English words: morphophonologically to mosaic

300 English words, part 129 of 159 of the words starting with M, A to Z. 27 have a page of their own.

English words morphophonologically to mosaic

morphophonologically adverb /ˌmɒ(ɹ).foʊˌfɒn.əˈlɒd͡ʒ.ɪk.li/: In a morphophonological manner.
morphophonologist noun: One who studies morphophonology.
morphophonology noun /ˌmɔ(ɹ).foʊˌfəˈnɒl.ə.d͡ʒi/: A branch of linguistics concerned with the interactions between morphological and phonological or phonetic processes, i.e. how phonemes combine to form...
morphophyly noun: The direct study of the evolution of forms rather than observation of its supposed ontogenic recapitulation.
morphophysiological adjective: Both morphological and physiological
morphophysiologically adverb: In a morphophysiological manner
morphophysiology noun: The (study of the) biological interrelationship between form and physiological function
morphoplasm noun: kinoplasm, trophoplasm
morphoplasmic adjective: of or related to morphoplasm.
morphopoiesis noun: The formation of a biological structure from smaller subunits
morphopoietic adjective: Relating to morphopoiesis
morphopopulation noun: A population or organisms that have a common morphology
morphoproteomic adjective: Relating to morphology and proteomics
morphoproteomics noun: morphology and proteomics considered as a single discipline
morphopsychological adjective: Pertaining to morphopsychology (any sense).
morphopsychology noun: The supposed correspondence between facial features and personality.
morphoquantitative adjective: morphological and quantitative (relating to the numbers of different forms of an organism)
morphoregulation noun: The regulation of morphogenesis
morphoregulator noun: Any morphoregulatory material
morphoregulatory adjective: Relating to morphoregulation
morphoscopic adjective: Of or relating to morphoscopy
morphoscopical adjective: Of or relating to morphoscopy.
morphoscopically adverb: In terms of, or by means of, morphoscopy.
morphoscopy noun: The scientific examination of the shape of small particles or objects.
morphosculptural adjective: Relating to morphosculpture.
morphosculpture noun, verb: A geographic feature formed by the action of water or ice.
morphosedimentary adjective: Related to both morphology and sediment or sedimentation.
morphosemantic adjective: Of or relating to morphosemantics.
morphosemantically adverb: In terms of morphosemantics.
morphosemantics noun: The relationship between morphology and semantics.
morphosensitive adjective: sensitive to changes in morphology
morphosis noun /mɔːˈfəʊsɪs/: The way in which an organism (or an organ) changes form during development.
morphospace noun: A graphical representation of all the morphologies an organism could or does have, each point of which represents an individual shape.
morphospecies noun: A species distinguished from others only by its morphology.
morphostage noun: Any distinct stage in the metamorphosis of an insect
morphostasis noun: The maintenance of a system's current form when its environment changes
morphostat noun: Any biochemical compound responsible for the maintenance of normal tissue microarchitecture.
morphostatic adjective: Relating to morphostasis
morphostratigraphic adjective: Relating to morphostratigraphy
morphostratigraphy noun: morphological stratigraphy
morphostructural adjective: Relating to a morphostructure
morphostructure noun: A geological feature of the landscape typically caused by tectonic activity and climate
morphosyllabic adjective: Representing both a syllable and a morpheme.
morphosyllable noun: A syllable that is a morpheme.
morphosyllabograph noun: A symbol that represents a monosyllabic morpheme.
morphosyntactic adjective: Pertaining to morphosyntax.
morphosyntactical adjective: morphosyntactic
morphosyntactically adverb: In a morphosyntactic context.
morphosyntactician noun: One who studies morphosyntax.
morphosyntax noun: The system of the internal structure of words (morphology) and the way in which words are put together to form phrases and sentences (syntax), regarded as...
morphotactic adjective: Relating to morphotactics.
morphotactically adverb: In terms of morphotactics.
morphotactics noun: The ordering restrictions in place on the ordering of morphemes.
