| Mo |
symbol of the chemical element molybdenum. |
| MO |
abbreviation of "Missouri," a Midwestern U.S. state between Kansas and Illinois. |
| M.O. |
abbreviation of "modus operandi" (Latin); method of operating. |
| mo. |
abbreviation of "month." |
| moa |
an extinct, flightless, long-necked bird native to New Zealand. |
| Moab Isolation Center |
a special U.S. internment camp located near Moab, Utah, occupied in 1943 by American citizens of Japanese descent who had been deemed to be "trouble-makers" during their previous internment at ordinary camps created for the holding of Japanese-Americans during World War II. The conditions at the Moab Isolation Center were harsher than at other camps. At its peak, there were about fifty people being held there. |
| moan |
a long, low, mournful outcry expressing pain, grief, or sorrow. [7 definitions] |
| moat |
a deep trench dug for defense around a castle, fort, medieval town, or the like, and usu. filled with water. |
| mob |
a large, disorderly, or riotous crowd of people. [9 definitions] |
| mobcap |
a large, high, frilly cap worn indoors by women of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. |
| mobile |
able to move or be moved from one place or position to another. [6 definitions] |
| mobile device |
a portable computing device such as a smartphone or tablet. |
| mobile home |
a movable house without a permanent foundation but able to be placed and connected to utilities fairly permanently. |
| mobility |
the quality of moving or being moved easily from place to place, or of having ease and flexibility of motion. [2 definitions] |
| mobilization |
the act of assembling and preparing (troops or the like) for active military duty or service to a country. [3 definitions] |
| mobilize |
to assemble and prepare (troops or the like) for active military duty or service to a country. [4 definitions] |
| Möbius strip |
a one-sided surface formed by twisting a rectangular strip one hundred and eighty degrees and connecting its two ends together. |
| mobocracy |
political rule or domination by a mob. |
| mobster |
(informal) one who belongs to a mob or criminal gang; gangster. |
| Moby Dick |
the white whale in Herman Melville's mid-nineteenth-century novel of the same name. |
| moccasin |
a soft leather shoe or slipper without a hard sole or a heel, made originally by American Indians. [3 definitions] |