7-letter words starting with mo
- mordent — a melodic embellishment consisting of a rapid alternation of a principal tone with the tone a half or a whole step below it, called single or short when the auxiliary tone occurs once and double or long when this occurs twice or more.
- mordida — a bribe or kickback.
- mordred — Modred.
- mordvin — a member of a Uralic people living in scattered communities in the middle Volga basin, especially between Nizhni Novgorod and Saratov.
- more of — to a greater extent or degree
- more so — increasingly or additionally
- moreish — (informal, of food) Causing one to want to have more.
- morelia — a state in SW Mexico. 23,196 sq. mi. (60,080 sq. km). Capital: Morelia.
- morelle — any of several nightshades, especially the black nightshade.
- morello — a variety of sour cherry having dark-colored skin and juice.
- morelos — a state in S central Mexico. 1916 sq. mi. (4960 sq. km). Capital: Cuernavaca.
- morendo — (music) Fading away in tone or tempo.
- morgans — Plural form of morgan.
- morgues — Plural form of morgue.
- moringa — Any of several trees, of genus Moringa, that grow in tropical and subtropical India and Africa.
- morioka — a city in N Honshu, Japan, on the Kitakami River.
- moriori — a Polynesian people of New Zealand, esp of the Chatham Islands, closely related to the mainland Māori: now racially intermixed
- morisco — Moorish.
- morison — Samuel Eliot, 1887–1976, U.S. historian.
- morisot — Berthe [bert] /bɛrt/ (Show IPA), 1841–95, French Impressionist painter.
- morland — Obsolete form of moorland.
- morling — Alternative form of mortling.
- mormaor — a Scottish nobleman serving as a high steward of a province
- mormons — a sacred book of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, believed by members of the church to be an abridgment by a prophet (Mormon) of a record of certain ancient peoples in America, written on golden plates, and discovered and translated (1827–30) by Joseph Smith.
- morning — the first part or period of the day, extending from dawn, or from midnight, to noon.
- morocco — French Maroc. Spanish Marruecos. a kingdom in NW Africa: formed from a sultanate that was divided into two protectorates (French Morocco and Spanish Morocco) and an international zone. 172,104 sq. mi. (445,749 sq. km). Capital: Rabat. Compare Tangier Zone.
- morocoy — Alternative form of morrocoy.
- moronic — Informal. a person who is notably stupid or lacking in good judgment: I wonder why they elected that narrow-minded moron to Congress.
- morpeth — a town in NE England, the administrative centre of Northumberland. Pop: 13 555 (2001)
- morphan — A chemical compound, the base of the benzomorphan family of drugs.
- morphea — (medicine) localized scleroderma.
- morphed — Linguistics. a sequence of phonemes constituting a minimal unit of grammar or syntax, and, as such, a representation, member, or contextual variant of a morpheme in a specific environment. Compare allomorph (def 2).
- morphew — A blemish or mark on the skin.
- morphia — a white, bitter, crystalline alkaloid, C 1 7 H 1 9 NO 3 ⋅H 2 O, the most important narcotic and addictive principle of opium, obtained by extraction and crystallization and used chiefly in medicine as a pain reliever and sedative.
- morphic — Linguistics. a sequence of phonemes constituting a minimal unit of grammar or syntax, and, as such, a representation, member, or contextual variant of a morpheme in a specific environment. Compare allomorph (def 2).
- morpho- — indicating form or structure
- morphol — morphology
- morphon — (biology) A morphological individual, characterized by definiteness of form, according to w Ernst Haeckel.
- morphos — Plural form of morpho.
- morrell — a tall eucalyptus, Eucalyptus longicornis, of SW Australia, having pointed buds
- morrhua — a codfish
- morrice — A morris dance.
- morrows — Plural form of morrow.
- morsels — Plural form of morsel.
- morsure — a bite or the act of biting
- mortage — Misspelling of mortgage.
- mortall — Obsolete spelling of mortal.
- mortals — Plural form of mortal.
- mortars — Plural form of mortar.
- mortary — of or like mortar