present participle of miss

Not able to be located; gone, misplaced. / Not present when it (they) should be. / Of an internal combustion engine: running roughly due to an occasional lack of a spark or other irregular fault.

(statistics) A value that is missing.

plural of missing

(law) Mississippi, as used in case citations.

Eye dialect spelling of Mrs. / Alternative spelling of Missus

Alternative spelling of missus (Mrs)

Initialism of medium intensity steady state. / Initialism of microbially induced sedimentary structure.

Form of address, now used chiefly for an unmarried woman; used chiefly of girls before the mid-1700s, and thereafter used also of adult women without regard to marital status.

A failure to hit. / A failure to obtain or accomplish. / An act of avoidance (usually used with the verb give)