8-letter words containing mo
- 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.
- mosaical — of or relating to Moses or the writings, laws, and principles attributed to him: Mosaic ethics.
- mosasaur — any of several extinct carnivorous marine lizards from the Cretaceous Period, having the limbs modified into broad, webbed paddles.
- moschate — having a musky smell.
- moseying — Present participle of mosey.
- mosh pit — Slang. an area usually in front of a stage where people mosh at rock concerts.
- moshavim — Plural form of moshav.
- moslings — shavings or pieces from an animal skin that is being prepared
- mosquito — any of numerous dipterous insects of the family Culicidae, the females of which suck the blood of animals and humans, some species transmitting certain diseases, as malaria and yellow fever.
- moss hag — an area, pit, or hole from which peat has been dug.
- mossback — Informal. a person holding very antiquated notions; reactionary. a person living in the backwoods; rustic.
- mossland — a land covered in peat
- mosslike — Resembling moss or some aspect of it.
- mostoles — a city in central Spain, a SW suburb of Madrid.
- mostwhat — most
- motelier — a person running or owning a motel or motel chain
- mothball — a small ball of naphthalene or sometimes of camphor for placing in closets or other storage areas to repel moths from clothing, blankets, etc.
- 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.
- mothlike — Resembling a moth or some aspect of one.
- motility — Biology. moving or capable of moving spontaneously: motile cells; motile spores.
- motional — the action or process of moving or of changing place or position; movement.
- motioned — the action or process of moving or of changing place or position; movement.
- motioner — One who makes a motion; a mover.