Reverse Dictionary: MOM – MOND

MOMENT – adverbs
– IN A QUACK in a mere moment; quickly, in the shortest possible time …c1840 Sc.
– LIKE WINKY very quickly; in a moment; as in the twinkling of an eye …1855 Eng. dial.
moment – nouns 
– ARTICLE * a moment in time which joins two successive periods; a specific juncture in time; a critical point or moment …a1398
– BAT a short time, a moment …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– BAT OF AN EYE a short time; a moment …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– BLINK a moment …Bk1911 Sc.
– BRACE OF SHAKES a short time; a moment …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– BREATH a very short time; a moment …1917 Amer. dial.
– COUPLE OF HUMPS a short time; a moment …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– COUPLE OF JERKS a short time; a moment …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– COUPLE OF KICKS a short time; a moment …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– COUPLE OF SHAKES a short time; a moment …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– COUPLE OF WINKS a short time; a moment …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– CRACK a short time; a moment …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– EYEWINK an instant; a moment …1836
– FARTING-SPELL a very short period of time; a moment …19C Amer. dial.
– FLASH a short time; a moment …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– GLIFF † a short space of time, an instant, a moment …1816 obs. exc. Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
– GLIFFY a short space of a time; a moment …1820 Sc.
– HALF-A-JIFFY a short time; a moment …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– HALF A MO a moment …L19 colloq.
– HALF-A-SHAKE a moment, a very short time …20C NZ sl.
– HANDCLAP a clap of the hands; the brief space of time this takes; an instant, a moment …1822
– HANDLANG-WHILE † a moment, an instant, a span of time …c1460
– HANDWHILE † a moment, an instant; a little while; a short span of time …c1000 obs. exc. Sc. & Eng. dial.
– HANTERIN a moment, a short space of time …1885 Sc.
– HEART-BEAT a short time; a moment …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– JERK a short time; a moment …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– JIFFIN, JIFFING an instant or moment …1815 Amer. dial.
– JIFFY a short time; a moment …1793 colloq.
– LESS THAN NO TIME a short time; a moment …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– LITTLE BIT a short time; a moment …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– LITTLE MINUTE, A  a moment, a minute …Bk1903 Eng. dial.  
– MO a moment; a second …1896 sl.
– NICK a short time; a moment …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– NO TIME a short time; a moment …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– ODD-COME-SHORT an idle moment; some day soon to come; some time; an indefinite period; an odd moment …1883 Amer. dial.
– PIG’S-WHISTLE a short time; a moment …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– QUACK † a brief moment; a trice, the shortest possible time …1882 Sc.
– QUICK an instant, a moment …1986 Amer. dial.
– RAP a moment …1768 Sc.
– SHAKE a short time; a moment …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– SHAKE OF A BRASS MONKEY’S TAIL a short time; a moment …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– SIQUARE † period or point of time; moment …a1300
– SNATCH a short time; a moment …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– SPOT a short time; a moment …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– TANTILLATION † a trifling space of time; a moment of time …1651 nonce word
– TICK a moment, a second, an instant …1879 colloq.
– TICK-TACK a second; a moment; a short space of time …1881 Eng. dial.
– TIFFIN a moment of time …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– TWINK a winking of the eye; the time taken by this; a twinkling; the shortest possible space of time; a moment …a1400
– TWINKLING OF A BEDPOST a short time; a moment …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– TWO SHAKES a short time; a moment …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– TWO SHAKES OF A BRASS MONKEY’S TAIL a short time; a moment …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– TWO SHAKES OF A DEAD SHEEP’S TAIL a short time; a moment …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– TWO SHAKES OF A LAMB’S TAIL a short time; a moment …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– TWO SHAKES OF A SHEEP’S TAIL a short time; a moment …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– TWO TWO’S a short time; a moment …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– TWO WHOOPS AND A HELLO a short time; a moment …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– TWO WHOOPS AND A HOLLER a short time; a moment …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– WHIP † the brief time taken by a sudden movement; a moment, an instant …c1450 obs. exc. Sc.
– WHIPSTITCH a short space of time; a moment …1899 Amer. dial.
– WIFFIN a moment …B1900 Sc.
– WINK a short time; a moment …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
 
