| mint | (adjective) as if new | - |
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| (noun) a plant where money is coined by authority of the government | - |
| (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 |
| (verb) form by stamping, punching, or printing | Synonyms: coin, strike |
| 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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| minty | (adjective) relating to or suggestive of mint | - |
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| (adjective) of the flavor of mint, particularly peppermint | - |
| 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 | (adjective) on the negative side or lower end of a scale | - |
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| (adjective) involving disadvantage or harm | Synonyms: negative |
| (noun) an arithmetic operation in which the difference between two numbers is calculated | Synonyms: subtraction |
| minuscular | (adjective) of or relating to a small cursive script developed from uncial; 7th to 9th centuries | Synonyms: minuscule |
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| minuscule | (adjective) of or relating to a small cursive script developed from uncial; 7th to 9th centuries | Synonyms: minuscular |
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| (adjective) lowercase | Synonyms: little, small |
| (adjective) extremely small | Synonyms: miniscule |
| (noun) a small cursive script developed from uncial between the 7th and 9th centuries and used in medieval manuscripts | - |
| (noun) the characters that were once kept in bottom half of a compositor's type case | Synonyms: lower-case letter, lowercase, small letter |
| minute | (adjective) characterized by painstaking care and detailed examination | Synonyms: narrow |
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| (adjective) infinitely or immeasurably small | Synonyms: infinitesimal |
| (noun) distance measured by the time taken to cover it | Synonyms: hour |
| (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 |
| minutely | (adverb) in minute detail | Synonyms: circumstantially |
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| 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 | (adjective) of or relating to or causing constriction of the pupil of the eye | Synonyms: myotic |
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| (noun) a drug that causes miosis (constriction of the pupil of the eye) | Synonyms: miotic drug, myotic, myotic drug |
| miracle | (noun) any amazing or wonderful occurrence | - |
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| (noun) a marvellous event manifesting a supernatural act of a divine agent | - |
| miraculous | (adjective) peculiarly fortunate or appropriate; as if by divine intervention | Synonyms: heaven-sent, providential |
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| (adjective) being or having the character of a miracle | Synonyms: marvellous, marvelous |
| miraculously | (adverb) in a miraculous manner | - |
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| 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 |
| (verb) soil with mud, muck, or mire | Synonyms: muck, muck up, mud |
| (verb) be unable to move further | Synonyms: bog down, get stuck, grind to a halt |
| (verb) cause to get stuck as if in a mire | Synonyms: bog down |
| (verb) entrap | Synonyms: entangle |
| mired | (adjective) entangled or hindered as if e.g. in mire | Synonyms: involved |
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| 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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| mirky | (adjective) (of liquids) clouded as with sediment | Synonyms: cloudy, muddy, murky, turbid |
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| (adjective) dark or gloomy | Synonyms: murky |
| 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 | - |
| (verb) reflect or resemble | - |
| (verb) reflect as if in a mirror | - |
| mirrored | (adjective) like or characteristic of a mirror image | - |
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| mirrorlike | (adjective) capable of reflecting light like a mirror | Synonyms: specular |
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| mirth | (noun) great merriment | Synonyms: glee, gleefulness, hilarity, mirthfulness |
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| mirthful | (adjective) arousing or provoking laughter | Synonyms: amusing, comic, comical, funny, laughable, risible |
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| (adjective) full of or showing high-spirited merriment | Synonyms: gay, jocund, jolly, jovial, merry |
| mirthfully | (adverb) in a joyous manner | Synonyms: blithely, gayly, happily, jubilantly, merrily |
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| mirthfulness | (noun) great merriment | Synonyms: glee, gleefulness, hilarity, mirth |
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| mirthless | (adjective) lacking mirth | - |
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| miry | (adjective) (of soil) soft and watery | Synonyms: boggy, marshy, mucky, muddy, quaggy, sloppy, sloughy, soggy, squashy, swampy, waterlogged |
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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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| misaddress | (verb) put a wrong address on | Synonyms: misdirect |
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| misadventure | (noun) an instance of misfortune | Synonyms: mischance, mishap |
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| misadvise | (verb) give bad advice to | Synonyms: misguide |
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| misalign | (verb) align imperfectly or badly | - |
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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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| misally | (verb) make a bad alliance; ally inappropriately | - |
