Get the answer to the NYT Spelling Bee clue “Display one’s bare behind or lunar sphere or crescent”, starting with the letters mo.
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noun
- The earth's natural satellite see satellite that shines by the sun's reflected light, revolves about the earth from west to east in about 29¹/₂ days with reference to the sun or about 27¹/₃ days with reference to the stars, and has a diameter of 2160 miles (3475 kilometers), a mean distance from the earth of about 238,900 miles (384,400 kilometers), and a mass about one eightieth that of the earth
- One complete moon cycle consisting of four phases see phase
- Satellite
- An indefinite usually extended period of time
"a labor of many moons"
- Moonlight
"keep out of the moon or it may turn your head"
- A highly translucent see translucent spot on old porcelain
- Lunule
- Naked buttocks
- Something impossible or inaccessible
"reach for the moon"
verb
- To spend in idle reverie dream
- To expose one's naked buttocks to
"One of the boys mooned the crowd."
- To spend time in idle reverie behave abstractedly
"fans mooning over movie stars"
noun
- A recurrent inflammation of the eye of the horse
adjective
- Having the eyes wide open
noun
- An autumn harvest festival celebrated in Chinese culture and various other East and Southeast Asian cultures mid-autumn festival
"The Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as the Moon Festival (this year on Sept. 10), would see my family gather in my grandparents' San Leandro backyard to gaze at the moon."
noun
- Moon snail
noun
- A spacecraft mission to the moon
"And among the nearly endless tasks that had to be completed for the Apollo moon shot, one woman spearheaded a critical engineering project: testing all the small gear the astronauts would take with them to the lunar surface."
- An extremely ambitious project or mission undertaken to achieve a monumental goal
"He is leading biology's moon shot; the Human Genome Project, a $3 billion, 15-year effort to pinpoint the location of all 100,000 human genes."
- A hit or thrown ball that travels a great distance with a high trajectory
"… paused at the plate to admire the second of the three homers—a moon shot that landed a few rows short of a homemade sign in the rightfield bleachers …"
noun
- Any of a cosmopolitan family (Naticidae) of carnivorous marine snails having smooth globular shells
noun
- A sealed garment worn especially for protection from hazardous material (such as toxic waste or infectious disease)
biographical name
- 1953– president of South Korea (2017–22)
This clue was used on January 3, 2025.