | - |
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| (noun) an adulterous woman; a woman who has an ongoing extramarital sexual relationship with a man | Synonyms: fancy woman, kept woman |
| (noun) a woman schoolteacher (especially one regarded as strict) | Synonyms: schoolma'am, schoolmarm, schoolmistress |
| mistrial | (noun) a trial that is invalid or inconclusive | - |
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| mistrust | (noun) the trait of not trusting others | Synonyms: distrust, distrustfulness |
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| (noun) doubt about someone's honesty | Synonyms: distrust, misgiving, suspicion |
| misunderstanding | (noun) an understanding of something that is not correct | Synonyms: misapprehension, mistake |
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| (noun) putting the wrong interpretation on | Synonyms: misinterpretation, mistaking |
| misuse | (noun) improper or excessive use | Synonyms: abuse |
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| momism | (noun) excessive protection | Synonyms: overprotection, overshielding |
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| monogamist | (noun) someone who practices monogamy (one spouse at a time) | Synonyms: monogynist |
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| nonconformism | (noun) the practice of nonconformity | - |
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| (noun) a lack of orthodoxy in thoughts or beliefs | Synonyms: nonconformance, nonconformity |
| nonconformist | (noun) someone who refuses to conform to established standards of conduct | Synonyms: recusant |
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| numismatics | (noun) the collection and study of money (and coins in particular) | Synonyms: coin collecting, coin collection, numismatology |
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| numismatist | (noun) a collector and student of money (and coins in particular) | Synonyms: coin collector, numismatologist |
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| numismatologist | (noun) a collector and student of money (and coins in particular) | Synonyms: coin collector, numismatist |
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