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| misanthrope | (noun) someone who dislikes people in general | Synonyms: misanthropist |
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| misanthropic | (adjective) believing the worst of human nature and motives; having a sneering disbelief in e.g. selflessness of others | Synonyms: cynical, misanthropical |
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| (adjective) hating mankind in general | Synonyms: misanthropical |
| misanthropical | (adjective) believing the worst of human nature and motives; having a sneering disbelief in e.g. selflessness of others | Synonyms: cynical, misanthropic |
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| (adjective) hating mankind in general | Synonyms: misanthropic |
| 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 | - |
| misapply | (verb) apply to a wrong thing or person; apply badly or incorrectly | Synonyms: misuse |
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| misapprehend | (verb) interpret in the wrong way | Synonyms: be amiss, misconceive, misconstrue, misinterpret, misunderstand |
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| misapprehension | (noun) an understanding of something that is not correct | Synonyms: mistake, misunderstanding |
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| misappropriate | (verb) appropriate (as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use | Synonyms: defalcate, embezzle, malversate, peculate |
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| misappropriated | (adjective) taken for your own use in violation of a trust | Synonyms: embezzled |
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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 | - |
| misbegot | (adjective) born out of wedlock | Synonyms: bastardly, misbegotten, spurious |
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| misbegotten | (adjective) born out of wedlock | Synonyms: bastardly, misbegot, spurious |
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| misbehave | (verb) behave badly | Synonyms: misconduct, misdemean |
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| 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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| misbelieve | (verb) hold a false or unorthodox belief | - |
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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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| misbranded | (adjective) branded or labeled falsely and in violation of statutory requirements | Synonyms: mislabeled |
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| miscalculate | (verb) calculate incorrectly | Synonyms: misestimate |
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| (verb) to reckon wrongly | Synonyms: misestimate |
| miscalculation | (noun) a mistake in calculating | Synonyms: misestimation, misreckoning |
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| miscall | (verb) assign in incorrect name to | Synonyms: misname |
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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 |
| miscarry | (verb) suffer a miscarriage | - |
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| (verb) be unsuccessful | Synonyms: fail, go wrong |
| miscast | (verb) cast an actor, singer, or dancer in an unsuitable role | - |
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| miscegenate | (verb) marry or cohabit with a person of another race | - |
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| 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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| miscellaneous | (adjective) consisting of a haphazard assortment of different kinds | Synonyms: assorted, mixed, motley, sundry |
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| (adjective) having many aspects or qualities | Synonyms: many-sided, multifaceted, multifarious |
| 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 |
| mischievous | (adjective) deliberately causing harm or damage | - |
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| (adjective) naughtily or annoyingly playful | Synonyms: arch, impish, implike, pixilated, prankish, puckish, wicked |
| mischievously | (adverb) in a disobedient or naughty way | Synonyms: badly, naughtily |
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| 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 |
| miscible | (adjective) (chemistry, physics) capable of being mixed | Synonyms: mixable |
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| misconceive | (verb) interpret in the wrong way | Synonyms: be amiss, misapprehend, misconstrue, misinterpret, misunderstand |
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| 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 | - |
| (verb) manage badly or incompetently | Synonyms: mishandle, mismanage |
| (verb) behave badly | Synonyms: misbehave, misdemean |
| 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 |
| misconstrue | (verb) interpret in the wrong way | Synonyms: be amiss, misapprehend, misconceive, misinterpret, misunderstand |
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| miscount | (noun) an inaccurate count | - |
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| (verb) count wrongly | - |
| miscreant | (noun) a person without moral scruples | Synonyms: reprobate |
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| miscreate | (verb) shape or form or make badly | - |
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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 |
| misdate | (verb) assign the wrong date to | - |
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| 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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| (verb) deal cards wrongly | - |
| misdeed | (noun) improper or wicked or immoral behavior | Synonyms: misbehavior, misbehaviour |
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