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.
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."
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.
mollify
1. To calm in temper or feeling; to soothe and to pacify.
2. To lessen in intensity or temper.
3. To reduce the rigidity of; to soften a situation or condition.
4. To make less rigid or softer.
5. To cause to be more favorably inclined; to gain the good will of.
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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