11-letter words starting with mo
- morrill act — an act of Congress (1862) granting each state 30,000 acres (12,000 hectares) of land for each member it had in Congress, 90 percent of the gross proceeds of which were to be used for the endowment and maintenance of colleges and universities teaching agricultural and mechanical arts and other subjects.
- morse taper — a taper that is one of a standard series used in the shank of tools to fit a matching taper in the mandrel of a machine tool
- mortadellas — Plural form of mortadella.
- mortal mind — the illusion that mind and life arise from matter and are subject to death. Compare mind (def 19).
- mortalities — Plural form of mortalitie.
- mortalizing — Present participle of mortalize.
- mortarboard — a board, usually square, used by masons to hold mortar.
- mortiferous — deadly; fatal.
- mosaic gold — Chemistry. stannic sulfide.
- moscow mule — a cocktail of vodka, lime juice, and ginger beer, traditionally served in a copper mug.
- moshe dayan — Moshe [maw-she;; English moh-shuh] /mɔˈʃɛ;; English ˈmoʊ ʃə/ (Show IPA), 1915–81, Israeli politician and military leader: defense minister 1967–74, foreign minister 1977–79.
- mosquitoing — Present participle of mosquito.
- moss animal — bryozoan.
- moss stitch — a knitting stitch made up of alternate plain and purl stitches
- mossbluiter — the bittern
- mossbunkers — Plural form of mossbunker.
- mosstrooper — a marauder who operated in the mosses, or bogs, of the border between England and Scotland in the 17th century.
- most of all — above all else
- most-caller — (of fruit, fish, vegetables, etc.) fresh; recently picked or caught.
- most-centum — belonging to or consisting of those branches of the Indo-European family of languages that show distinctive preservation of the Proto-Indo-European labiovelars and that show a historical development of velar articulations, as the sounds (k) or [kh] /x/ (Show IPA) from Proto-Indo-European palatal phonemes. The centum branches are Germanic, Celtic, Italic, Hellenic, Anatolian, and Tocharian.
- most-comate — Botany. having a coma.
- most-deform — deformed; ugly.
- most-farrow — (of a cow) not pregnant.
- most-jutish — a member of a continental Germanic tribe, probably from Jutland, that invaded Britain in the 5th century a.d. and settled in Kent.
- most-livery — liverish.
- most-lupine — pertaining to or resembling the wolf.
- most-pontic — pertaining to the Pontus Euxinus or to Pontus.
- mostaccioli — penne
- moth orchid — any orchid of the genus Phalaenopsis, having thick, leathery leaves and loose clusters of flowers, usually white or tinged with rose or purple.
- mothballing — Present participle of mothball.
- mother lode — Mining. a rich or important lode.
- mother love — affection felt by a mother for her child
- mother ship — a vessel or craft that services others operating far from a home port or center.
- motherboard — a rigid, slotted board upon which other boards that contain the basic circuitry of a computer or of a computer component can be mounted. Compare board (def 14).
- mothercraft — skill and knowledge in looking after children
- motherhouse — The monastery from which the other 'houses' of a religious order or congregation were (directly or indirectly) founded, often eponymous.
- motherlands — Plural form of motherland.
- motherships — Plural form of mothership.
- motherworts — Plural form of motherwort.
- mothproofed — Simple past tense and past participle of mothproof.
- mothproofer — an agent that prevents moths from destroying materials or garments
- motion jpeg — Moving JPEG
- motion work — clockwork by which the hour hand is driven from the shaft of the minute hand.
- motivations — Plural form of motivation.
- motocrosses — Plural form of motocross.
- motoneurons — Plural form of motoneuron.
- motor coach — a coach driven by an internal-combustion engine
- motor court — motel.
- motor drive — a mechanical system, including an electric motor, used to operate a machine or machines.
- motor hotel — motel