English words: moondog to mopery with intent to gawk
300 English words, part 125 of 159 of the words starting with M, A to Z. 37 have a page of their own.
English words moondog to mopery with intent to gawk
- moondog noun: Alternative form of moon dog.
- moondown noun: Synonym of moonset.
- moondrome noun: A lunodrome.
- moondust noun: The fine regolith found on the surface of the Moon.
- mooned adjective, verb: Of or resembling the moon; symbolized by the moon.
- Moonee proper noun: A locality in the Central Coast council area and the Lake Macquarie council area, eastern New South Wales, Australia.
- mooner noun: One who abstractedly wanders or gazes about.
- moonery noun: The conduct of one who moons.
- moonet noun: A little moon; a moonlet.
- moonette noun: Synonym of moonmoon.
- mooney adjective, noun: Alternative form of moony.
- mooneye noun: A primitive ray-finned fish of the family Hiodontidae.
- Mooneyham proper noun: A surname.
- moonface noun: Alternative form of moon-face.
- moonfaced adjective: Alternative spelling of moon-faced.
- moonfall noun: Arrival on the Moon, or a moon, by spacecraft.
- moonfish noun: Any member of the species Mene maculata (razor moonfish), sole accepted, extant species of family Menidae, of tropical coastal waters of the Indo-Pacific area;
- moonflask noun /ˈmuːnflæsk/: A discoid drinking vessel.
- moonflight noun: Space flight to a moon.
- moonflower noun /ˈmuːnflaʊə/: An ox-eye daisy (Leucanthemum vulgare).
- moonful adjective, noun: Marked by the presence of the moon.
- moong noun /mʊŋ/: Alternative spelling of mung.
- moong bean noun: Alternative spelling of mung bean.
- moonga noun: Alternative form of muga (“type of silk”).
- moongate noun: A circular passageway found in Chinese, Japanese, and Bermudian architecture.
- moongazer noun: A person who observes the Moon; a lunar astronomer.
- moongazing noun: Observing the Moon in the sky.
- moonglade noun: The bright reflection of moonlight on a body of water.
- moonglow noun: moonlight
- moongod noun: Alternative form of moon god
- moonhood noun: The state or quality of being a moon.
- moonias noun: A white man.
- moonie noun: A member of the Unification Church; a follower of its founder Sun Myung Moon.
- moonily adverb: In a moony manner.
- mooniness noun: Quality of being moony.
- mooning noun, verb: The act of showing one's buttocks.
- moonish adjective: Like or resembling the moon.
- moonishly adverb: In a moonish manner.
- Moonite noun: An inhabitant of the Moon.
- moonito noun: Synonym of moonmoon.
- moonj noun: Alternative form of munja (“type of grass”).
- moonja noun: Alternative form of munja (“type of grass”).
- moonjah noun: Alternative form of munja (“type of grass”).
- moonless adjective: During which no phase of the Moon is visible to provide light, whether because of cloud cover or because of a new moon.
- moonlessly adverb: In a moonless way; without a moon or the Moon.
- moonlessness noun: The quality of being moonless; absence of a (visible) moon.
- moonlet noun: a very small body orbiting a planet, often as part of a planetary ring system.
- moonlight noun, verb /ˈmuːnlaɪt/: The light reflected from the Moon, which seems to emanate from it.
- moonlight-and-magnolia adjective: Of or relating to romanticized historical portrayals of the American South, often depicting slavery in a positive light.
- moonlight and roses noun: A very pleasant, sentimental, or romantic situation or atmosphere.
- moonlight blue noun: A grayish shade of blue.
- moonlight flit noun /ˌmuːnlaɪt ˈflɪt/: An act of secretly leaving premises without paying the rent, supposedly at night by the light of the Moon; hence, any act of escaping at night.
- moonlight requisition noun, verb: Unauthorized taking of materiel; theft of supplies for use in one's own unit.
- moonlight school noun: A night school for illiterate adults in the early 20th century, originally in Kentucky and later in other US states.
- moonlight tower noun: A high tower fitted with arclights, formerly common in 19th-century cities with electricity, as a means of illuminating public spaces.
- moonlighted adjective, verb: Illuminated by moonlight.
- moonlighter noun: A person who moonlights, working a second job on the side.
- moonlighting noun, verb: The act of, or a period of, working on the side (at a secondary job), often in the evening or during the night, either openly or secretly.
- moonlighty adjective: Resembling or characteristic of moonlight.
- moonlike adjective: Resembling the Moon, or a moon
- moonling noun: A simpleton; a lunatic.
- moonlit adjective /ˈmuːnˌlɪt/: Lit by moonlight.
