6-letter words containing o, a, s
- mimosa — any of numerous plants, shrubs, or trees belonging to the genus Mimosa, of the legume family, native to tropical or warm regions, having small flowers in globular heads or cylindrical spikes and often sensitive leaves.
- modals — Plural form of modal.
- moesia — an ancient country in S Europe, S of the Danube and N of ancient Thrace and Macedonia: later a Roman province.
- mohacs — a city in S Hungary, on the Danube River: site of battles with Turkish forces, 1526 and 1687.
- moksha — freedom from the differentiated, temporal, and mortal world of ordinary experience.
- molars — Also called molar tooth. a tooth having a broad biting surface adapted for grinding, being one of twelve in humans, with three on each side of the upper and lower jaws.
- mommas — Plural form of momma.
- monads — Plural form of monad.
- monals — Plural form of monal.
- monash — Sir John. 1865–1931, Australian military commander. Leader of Australian forces in World War I
- morals — of, relating to, or concerned with the principles or rules of right conduct or the distinction between right and wrong; ethical: moral attitudes.
- morass — a tract of low, soft, wet ground.
- morays — any of numerous chiefly tropical eels of the family Muraenidae, having porelike gill openings and no pectoral fins.
- mosaic — a picture or decoration made of small, usually colored pieces of inlaid stone, glass, etc.
- moshav — a cooperative community in Israel made up of small farm units.
- mosiac — Do you mean Mosaic?
- moskva — Russian name of Moscow.
- mossad — the Israeli intelligence service, established in 1951.
- mostar — a city in S Bosnia and Herzegovina, on the Neretva River: former capital of Herzegovina.
- mucosa — mucous membrane.
- myomas — Plural form of myoma.
- nabobs — Plural form of nabob.
- nachos — a snack or appetizer consisting of a small piece of tortilla topped with cheese, hot peppers, etc., and broiled.
- nacods — National Association of Colliery Overmen, Deputies, and Shotfirers
- nadors — a thirst brought on by excessive consumption of alcohol
- naoise — the husband of Deirdre and a nephew of Conchobar, by whom he was treacherously killed.
- narcos — Plural form of narco.
- nasion — the intersection of the internasal suture with the nasofrontal suture in the midsagittal plane.
- nomads — a member of a people or tribe that has no permanent abode but moves about from place to place, usually seasonally and often following a traditional route or circuit according to the state of the pasturage or food supply.
- nongas — A substance that is not a gas.
- nopals — Plural form of nopal.
- norias — Plural form of noria.
- nosean — a mineral with formula Na8Al6Si6O24(SO4), found in igneous rock as isometric crystals
- nossal — Sir Gustav (Victor Joseph). born 1931, Australian biologist, born in Austria; knighted (1977) for his work on immunology
- nostra — Plural form of nostrum.
- o star — a very hot, massive, blue star of spectral type O, having a surface temperature between 30,000 and 50,000 K and an absorption spectrum with few lines, though the Balmer series of hydrogen lines is present and lines of ionized helium are detectable.
- oafish — a clumsy, stupid person; lout.
- oaters — Plural form of oater.
- obeahs — Plural form of obeah.
- oblast — (in Russia and the Soviet Union) an administrative division corresponding to an autonomous province.
- oceans — Plural form of ocean.
- octads — Plural form of octad.
- octans — (of a fever) occurring every eighth day.
- odessa — a seaport in S Ukraine, on the Black Sea.
- odisha — a state in E India. 60,136 sq. mi. (155,752 sq. km). Capital: Bhubaneshwar.
- oilgas — a gaseous mixture of hydrocarbons used as a fuel, obtained by the destructive distillation of mineral oils
- okapis — Plural form of okapi.
- omasal — of, relating to, or emanating from the omasum
- omasum — the third stomach of a ruminant, between the reticulum and the abomasum; the manyplies.
- omegas — Plural form of omega.