MOMENTARILY – adverbs
– FOR A SUDDEN † for an instant …1688
 
MOMENTARY – adjectives
– MOMENTAL † lasting only a moment; momentary, brief …1606
– MOMENTANEAL † lasting but a moment, momentary …c1610
– MOMENTANEOUS † lasting but a moment, momentary …c1610
– SUDDEN † brief, momentary, lasting only a short time …1561
 
MOMENTOUS – adjectives
– EARTHSHAKING of enormous importance or consequence; momentous …colloq.
– EARTH-SHATTERING of enormous importance or consequence; momentous …colloq.
– MOLIMINOUS † weighty, momentous, of vast importance …1684
– MOMENTAL † very important, momentous …1818
 
MONACO – person
– MONACAN a native or inhabitant of Monaco …1911
– MONAGASQUE a native or inhabitant of Monaco, a small independent principality forming an enclave on the Mediterranean coast of France …1874
– MONÉGASQUE a native or inhabitant of Monaco, a small independent principality forming an enclave on the Mediterranean coast of France …1874
 
MONARCH – nouns
– GALLANTRY † loyalty, devotion to a monarch …1648
monarch – person 
– MONARCHESS * a female monarch; a queen …1594
– MONARCHO † (derogatory) a monarch …1598
– MONARCH-POPE * a monarch who is also head of the church; spec. one of the post-Reformation British monarchs …1904
– SUFFREYN † a sovereign ruler, monarch …a1500
monarch – verbs 
– IMMONARCHIZE † to confer monarchy upon; to make into a monarch …1679 nonce word
 
MONARCHY – person
– MONARCHOMACH a republican; an anti-monarchist …1904 hist.
– MONARCHOMACHIST a person who fights against monarchy; an anti-monarchist; earlier, a person who argues against the Divine Right of monarchs …1639
– MONARCHY MAN a supporter of the monarchy …1665
– MONOCRAT a member of the Federalist party, regarded as siding with monarchical Britain against revolutionary France; generally, a supporter or advocate of monocracy or monarchy …1792 US
 
MONASTERY – nouns
– CALEFACTORY the room in a monastery where the inmates warmed themselves …1681
– LOCUTORY a room or place for conversation; esp. a room in a monastery, or, in later use, a convent, where monks were allowed to converse …1483
– OFFICINE † a workshop; a laboratory; an office in a monastery …c1425
– XENODOCHION a house of reception for strangers and pilgrims; a hostel, a guest-house, esp. in a monastery …1865
– XENODOCHIUM a house of reception for strangers and pilgrims; a hostel, a guest-house, esp. in a monastery …1612
– XENODOCHY †* a house of reception for strangers and pilgrims; a hostel, a guest-house, esp. in a monastery …c1540
monastery – person 
– MANDRIARCH a ruler or founder of a monastic order …1871
– OBEDIENCER † a member of a conventual establishment charged with any duty or ‘obedience’ – the holder of any office in a monastery, under the abbot or superior – an officer in a monastery …c1380
– OBEDIENCIARY † a member of a conventual establishment charged with any duty or ‘obedience’ – the holder of any office in a monastery, under the abbot or superior – an officer in a monastery …c1380
– OBEDIENTIAR * a member of a conventual establishment charged with any duty or ‘obedience’ – the holder of any office in a monastery, under the abbot or superior – an officer in a monastery …1892
– OBEDIENTIARY a member of a conventual establishment charged with any duty or ‘obedience’ – the holder of any office in a monastery, under the abbot or superior …1794
– OBLAT 1. † a disabled soldier placed by the king in a monastery to be there maintained …1693
2. † a person devoted to a monastery or to religious work …1693
– OBLATE a person devoted to a monastery or to religious work …1864 
monastery – verbs
– IMMONASTERED † shut up in a monastery …1622 nonce word
 
MONDAY – nouns
– BLACK MONDAY the first Monday after holidays …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– SECOND DAY Monday …1705 Amer. dial.