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11-letter words starting with mo

  • motor lodge — motel.
  • motor lorry — a motor truck, especially one with open sides.
  • motor mower — a motor-powered lawn mower
  • motor truck — truck1 (def 1).
  • motor-mouth — a person who is a constant or irrepressible talker.
  • motorboater — Someone who pilots a motorboat.
  • motorcycled — Simple past tense and past participle of motorcycle.
  • motorcycles — Plural form of motorcycle.
  • motorically — motor (def 11).
  • motormouths — Plural form of motormouth.
  • motorneuron — Alternative spelling of motor neuron.
  • motorsailer — A boat equipped with both sails and an engine.
  • motorsports — Plural form of motorsport.
  • mounds view — a town in E Minnesota.
  • moundsville — a city in NW West Virginia, on the Ohio River.
  • mount athos — a mountainous peninsula in NE Greece: location of the Monastic Republic of Mount Athos, an autonomous administrative division of Greece since 1927; inhabited by Eastern Orthodox monks in about 20 monasteries, some founded in the 10th century; prohibited to women and children. Pop: 1942 (2001)
  • mount elgon — an extinct volcano in E Africa, on the Kenya-Uganda border. Height: 4321m (14 178 ft)
  • mount guard — If you mount guard or if you mount a guard, you organize people to watch or protect a person or place.
  • mount kenya — an extinct volcano in central Kenya: the second highest mountain in Africa; girth at 2400 m (8000 ft) is about 150 km (95 miles). The regions above 3200 m (10 500 ft) constitute Mount Kenya National Park. Height: 5199 m (17 058 ft)
  • mount logan — a mountain in NW Canada, in SW Yukon in the St Elias Range: the highest peak in Canada and the second highest in North America. Height (after a re-survey in 1993): 5959 m (19 550 ft)
  • mount pearl — a town in Newfoundland, in E Canada, on the SE part of the island, S of St. John's.
  • mount pelée — a volcano in the Caribbean, in N Martinique: erupted in 1902, killing every person but one in the town of Saint-Pierre. Height: 1463 m (4800 ft)
  • mount sinai — the mountain where Moses received the Law from God (Exodus 19–20): often identified as Jebel Musa, sometimes as Jebel Serbal, both on the S Sinai Peninsula
  • mount siple — a mountain in Antarctica, on the coast of Byrd Land. Height: 3100 m (10 171 ft)
  • mount tabor — a mountain in N Israel, near Nazareth: traditionally regarded as the mountain where the Transfiguration took place. Height: 588 m (1929 ft)
  • mountaineer — A person who takes part in mountaineering.
  • mountainous — (of a region) having many mountains.
  • mountaintop — The summit or top part of a mountain.
  • mountbatten — Louis (Francis Albert Victor Nicholas), 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma 1900–79, British naval commander; great-grandson of Queen Victoria. During World War II he was supreme allied commander in SE Asia (1943–46). He was the last viceroy of India (1947) and governor general (1947–48); killed by an IRA bomb
  • mountebanks — Plural form of mountebank.
  • mountenance — a quantity, amount, duration, or value
  • mouse ahead — The point-and-click analog of "type ahead". To manipulate a computer's pointing device (almost always a mouse in this usage, but not necessarily) and its selection or command buttons before a computer program is ready to accept such input, in anticipation of the program accepting the input. Handling this properly is rare, but it can help make a WIMP environment much more usable, assuming the users are familiar with the behaviour of the user interface.
  • mouse elbow — (jargon, medical)   A tennis-elbow-like fatigue syndrome resulting from excessive use of a WIMP. Similarly, "mouse shoulder". GLS reports that he used to get this a lot before he taught himself to be ambimoustrous.
  • moussorgsky — Modest Petrovich [moh-dest pi-troh-vich;; Russian muh-dyest pyi-traw-vyich] /moʊˈdɛst pɪˈtroʊ vɪtʃ;; Russian mʌˈdyɛst pyɪˈtrɔ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1839–81, Russian composer.
  • moustachial — (of a stripe on a beak or snout of an animal) resembling a moustache
  • mouth guard — protective shield for teeth
  • mouth organ — harmonica (def 1).
  • mouth ulcer — oral sore
  • mouthpieces — Plural form of mouthpiece.
  • movableness — The quality or state of being movable; mobility.
  • move around — be mobile, active
  • moveability — Alternative form of movability.
  • movie actor — film star
  • movie house — a motion-picture theater.
  • movie maker — someone who produces films or movies
  • movie-going — the activity of attending films at the cinema
  • moviemakers — Plural form of moviemaker.
  • moviemaking — The production of movies.
  • moving coil — denoting an electromechanical device in which a suspended coil is free to move in a magnetic field. A current passing through the coil causes it to move, as in loudspeakers and electrical measuring instruments, or movement of the coil gives rise to induced currents, as in microphones and some record-player pick-ups
  • moving jpeg — (graphics, compression)   (M-JPEG) A compression technique for moving images which applies JPEG still image compression to each frame of a moving picture sequence. Play-back requires a machine capable of decompressing and displaying each JPEG image quickly enough to sustain the required frame rate of the picture sequence. There is no standard for Moving JPEG as with JPEG, but there are JPEG compression chips (for example see Zoran) which are designed to work at television frame rates and resolutions. See also MPEG and MPEG2.
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