Definitions for moles

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moles mole

Spelling: [mohl]

IPA: /moʊl/

Moles is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 70 anagrams from letters in moles (elmos).

Definitions for moles

noun

1. any of various small insectivorous mammals, especially of the family Talpidae, living chiefly underground, and having velvety fur, very small eyes, and strong forefeet.
2. a spy who becomes part of and works from within the ranks of an enemy governmental staff or intelligence agency. Compare double agent.
3. Machinery. a large, powerful machine for boring through earth or rock, used in the construction of tunnels.
4. a small, congenital spot or blemish on the human skin, usually of a dark color, slightly elevated, and sometimes hairy; nevus.
5. a massive structure, especially of stone, set up in the water, as for a breakwater or a pier.
6. an anchorage or harbor protected by such a structure.
7. the basic unit in the International System of Units (SI), representing the amount of a substance expressed in grams containing as many atoms, molecules, or ions as the number of atoms in 12 grams of carbon-12 (which is Avogadro's number, or 6.022 × 10 23).
8. a fleshy mass in the uterus formed by a hemorrhagic dead ovum.
9. a spicy sauce flavored with chocolate, usually served with turkey or chicken.

Origin of moles

1350-1400; Middle English molle; akin to Middle Dutch, Middle Low German mol

Examples for moles

He had accomplished much, working as a mole works, in the dark.

I fell asleep and dreamed that I was in the fracas at the end of the mole.

What a fearful thing, something was boring away like a mole!

You think this is a human village; but it is the village of me, your master the mole.

He awaited them on the mole, supported by a group of officers.

To his detractors, he was a half-mad paranoiac who nearly destroyed the CIA in his obsessive search for a Soviet mole.

In return for outing the mole and handing back the Cytron card, Rosen gets Grant to appoint him District Attorney.

Last season was definitely challenging, because we were not allowed to mention them or allude to a mole of any kind.

She was briefly outed by Red as a mole and then allowed to recede into the background again.

Alasania said it was important to focus the mole hunt on the army.