12-letter words containing moth
- bagworm moth — any moth of the family Psychidae
- birth mother — the woman who gives birth to a child, regardless of whether she is the genetic mother or subsequently brings up the child
- cabbage moth — a common brownish noctuid moth, Mamestra brassicae, the larva of which is destructive of cabbages and other plants
- chemotherapy — Chemotherapy is the treatment of disease using chemicals. It is often used in treating cancer.
- clothes moth — any of various tineid moths, esp Tineola bisselliella, the larvae of which feed on wool or fur
- codling moth — a tortricid moth, Carpocapsa pomonella, the larvae of which are a pest of apples
- crymotherapy — cryotherapy.
- drinker moth — a large yellowish-brown bombycid eggar moth, Philudoria potatoria, having a stout hairy body, the larvae of which drink dew and feed on grasses
- earth mother — the earth conceived of as the female principle of fertility and the source of all life.
- earth-mother — the earth conceived of as the female principle of fertility and the source of all life.
- emerald moth — any of various green geometrid moths, esp the large emerald (Geometra papilionaria) a handsome pale green moth with white wavy markings
- grandmothers — Plural form of grandmother.
- homothermous — (biology) warm-blooded.
- housemothers — Plural form of housemother.
- in mothballs — a small ball of naphthalene or sometimes of camphor for placing in closets or other storage areas to repel moths from clothing, blankets, etc.
- leopard moth — a moth, Zeuzera pyrina, having white wings spotted with black and larvae that bore into the wood of various trees and shrubs.
- lobster moth — a large sombre-hued prominent moth, Stauropus fagi, that when at rest resembles dead leaves. The modified thoracic legs of the larva, carried curled over its body, look like a lobster's claw
- moth mullein — a weedy, European mullein, Verbascum blattaria, of the figwort family, having lance-shaped leaves and loose spikes of white or yellow flowers.
- mother craft — a spaceship providing facilities and supplies for a number of smaller craft, or for astronauts
- mother earth — the earth regarded as the source of all animate and inanimate things.
- mother goose — the fictitious author of a collection of nursery rhymes first published in London (about 1760) under the title of Mother Goose's Melody.
- mother house — a convent housing a mother superior of a community of nuns.
- mother image — a person substituted in one's mind for one's mother and often the object of emotions felt toward the mother
- mother's boy — mama's boy.
- mother's day — a day, usually the second Sunday in May, set aside in honor of mothers.
- mother-naked — stark naked; as naked as when born.
- mother-seton — Saint Elizabeth Ann (Bayley) ("Mother Seton") 1774–1821, U.S. educator, social-welfare reformer, and religious leader: first native-born American to be canonized (1975).
- mother-to-be — A mother-to-be is a woman who is pregnant, especially for the first time.
- motherboards — Plural form of motherboard.
- motherfucker — a mean, despicable, or vicious person.
- motherhouses — Plural form of motherhouse.
- motherliness — The property of being motherly.
- mothproofing — Present participle of mothproof.
- nomothetical — Nomothetic.
- normothermia — (medicine) The condition of having a normal body temperature.
- normothermic — (medicine) Having a normal body temperature.
- pneumothorax — the presence of air or gas in the pleural cavity.
- queen mother — a queen dowager who is mother of a reigning sovereign.
- smother-love — a relationship between a parent and child in which the parent is over-protective to the extent that the child's normal psychological development is inhibited
- smotheriness — the condition or state of smothering
- smotheringly — in a smothering manner
- stepmotherly — related to or having the characteristics of a stepmother
- tiger mother — a strict mother, especially an East Asian, who demands academic excellence and obedience from her children.
- tussock moth — any of several moths of the family Lymantriidae, the larvae of which have characteristic tufts of hair on the body and feed on the leaves of various deciduous trees.
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