6-letter words starting with m
- mollet — Guy [gahy;; French gee] /gaɪ;; French gi/ (Show IPA), 1905–75, French political leader.
- mollie — a female given name, form of Mary or Milicent.
- molnar — Ferenc [fe-rents] /ˈfɛ rɛnts/ (Show IPA), 1878–1952, Hungarian playwright, novelist, and short-story writer.
- moloch — a deity whose worship was marked by the propitiatory sacrifice of children by their own parents. II Kings 23:10; Jer. 32:35.
- molopo — a river in S Africa, flowing SW along the S Botswana-N South Africa border to the Orange River. About 600 miles (965 km) long.
- molted — (of birds, insects, reptiles, etc.) to cast or shed the feathers, skin, or the like, that will be replaced by a new growth.
- molten — a past participle of melt1 .
- molter — One who, or that which, molts or sheds.
- moltke — Helmuth Karl [hel-moot kahrl] /ˈhɛl mut kɑrl/ (Show IPA), 1800–91, Prussian field marshal: chief of staff 1858–88.
- moment — an indefinitely short period of time; instant: I'll be with you in a moment.
- momism — excessive adulation of the mother and undue dependence on maternal care or protection, resulting in absence or loss of maturity and independence.
- mommas — Plural form of momma.
- mommie — mother1 (defs 1, 2, 4).
- momoir — (North America) A memoir written by or about a mother.
- mompos — a city in NW Colombia, on the Magdalena.
- momser — a bastard
- momzer — bastard; illegitimate child.
- monaco — a principality on the Mediterranean coast, bordering SE France. ½ sq. mi. (1.3 sq. km).
- monact — the spicule of a sponge that has a single-spiked structure
- monads — Plural form of monad.
- monals — Plural form of monal.
- monash — Sir John. 1865–1931, Australian military commander. Leader of Australian forces in World War I
- monday — the second day of the week, following Sunday.
- moneme — (linguistics, uncommon) morpheme.
- monera — a taxonomic kingdom of prokaryotic organisms that typically reproduce by asexual budding or fission and have a nutritional mode of absorption, photosynthesis, or chemosynthesis, comprising the bacteria, blue-green algae, and various primitive pathogens.
- monest — (obsolete) To warn; to admonish; to advise.
- moneta — Ernesto Teodoro [er-ne-staw te-aw-daw-raw] /ɛrˈnɛ stɔ ˌtɛ ɔˈdɔ rɔ/ (Show IPA), 1833–1918, Italian journalist: Nobel Peace Prize 1907.
- moneth — Obsolete spelling of month.
- moneys — any circulating medium of exchange, including coins, paper money, and demand deposits.
- monged — under the influence of drugs
- monger — a person who is involved with something in a petty or contemptible way (usually used in combination): a gossipmonger.
- mongol — a member of a pastoral people now living chiefly in Mongolia.
- mongst — amongst.
- monial — a mullion.
- monica — a female given name.
- monied — moneyed.
- monies — a plural of money.
- monish — to admonish.
- monism — 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).
- monist — 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).
- monkey — any mammal of the order Primates, including the guenons, macaques, langurs, and capuchins, but excluding humans, the anthropoid apes, and, usually, the tarsier and prosimians. Compare New World monkey, Old World monkey.
- monnet — Jean [zhahn] /ʒɑ̃/ (Show IPA), 1888–1979, French economist: originator of the European Common Market.
- monoao — a New Zealand plant, Dracophyllum subulatum, with rigid leaves, found esp in volcanic soil
- monody — a Greek ode sung by a single voice, as in a tragedy; lament.
- monoid — groupoid.
- monola — a form of canola, modified through selective breeding, which yields a cooking oil low in saturated fat
- monroe — Harriet, 1861?–1936, U.S. editor and poet.
- monsig — Monseigneur
- monstr — (language) A term graph rewriting language from Manchester University(?), designed to be easily implementable on distributed architectures and featuring limited synchronisation facilities.
- montem — a former money-raising practice for the benefit of the senior college at Eton school, whereby pupils dressed up in fancy dress and walked to a hill near Slough and asked for donations from anyone they saw on the way there