| mining | (noun) the act of extracting ores or coal etc from the earth | Synonyms: excavation |
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| (noun) laying explosive mines in concealed places to destroy enemy personnel and equipment | Synonyms: minelaying |
| minion | (noun) a servile or fawning dependant | - |
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| miniskirt | (noun) a very short skirt | Synonyms: mini |
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| minister | (noun) the job of a head of a government department | - |
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| (noun) a person authorized to conduct religious worship | Synonyms: curate, minister of religion, parson, pastor, rector |
| (noun) a diplomat representing one government to another; ranks below ambassador | Synonyms: diplomatic minister |
| (noun) a person appointed to a high office in the government | Synonyms: government minister |
| ministrant | (noun) someone who serves as a minister | - |
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| ministration | (noun) assistance in time of difficulty | Synonyms: relief, succor, succour |
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| ministry | (noun) the work of a minister of religion | - |
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| (noun) building where the business of a government ministry is transacted | - |
| (noun) a government department under the direction of a minister of state | - |
| (noun) religious ministers collectively (especially Presbyterian) | - |
| minisub | (noun) submersible vessel for one or two persons; for naval operations or underwater exploration | Synonyms: minisubmarine |
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| minisubmarine | (noun) submersible vessel for one or two persons; for naval operations or underwater exploration | Synonyms: minisub |
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| minium | (noun) a reddish oxide of lead (Pb3O4) used as a pigment in paints and in glass and ceramics | Synonyms: red lead |
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| minivan | (noun) a small box-shaped passenger van; usually has removable seats; used as a family car | - |
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| miniver | (noun) trimming on ceremonial robes consisting of white or light grey fur | - |
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| mink | (noun) slender-bodied semiaquatic mammal having partially webbed feet; valued for its fur | - |
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| (noun) fur coat made from the soft lustrous fur of minks | Synonyms: mink coat |
| (noun) the expensive fur of a mink | - |
| minniebush | (noun) low shrub of the eastern United States with downy twigs | Synonyms: Menziesia pilosa, minnie bush |
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| minnow | (noun) very small European freshwater fish common in gravelly streams | Synonyms: Phoxinus phoxinus |
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| minocycline | (noun) tetracycline antibiotic (trade name Minocin) used to treat a variety of bacterial and rickettsial infections | Synonyms: Minocin |
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| minor | (noun) a young person of either sex | Synonyms: child, fry, kid, nestling, nipper, shaver, small fry, tiddler, tike, tyke, youngster |
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| minority | (noun) being or relating to the smaller in number of two parts | - |
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| (noun) a group of people who differ racially or politically from a larger group of which it is a part | - |
| (noun) any age prior to the legal age | Synonyms: nonage |
| minors | (noun) a league of teams that do not belong to a major league (especially baseball) | Synonyms: bush league, minor league |
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| minoxidil | (noun) a vasodilator (trade name Loniten) used to treat severe hypertension; one side effect is hirsutism so it is also sold (trade name Rogaine) as a treatment for male-patterned baldness | Synonyms: Loniten, Rogaine |
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| minster | (noun) any of certain cathedrals and large churches; originally connected to a monastery | - |
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| minstrel | (noun) a singer of folk songs | Synonyms: folk singer, jongleur, poet-singer, troubadour |
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| (noun) a performer in a minstrel show | - |
| minstrelsy | (noun) the art of a minstrel | - |
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| (noun) ballads sung by minstrels | - |
| (noun) a troupe of minstrels | - |
| mint | (noun) a plant where money is coined by authority of the government | - |
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| (noun) a candy that is flavored with a mint oil | Synonyms: mint candy |
| (noun) the leaves of a mint plant used fresh or candied | - |
| (noun) any north temperate plant of the genus Mentha with aromatic leaves and small mauve flowers | - |
| (noun) any member of the mint family of plants | - |
| (noun) (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent | Synonyms: batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad |
| mintage | (noun) act or process of minting coins | - |
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| (noun) coins collectively | Synonyms: coinage, metal money, specie |
| (noun) fee paid to a mint by the government for minting a coin | - |
| minter | (noun) a skilled worker who coins or stamps money | Synonyms: coiner, moneyer |
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| mintiness | (noun) The state or condition of having a flavour or essence of mint. | - |
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| mintmark | (noun) a mark on a coin that identifies the mint where it was produced | - |
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| minuend | (noun) the number from which the subtrahend is subtracted | - |
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| minuet | (noun) a stately court dance in the 17th century | - |
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| (noun) a stately piece of music composed for dancing the minuet; often incorporated into a sonata or suite | - |
| minus | (noun) an arithmetic operation in which the difference between two numbers is calculated | Synonyms: subtraction |
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| minuscule | (noun) a small cursive script developed from uncial between the 7th and 9th centuries and used in medieval manuscripts | - |
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| (noun) the characters that were once kept in bottom half of a compositor's type case | Synonyms: lower-case letter, lowercase, small letter |
| minute | (noun) distance measured by the time taken to cover it | Synonyms: hour |
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| (noun) a short note | - |
| (noun) a unit of angular distance equal to a 60th of a degree | Synonyms: arcminute, minute of arc |