morphotaxon noun: A taxon of a group of organisms classified according to morphology alone
morphotaxonomic adjective: Relating to morphotaxonomy
morphotaxonomy noun: The taxonomy of morphotaxa.
morphotectonic adjective: Pertaining to morphotectonics.
morphotectonics noun: The study of superficial evidences of tectonic activity.
morphothion noun: The insecticide O,O-dimethyl S-morpholinocarbonylmethyl phosphorodithioate
morphotic adjective: Connected with, or becoming an integral part of, a living unit or of the morphological framework.
morphotonemic adjective: Relating to morphotonemics.
morphotrap noun: A synthetic transmembrane protein used in biochemical research
morphotrapped adjective: Modified by reaction with morphotrap
morphotropic adjective: Of or pertaining to morphotropism
morphotropism noun: The state of two crystals whose similar physical structure is due to similar chemical composition
morphotype noun, verb: Any of a group of different types of individuals of the same species in a population; a morph.
morphotypic adjective: Relating to a morphotype
morphotypical adjective: Alternative form of morphotypic.
morphotyping noun /ˈmɔː(ɹ)fəˌtaɪpɪŋ/: The identification of morphotypes
-morphous suffix: having a specified shape or form
morphovar noun: A biovar that has a distinct morphology; a morphotype
morphovolumetric adjective: Relating to both shape and size (volume)
-morphy suffix /ˈmɔːfi/: Shaped or formed.
morphydite noun: Corruption of hermaphrodite.
morpion noun /ˈmɔː(ɹ)piən/: A louse.
Morquio proper noun: A surname from Spanish.
Morquio syndrome noun: A rare metabolic disorder in which the body cannot process certain types of sugar molecules known as glycosaminoglycans.
Morr proper noun: A surname.
morra noun /ˈmɔːɹə/: A game in which two (or more) players each suddenly display a hand showing zero to five fingers and call out what they think will be the sum of all fingers...
morram noun: Alternative form of murram.
Morre proper noun: A surname from French.
Morreale proper noun: A surname.
Morrel proper noun: A surname.
Morren proper noun: A surname from Dutch.
Morrey proper noun: A surname.
morrhuate noun: Any salt or ester of morrhuic acid.
morrhuic acid noun: gaduin
morrhuol noun: An organic compound believed to be the active principle of cod liver oil.
morrice noun, verb: A morris dance.
morricer noun: A morris dancer.
Morrigan proper noun: An Irish mythological figure, widely considered to be a goddess and usually interpreted as a triple goddess, associated with war and fate, especially with...
Morrill proper noun: A surname.
Morrilton proper noun: A city, the county seat of Conway County, Arkansas, United States.
Morrin proper noun: A surname.
morrion noun: Alternative form of morion (“helmet”).
morris noun, verb /ˈmɒɹɪs/: A type of pike.
Morris chair noun: A kind of chair with a reclining back and moderately high armrests.
Morris column noun: A cylindrical outdoor sidewalk structure (like a column) used for advertising; an advertising column
morris dance noun, verb: A traditional English folk dance performed by a team of costumed dancers, often men but also men and women together or women only, who often wield sticks or...
morris dancer noun: One who morris dances.
morris dancing noun, verb: The performance of a morris dance.
morris off verb: to leave; to scram.
morris-pike noun: A long pike at the time believed to have been of Moorish origin.
Morris water maze noun: A circular pool used in experiments, usually on rodents, where the animal is supposed to find an invisible or visible platform that allows it to escape the...
Morrisburg proper noun: A community in South Dundas municipality, eastern Ontario, Canada, named after James Morris.
Morrisean adjective: Alternative form of Morrisian (“of or relating to William Morris”).
Morrisette proper noun: A surname.
Morrisey proper noun: A surname.
Morrish proper noun: A surname.
Morrisian adjective: Of or relating to William Morris (1834–1896), English writer, artist and socialist activist.
