6-letter words starting with mo
- moggie — Alternative spelling of moggy.
- moghul — any of the Mongol conquerors of India who established an empire that lasted from 1526 to 1857, but held only nominal power after 1803. See also Great Mogul.
- mogote — a residual hillock of limestone, honeycombed with cavities.
- moguls — any of the Mongol conquerors of India who established an empire that lasted from 1526 to 1857, but held only nominal power after 1803. See also Great Mogul.
- mohacs — a city in S Hungary, on the Danube River: site of battles with Turkish forces, 1526 and 1687.
- mohair — the coat or fleece of an Angora goat.
- moham. — Mohammedan
- mohave — a member of a North American Indian tribe belonging to the Yuman linguistic family, formerly located in the Colorado River valley of Arizona and California.
- mohawk — a member of a tribe of the most easterly of the Iroquois Five Nations, formerly resident along the Mohawk River, New York.
- mohism — the doctrine of Mo-Tze, stressing universal love, not limited by special affections or obligations, and opposition to Confucianism and traditionalism.
- mohock — one of a group of aristocratic ruffians who attacked people at night on the streets of London in the early part of the 18th century.
- mohole — a hole bored through the earth's crust into the region below the Mohorovičić discontinuity, for geological research.
- mohurs — Plural form of mohur.
- moider — (intransitive) to toil.
- moiety — a half.
- moiled — to work hard; drudge.
- moiler — to work hard; drudge.
- moirai — Classical Mythology. the personification of fate. Moirai, the Fates.
- moiser — a person who informs or betrays
- moisty — Moist.
- mojado — (US, slang) wetback.
- mojave — a member of a North American Indian tribe belonging to the Yuman linguistic family, formerly located in the Colorado River valley of Arizona and California.
- mojito — a cocktail made with rum, sugar, lime juice, soda water, and mint.
- mokapu — a town on E Oahu, in central Hawaii.
- mokihi — a type of raft, usually made out of flax stems
- mokoro — (in Botswana) the traditional dugout canoe of the people of the Okavango Delta
- moksha — freedom from the differentiated, temporal, and mortal world of ordinary experience.
- molars — Also called molar tooth. a tooth having a broad biting surface adapted for grinding, being one of twelve in humans, with three on each side of the upper and lower jaws.
- moldau — a river in the W Czech Republic, flowing N to the Elbe. 270 miles (435 km) long.
- molded — a growth of minute fungi forming on vegetable or animal matter, commonly as a downy or furry coating, and associated with decay or dampness.
- molder — to turn to dust by natural decay; crumble; disintegrate; waste away: a house that had been left to molder.
- molech — Moloch (defs 1, 2).
- molest — to bother, interfere with, or annoy.
- molies — Plural form of moly.
- molina — Luis [loo-ees] /luˈis/ (Show IPA), 1535–1600, Spanish Jesuit theologian.
- moline — (of a cross) having arms of equal length, split and curved back at the ends, used especially as the cadency mark of an eighth son: a cross moline.
- molise — a region of S central Italy, the second smallest of the regions: separated from Abruzzi e Molise in 1965. Capital: Campobasso. Pop: 321 047 (2003 est). Area: 4438 sq km (1731 sq miles)
- mollah — mullah.
- mollet — Guy [gahy;; French gee] /gaɪ;; French gi/ (Show IPA), 1905–75, French political leader.
- mollie — a female given name, form of Mary or Milicent.
- molnar — Ferenc [fe-rents] /ˈfɛ rɛnts/ (Show IPA), 1878–1952, Hungarian playwright, novelist, and short-story writer.
- moloch — a deity whose worship was marked by the propitiatory sacrifice of children by their own parents. II Kings 23:10; Jer. 32:35.
- molopo — a river in S Africa, flowing SW along the S Botswana-N South Africa border to the Orange River. About 600 miles (965 km) long.
- molted — (of birds, insects, reptiles, etc.) to cast or shed the feathers, skin, or the like, that will be replaced by a new growth.
- molten — a past participle of melt1 .
- molter — One who, or that which, molts or sheds.
- moltke — Helmuth Karl [hel-moot kahrl] /ˈhɛl mut kɑrl/ (Show IPA), 1800–91, Prussian field marshal: chief of staff 1858–88.
- moment — an indefinitely short period of time; instant: I'll be with you in a moment.
- momism — excessive adulation of the mother and undue dependence on maternal care or protection, resulting in absence or loss of maturity and independence.
- mommas — Plural form of momma.