Words that start with M

Monkey bars are a piece of playground equipment that looks like a ladder held horizontally by some posts at each end. You use it by going across the ladder holding on with your hands.

A monorail is similar to a train in that it travels along a fixed track. The main difference is a monorail has only one track, not two like regular trains. Some kinds of monorail hover above their track (also called a rail or beam). These are called maglev monorails.
Many monorails travel on raised tracks above a city. Not all monorails are raised like this. The beams a monorail travels on are large and solid and are often cast out of concrete, like the raised platform itself.

Montana, abbreviated to MT, is a state in the north western United States of America. The capital of Montana is Helena and the largest city in Montana is Billings.

A monument is a structure that has been made as a reminder of an event or a person from time past. Momuments are often made to remember wars.
A monument is also a place of historical interest or great beauty that a Government maintains.

The moon is a round lump of rock, about one third the size of the Earth. The moon looks small because it is so far away. There is no air or life on the moon.
Its radius is 1737.4 km.
The moon is 384,400km from the Earth.

A moor is an area of land with poor drainage, usually overgrown with heather and covered in a thick layer of peat.

The moose, also called the elk in Europe, is the largest of the deer family. It lives in forests in North America and Europe. People have been hunting moose for food and their skins for thousands of years.

Mopped is the past tense of mop, as in "she mopped the floor".

Morning is the time of day after the sun comes up but before midday or noon.

Morning tea is a light drink and snack people have in the morning. It is a common break between breakfast and lunch.