Morrisism noun: The political ideas of the British socialist and artist William Morris.
Morrisite adjective, noun: A follower of Joseph Morris, the English-born American leader of a schismatic Mormon movement called Church of the Firstborn that expected an imminent...
Morrison proper noun /ˈmɒɹɪsən/: A Scottish surname originating as a patronymic.
Morrison shelter noun: Synonym of Morrison table.
Morrison table noun: An indoor air-raid shelter in the form of a heavy steel table that people could shelter beneath, also generally usable as furniture.
Morrisonian adjective /ˌmɒɹɪˈsəʊ.ni.ən/: Of or relating to British Labour politician Herbert Morrison (1888–1965), known for a model of establishing public corporations.
Morrisons proper noun: A locality in the Shire of Moorabool, central western Victoria, Australia.
Morrisonville proper noun: A village in Ricks Township, Christian County, Illinois.
Morriss proper noun: A surname.
Morrissette proper noun: A surname.
Morrissey proper noun: A surname.
Morrisseyesque adjective: Characteristic of Morrissey (born 1959), English singer-songwriter.
Morriston proper noun: A suburb and community in the city and county of Swansea, Wales (OS grid ref SS6697).
Morristonian noun: A person from or resident of Morristown, New Jersey.
Morristown proper noun: A community in Kings County, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Morrisville proper noun /ˈmɔɹ.ɪs.vɪl/: A minor city in Polk County, Missouri, named after Morris Mitchell.
morro noun: A round hill or point of land.
morrocoy noun: A red-footed tortoise, of the species Chelonoidis carbonaria, from the West Indies.
Morrone proper noun: A surname from Italian.
morroniside noun: A glycoside isolated from Lonicera morrowii.
morrow noun, verb /ˈmɒɹəʊ/: The next or following day.
morrow-mass noun: morning mass
morrowless adjective: lacking a tomorrow; lasting eternally on a single day
morrowtide noun: The morning.
morse noun, verb /ˈmɔː(ɹ)s/: Clipping of Morse code.
Morse alphabet noun: Synonym of Morse code.
Morse code noun: A character code represented by dots and dashes (or short and long pulses), originally used to send messages by telegraph, later by flashes of light or by...
Morse function noun: A real-valued function on a differentiable manifold such that, at each point in its domain where the function's differential is zero, the function's Hessian...
Morse key noun: A device for transmitting Morse code by hand, still used by radio amateurs today.
Morse lamp noun: A signal lamp used to transmit messages in Morse code.
Morse potential noun: A simple interatomic interaction model for the potential energy of a diatomic molecule.
Morse taper noun: A widely used type of machine taper.
Morse theory noun: The study of differentiable functions, where the domain of each is a manifold and the codomain is the real line.
morsel noun, verb /ˈmɔːsəl/: A small fragment or share of something, commonly applied to food.
morselization noun: The process of division into small pieces.
morselize verb: To divide into small pieces
morselizer noun: A device that crushes a material into morsels
Morseman noun: A Morse code operator.
morsicatio noun: A lesion of the oral mucosa (the inside of the cheek) caused by friction, as in repetitive biting or chewing.
morsing noun, verb: A type of Jew's harp (a lamellophone), a metal ring with two parallel forks and a tongue in the middle, used mainly in India and Pakistan.
morsitation noun: The act of biting or gnawing, especially by insects.
morsure noun /ˈmɔːʒə/: The act of biting.
morsuximide noun: An anticonvulsant drug.
mort noun /mɔːt/: Death; especially, the death of game in hunting.
mort bell noun: Synonym of passing bell.
mort cloth noun: A pall for a coffin; a casket saddle
mort d'ancestor noun: A case or writ relating to the recovery of an inherited estate that has been taken or occupied by another party following the death of a relative.
mort de chien noun: Cholera.
mort house noun: Alternative form of morthouse.
mort stone noun: A large stone by the wayside on which the bearers rest a coffin, or a huge stone placed on a coffin or grave to dissuade body snatchers from defiling the...
mort wap-apace noun: An experienced prostitute.
