Index of English words, starting with "mo"

(1) - Motif (n.) Motive.

(1) - Motile (a.) Producing motion; as, motile powers.
(2) - Motile (a.) Having powers of self-motion, though unconscious; as, the motile spores of certain seaweeds.

(1) - Motility (n.) Capability of motion; contractility.

(1) - Motion (v. t.) To propose; to move.
(2) - Motion (v. t.) To direct or invite by a motion, as of the hand or head; as, to motion one to a seat.
(3) - Motion (v. i.) To make proposal; to offer plans.
(4) - Motion (v. i.) To make a significant movement or gesture, as with the hand; as, to motion to one to take a seat.
(5) - Motion (n.) A puppet show or puppet.
(6) - Motion (n.) Change of pitch in successive sounds, whether in the same part or in groups of parts.
(7) - Motion (n.) An application made to a court or judge orally in open court. Its object is to obtain an order or rule directing some act to be done in favor of the applicant.
(8) - Motion (n.) A proposal or suggestion looking to action or progress; esp., a formal proposal made in a deliberative assembly; as, a motion to adjourn.
(9) - Motion (n.) Movement of the mind, desires, or passions; mental act, or impulse to any action; internal activity.
(10) - Motion (n.) Change in the relative position of the parts of anything; action of a machine with respect to the relative movement of its parts.
(11) - Motion (n.) Direction of movement; course; tendency; as, the motion of the planets is from west to east.
(12) - Motion (n.) Power of, or capacity for, motion.
(13) - Motion (n.) The act, process, or state of changing place or position; movement; the passing of a body from one place or position to another, whether voluntary or involuntary; -- opposed to rest.