- moonlitten adjective: moonlit
- moonly adjective: Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the Moon; lunar; moonlike.
- moonman noun: Alternative letter-case form of moonman.
- moonmilk noun: A white, creamy limestone precipitate found in caves.
- moonmoon noun /ˈmuːnmuːn/: A moon that orbits a larger moon.
- moonnaut noun: Someone trained to live and work on a moon; an explorer of a moon
- moonpath noun: The elongated reflection of the moon on the water.
- moonphase noun: Synonym of lunar phase.
- moonpool noun /ˈmuːnpuːl/: Alternative form of moon pool.
- moonport noun: A spaceport located on a moon.
- moonproof adjective: Preventing the passage of moonlight.
- moonquake noun: A seismic event occurring on the moon; the lunar equivalent of an earthquake.
- moonraker noun /ˈmuːn.ɹeɪ.kə/: Someone from Wiltshire.
- moonraking noun: The smuggling of alcohol.
- moonrat noun /ˈmuːnɹæt/: A gymnure, especially the greater gymnure, Echinosorex gymnura.
- moonrise noun /ˈmunˌɹaɪz/: The time of day or night when the moon begins to rise over the horizon.
- moonrock noun: Alternative form of moon rock.
- moonroof noun: A sunroof that has a clear glass panel, rather than being opaque, so that light can enter the vehicle even when the roof is closed.
- moonrun noun, verb: A dance move (or something similar or analogous) in which one slides backwards while appearing as if one was running forwards.
- moonrune noun: Alternative form of moon rune.
- moonrunner noun: A person who illicitly distributes moonshine.
- moonsail noun: A moonraker (sail).
- moonsault noun /ˈmuːnsɔːlt/: An attack where the wrestler faces away from the supine opponent and executes a backflip landing on the opponent in a splash/press position but facing...
- moonscape noun: A view of an area of the Moon.
- moonscreen noun: A skin cream to be applied at night, for protection against moonlight.
- moonseed noun: A twining plant of the genera Menispermum or Cocculus, in the family Menispermaceae.
- moonset noun: The setting of the moon below the horizon.
- moonshine noun, verb /ˈmuːnʃaɪn/: The light of the moon.
- moonshine pudding noun: A pudding made with bread and butter, currants, cream, and eggs.
- moonshiner noun: Someone who makes or distributes moonshine (illicit alcohol).
- moonshiner's turn noun: A rapid illegal U-turn performed by putting the car in neutral and applying the hand brake, thereby producing a controlled skid, with the car still moving...
- moonshiney adjective: Alternative form of moonshiny.
- moonshining noun, verb: Illicit production and distribution of liquor.
- moonshiny adjective: Moonlit; lit by moonlight.
- moonship noun: A spaceship designed for travelling to the Moon.
- moonshot noun: Alternative spelling of moon shot.
- moonsick adjective: Insane or emotionally deranged, either temporarily or permanently.
- moonsickle noun /ˈmuːnˌsɪkl̩/: A thin crescent of the moon.
- moonsickness noun: The state or condition of being moonsick.
- moonside adjective: On the Moon or a moon.
- moonsif noun: Alternative form of munsif.
- moonsiff noun: Alternative form of munsif.
- moonsighting noun: Sighting the Moon (generally in an Islamic context, where the visibility of the Moon affects the timing of religious events).
- moonsnail noun: Alternative form of moon snail.
- moonstomp noun: A ska dance with stamping motions.
- moonstone noun /ˈmunˌstoʊn/: A translucent gemstone, an orthoclase feldspar, that has a pearly lustre.
- moonstricken adjective: Synonym of moonstruck (“of a person: Crazy or insane, supposedly due to the influence of the Moon; showing irrational behaviour, especially of a romantic or...
- moonstruck adjective /ˈmuːnstɹʌk/: Of a person: perverted or insane, originally supposedly due to the influence of the Moon; compare lunatic.
- moontime noun: The time of menstruation.
- Moontype noun: Alternative form of Moon type.
- moonup noun: Synonym of moonrise.
- moonwake noun: The reflection of moonlight on a body of water.
- moonwalk noun, verb /ˈmuːnwɔːk/: An exploration of the Moon's surface on foot by an astronaut.
- moonwalker noun: One who moonwalks; an astronaut who has walked on the Moon.
- moonward adjective, adverb: Toward the moon.
- moonwashed adjective: bathed in moonlight
- moonwatcher noun: Synonym of moongazer.
- moonwatching noun: observation of the Moon
- moonwise adverb: Anticlockwise.
- moonwort noun /ˈmuːnwəːt/: A small fern, Botrychium lunaria (lesser moonwort); later, any member of the genus.