Morta proper noun: One of the three Fates, or Parcae, daughter of Jupiter and Justitia; the cutter of the thread of life. She is the Roman equivalent of Atropos.
mortadella noun: A smooth-textured Italian pork sausage with lumps of fat, flavoured with spices; eaten cold.
mortal adjective, adverb, noun /ˈmɔː.təl/: Susceptible to death by aging, sickness, injury, or wound; not immortal.
mortal coil noun: The chaos and confusion of life.
mortal combat noun: Fighting to the death; a physical fight between persons or groups wherein each side is attempting to kill the other.
mortal remains noun: Synonym of corpse.
mortal sin noun: A sin which causes the loss of God's grace, leading to eternal damnation, unless the sinner repents, which includes their intent to confess and atone; such...
mortalin noun: A mitochondrial-resident protein that exhibits different staining patterns in normal and immortal cells.
mortalise verb: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of mortalize.
mortalism noun: The belief that the soul is mortal like the body.
mortalist adjective, noun /ˈmɔːtəlɪst/: Someone who believes that the soul is mortal like the body.
mortality noun /mɔɹˈtælɪti/: The state of being susceptible to death.
mortality table noun: Synonym of lifetable.
mortalization noun: The process, or the result of mortalizing
mortalize verb: To make mortal.
mortalled adjective: Very drunk.
mortally adverb /ˈmɔːtəli/: Fatally; in such a way as to cause death.
mortalness noun: The quality of being mortal; mortality.
mortar noun, verb /ˈmɔːtə/: A mixture of lime or cement, sand and water used for bonding building blocks.
mortar and pestle noun: A device made up of a bowl (the mortar) and a heavy, blunt object (the pestle), the end of which is used for crushing and grinding ingredients or substances...
mortar hoe noun: A tool for manually mixing mortar and concrete, resembling a square-bladed draw hoe with the addition of large holes in the blade.
Mortara proper noun: A town and comune in Lombardy, Italy.
mortarboard noun: A rectangular board, with a handle, on which mortar or plaster is carried: a hawk.
mortarium noun /mɔːˈtɛːɹɪəm/: A kind of mortar used by ancient Romans for grinding.
mortarless adjective: Without mortar.
mortarlike adjective: Resembling or characteristic of mortar.
mortarman noun: A man who operates a mortar (weapon).
mortary adjective: Resembling or characteristic of mortar.
mortbell noun: Alternative spelling of mort bell
mortcloth noun: Alternative form of mort cloth.
Mortdale proper noun: A suburb of Sydney in the Georges River council area, New South Wales, Australia.
Morte proper noun: A surname
Morteau sausage noun: A traditional smoked sausage from the Morteau region of France.
Morten proper noun: A male given name from Danish or Norwegian.
Mortensen proper noun: A surname from Danish or Norwegian.
Mortenson proper noun: A surname from Danish or Norwegian.
Mortg. noun: Abbreviation of mortgage.
mortgagable adjective: Alternative spelling of mortgageable.
mortgage noun, verb /ˈmɔːɡɪd͡ʒ/: A legal agreement in which a borrower pledges real property as collateral for a loan used to purchase or refinance that property.
mortgage-backed adjective: Having mortgages as collateral.
mortgage-backed security noun: An asset-backed security whose cash flows are backed by the principal and interest payments of a set of mortgage loans.
mortgage belt noun: The residential suburbs that have a high concentration of families mortgaging their homes.
mortgage bond noun: A bond secured by a lien on real estate.
mortgage burner noun: A cash crop or choice of livestock regarded as the best bet for a smallholder farmer in some particular time and place (under current market conditions).
mortgage deed noun: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see mortgage, deed.
mortgage insurance noun: Insurance that compensates lenders or investors in mortgage-backed securities for losses due to the default of a mortgage loan.
