Index of English words, starting with "mi"

(1) - Misrepresentation (n.) Untrue representation; false or incorrect statement or account; -- usually unfavorable to the thing represented; as, a misrepresentation of a person's motives.

(1) - Misrepresentative (a.) Tending to convey a wrong impression; misrepresenting.

(1) - Misrepresenter (n.) One who misrepresents.

(1) - Misrule (n.) Disorder; confusion; tumult from insubordination.
(2) - Misrule (n.) The act, or the result, of misruling.
(3) - Misrule (v. t. & i.) To rule badly; to misgovern.

(1) - Miss (n.) Harm from mistake.
(2) - Miss (n.) Mistake; error; fault.
(3) - Miss (n.) Loss; want; felt absence.
(4) - Miss (n.) The act of missing; failure to hit, reach, find, obtain, etc.
(5) - Miss (v. i.) To be absent, deficient, or wanting.
(6) - Miss (v. i.) To go wrong; to err.
(7) - Miss (v. i.) To fail to obtain, learn, or find; -- with of.
(8) - Miss (v. i.) To fail to hit; to fly wide; to deviate from the true direction.
(9) - Miss (v. t.) To discover the absence or omission of; to feel the want of; to mourn the loss of; to want.
(10) - Miss (v. t.) To omit; to fail to have or to do; to get without; to dispense with; -- now seldom applied to persons.
(11) - Miss (v. t.) To fail of hitting, reaching, getting, finding, seeing, hearing, etc.; as, to miss the mark one shoots at; to miss the train by being late; to miss opportunites of getting knowledge; to miss the point or meaning of something said.
(12) - Miss (n.) In the game of three-card loo, an extra hand, dealt on the table, which may be substituted for the hand dealt to a player.
(13) - Miss (n.) A kept mistress. See Mistress, 4.
(14) - Miss (n.) A young unmarried woman or a girl; as, she is a miss of sixteen.
(15) - Miss (n.) A title of courtesy prefixed to the name of a girl or a woman who has not been married. See Mistress, 5.