| (noun) a unit of time equal to 60 seconds or 1/60th of an hour | Synonyms: min |
| (noun) an indefinitely short time | Synonyms: bit, mo, moment, second |
| (noun) a particular point in time | Synonyms: instant, moment, second |
| minuteness | (noun) the property of being very small in size | Synonyms: diminutiveness, petiteness, tininess, weeness |
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| (noun) great precision; painstaking attention to details | - |
| minutes | (noun) a written account of what transpired at a meeting | Synonyms: proceedings, transactions |
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| minutia | (noun) (biometrics, forensics) Any of the major features of a fingerprint that allow prints to be compared. | - |
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| (noun) a small or minor detail | - |
| minx | (noun) a seductive woman who uses her sex appeal to exploit men | Synonyms: coquette, flirt, prickteaser, tease, vamp, vamper |
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| minyan | (noun) the quorum required by Jewish law to be present for public worship (at least ten males over thirteen years of age) | - |
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| miosis | (noun) reflex contraction of the sphincter muscle of the iris in response to a bright light (or certain drugs) causing the pupil to become smaller | Synonyms: light reflex, myosis, pupillary reflex |
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| (noun) (genetics) cell division that produces reproductive cells in sexually reproducing organisms; the nucleus divides into four nuclei each containing half the chromosome number (leading to gametes in animals and spores in plants) | Synonyms: meiosis, reduction division |
| miotic | (noun) a drug that causes miosis (constriction of the pupil of the eye) | Synonyms: miotic drug, myotic, myotic drug |
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| miracle | (noun) any amazing or wonderful occurrence | - |
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| (noun) a marvellous event manifesting a supernatural act of a divine agent | - |
| mirage | (noun) something illusory and unattainable | - |
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| (noun) an optical illusion in which atmospheric refraction by a layer of hot air distorts or inverts reflections of distant objects | - |
| mirasol | (noun) annual sunflower grown for silage and for its seeds which are a source of oil; common throughout United States and much of North America | Synonyms: common sunflower, Helianthus annuus |
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| mire | (noun) a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot | Synonyms: morass, quag, quagmire, slack |
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| (noun) a difficulty or embarrassment that is hard to extricate yourself from | - |
| (noun) deep soft mud in water or slush | Synonyms: slop |
| mirid | (noun) a variety of leaf bug | Synonyms: capsid, mirid bug |
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| miriness | (noun) The state or quality of being swampy or boggy. | - |
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| miro | (noun) New Zealand conifer used for lumber; the dark wood is used for interior carpentry | Synonyms: black pine, Podocarpus ferruginea, Prumnopitys ferruginea |
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| mirror | (noun) polished surface that forms images by reflecting light | - |
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| (noun) a faithful depiction or reflection | - |
| mirth | (noun) great merriment | Synonyms: glee, gleefulness, hilarity, mirthfulness |
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| mirthfulness | (noun) great merriment | Synonyms: glee, gleefulness, hilarity, mirth |
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| mirza | (noun) a title of respect placed before the surname of an official, scholar, or other distinguished man. | - |
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| misadventure | (noun) an instance of misfortune | Synonyms: mischance, mishap |
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| misalignment | (noun) the spatial property of things that are not properly aligned | - |
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| misalliance | (noun) an unsuitable alliance (especially with regard to marriage) | - |
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| misanthrope | (noun) someone who dislikes people in general | Synonyms: misanthropist |
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| misanthropist | (noun) someone who dislikes people in general | Synonyms: misanthrope |
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| misanthropy | (noun) a disposition to dislike and mistrust other people | - |
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| (noun) hatred of mankind | - |
| misapplication | (noun) the fraudulent appropriation of funds or property entrusted to your care but actually owned by someone else | Synonyms: defalcation, embezzlement, misappropriation, peculation |
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| (noun) wrong use or application | - |
| misapprehension | (noun) an understanding of something that is not correct | Synonyms: mistake, misunderstanding |
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| misappropriation | (noun) the fraudulent appropriation of funds or property entrusted to your care but actually owned by someone else | Synonyms: defalcation, embezzlement, misapplication, peculation |
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| (noun) wrongful borrowing | - |
| misbehavior | (noun) improper or wicked or immoral behavior | Synonyms: misbehaviour, misdeed |
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| misbehaviour | (noun) improper or wicked or immoral behavior | Synonyms: misbehavior, misdeed |
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| misbeliever | (noun) a person who holds religious beliefs in conflict with the dogma of the Roman Catholic Church | Synonyms: heretic, religious outcast |
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| miscalculation | (noun) a mistake in calculating | Synonyms: misestimation, misreckoning |
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| miscarriage | (noun) a natural loss of the products of conception | Synonyms: spontaneous abortion, stillbirth |
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| (noun) failure of a plan | Synonyms: abortion |
| miscegenation | (noun) reproduction by parents of different races (especially by white and non-white persons) | Synonyms: crossbreeding, interbreeding |
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| miscellanea | (noun) a collection containing a variety of sorts of things | Synonyms: assortment, miscellany, mixed bag, mixture, motley, potpourri, salmagundi, smorgasbord, variety |
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| 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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