8-letter words containing m, o, n, a
- montanto — a strike or jab made in an upward direction
- montaria — a Brazilian canoe made of a single piece of timber
- montcalm — Louis Joseph [lwee zhaw-zef] /lwi ʒɔˈzɛf/ (Show IPA), 1712–59, French general in Canada.
- monteria — a city in N Colombia.
- montilla — a dry, rather bitter wine of Spain.
- montreal — a seaport in S Quebec, in E Canada, on an island (Montreal Island) in the St. Lawrence.
- moon bag — a small bag worn on a belt, round the waist
- moon rat — a ratlike SE Asian nocturnal mammal, Echinosorex gymnurus, with greyish fur and an elongated snout: family Erinaceidae (hedgehogs): the largest living insectivore
- moonball — a high lob in tennis.
- moonbase — (scifi) A base located on a moon.
- moonbeam — a ray of moonlight.
- mooncake — A rich, dense Chinese pastry with a variety of fillings, usually to eat in Zhongqiu Festival.
- mooncalf — a congenitally grossly deformed and mentally defective person.
- moonface — a round and full face
- moonsail — a small sail carried high on the mast above the skysail
- moonwalk — an exploratory walk by an astronaut on the surface of the moon.
- moonward — Also, moonwards. toward the moon: turned their eyes moonward.
- moorland — an area of moors, especially country abounding in heather.
- morainal — a ridge, mound, or irregular mass of unstratified glacial drift, chiefly boulders, gravel, sand, and clay.
- moraines — Plural form of moraine.
- morainic — Pertaining to a moraine.
- moravian — pertaining to Moravia or its inhabitants.
- morbihan — a department in W France. 2738 sq. mi. (7090 sq. km). Capital: Vannes.
- mordancy — the quality of being mordant; sharpness.
- mordants — Plural form of mordant.
- moreland — Archaic form of moorland.
- morgagni — Giovanni Battista [jaw-vahn-nee baht-tees-tah] /dʒɔˈvɑn ni bɑtˈtis tɑ/ (Show IPA), 1682–1771, Italian anatomist.
- moroccan — French Maroc. Spanish Marruecos. a kingdom in NW Africa: formed from a sultanate that was divided into two protectorates (French Morocco and Spanish Morocco) and an international zone. 172,104 sq. mi. (445,749 sq. km). Capital: Rabat. Compare Tangier Zone.
- mortmain — the condition of lands or tenements held without right of alienation, as by an ecclesiastical corporation; inalienable ownership.
- mossland — a land covered in peat
- motional — the action or process of moving or of changing place or position; movement.
- motorman — a person who operates or drives an electrically operated vehicle, as a streetcar or subway train.
- mountain — heap of sth
- mountant — an adhesive used for mounting pictures
- mutation — Biology. a sudden departure from the parent type in one or more heritable characteristics, caused by a change in a gene or a chromosome. an individual, species, or the like, resulting from such a departure.
- myatonia — deficient muscle tone.
- myomancy — a form of divination by observing mice
- myotonia — tonic muscle spasm or muscular rigidity.
- nabobism — any very wealthy, influential, or powerful person.
- namedrop — Alternative spelling of name-drop.
- nanogram — one billionth of a gram. Abbreviation: ng.
- nanomole — one billionth of a mole.
- napiform — round at the top and tapering sharply below; turnip-shaped, as a root.
- natiform — resembling the buttocks; buttock-shaped
- naviform — Shaped like a boat.
- nazimova — Alla [ah-luh] /ˈɑ lə/ (Show IPA), 1879–1945, Russian actress in the U.S.
- nematoad — Misspelling of nematode.
- nematode — any unsegmented worm of the phylum Nematoda, having an elongated, cylindrical body; a roundworm.
- neoplasm — a new, often uncontrolled growth of abnormal tissue; tumor.
- neuromas — Plural form of neuroma.