8-letter words containing mo
- monaghan — a county in the NE Republic of Ireland. 498 sq. mi. (1290 sq. km). County seat: Monaghan.
- monandry — the practice or condition of having one husband at a time.
- monarchs — a hereditary sovereign, as a king, queen, or emperor.
- monarchy — a state or nation in which the supreme power is actually or nominally lodged in a monarch. Compare absolute monarchy, limited monarchy.
- monardas — Plural form of monarda.
- monastic — of or relating to monasteries: a monastic library.
- monastir — Bitola
- monaural — monophonic (def 2).
- monaxial — uniaxial.
- monazite — a reddish- or yellowish-brown mineral, a phosphate of cerium and lanthanum, (Ce,La)PO 4 : the principal ore of thorium.
- monclova — a city in NE Mexico.
- mondaine — a woman who moves in fashionable society
- mondrian — Piet [peet] /pit/ (Show IPA), (Pieter Cornelis Mondriaan) 1872–1944, Dutch painter.
- monellin — an extremely sweet protein obtained from the African plant Dioscoreophyllum cumminsii
- monensin — a complex derivative of butyric acid, C 3 6 H 6 2 O 1 1 , produced by the bacterium Streptomyces cinnamonensis and used as an antibiotic in animals.
- monerans — Plural form of moneran.
- monessen — a city in SW Pennsylvania, on the Monongahela River.
- monetary — of or relating to the coinage or currency of a country.
- monetise — to legalize as money.
- monetize — to legalize as money.
- moneybag — a bag for money.
- moneybox — piggy bank: container for coins
- moneyman — an investor; angel; backer.
- moneymen — Plural form of moneyman.
- mongered — Simple past tense and past participle of monger.
- mongolia — a region in Asia including Inner Mongolia of China and the Mongolian People's Republic.
- mongolic — Mongolian (def 4).
- mongoose — a slender, ferretlike carnivore, Herpestes edwardsi, of India, that feeds on rodents, birds, and eggs, noted especially for its ability to kill cobras and other venomous snakes.
- mongrels — Plural form of mongrel.
- monicker — a person's name, especially a nickname or alias.
- monikers — Plural form of moniker.
- monilial — pertaining to or caused by a fungus of the genus Monilia.
- monistic — Philosophy. (in metaphysics) any of various theories holding that there is only one basic substance or principle as the ground of reality, or that reality consists of a single element. Compare dualism (def 2), pluralism (def 1a). (in epistemology) a theory that the object and datum of cognition are identical. Compare pluralism (def 1b).
- monition — Literary. admonition or warning.
- monitive — admonishing or advisory
- monitors — Plural form of monitor.
- monitory — serving to admonish or warn; admonitory.
- monitrix — (archaic) A female monitor; a monitress.
- monkeyed — Simple past tense and past participle of monkey.
- monkfish — angler (def 3).
- monkhood — the condition or profession of a monk.
- monmouth — James Scott, Duke of, 1649–85, illegitimate son of Charles II of England and pretender to the throne of James II.
- monoacid — having one replaceable hydrogen atom or hydroxyl radical.
- monobath — a developer and fixer combined in the same solution.
- monobloc — denoting or pertaining to the casting of a complex metal object as a single piece rather than in separate parts.
- monobrow — a pair of eyebrows that appear to be connected because of some extra hair growing in the space between them: He had very bushy eyebrows, almost a unibrow.
- monobuoy — a floating platform anchored offshore in deep water and equipped with pipelines leading to storage tanks onshore, to which large, deep-draft tankers moor to load or unload.
- monocarp — a plant that dies after having once borne fruit.
- monocled — an eyeglass for one eye.
- monocles — Plural form of monocle.