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2,425 words match “MOT”

EMOTIVENESS n.
Susceptibility to emotion. G. Eliot.
EMOTIVITY n.
Emotiveness. Hickok.
ENDOSMOTIC a.
Pertaining to endosmose; of the nature endosmose; osmotic. Carpenter.
ENOMOTARCH n.
The commander of an enomoty. Mitford.
ENOMOTY n.
A band of sworn soldiers; a division of the Spartan army ranging from twenty-five to thirty-six men, bound together by oath.
ENTOMOTOMIST n.
One who practices entomotomy.
ENTOMOTOMY n.
The science of the dissection of insects.
ETHMOTRUBINAL a. 2 definitions
An ethmoturbinal bone.
EXCITO-MOTION n.
Motion excited by reflex nerves. See Excito-motory.
EXCITO-MOTOR a.
Excitomotory; as, excito-motor power or causes.
EXCITO-MOTORY a.
Exciting motion; -- said of that portion of the nervous system concerned in reflex action, by which impressions are transmitted to a nerve center and then reflected back so as to produce muscular contraction without sensation or volition.
EXOSMOTIC a.
Pertaining to exosmose.
FILEMOT n.
See Feullemort. Swift.
FOLKMOTE n. 2 definitions
consider and order matters of the commonwealth; also, a local court. [Hist.] To which folkmote they all with one consent Agreed to travel. Spenser.
FOLKMOTER n.
One who takes part in a folkmote, or local court. [Obs.] Milton.
FOREMOTHER n.
A female ancestor.
GEMOTE n.
A meeting; -- used in combination, as, Witenagemote, an assembly of the wise men.
GODMOTHER n.
A woman who becomes sponsor for a child in baptism. See Godfather
GRANDMOTHER n.
The mother of one's father or mother.
GRANDMOTHERLY a.
Like a grandmother in age or manner; kind; indulgent.
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