mortgage lender noun: Any financial institution that obtains its profit by lending mortgages for the purchase of property
mortgage lifter noun: Synonym of mortgage burner. Also used as a cultivar name and as a name for sires and dams in livestock breeding.
mortgage packager noun: A company that processes mortgage applications, usually on behalf of mortgage brokers, for submission to lenders.
mortgage roll noun: A transaction where a financial institution or insurance company sells a mortgage-backed security to a dealer and simultaneously agrees to repurchase an...
mortgageability noun: The quality of being mortgageable.
mortgageable adjective: That can be mortgaged.
mortgagee noun: One who provides a loan secured upon the borrowers' property: the lender in a mortgage agreement.
mortgageless adjective: Without a mortgage.
mortgageor noun: Dated form of mortgager.
mortgager noun: One who uses property they own as security for a loan: the borrower in a mortgage agreement.
mortgaging noun, verb: The act by which something is mortgaged.
mortgagor noun: Alternative spelling of mortgager.
morthouse noun: A specialised secure building usually located in a churchyard where bodies were temporarily interred before a formal funeral took place.
mortice noun, verb: Alternative spelling of mortise.
morticer noun: Alternative spelling of mortiser.
mortichnium noun: The trail or trace left by a dying animal, especially as preserved in a fossil.
mortician noun /mɔː(ɹ)ˈtɪʃən/: An undertaker or funeral director; especially, one who is also the embalmer or cremator.
mortido noun: The energy of the death instinct.
mortier noun: A cap of state worn by legal functionaries in France.
mortierellaceous adjective: Of or relating to the Mortierellaceae.
mortiferous adjective /mɔːˈtɪfəɹəs/: Causing spiritual death.
mortiferously adverb: In a mortiferous manner.
mortiferousness noun: The quality of being mortiferous.
mortificate verb: To mortify.
mortificated adjective: Mortified (acutely embarrassed).
mortification noun /ˌmɔːtɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/: The act of mortifying.
mortification root noun: The marshmallow (Althaea officinalis).
mortified adjective, verb /ˈmɔːtɪˌfaɪd/: Acutely embarrassed.
mortifiedly adverb: In a mortified manner.
mortifiedness noun: The state of being mortified; humiliation; mortification
mortifier noun: One who, or that which, mortifies
mortify verb /ˈmɔːtɪfaɪ/: To discipline (one's body, appetites etc.) by suppressing desires; to practise abstinence on.
mortifying adjective, noun, verb: Causing mortification; extremely embarrassing.
mortifyingly adverb: In a mortifying manner; so as to cause great embarrassment.
Mortimer proper noun /ˈmɔːtɪmə/: A British surname from Old French.
Mortimore proper noun: A surname.
mortise noun, verb /ˈmɔː(ɹ).tɪs/: A hole that is made to receive a tenon so as to form a joint.
mortise-and-tenon joint noun: A joint made by inserting a projecting tenon into a mortised slot.
mortise gear noun: Synonym of mortise wheel.
mortise lock noun: A lock that requires a mortise (a pocket or inset) to be cut into the edge of the door or piece of furniture into which the lock is to be fitted.
mortise wheel noun: A cast-iron wheel, consisting of wooden clogs inserted in mortises on its face or edge.
mortised adjective, verb: Having or using a mortise.
mortiser noun: A person or a machine that cuts mortises.
Mortlake proper noun /ˈmɔːtleɪk/: A suburban area of the borough of Richmond upon Thames, London, England (OS grid ref TQ2075).
mortling noun: An animal, such as a sheep, that has died of disease or privation.
Mortlock proper noun: A surname.
mortmain noun /ˈmɔːt.meɪn/: The perpetual, inalienable possession of lands by a corporation or non-personal entity such as a church.
mortmainer noun: One who holds possession by mortmain.
morto adjective: Very embarrassed or embarrassing.
mortocracy noun: Rule or government based on death in some way.
Morton proper noun [ˈmɔːtn̩]: A western suburb of Carlisle, Cumbria (OS grid ref NY3854).