- moony adjective, noun /ˈmuni/: Resembling the Moon.
- moop noun, verb: To keep company, closely associate with.
- moor noun, verb /mʊə/: An extensive waste covered with patches of heath, and having a poor, light (and usually acidic) soil, but sometimes marshy, and abounding in peat; a heath....
- moor blackbird noun: Synonym of ring ouzel.
- moor buzzard noun: A bird, the marsh harrier.
- moor-evil noun: Dysentery of livestock.
- moor grass noun: Either of the two herbaceous perennial grasses of the genus Molinia, native to damp moorland in Eurasia and northern Africa.
- moor-ill noun: Dysentery of livestock.
- moor macaque noun: Macaca maura, a macaque, endemic to Sulawesi, with brown to black body fur, a pale rump patch, and pink bare skin on the rump.
- moor master noun: Alternative form of moormaster.
- moor up verb: To cast anchor or become fastened.
- moora noun: Alternative form of moorah.
- Moorabbin proper noun: A suburb in south-east Melbourne in the City of Kingston, Victoria, Australia.
- moorable adjective: That can be moored.
- Moorabool proper noun: The Moorabool River, a river in Victoria, Australia, a tributary of the Barwon River (Victoria).
- moorage noun: The act of mooring.
- moorah noun: A measure used in the sale of paddy.
- mooram noun: Alternative form of murram.
- moorball noun: A freshwater alga (Aegagropila linnaei) which forms a ball-shaped mass.
- moorband noun: moorpan
- moorberry noun: cranberry (Vaccinium spp,)
- moorbird noun: The red grouse.
- moorburn noun: The controlled burning of moorland vegetation to encourage new growth (either heather or grassland) for the management of moorland game and wildlife or for...
- moorburning noun: Synonym of moorburn.
- moorchat noun: Only used in Congo moorchat
- moorcock noun: A male red grouse.
- Moorcroft proper noun: A surname.
- Moore proper noun /mʊə/: Many toponymic place names, or parts of place names, derived from moor.
- Moore graph noun: A regular graph of degree d and diameter k whose number of vertices equals the upper bound 1+d∑ᵢ₌₀ᵏ⁻¹(d-1)ⁱ.
- Moore machine noun: A finite-state machine whose output values are determined solely by its current state.
- Moore neighborhood noun: A neighborhood on a 2D square lattice consisting of a cell and its eight orthogonal and diagonal neighbors.
- Moore neighbourhood noun: Alternative form of Moore neighborhood.
- Moorean adjective: Of or relating to G. E. Moore (1873–1958), English philosopher, one of the founders of the analytic tradition in philosophy.
- Moorean viviparous tree snail noun: Partula mirabilis, a species of snail that is extinct in the wild.
- Moorebank proper noun: A suburb of Sydney in the Liverpool council area, New South Wales, Australia.
- mooree noun: A kind of cotton cloth from India.
- Moorefield proper noun: A small town in Independence County, Arkansas, United States.
- Moorehead proper noun: A surname.
- Moorehouse proper noun: A surname.
- mooreite noun: A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing hydrogen, magnesium, manganese, oxygen, sulfur, and zinc.
- Mooreland proper noun: A town in Blue River Township, Henry County, Indiana, United States, from the surname Moore + land.
- moorer noun: The person who moors a vessel
- Moores proper noun: A surname from Irish.
- Mooress noun: A female Moor; a Moorish woman.
- Moorestown proper noun: An unincorporated community in Norwich Township, Missaukee County, Michigan.
- Mooreville proper noun: A locality in Burnie council area, north western Tasmania, Australia.
- Moorfield proper noun: A surname from Old English.
- Moorfields proper noun: A suburb of Bristol, England, east of the city centre (OS grid ref ST6173).
- moorfowl noun: The red grouse.
- Moorgate proper noun: An urban area, a railway station and street in the City of London, Greater London, named after a former gate in London's wall (OS grid ref TQ3281).
- Moorhead proper noun /ˈmɔːrhɛd/: A surname.
- moorhen noun /ˈmʊəɹˌhɛn/: Any of various medium-sized water birds of the genus Gallinula, of the rail family, that feed in open water margins.
- Moorhouse proper noun: A small village in Burgh by Sands parish, City of Carlisle district, Cumbria, England (OS grid ref NY3356).
- moorhouseite noun: A monoclinic-prismatic pink mineral containing cobalt, hydrogen, manganese, nickel, oxygen, and sulfur.
- moori noun: Puffed rice.
- moorill noun: A disease of cattle, with hemoglobinuria.
