| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| miasmatic | adjective | Alt. of Miasmatical |
| micaceous | adjective | Pertaining to, or containing, mica; splitting into laminae or leaves like mica. |
| micraster | noun | A genus of sea urchins, similar to Spatangus, abounding in the chalk formation; — from the starlike disposal of the ambulacral furrows. |
| microbion | noun | A microscopic organism; — particularly applied to bacteria and especially to pathogenic forms; as, the microbe of fowl cholera. |
| microbian | adjective | Of, pertaining to, or caused by, microbes; as, the microbian theory; a microbian disease. |
| microcosm | noun | A little world; a miniature universe. Hence (so called by Paracelsus), a man, as a supposed epitome of the exterior universe or great world. Opposed to macrocosm. |
| microcyte | noun | One of the elementary granules found in blood. They are much smaller than an ordinary corpuscle, and are particularly noticeable in disease, as in anaemia. |
| microdont | adjective | Having small teeth. |
| microform | noun | A microscopic form of life; an animal or vegetable organism microscopic size. |
| microlite | noun | A rare mineral of resinous luster and high specific gravity. It is a tantalate of calcium, and occurs in octahedral crystals usually very minute., A minute inclosed crystal, often observed when minerals or rocks are examined in thin sections under the microscope. |
| microlith | noun | Same as Microlite, 2. |
| micrology | noun | That part of science which treats of microscopic objects, or depends on microscopic observation., Attention to petty items or differences. |
| micromere | noun | One of the smaller cells, or blastomeres, resulting from the complete segmentation of a telolecithal ovum. |
| micropyle | noun | An opening in the membranes surrounding the ovum, by which nutrition is assisted and the entrance of the spermatozoa permitted., An opening in the outer coat of a seed, through which the fecundating pollen enters the ovule. |
| microseme | adjective | Having the orbital index relatively small; having the orbits broad transversely; — opposed to megaseme. |
| microtome | noun | An instrument for making very thin sections for microscopical examination. |
| microtomy | noun | The art of using the microtome; investigation carried on with the microtome. |
| microvolt | noun | A measure of electro-motive force; the millionth part of one volt. |
| microzyme | noun | A microorganism which is supposed to act like a ferment in causing or propagating certain infectious or contagious diseases; a pathogenic bacterial organism. |
| middlemen | plural | of Middleman |
| middleman | noun | An agent between two parties; a broker; a go-between; any dealer between the producer and the consumer; in Ireland, one who takes land of the proprietors in large tracts, and then rents it out in small portions to the peasantry., A person of intermediate rank; a commoner., The man who occupies a central position in a file of soldiers. |
| middlings | noun pl. | A combination of the coarser parts of ground wheat the finest bran, separated from the fine flour and coarse bran in bolting; — formerly regarded as valuable only for feed; but now, after separation of the bran, used for making the best quality of flour. Middlings contain a large proportion of gluten., In the southern and western parts of the United States, the portion of the hog between the ham and the shoulder; bacon; — called also middles. |
| midheaven | noun | The midst or middle of heaven or the sky., The meridian, or middle line of the heavens; the point of the ecliptic on the meridian. |
| midrashim | plural | of Midrash |
| midsummer | noun | The middle of summer. |
| midwifery | noun | The art or practice of assisting women in childbirth; obstetrics., Assistance at childbirth; help or cooperation in production. |
| midwinter | noun | The middle of winter. |
| mightless | adjective | Without; weak. |
| migrating | present participle & vb. noun | of Migrate |
| migration | noun | The act of migrating. |
| migratory | adjective | Removing regularly or occasionally from one region or climate to another; as, migratory birds., Hence, roving; wandering; nomad; as, migratory habits; a migratory life. |
| mildewing | present participle & vb. noun | of Mildew |
| milestone | noun | A stone serving the same purpose as a milepost. |
| miliolite | noun | A fossil shell of, or similar to, the genus Miliola., The same Milliolitic. |
| militancy | noun | The state of being militant; warfare., A military spirit or system; militarism. |
| militated | imp. & past participle | of Militate |
| militiate | verb i. | To carry on, or prepare for, war. |
| milkiness | noun | State or quality of being milky. |
| millboard | noun | A kind of stout pasteboard. |
| mill-cake | noun | The incorporated materials for gunpowder, in the form of a dense mass or cake, ready to be subjected to the process of granulation. |
