Word origins

• ministressA woman who ministers.
• minnockThe minnow (genus Leuciscus or Phoxinus)
• mirkenTo grow dark.
• mirthlessLacking mirth; devoid of joy; sad.
• mis-Bad or wrong; badly or wrongly.
• misaccountto account badly, wrongfully, or in error
• misadviseTo give bad advice
• misanswerto answer badly, wrongly, or incorrectly
• misarrayeddisorganised; disarrayed; jumbled up; confused
• misaskto ask amiss; ask badly, wrongfully, or incorrectly
• misaskedasked amiss, for the wrong purpose, or incorrectly
• misbearTo carry or bear improperly; (reflexive) to carry (oneself) wrongly i.e. misbehave.
• misbearingbearing amiss, especially as pertaining to one's conduct; misconduct
• misbeliefan erroneous belief
• misbelieveTo believe incorrectly; hold to a false belief.
• misbelieverSomeone who holds a bad or wrong belief; a heretic, an unbeliever.
• misbelievingThe refusal to believe something; disbelief, or an instance of this.
• misbidTo injure; mistreat.
• miscallTo call (someone) bad names; to insult, abuse.
• mischieveTo destroy.
• mischooseTo choose incorrectly or badly; to make a wrong choice.
• miscolourTo give a wrong colour to.
• miscomfortDiscomfort
• misconceitmisconception
• misconceiveTo misunderstand.
• miscounselTo counsel or advise wrongly.
• miscounselingWrong, bad, or incorrect counselling
• miscounsellingWrong, bad, or incorrect counselling
• miscountTo count incorrectly.
• miscreanceThe quality of being miscreant; adherence to a false religion; false faith.
• misdeedyGiven to misdeeds; naughty or criminal.
• misdeemTo misjudge, to deem wrongly.
• misdoTo do evil; to commit misdeeds.
• miseaseSuffering, distress.
• miseasedSuffering, in pain; having discomfort or misery; troubled.
• miserationcommiseration; compassion.
• misericordRelaxation of monastic rules.
• misericordeAn act of clemency; pity, mercy.
• misfallTo befall badly or incorrectly; happen unfortunately (to); mishappen; turn out badly.
• misfeedTo feed incorrectly, as for example with the wrong foodstuff.
• misforgiveTo misgive.
• misgetTo get wrongly or unlawfully; to procure by unlawful means.
• misgiveOf the mind, heart, etc.: to give fear or doubt to; to make irresolute.
• misgoTo go wrong, make a mistake, go astray, become lost, miscarry.
• misgreetTo greet wrongly; (by extension) to affront or insult
• 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.
• mithridateAny of various historical medicines, typically an electuary compounded with various poison, believed to derive from Mithridates VI and to serve as a universal antidote.
• 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.