miss

Usage

• remiss

  When you have been remiss, you have been careless because you did not do something that you should have done.

• missive

  A missive is a written letter, especially a formal, legal, or important one.

• emissary

  An emissary is someone who acts as a representative from one government or leader to another.

• remission

  When something, such as a disease or storm, is in remission, its force is lessening or decreasing.

• submissive

  When someone is submissive, they are highly obedient and often give in to the demands of others.

• dismiss

  When you dismiss someone, you send them away.

• admission

  the act of admitting someone to enter

• amiss

  not functioning properly

• commission

  put into commission

• emission

  the act of emitting

• intermission

  the act of suspending activity temporarily

• manumission

  the formal act of freeing from slavery

• missal

  (Roman Catholic Church) a book containing all the prayers and responses needed to celebrate Mass throughout the year

• missile

  a rocket carrying a warhead of conventional or nuclear explosives

• mission

  an organization of missionaries in a foreign land sent to carry on religious work

• missionary

  relating to or connected to a religious mission

• omission

  a mistake resulting from neglect

• permission

  approval to do something

• permissive

  not preventive

• promissory

  relating to or having the character of a promise

• submission

  something (manuscripts or architectural plans and models or estimates or works of art of all genres etc.) submitted for the judgment of others (as in a competition)

• transmission

  the act of sending a message