| millenary | adjective | Consisting of a thousand; millennial., The space of a thousand years; a millennium; also, a Millenarian. |
| millepora | noun | A genus of Hydrocorallia, which includes the millipores. |
| millepore | noun | Any coral of the genus Millepora, having the surface nearly smooth, and perforated with very minute unequal pores, or cells. The animals are hydroids, not Anthozoa. See Hydrocorallia. |
| millerite | noun | A believer in the doctrine of William Miller (d. 1849), who taught that the end of the world and the second coming of Christ were at hand., A sulphide of nickel, commonly occurring in delicate capillary crystals, also in incrustations of a bronze yellow; — sometimes called hair pyrites. |
| millifold | adjective | Thousandfold. |
| milligram | noun | Alt. of Milligramme |
| millinery | noun | The articles made or sold by milliners, as headdresses, hats or bonnets, laces, ribbons, and the like., The business of work of a milliner. |
| millioned | adjective | Multiplied by millions; innumerable. |
| millionth | adjective | Being the last one of a million of units or objects counted in regular order from the first of a series or succession; being one of a million., The quotient of a unit divided by one million; one of a million equal parts. |
| millstone | noun | One of two circular stones used for grinding grain or other substance. |
| miltonian | adjective | Miltonic. |
| miltwaste | A small European fern (Asplenium Ceterach) formerly used in medicine. | |
| mimetical | Apt to imitate; given to mimicry; imitative., Characterized by mimicry; — applied to animals and plants; as, mimetic species; mimetic organisms. See Mimicry. | |
| mimicking | present participle & vb. noun | of Mimic |
| mimically | adverb | In an imitative manner. |
| minacious | adjective | Threatening; menacing. |
| minargent | noun | An alloy consisting of copper, nickel, tungsten, and aluminium; — used by jewelers. |
| mince pie | A pie made of mince-meat. | |
| mincingly | adverb | In a mincing manner; not fully; with affected nicety. |
| mingledly | adverb | Confusedly. |
| minaceous | adjective | Of the color of minium or red lead; miniate. |
| miniating | present participle & vb. noun | of Miniate |
| miniature | verb | Originally, a painting in colors such as those in mediaeval manuscripts; in modern times, any very small painting, especially a portrait., Greatly diminished size or form; reduced scale., Lettering in red; rubric distinction., A particular feature or trait., Being on a small; much reduced from the reality; as, a miniature copy., To represent or depict in a small compass, or on a small scale. |
| minifying | present participle & vb. noun | of Minify |
| minimized | imp. & past participle | of Minimize |
| minioning | noun | Kind treatment. |
| minionize | verb t. | To flavor. |
| ministery | noun | See Ministry. |
| ministral | adjective | Ministerial. |
| mino bird | An Asiatic bird (Gracula musica), allied to the starlings. It is black, with a white spot on the wings, and a pair of flat yellow wattles on the head. It is often tamed and taught to pronounce words. | |
| minuscule | noun | Any very small, minute object., A small Roman letter which is neither capital nor uncial; a manuscript written in such letters., Of the size and style of minuscules; written in minuscules. |
| minutemen | plural | of Minuteman |
| minuteman | noun | A militiaman who was to be ready to march at a moment’s notice; — a term used in the American Revolution. |
| miohippus | noun | An extinct Miocene mammal of the Horse family, closely related to the genus Anhithecrium, and having three usable hoofs on each foot. |
| mirabilis | noun | A genus of plants. See Four-o’clock. |
| mirifical | adjective | Working wonders; wonderful. |
| mirroring | present participle & vb. noun | of Mirror |
| mirthless | adjective | Without mirth. |
| misadjust | verb t. | To adjust wrongly of unsuitably; to throw of adjustment. |
| misadvice | noun | Bad advice. |
| misadvise | verb t. | To give bad counsel to. |
| misaffect | verb t. | To dislike. |
| misaffirm | verb t. | To affirm incorrectly. |
| misallege | verb t. | To state erroneously. |
| misallied | adjective | Wrongly allied or associated. |
| misassign | verb t. | To assign wrongly. |
| misattend | verb t. | To misunderstand; to disregard. |
| misbecome | verb t. | Not to become; to suit ill; not to befit or be adapted to. |
| misbehave | verb t. & i. | To behave ill; to conduct one’s self improperly; — often used with a reciprocal pronoun. |
| misbelief | noun | Erroneous or false belief. |
| misbeseem | verb t. | To suit ill. |
| misbestow | verb t. | To bestow improperly. |
| misbileve | noun | Misbelief; unbelief; suspicion. |
| mischance | noun | Ill luck; ill fortune; mishap., To happen by mischance. |
| mischarge | verb t. | To charge erroneously, as in account., A mistake in charging. |
| mischosen | past participle | of Mischoose |
| mischoose | verb t. | To choose wrongly., To make a wrong choice. |
