8-letter words starting with mo
- montages — Plural form of montage.
- montague — (in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet) the family name of Romeo. Compare Capulet.
- montalvo — Garci Ordóñez de [gahr-thee awr-th aw-nyeth th e] /gɑrˈθi ɔrˈðɔ nyɛθ ðɛ/ (Show IPA) 15th-century Spanish writer.
- montanan — Joseph, Jr ("Joe") born 1956, U.S. football player.
- montanto — a strike or jab made in an upward direction
- montaria — a Brazilian canoe made of a single piece of timber
- montcalm — Louis Joseph [lwee zhaw-zef] /lwi ʒɔˈzɛf/ (Show IPA), 1712–59, French general in Canada.
- monteith — a large punch bowl, usually of silver, having a notched rim for suspending punch cups.
- monterey — a city in W California, on Monterey Bay: the capital of California until 1847.
- monteria — a city in N Colombia.
- montfort — Simon de [see-mawn duh] /siˈmɔ̃ də/ (Show IPA), c1160–1218, French leader of the crusade against the Albigenses.
- montilla — a dry, rather bitter wine of Spain.
- montreal — a seaport in S Quebec, in E Canada, on an island (Montreal Island) in the St. Lawrence.
- montreux — a town and resort in W Switzerland, in Vaud canton on Lake Geneva; annual television festival. Pop: 22 454 (2000)
- montrose — James Graham, Marquis of, 1612–50, Scottish supporter of Charles I.
- monument — something erected in memory of a person, event, etc., as a building, pillar, or statue: the Washington Monument.
- moochers — Plural form of moocher.
- mooching — Present participle of mooch.
- moodiest — given to gloomy, depressed, or sullen moods; ill-humored.
- moon bag — a small bag worn on a belt, round the waist
- moon dog — paraselene.
- moon rat — a ratlike SE Asian nocturnal mammal, Echinosorex gymnurus, with greyish fur and an elongated snout: family Erinaceidae (hedgehogs): the largest living insectivore
- moon-dog — paraselene.
- moonball — a high lob in tennis.
- moonbase — (scifi) A base located on a moon.
- moonbeam — a ray of moonlight.
- mooncake — A rich, dense Chinese pastry with a variety of fillings, usually to eat in Zhongqiu Festival.
- mooncalf — a congenitally grossly deformed and mentally defective person.
- moondust — The fine regolith found on the surface of the Moon.
- mooneyes — Plural form of mooneye.
- moonface — a round and full face
- moonfish — Also called horsefish, horsehead. any of several silvery marine fishes of the genus Selene, having a very compressed body and inhabiting shallow coastal waters.
- moonglow — Moonlight.
- moonless — the earth's natural satellite, orbiting the earth at a mean distance of 238,857 miles (384,393 km) and having a diameter of 2160 miles (3476 km).
- moonlike — Resembling the Moon, or a moon.
- moonport — a place from which flights leave for the moon
- moonrise — the rising of the moon above the horizon.
- moonrock — a sample of lunar material.
- moonroof — a transparent section of an automobile roof that can be propped open, removed entirely, or remain fixed within the roof.
- moonsail — a small sail carried high on the mast above the skysail
- moonseed — any climbing plant of the genus Menispermum, having greenish-white flowers and crescent-shaped seeds.
- moonshee — a native interpreter or language instructor.
- moonship — a lunar module
- moonshot — the act or procedure of launching a rocket or spacecraft to the moon.
- moonwalk — an exploratory walk by an astronaut on the surface of the moon.
- moonward — Also, moonwards. toward the moon: turned their eyes moonward.
- moonwise — (nonstandard) Anticlockwise.
- moonwort — any fern of the genus Botrychium, especially B. lunaria, a rare fern having fronds with crescent-shaped leaflets.
- moorages — Plural form of moorage.
- moorbird — moorfowl.