13-letter words containing mo
- bimolecularly — in a bimolecular fashion
- bird dismount — Hecht1 (def 1).
- bitter almond — a variety of almond whose bitter seeds yield hydrocyanic acid upon hydrolysis
- black diamond — coal (sense 1)
- blasphemously — uttering, containing, or exhibiting blasphemy; irreverent; profane.
- blonde moment — a brief mental lapse, as of judgment or memory: I must be having a blonde moment.
- blood diamond — a diamond sold to help finance a military campaign
- blow moulding — a process for moulding single-piece plastic objects in which a thermoplastic is extruded into a split mould and blown against its sides
- bonnet monkey — an Indian macaque, Macaca radiata, with a bonnet-like tuft of hair
- brace molding — keel1 (def 6).
- brewer's mole — hairy-tailed mole.
- bromo-seltzer — a compound containing a bromide, sodium bicarbonate, etc., used for relief from headaches and upset stomachs, and as a sedative
- bromocriptine — a dopamine agonist drug which blocks the release of prolactin from the pituitary gland, used in the treatment of Parkinson's disease
- bubble memory — a method of storing high volumes of data by the use of minute pockets of magnetism (bubbles) in a semiconducting material. The bubbles may be caused to migrate past a read head or to a buffer area for storage
- buff-tip moth — a large European moth, Phalera bucephala, having violet-brown buff-tipped forewings held at rest around the body so that it resembles a snapped-off twig
- buffer memory — a temporary holding area for data
- cable molding — a molding in the form of a rope.
- cat and mouse — Also called cat and rat. a children's game in which players in a circle keep a player from moving into or out of the circle and permit a second player to move into or out of the circle to escape the pursuing first player.
- cat-and-mouse — denoting a fight or contest in which participants attempt to confuse or deceive each other in a cruel or teasing way, esp before a final act of cruelty or unkindness
- caution money — a sum of money deposited as security for good conduct, against possible debts, etc
- cecropia moth — a large North American saturniid moth, Hyalophora (or Samia) cecropia, with brightly coloured wings and feathery antennae
- ceremonialism — A fondness for ceremony, especially in religion; ritualism.
- ceremonialist — of, relating to, or characterized by ceremony; formal; ritual: a ceremonial occasion.
- ceremoniously — If someone does something ceremoniously, they do it in an extremely formal way.
- chase mortise — a mortise having one inclined narrow side.
- cheesemongers — Plural form of cheesemonger.
- chemoreceptor — a sensory receptor in a biological cell membrane to which an external molecule binds to generate a smell or taste sensation
- chemosurgical — of or relating to chemosurgery
- chemotaxonomy — the taxonomy of species of organisms based on biochemical characteristics
- chinese money — funny money (def 3).
- chlamydomonas — a green, fresh water alga of the class Chlorophyceae that is flagellate and made up of a single cell
- chromoprotein — any of a group of conjugated proteins, such as haemoglobin, in which the protein is joined to a coloured compound, such as a metal-containing porphyrin
- chromosomally — With reference to chromosomes.
- chromospheres — Plural form of chromosphere.
- chromospheric — Of or pertaining to the chromosphere.
- chromotherapy — the use of colour and light as a restorative therapy and to promote mental and physical well-being
- churn molding — a molding decorated with chevrons.
- cinnamon bear — a reddish-brown variety of the American black bear
- cinnamon fern — a large, New World fern (Osmunda cinnamomea, family Osmundaceae) having sterile green fronds and other fronds that bear spores and turn a cinnamon color as the spores mature
- cinnamon teal — a small, freshwater, wild duck, Anas cyanoptera, of North and South America, having chiefly cinnamon-red plumage.
- circumorbital — (anatomy) Around the eye.
- clamorousness — The state or quality of being clamorous.
- claymore mine — an antipersonnel mine designed to produce a direction-guided, fan-shaped pattern of fragments.
- cleistogamous — having small, unopened, self-pollinating flowers, usually in addition to the showier flowers
- close harmony — a type of singing in which all the parts except the bass lie close together and are confined to the compass of a tenth
- close-mouthed — Someone who is close-mouthed about something does not say much about it.
- clown anemone — a widely distributed anemone fish, Amphiprion ocellaris, having broad bands of orange and white: popular in home aquariums.
- cohomological — of or relating to cohomology
- cold moulding — the production of moulded articles from resins that polymerize chemically
- commemorating — Present participle of commemorate.