| miscreant | noun | One who holds a false religious faith; a misbeliever., One not restrained by Christian principles; an unscrupulous villain; a while wretch., Holding a false religious faith., Destitute of conscience; unscrupulous. |
| miscreate | adjective | Miscreated; illegitimate; forged; as, miscreate titles., To create badly or amiss. |
| misdating | present participle & vb. noun | of Misdate |
| misdemean | verb t. | To behave ill; — with a reflexive pronoun; as, to misdemean one’s self. |
| misdepart | verb t. | To distribute wrongly. |
| misderive | verb t. | To turn or divert improperly; to misdirect., To derive erroneously. |
| misdesert | noun | Ill desert. |
| misdirect | verb t. | To give a wrong direction to; as, to misdirect a passenger, or a letter; to misdirect one’s energies. |
| misdivide | verb t. | To divide wrongly. |
| misemploy | verb t. | To employ amiss; as, to misemploy time, advantages, talents, etc. |
| miserable | adjective | Very unhappy; wretched., Causing unhappiness or misery., Worthless; mean; despicable; as, a miserable fellow; a miserable dinner., Avaricious; niggardly; miserly., A miserable person. |
| miserably | adverb | In a miserable; unhappily; calamitously; wretchedly; meanly. |
| misesteem | noun | Want of esteem; disrespect. |
| misfallen | past participle | of Misfall |
| misformed | imp. & past participle | of Misform |
| misgiving | present participle & vb. noun | of Misgive, Evil premonition; doubt; distrust. |
| misgotten | adjective | Unjustly gotten. |
| misgovern | verb t. | To govern ill; as, to misgovern a country. |
| misground | verb t. | To found erroneously. |
| misgrowth | noun | Bad growth; an unnatural or abnormal growth. |
| mishandle | verb t. | To handle ill or wrongly; to maltreat. |
| mishappen | verb i. | To happen ill or unluckily. |
| misinform | verb t. | To give untrue information to; to inform wrongly., To give untrue information; (with against) to calumniate. |
| misintend | verb t. | To aim amiss. |
| miskindle | verb t. | To kindle amiss; to inflame to a bad purpose; to excite wrongly. |
| mislaying | present participle & vb. noun | of Mislay |
| misleader | noun | One who leads into error. |
| misliking | present participle & vb. noun | of Mislike, Dislike; aversion. |
| mismanage | verb t. & i. | To manage ill or improperly; as, to mismanage public affairs. |
| misnumber | verb t. | To number wrongly. |
| mispickel | noun | Arsenical iron pyrites; arsenopyrite. |
| misplaced | imp. & past participle | of Misplace |
| mispolicy | noun | Wrong policy; impolicy. |
| mispraise | verb t. | To praise amiss. |
| misrecite | verb t. & i. | To recite erroneously. |
| misreckon | verb t. & i. | To reckon wrongly; to miscalculate. |
| misreform | verb t. | To reform wrongly or imperfectly. |
| misregard | noun | Wrong understanding; misconstruction. |
| misrelate | verb t. | To relate inaccurately. |
| misrender | verb t. | To render wrongly; to translate or recite wrongly. |
| misrepeat | verb t. | To repeat wrongly; to give a wrong version of. |
| misreport | verb t. & i. | To report erroneously; to give an incorrect account of., An erroneous report; a false or incorrect account given. |
| misrepute | verb t. | To have in wrong estimation; to repute or estimate erroneously. |
| misseltoe | noun | See Mistletoe. |
| misshapen | adjective | Having a bad or ugly form. |
| missingly | adverb | With a sense of loss. |
| missioner | noun | A missionary; an envoy; one who conducts a mission. See Mission, n., 6. |
| misspeech | noun | Wrong speech. |
| misspense | noun | A spending improperly; a wasting. |
| misstayed | adjective | Having missed stays; — said of a ship. |
| mistaking | present participle & vb. noun | of Mistake, An error; a mistake. |
| mistaught | adjective | Wrongly taught; as, a mistaught youth., of Misteach |
| mistemper | verb t. | To temper ill; to disorder; as, to mistemper one’s head. |
| misthrive | verb i. | To thrive poorly; to be not thrifty or prosperous. |
| mistigris | noun | Alt. of Mistigri |
| mistihead | noun | Mistiness. |
| mistiness | noun | State of being misty. |
| mistletoe | noun | A parasitic evergreen plant of Europe (Viscum album), bearing a glutinous fruit. When found upon the oak, where it is rare, it was an object of superstitious regard among the Druids. A bird lime is prepared from its fruit. |
| mistonusk | noun | The American badger. |
| miswander | verb i. | To wander in a wrong path; to stray; to go astray. |
| miterwort | noun | Any plant of the genus Mitella, — slender, perennial herbs with a pod slightly resembling a bishop’s miter; bishop’s cap. |
| mitigable | adjective | Admitting of mitigation; that may be mitigated. |
| mitigated | imp. & past participle | of Mitigate |
| mitigator | noun | One who, or that which, mitigates. |
| mitraille | noun | Shot or bits of iron used sometimes in loading cannon. |
| mitriform | adjective | Having the form of a miter, or a peaked cap; as, a mitriform calyptra. |