6-letter words starting with m
- motets — Plural form of motet.
- mothed — Simple past tense and past participle of moth.
- mother — parent
- motifs — a recurring subject, theme, idea, etc., especially in a literary, artistic, or musical work.
- motile — Biology. moving or capable of moving spontaneously: motile cells; motile spores.
- motion — the action or process of moving or of changing place or position; movement.
- motive — something that causes a person to act in a certain way, do a certain thing, etc.; incentive.
- motivo — (music) A motif.
- motley — exhibiting great diversity of elements: a motley crowd. Synonyms: heterogenous, varied, diverse, mixed, assorted, sundry; incongruous, disparate, diversified, dissimilar, divergent. Antonyms: homogeneous, uniform, identical; similar, like.
- motmot — any of several tropical and subtropical American birds of the family Momotidae, related to the kingfishers, having a serrate bill and chiefly greenish and bluish plumage.
- motors — Plural form of motor.
- motory — Causing or setting up motion.
- motown — Detroit, Michigan: a nickname.
- motril — a town in S Spain: resort center.
- motser — a large amount of money, especially a sum won in gambling.
- motted — Misspelling of mottled.
- mottle — to mark or diversify with spots or blotches of a different color or shade.
- mottos — Plural form of motto.
- motuca — a Brazilian horsefly, Lepiselaga crassipes
- motzer — a large amount of money, especially a sum won in gambling.
- mought — (obsolete, outside, US dialects) Alternative form of might.
- moujik — a Russian peasant.
- moulds — Plural form of mould.
- mouldy — a torpedo.
- moulin — a nearly vertical shaft or cavity worn in a glacier by surface water falling through a crack in the ice.
- moults — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of moult.
- moulvi — maulvi.
- mounds — Plural form of mound.
- mounts — A backing or setting on which a photograph, gem, or work of art is set for display.
- mounty — (obsolete) The rise of a hawk, after prey.
- mourne — The armed or feruled end of a staff.
- mourns — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mourn.
- moused — Simple past tense and past participle of mouse.
- mouser — an animal that catches mice: Our cat is a good mouser.
- mouses — (computing, nonstandard) Plural form of mouse As used as a computer peripheral.
- mousey — resembling or suggesting a mouse, as in color or odor.
- mousie — (diminutive) A mouse.
- mousle — (obsolete, transitive) To sport with roughly; to rumple.
- mousme — a girl or young unmarried woman
- mousse — Cookery. a sweetened dessert with whipped cream as a base, often stabilized with gelatin and chilled in a mold: chocolate mousse. an aspic, unsweetened and containing meat, vegetables, or fish: salmon mousse.
- moutan — a variety of Asian tree peony, Paeonia suffruticosa, having large, colourful flowers
- mouthe — Obsolete spelling of mouth.
- mouths — Plural form of mouth.
- mouthy — garrulous, often in a bombastic manner.
- mouton — sheepskin that has been processed to resemble another fur, especially seal or beaver.
- movant — (legal) The party who moves for the judge to rule in favor of a motion.
- movent — (obsolete) Moving; that moves; that is being moved.
- movers — Plural form of mover.
- moveth — Archaic third-person singular form of move.
- movies — motion picture.