Word origins

• misguiltOffense; misdeed; crime; fault.
• mishappenTo encounter grief or misfortune.
• mishappyUnfortunate; unhappy.
• mishaveTo misbehave or misconduct (oneself); do wrong.
• mishearTo hear wrongly.
• misholdTo hold wrongly, badly, or amiss; lose hold (of); abuse; neglect.
• mishopeTo fail to hope (in); hope amiss; lose hope; despair.
• miskenTo mistake one for another; mistake in point of knowledge or recognition; misconceive.
• miskenningA wrong citation.
• mislayTo leave or lay something in the wrong place and then forget where one put it.
• mislieTo lie awkwardly, uncomfortably, or amiss.
• mislikeTo disapprove of or dislike (someone or something); to have an aversion to.
• misliveTo lead a wrong, corrupt, or evil life; to live wrongly.
• misliverOne who leads an evil or sinful life.
• mislivingSinful living.
• mislookTo sin by looking.
• misloreEvil teaching or counsel; wrong or false teaching; misinformation.
• mismakeTo unmake; depose.
• mismarkTo mark incorrectly; err in noting or marking.
• mispleaseTo fail in pleasing; displease.
• misprisionCriminal neglect or wrongful execution of duty, especially by a public official; (countable) a specific instance of this.
• misproudUnduly or unwarrantably proud or vain; wrongly proud; arrogant; haughty.
• misredeTo advise unwisely or to bad purpose; miscounsel; misadvise.
• misreportTo report erroneously; to give an incorrect account of.
• misrulyunruly
• missayTo speak ill of (someone).
• misselA missel thrush.
• missellTo sell something wrongly or fraudulently.
• misspeakTo fail to pronounce, utter, or speak correctly.
• misspendTo spend poorly, incorrectly or unwisely.
• misspendingImproper, wasteful, or incorrect spending; squandering
• mistalA cowshed.
• mistasteTo overindulge in food or drink
• misteachTo teach incorrectly.
• mistinessThe quality of being misty.
• misturnTo turn wrongly or incorrectly; turn aside wrongly; pervert.
• miswordTo word incorrectly.
• miswriteTo write incorrectly.
• mixenA compost heap or dunghill.
• mizzleTo rain in very fine drops.
• moistfulFull of moisture; moist; moisty.
• moistymoist
• momentlyFrom moment to moment; continually.
• monasterialRelating to a monastery.
• moneyerA minter: one who makes money, particularly (historical) the superintendent of a mint producing coinage.
• moneylessHaving no (or very little) money.
• moneyworthThat which is equivalent or superior to money in value; money's worth.
• monkhoodThe state of being a monk.
• monsterfulRare; extraordinary; marvelous
• monstranceAn ornamental, often precious receptacle, either open or with a transparent cover, in which the sacramental bread (consecrated host) is placed for Eucharistic adoration.
• monstruousMonstrous.
• month's mindA requiem mass or other commemoration of a deceased person held one month after burial.
• monticleA small mountain, or hillock.
• montuousMountainous, hilly.
• moonishLike or resembling the moon.
• moonlyOf, pertaining to, or characteristic of the Moon; lunar; moonlike.
• -moreUsed to form a comparative of certain adjectives and adverbs, usually ending in -er.
• morfoundTo affect (an animal or person) with catarrh or coldlike illness.
• morning giftA gift traditionally given in some (especially Germanic) cultures by the husband to his wife on the first morning after they were married.
• morsureThe act of biting.
• -mostFurthest; -est; used to form superlatives of certain adjectives, especially directional and inherently-comparative ones.
• motherfulBefitting a mother; motherly.
• mother-in-lawThe mother of one's spouse.
• mother languageSynonym of mother tongue.
• mother's milkBreast milk; milk produced by a human or animal mother for her offspring to nurse.
• mother tongueThe language one first learned; the language one grew up with; one's native language.
• mouldwarpA mole, Talpa europaea.
• mountureThe angle at which a gun is raised for firing.
• mouse-earA type of small hawkweed native to Eurasia (mouse-ear hawkweed, Pilosella officinarum), commonly found on dry grasslands.
• mousefallA mousetrap.
• mousehawkAny of several hawks (e.g. the rough-legged hawk, northern harrier, etc.).
• mouthlessWithout a mouth.
• mouthsoreA sore in or of the mouth.
• muchnessLarge size or bulk; bigness; size; magnitude (large or small).
• muckenderA handkerchief.
• mudwallA wall built from mud.
• multi-More than one; pertaining to more than one thing.
• multiloquyAn excess of words or talk.
• multureA grinding of grain, or the grain that is ground.
• mundifyTo cleanse.
• murageA tax paid for building or repairing the walls of a fortified town.
• murengerAn officer in charge of the town walls, or their repairs.
• murkenTo make or become murky or dark.
• murrainInfectious disease; pestilence, plague; (countable) sometimes used in curses such as a murrain on someone: an outbreak of such a disease; a plague.
• murthmurder; slaughter.
• muscatelA muscat grape or raisin, especially one from southern Spain.
• musical instrumentA device, object, contrivance or machine used to produce musical notes or sounds.
• musickerA musician.
• mustarderA manufacturer of mustard.
• mutuumA loan of a fungible thing to be restored by a similar thing of the same kind, quantity, and quality.
• mynchenA nun.
• -na-n't
• naillessWithout a nail or nails.
• nakedhoodThe state of being naked; nakedness.
• namebookA book containing a registry of names.
• naperyHousehold linen, especially table linen.
• naskyNasty.
• nathelessNevertheless.
• near at handClose or nearby, in terms of distance.
• nearhandNearby; close at hand; nigh; adjacent.