8-letter words containing r, o, m
- moreover — in addition to what has been said; further; besides.
- morepork — (chiefly NZ) The vern boobook owl Ninox novaeseelandiae. (from 19th c.).
- moresome — (rare, slang) A sexual act involving more than three people.
- moresque — Moorish.
- morgagni — Giovanni Battista [jaw-vahn-nee baht-tees-tah] /dʒɔˈvɑn ni bɑtˈtis tɑ/ (Show IPA), 1682–1771, Italian anatomist.
- moribund — in a dying state; near death.
- mormyrid — any of numerous African freshwater fishes of the family Mormyridae, many species of which have an elongated snout and are capable of producing an electric discharge.
- mornings — in or during the morning regularly.
- mornynge — Obsolete spelling of morning.
- 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.
- moroccos — Plural form of morocco.
- morogoro — a city in E Tanzania.
- morology — Foolish talk; nonsense.
- moronism — Informal. a person who is notably stupid or lacking in good judgment: I wonder why they elected that narrow-minded moron to Congress.
- moronity — Informal. a person who is notably stupid or lacking in good judgment: I wonder why they elected that narrow-minded moron to Congress.
- morosely — gloomily or sullenly ill-humored, as a person or mood.
- morosity — gloomily or sullenly ill-humored, as a person or mood.
- morosoph — (obsolete) A philosophical or learned fool.
- morpheme — any of the minimal grammatical units of a language, each constituting a word or meaningful part of a word, that cannot be divided into smaller independent grammatical parts, as the, write, or the -ed of waited. Compare allomorph (def 2), morph (def 1).
- morpheus — Classical Mythology. a son of Hypnos and the god of dreams.
- morphine — a white, bitter, crystalline alkaloid, C 1 7 H 1 9 NO 3 ⋅H 2 O, the most important narcotic and addictive principle of opium, obtained by extraction and crystallization and used chiefly in medicine as a pain reliever and sedative.
- morphing — Linguistics. a sequence of phonemes constituting a minimal unit of grammar or syntax, and, as such, a representation, member, or contextual variant of a morpheme in a specific environment. Compare allomorph (def 2).
- morphism — (mathematics, formally) an arrow in a category.
- morrison — Herbert Stanley, 1888–1965, English labor leader and statesman.
- morrocoy — A red-footed tortoise, of the species Chelonoidis carbonaria, from the West Indies.
- mortally — subject to death; having a transitory life: all mortal creatures.
- mortared — a mixture of lime or cement or a combination of both with sand and water, used as a bonding agent between bricks, stones, etc.
- mortbell — a bell rung for a funeral
- mortgage — the rights conferred by it, or the state of the property conveyed.
- mortific — causing death
- mortimer — Roger de [duh] /də/ (Show IPA), 8th Baron of Wigmore [wig-mawr,, -mohr] /ˈwɪgˌmɔr,, -ˌmoʊr/ (Show IPA), and 1st Earl of March, 1287–1330, English rebel leader: paramour of Isabella, queen of Edward II of England.
- mortised — a notch, hole, groove, or slot made in a piece of wood or the like to receive a tenon of the same dimensions.
- mortises — Plural form of mortise.
- mortling — wool obtained from dead sheep.
- mortmain — the condition of lands or tenements held without right of alienation, as by an ecclesiastical corporation; inalienable ownership.
- mortsafe — a heavy iron cage or grille placed over the grave of a newly deceased person in order to deter body snatchers
- mortuary — funeral home.
- morwongs — Plural form of morwong.
- mosasaur — any of several extinct carnivorous marine lizards from the Cretaceous Period, having the limbs modified into broad, webbed paddles.
- motelier — a person running or owning a motel or motel chain
- mothered — Simple past tense and past participle of mother.
- motherer — Agent noun of mother: one who mothers.
- motherly — pertaining to, characteristic of, or befitting a mother; maternal: motherly solicitude.
- motioner — One who makes a motion; a mover.
- motorail — a rail service carrying cars and their drivers as well as ordinary passengers
- motorbus — a passenger bus powered by a motor.
- motorcar — Chiefly British. an automobile.
- motordom — the world of motorcars, its dealers and collectors
- motorial — (biology) motor.
- motoring — a comparatively small and powerful engine, especially an internal-combustion engine in an automobile, motorboat, or the like.