- mooring noun, verb: A place to moor a vessel.
- mooring buoy noun: a buoy at which a boat or ship can moor (tie up), usually in a harbour, but also in coastal waters for large ships.
- mooring line noun: A line or cable used to secure marine vessels to docks or buoys during the mooring process.
- mooring post noun: A bollard, or similar fixed post that a vessel may be moored to
- mooring ring noun: A ring of metal attached to a dock to which boats may be attached by a rope.
- mooringpost noun: Alternative form of mooring post.
- moorish adjective /ˈmʊə.ɹɪʃ/: Of or pertaining to the Moors or their culture.
- Moorish arch noun: Synonym of horseshoe arch.
- Moorish idol noun: A fish of the species Zanclus cornutus, a colorful marina tropical fish often kept in aquaria.
- Moorish Scientist noun: An adherent of the Moorish Science Temple of America, a religion founded in the early 20th century by Timothy Drew on the claim that African Americans...
- moorishly adverb: In a Moorish manner.
- Moorishness noun: Quality of being Moorish.
- moorit noun: A shade of reddish brown, typically applied to a breed of Shetland sheep or the wool that comes from it.
- moorland noun: Open land that has an acidic peaty soil and is mostly covered with heather or bracken.
- moorlander noun: An inhabitant of the moorlands.
- moorlog noun: Peat, especially that composed of decaying wood (brushwood, tree trunks, etc), obtained from below the surface of the waters of a bog.
- moorman noun: A Moor.
- moormaster noun: The superintendent overseeing mining operation operations in the upland moors.
- moorn noun: morn; morning
- Mooroolbark proper noun: An eastern suburb of Melbourne in the Shire of Yarra Ranges, Victoria, Australia.
- Mooroopna proper noun: A town in the City of Greater Shepparton, north eastern Victoria, Australia.
- moorpan noun: A clayey layer underlying some moors.
- Moorpark proper noun: A city in Ventura County, California, United States.
- Moorside proper noun: A suburb of the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, Greater Manchester, England (OS grid ref SD9507).
- moorsman noun: Synonym of moorman.
- Moorsom proper noun: A surname.
- moorstone noun: A type of English granite, found mostly in Cornwall.
- moortop noun: The summit of a moor.
- Moortown proper noun: A suburb of Ringwood, New Forest district, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU1504).
- mooruk noun: The dwarf cassowary (Casuarius bennetti) found in New Britain, New Guinea, and Yapen Island. It is noted for its agility. It is smaller and has stouter legs...
- moorum noun: Alternative form of murram.
- moorva noun: Synonym of marool.
- moorwort noun: A plant, the staggerbush.
- moory adjective, noun /ˈmʊəɹi/: Resembling a moor; swampy; boggy.
- moose noun /muːs/: The largest member of the deer family (Alces americanus, sometimes included in Alces alces), of which the male has very large, palmate antlers.
- Moose Cree noun: A certain subgroup of the Cree people.
- moose deer noun: an elk
- moose elm noun: Synonym of slippery elm (“Ulmus rubra”).
- Moose Javian adjective, noun: Of, from or relating to the city of Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Canada.
- moose knuckle noun: The ball joint of the humerus in a moose's skeleton.
- moose maple noun: Striped maple, Acer pensylvanicum.
- moose milk noun: A Canadian cocktail made with rum and ice cream or similar ingredients.
- moose test noun: A test of the stability of a vehicle, which determines the maximum speed it can attain and still be able to steer clear of an obstacle (such as a child or a...
- moose yard noun: Alternative form of mooseyard.
- mooseberry noun: A pembina or lowbush cranberry (Viburnum edule)
- moosebird noun: The gray jay, Perisoreus canadensis.
- mooseburger noun: A burger made from moose meat.
- moosecall noun, verb: A horn, for example of birchbark, which imitates the bellow of a moose.
- moosehair noun: The hair of a moose.
- moosehide noun: The hide of a moose
- moosehood noun: The state of being a moose.
- mooseknuckle noun: The visible bulge in a man's crotch, as a consequence of wearing tight pants
- mooseless adjective: Not having any moose.
- mooselike adjective: Resembling a moose.
- mooseling noun: A small, young, or baby moose.
- mooseskin noun: The skin of a moose, or leather made therefrom.
- moosette noun: A female moose.
- moosewood noun: Striped maple (Acer pensylvanicum)
- moosewort noun: A name for Botrychium tunux.
- moosey adjective: Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a moose.
- mooseyard noun: A winter feeding-ground formed by moose trampling the snow.
- mooseyness noun: The condition of being moosey.
