| 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 |