Morton code noun: A kind of hash code for transforming multidimensional integer data into a single value.
Morton's fork noun: A false dilemma in which contradictory arguments lead to the same (unpleasant) conclusion.
Morton's neuroma noun: A benign neuroma of an intermetatarsal plantar nerve, most commonly of the second and third intermetatarsal spaces, resulting in the entrapment of the...
Morton's syndrome noun: Morton's toe
Morton's toe noun: A type of brachymetatarsia where the first metatarsal is shortened in relation to the second, promoting an anterior position of the second...
Mortonian adjective /mɔːˈtəʊ.ni.ən/: Of or relating to Samuel George Morton (1799–1851), American physician and natural scientist.
mortpay noun: The crime of taking pay for the service of dead soldiers, or for services not actually rendered by soldiers.
mortress noun: Alternative form of mortrew.
mortrew noun: A dish of meat and other ingredients, cooked together
mortsafe noun: An iron frame constructed over a grave as a protection against resurrectionists
mortstone noun: Alternative form of mort stone.
mortuarian noun: A mortuary worker.
mortuary adjective, noun /ˈmɔɹt͡ʃəˌwɛɹi/: Of or relating to death or a funeral; funereal.
mortuary chapel noun: A building, often located at a cemetery, which is used for funeral and memorial services.
mortuary pole noun: A totem pole erected in memory of a deceased person, holding their body or ashes.
mortuary science noun: The study of dead bodies through mortuary work; the scientific aspects of deathcare; broadly, all of the education and training for a funeral director.
mortuary sword noun: A (typically two-edged) sword with a straight blade and a half-basket hilt, used in Britain especially during the English Civil War.
mortuus equus phobia noun: Alternative form of mortuusequusphobia
mortuusequusphobia noun: An irrational fear of tomato ketchup or tomato-based sauces.
Morty proper noun /ˈmoɹti/: A diminutive of the male given names Mortimer and Morton.
Moru noun: An ethnic group of South Sudan, mostly living in Western Equatoria.
morubixaba noun: A chief of the Tupi people.
morula noun /ˈmɔːɹələ/: A spherical mass of blastomeres that forms following the splitting of a zygote; it becomes the blastula
morula cell noun: Synonym of Mott cell.
morular adjective: Relating to a morula.
morulation noun: The cleavage or segmentation of a zygote into a morula.
moruloid adjective: Resembling a morula (or mulberry)
morusin noun: A phytochemical found in the root bark of the mulberry.
Morute noun: A subculture style that blends morbid and cute themes, combining soft, hyper-feminine imagery with dark, unsettling elements.
moruti noun: A teacher or preacher.
Moruya proper noun: A town in the Eurobodalla council area, south eastern New South Wales, Australia.
Morvan's syndrome noun: A rare, life-threatening autoimmune disease with multiple irregular contractions of the long muscles, cramping, weakness, pruritus, hyperhidrosis, insomnia,...
Morven proper noun: A female given name from Scottish Gaelic.
morvenite noun: A variety of harmotome.
Morvern proper noun: A peninsula and district in Highland council area, Scotland, bounded by Loch Linnhe, Sound of Mull and Loch Sunart.
Morville proper noun: A village and civil parish west of Bridgnorth, Shropshire, England (OS grid ref SO6694).
Morwell proper noun: A town in the City of Latrobe, central eastern Victoria, Australia.
Morwenna proper noun: A female given name of Celtic origin.
morwong noun: Any of various perciform fishes comprising or formerly comprising family Cheilodactylidae.
mos adverb, determiner, noun, phrase: Alternative letter-case form of MOS (“manual of style”).
Mosaddegh proper noun: A transliteration of the Persian surname مصدق.
mosaic adjective, noun, verb /məʊˈzeɪk/: A piece of artwork created by placing colored pieces (usually tiles, either regular or irregular in shape) in a pattern so as to create a picture.

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.