10-letter words starting with mo
- moth-eaten — eaten or damaged by or as if by the larvae of moths.
- mothballed — a small ball of naphthalene or sometimes of camphor for placing in closets or other storage areas to repel moths from clothing, blankets, etc.
- mother hen — a person who attends to the welfare of others, especially one who is fussily protective.
- mother wit — natural or practical intelligence, wit, or sense.
- mother yaw — the initial lesion of yaws, occurring at the site of inoculation.
- motherhood — the state of being a mother; maternity.
- motherland — one's native land.
- motherless — a female parent.
- motherlike — Having the quality or suggestive of a mother; maternal, motherly.
- motherload — A very large amount of something valuable.
- motherlode — (literally) The main, central lode of a natural resource, near which smaller deposits of the same ore etc. exist.
- mothership — a vessel or craft that services others operating far from a home port or center.
- motherwell — Robert, 1915–91, U.S. painter.
- motherwort — a European plant, Leonorus cardiaca, of the mint family, an introduced weed in the U.S., having cut leaves with a whorl of lavender flowers in the axils.
- mothproofs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mothproof.
- motionless — without motion: a motionless statue.
- motivating — Effectively providing an incentive.
- motivation — the act or an instance of motivating, or providing with a reason to act in a certain way: I don't understand what her motivation was for quitting her job. Synonyms: motive, inspiration, inducement, cause, impetus.
- motivative — the act or an instance of motivating, or providing with a reason to act in a certain way: I don't understand what her motivation was for quitting her job. Synonyms: motive, inspiration, inducement, cause, impetus.
- motivators — Plural form of motivator.
- motiveless — something that causes a person to act in a certain way, do a certain thing, etc.; incentive.
- motoneuron — motor neuron.
- motor camp — a camp for motorists, tents, and caravans
- motor home — a small bus or trucklike vehicle with a roomlike area behind the driver's seat outfitted as living quarters.
- motor pool — a standby fleet of motor vehicles available for temporary use by appropriate personnel, as at a military or governmental installation.
- motor root — a nerve fiber bundle that emerges from either side of the spinal cord and joins with a complementary bundle to form each spinal nerve in the series of spinal nerves: the root at the rear of the spinal cord (dorsal root or sensory root) conveys sensations to the central nervous system, and the root at the front (ventral root or motor root) conveys impulses to the muscles.
- motor ship — a ship propelled by an internal-combustion engine or engines
- motor show — an exhibition which displays rare, fashionable and expensive cars
- motor unit — a motor neuron and the muscle fibers innervated by its axon.
- motor-boat — a boat propelled by an inboard or outboard motor.
- motorbikes — Plural form of motorbike.
- motorboats — Plural form of motorboat.
- motorbuses — Plural form of motorbus.
- motorcades — Plural form of motorcade.
- motorcoach — a passenger bus powered by a motor.
- motorcycle — a motor vehicle similar to a bicycle but usually larger and heavier, chiefly for one rider but sometimes having two saddles or an attached sidecar for passengers.
- motordrome — a rounded course or track for automobile and motorcycle races.
- motorizing — Present participle of motorize.
- motormouth — a person who is a constant or irrepressible talker.
- motorsport — A sport involving the racing of motor vehicles, especially cars and motorcycles.
- motortruck — a truck driven by a motor
- mottramite — a copper and lead vanadate.
- moucharaby — a projecting second-storey window or balcony enclosed with latticework
- moudiewart — a mole
- mould loft — a building with a large floor area where someone reproduces in actual size a draughtsman's design for a ship or an aircraft
- mouldboard — A curved blade on a plough that serves to turn over the furrow.
- mouldering — to turn to dust by natural decay; crumble; disintegrate; waste away: a house that had been left to molder.
- mouldy fig — a rigid adherent to older jazz forms
- mount bona — a mountain in S Alaska, in the Wrangell Mountains. Height: 5005 m (16 420 ft)
- mount etna — an active volcano in E Sicily: the highest volcano in Europe and the highest peak in Italy south of the Alps. Height: 3323 m (10 902 ft)