8-letter words containing mo
- gnomonic — of or relating to a gnomon or to a sundial.
- gomorrah — Also, Douay Bible, Gomorrha. an ancient city destroyed, with Sodom, because of its wickedness. Gen. 19:24, 25.
- gourmont — Remy de [ruh-mee duh] /rəˈmi də/ (Show IPA), 1858–1915, French critic and novelist.
- grandmom — (US) Grandmother.
- grimoire — a manual of magic or witchcraft used by witches and sorcerers.
- gummosis — The copious production and exudation of gum by a diseased or damaged tree, especially as a symptom of a disease of fruit trees.
- gun moll — a female companion of a criminal.
- gunsmoke — Smoke produced by the firing of a gun.
- halfmoon — the moon when, at either quadrature, half its disk is illuminated.
- hammocks — Plural form of hammock.
- harmonia — the daughter of Ares and Aphrodite and wife of Cadmus.
- harmonic — pertaining to harmony, as distinguished from melody and rhythm.
- harmosty — the office of a harmost
- headmost — most advanced; foremost.
- hegemony — leadership or predominant influence exercised by one nation over others, as in a confederation.
- hemocoel — a series of interconnected spaces between tissues and organs through which blood flows freely, unconfined by veins or arteries, occurring in several invertebrate groups, especially mollusks and arthropods.
- hemocyte — a blood cell.
- hemogram — a graphic record of the cellular elements of the blood.
- hemolyze — to subject (red blood cells) to hemolysis.
- hemostat — an instrument or agent used to compress or treat bleeding vessels in order to arrest hemorrhage.
- hielamon — a shield made of wood or bark.
- highmost — highest
- hindmost — furtherest behind or nearest the rear; last.
- hogmolly — hog sucker.
- homodont — (of most nonmammalian vertebrates) having teeth that are all of the same type
- homodyne — of or relating to reception by a device that generates a varying voltage of the same or nearly the same frequency as the incoming carrier wave and combines it with the incoming signal for detection.
- homogamy — the state of being homogamous.
- homogeny — correspondence in form or structure, owing to a common origin.
- homogony — state of being homogonous.
- homologs — Plural form of homolog.
- homology — the state of being homologous; homologous relation or correspondence.
- homonyms — Phonetics. a word pronounced the same as another but differing in meaning, whether spelled the same way or not, as heir and air; a homophone (def 1).
- homonymy — homonymous state.
- homotony — the condition of being homotonic
- homotope — (topology, transitive) To define or demonstrate a homotopy of (one map with another).
- homotopy — the relation that exists between two mappings in a topological space if one mapping can be deformed in a continuous way to make it coincide with the other.
- homotype — an organ or part having a structure similar to that of another organ or part; homologue.
- hormonal — Biochemistry. any of various internally secreted compounds, as insulin or thyroxine, formed in endocrine glands, that affect the functions of specifically receptive organs or tissues when transported to them by the body fluids.
- hormones — Biochemistry. any of various internally secreted compounds, as insulin or thyroxine, formed in endocrine glands, that affect the functions of specifically receptive organs or tissues when transported to them by the body fluids.
- hormonic — Biochemistry. any of various internally secreted compounds, as insulin or thyroxine, formed in endocrine glands, that affect the functions of specifically receptive organs or tissues when transported to them by the body fluids.
- hummocks — Plural form of hummock.
- hummocky — Also, hammock. an elevated tract of land rising above the general level of a marshy region.
- humoresk — humorous musical composition
- humorful — a comic, absurd, or incongruous quality causing amusement: the humor of a situation.
- humoring — a comic, absurd, or incongruous quality causing amusement: the humor of a situation.
- humorism — (medicine, historical) The theory of the influence of the humors in the production of disease.
- humorist — a person who is skillful in the use of humor, as in writing, talking, or acting.
- humorous — Archaic. moist; wet.
- humoured — Simple past tense and past participle of humour.
- immobile — incapable of moving or being moved.