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Mortgagors
- noun - the person who gives a mortgage in return for money to be repaid; "we became mortgagors when the bank accepted our mortgage and loaned us the money to buy our new home"
Mortuaries
- noun - a building (or room) where dead bodies are kept before burial or cremation
Morulation
- - The process of cleavage, or segmentation, of the ovum, by which a morula is formed.
Mosasauria
- - An order of large, extinct, marine reptiles, found in the Cretaceous rocks, especially in America. They were serpentlike in form and in having loosely articulated and dilatable jaws, with large recurved teeth, but they had paddlelike feet. Some of them were over fifty feet long. They are, essentially, fossil sea serpents with paddles. Called also Pythonomarpha, and Mosasauria.
Mosasaurus
- - A genus of extinct marine reptiles allied to the lizards, but having the body much elongated, and the limbs in the form of paddles. The first known species, nearly fifty feet in length, was discovered in Cretaceous beds near Maestricht, in the Netherlands.
Moss Agate
- noun - an agate resembling moss with brown, black, or green markings
- an agate with brown, black, or green moss-like markings
Mothballed
- verb - put into long-term storage
Motivating
- verb - give an incentive for action; "This moved me to sacrifice my career"
- impelling to action; "it may well be that ethical language has primarily a motivative function"- Arthur Pap; "motive pleas"; "motivating arguments"
- the act of motivating; providing incentive
Motivation
- noun - the act of motivating; providing incentive
- the condition of being motivated; "his motivation was at a high level"
- the psychological feature that arouses an organism to action toward a desired goal; the reason for the action; that which gives purpose and direction to behavior; "we did not understand his motivation"; "he acted with the best of motives"