- moosh noun, verb: Alternative spelling of mush (“to squish”).
- mooshy adjective: Alternative spelling of mushy.
- Moosonee noun /ˌmuːsəˈniː/: The Moose Cree people.
- moostajir noun: Alternative form of mustajir.
- moot adjective, noun, verb /muːt/: Subject to discussion (originally at a moot); arguable, debatable, unsolved or impossible to solve.
- moot-axe noun: A specialised axe for cutting tree stumps.
- moot court noun: In law school, an activity wherein students compete by making arguments with respect to a hypothetical case, or a case that has already been decided by an...
- moot earth noun: Soil taken from between the roots of a tree.
- moot hall noun: Alternative form of moot hall.
- moot hill noun: Alternative form of moothill.
- moot point noun: An issue that is subject to, or open for, discussion or debate, to which no satisfactory answer is found; originally, one to be definitively determined by...
- moot-stow noun: A town or borough that serves as the seat of an assembly or meeting.
- moota noun: Alternative form of mootah.
- mootable adjective: Capable of being mooted.
- mootah noun /ˈmuːtə/: Marijuana.
- mootchy noun: Alternative form of moochy (“Indian leatherworker”).
- mooted adjective, verb: Made, or proven to be, moot.
- mooter noun: A disputer of a mooted case.
- moothill noun: A hill or elevated place where a meeting or council took place in Saxon England.
- mootie noun: A participant in a moot court competition.
- mooting noun, verb: The activity of taking part in a moot court.
- mootman noun: One who argued moot trials in the Inns of Court.
- mootness noun: The state or condition of being moot.
- mootsuddy noun: Alternative form of mutsuddy.
- mootusudee noun: Alternative form of mutsuddy.
- MOOTW noun: Initialism of Military operations other than war.
- mootwa noun: Acronym of military operations other than war.
- Mootz proper noun: A surname.
- mop noun, verb /mɒp/: An implement for washing floors or similar, made of a piece of cloth, or a collection of thrums, or coarse yarn, fastened to a handle.
- mop-and-flop noun: an application procedure in which roofing elements (insulation boards, felt plies, cap sheets, etc.) are initially placed upside down adjacent to their...
- mop bucket noun: A bucket, mounted on a wheeled trolley, that allows a wet mop to be wrung without getting the hands dirty.
- mop down verb: To mop (something) thoroughly.
- mop head noun: The end of a mop, to which the thrums or rags are fastened.
- mop-headed adjective: Having a mop head haircut.
- mop marriage noun: Synonym of common-law marriage
- mop squeezer noun: A maidservant.
- mop stick noun: Alternative form of mopstick.
- mop the floor with someone verb: Synonym of wipe the floor with someone.
- mop-top adjective: Alternative spelling of moptop.
- mop-topped adjective: Having a mop-top haircut.
- mop up noun, verb: To clean up (liquid) with a mop, rag, sponge, or other cleaning device.
- mop up the ice verb: To fall many times during a performance.
- mop water noun: The dirty water which is left over after one mops.
- mopaliid noun: Any chiton in the family Mopaliidae.
- mopane noun /məˈpɑːni/: A tree, Colophospermum mopane, native to southern Africa.
- mopani noun: Alternative form of mopane (“tree”).
- mopboard noun: A skirting board (to protect a wall from wet mops)
- mope noun, verb /məʊp/: To carry oneself in a depressed, lackadaisical manner; to give oneself up to low spirits; to pout, sulk.
- mope about verb: To wander or linger aimlessly with a sad or gloomy demeanor, displaying a lack of energy or motivation.
- mope around verb: To wander or linger aimlessly with a sad or gloomy demeanor, displaying a lack of energy or motivation.
- mope-eyed adjective: short-sighted
- moped adjective, noun, verb /ˈməʊ.pɛd/: A lightweight, two-wheeled vehicle equipped with a small motor and pedals, designed to go no faster than some specified speed limit.
- mopedist noun: A driver of a moped
- mopeful adjective: mopey; inclined to mope.
- mopehawk noun: Alternative form of morepork (“the bird”).
- moper noun: One who mopes or is inclined to do so.
- moperone noun: A typical antipsychotic of the butyrophenone class.
- mopery noun /ˈməʊ.p(ə.)ɹi/: An imaginary or trivial legal offense.
- mopery with intent to creep noun: Synonym of mopery (“imaginary or trivial legal offense”).
- mopery with intent to gawk noun: Synonym of mopery (“imaginary or trivial legal offense”).
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Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0): each word's first meaning. A word with a page of its own links to it; for the rest, this line is PlainSpell's entry. Total under M: 47,683 words, in 159 parts.