moll-
(Latin: soft)
cherimolla
Large tropical fruit with leathery skin and soft pulp; related to custard apples.
emollience
Relieving, palliative (alleviating pain), healing, assuasive (soothing, calming).
emollient
1. An agent that assuages or mollifies.
2. Trying to avoid anger and argument by using a calming manner.
3. Making less harsh or abrasive; mollifying.
4. An agent that softens or soothes the skin.
5. Softening or soothing, especially to the skin.
2. Trying to avoid anger and argument by using a calming manner.
3. Making less harsh or abrasive; mollifying.
4. An agent that softens or soothes the skin.
5. Softening or soothing, especially to the skin.
emollition
The act of softening or relaxing; relaxation.
Holcus molli, Creeping Soft Grass, Creeping Velvet Grass
European perennial grass with soft velvety foliage.
mollescent
Softening or tending to soften.
mollification
1. A state of being appeased or ameliorated or tempered.
2. The act of appeasing someone or causing someone to be more favorably inclined.
3. To soften in feeling or temper, as a person; to pacify; to appease.
2. To mitigate or to reduce; to soften: "The supervisor tried to mollify the demands of his employees by offering them a raise."
2. The act of appeasing someone or causing someone to be more favorably inclined.
3. To soften in feeling or temper, as a person; to pacify; to appease.
2. To mitigate or to reduce; to soften: "The supervisor tried to mollify the demands of his employees by offering them a raise."
mollifier
1. Someone, or something, that softens the feeling or temper; such as, a person or people.
2. Anyone, or anything, that mitigates, softens, or reduces by pacification or appeasement.
2. Anyone, or anything, that mitigates, softens, or reduces by pacification or appeasement.
mollify (verb), mollifies; mollified; mollifying
1. To calm in temper or feeling; to soothe and to pacify: Flowers did not mollify Jim's girlfriend who was still angry that he didn't remember her birthday the day before.
2. To reduce the rigidity of; to soften a situation or condition: The governor of the state tried to mollify his critics with apologies.
3. To cause to be more favorably inclined; to gain the good will of: The landlord fixed the heater, but the tenants still were not mollified.
4. Etymology: from Latin mollis, "soft" +, "to make"; literally, "to make soft" and so, "to make less angry or violent".
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2. To reduce the rigidity of; to soften a situation or condition: The governor of the state tried to mollify his critics with apologies.
3. To cause to be more favorably inclined; to gain the good will of: The landlord fixed the heater, but the tenants still were not mollified.
4. Etymology: from Latin mollis, "soft" +
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mollipilose
Having soft hairs; downy.
mollities
Softness; abnormal softening.
molluscum
Any of various skin diseases in which soft spherical tumors form on the face or other part of the body.
mollusk, mollusc
An invertebrate with a soft unsegmented body, usually protected by a shell in one, two, or three pieces; for example, the snails and the octopus. Most mollusks live in or near water.
palatum molle
Soft palate.
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