10-letter words starting with mo
- moon daisy — a Eurasian composite plant, Leucanthemum vulgare having flower heads with a yellow centre and white outer rays
- moon knife — a crescent-shaped knife used to scrape hides.
- moon shell — any marine gastropod of the family Naticidae, having a rounded, short-spired, smooth shell.
- moon-blind — (of horses) afflicted with moon blindness; moon-eyed.
- moon-faced — having a very round face, regarded as resembling a full moon.
- mooncalves — Plural form of mooncalf.
- moonflower — a plant, Ipomoea alba, of the morning glory family, having fragrant white flowers that bloom at night.
- moonlights — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of moonlight.
- moonrakers — Plural form of moonraker.
- moonraking — the act of taking part in a foolhardy or unfruitful activity
- moonscapes — Plural form of moonscape.
- moonshiner — a person who distills or sells liquor, especially corn liquor, illegally.
- moonstones — Plural form of moonstone.
- moonstrike — the act of landing a spacecraft on the moon
- moonstruck — mentally deranged, supposedly by the influence of the moon; crazed.
- moonwalked — Simple past tense and past participle of moonwalk.
- moonwalker — One who moonwalks; an astronaut who has walked on the moon.
- moor grass — a grass characteristic of moors, esp purple moor grass (Molinia caerulea) of heath and fenland and blue moor grass (Sesleria caerulea) of limestone uplands
- moose call — whalesong
- moose milk — homemade or bootleg whiskey.
- mooseyness — (rare, humorous) The condition of being moosey.
- moot court — a mock court for the conduct of hypothetical legal cases, as for students of law.
- moot point — open to discussion or debate; debatable; doubtful: Whether that was the cause of their troubles is a moot point.
- mopishness — given to moping; listless, apathetic, or dejected.
- mopping up — serving to complete or put the finishing touches to a phase of a particular action.
- mopping-up — serving to complete or put the finishing touches to a phase of a particular action.
- moralising — to reflect on or express opinions about something in terms of right and wrong, especially in a self-righteous or tiresome way.
- moralistic — a person who teaches or inculcates morality.
- moralities — Plural form of morality.
- moralizing — to reflect on or express opinions about something in terms of right and wrong, especially in a self-righteous or tiresome way.
- moratorium — a suspension of activity: a moratorium on the testing of nuclear weapons.
- morbidezza — the effect of extreme softness and delicacy in pictorial and sculptural representations.
- morbidness — suggesting an unhealthy mental state or attitude; unwholesomely gloomy, sensitive, extreme, etc.: a morbid interest in death.
- morbifical — Alternative form of morbific.
- morbillous — of, relating to, or resembling measles
- morcellate — (surgery) To break into small pieces, prior to removal.
- mordacious — biting or given to biting.
- mordanting — Present participle of mordant.
- more so-so — Also, soso. indifferent; neither very good nor very bad.
- more-attic — of, relating to, or characteristic of Greece or of Athens.
- more-welsh — of or relating to Wales, its people, or their language.
- morganatic — of or relating to a form of marriage in which a person of high rank, as a member of the nobility, marries someone of lower station with the stipulation that neither the low-ranking spouse nor their children, if any, will have any claim to the titles or entailed property of the high-ranking partner.
- morgantown — a city in N West Virginia.
- morgellons — a condition in which the sufferer experiences crawling, biting, and stinging sensations on the skin
- morgenthau — Henry, 1856–1946, U.S. financier and diplomat, born in Germany.
- moribundly — In a moribund way.
- morigerate — obedient; acquiescent
- morigerous — acquiescent, obedient, servile
- moroseness — gloomily or sullenly ill-humored, as a person or mood.
- morphactin — any of various synthetic compounds, derived from fluorine and carboxylic acid, that regulate the growth and development of plants.