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Mowgli

Mowgli, Rudyard Kipling's wolf-raised boy of The Jungle Book (1894) and The Second Jungle Book, first written in "Mowgli's Brothers" (1892); sources include Sleeman's wolf-children pamphlet and Haggard; he influenced Tarzan and starred in Disney's 1967 and 2016 films and Serkis's 2018 Netflix movie.

Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle

Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle (2018), Andy Serkis's directorial debut, is a darker performance-capture adaptation of Kipling's Jungle Book, starring Rohan Chand, Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett, and Benedict Cumberbatch, released by Netflix after Warner Bros. delayed it to avoid Disney's 2016 remake.

Mowi

Mowi, until 2018 called Marine Harvest, is a Norwegian seafood company based in Bergen that raises more farmed Atlantic salmon than any other company, harvesting 559,000 tonnes in 2025.

Mowing the grass

Mowing the grass: informal Israeli military-political strategy of periodic operations degrading Hamas and other non-state armed groups without resolving the conflict; also mowing the lawn; associated with Gaza rounds like Cast Lead and Protective Edge and ended by October 7.

Oct 22, 2026

Mowludi

Mowludi (مولودی) is a genre of celebratory Persian religious song praising the Prophet Muhammad and the Ahl al-Bayt, sung with daf accompaniment at birth-anniversary ceremonies called mowludi-khani.

Sep 19, 2026

Mowzey Radio

Mowzey Radio, born Moses Nakintije Ssekibogo, was a Ugandan singer and songwriter, one half of the pop duo Radio & Weasel, who died in 2018.

Mox Bank Limited

Mox Bank Limited is a Hong Kong virtual bank majority owned by Standard Chartered with PCCW, HKT, and Trip.com, offering retail banking entirely through a mobile app since September 2020.

MOX fuel

MOX fuel (mixed oxide fuel) is nuclear reactor fuel made of plutonium dioxide blended with uranium dioxide, fabricated from reprocessed plutonium and used in power reactors since the 1980s.

Moxetumomab pasudotox

Moxetumomab pasudotox (Lumoxiti, moxetumomab pasudotox-tdfk) is a CD22-directed recombinant immunotoxin fused to Pseudomonas PE38, FDA-approved September 13, 2018 for relapsed/refractory hairy cell leukemia, withdrawn from US and EU markets by 2023 for low uptake.

Moxi Gas Asset

Moxi Gas Asset (磨溪) is a natural gas asset in Sichuan, China, wholly owned and operated by PetroChina. Discovered in 2012, it is China's largest single monoblock marine carbonate gas reservoir.

Moxibustion

Moxibustion (jiu, ai; moxa from Japanese mogusa) is a traditional Chinese medicine heat therapy burning mugwort (Artemisia argyi/vulgaris) on or above acupuncture points, used since about 500 BCE; best evidence is for turning breech babies.

Moxico Province

Moxico Province (Província do Moxico), eastern Angola, capital Luena; founded 1917, 12 municipalities, 574,253 people, Benguela Railway link, Luena peace accord 2002, split to create Moxico Leste in 2024.

Moxidectin

Moxidectin is a milbemycin macrocyclic lactone anthelmintic approved by the FDA in 2018 as the first new river blindness treatment in 20 years, and also used widely in veterinary medicine.

Moxie

Moxie names several unrelated things: UCD Moxie, a UC Davis day-neutral strawberry cultivar; Moxie!, a Syngenta interspecific geranium series; MOXIE, the Mars 2020 oxygen experiment; and a South African magazine.

Moxie (film)

Moxie (2021) is a Netflix coming-of-age comedy-drama directed by Amy Poehler, based on Jennifer Mathieu's novel, in which shy teen Vivian (Hadley Robinson) starts an anonymous feminist zine; released March 3, 2021, 111 minutes, PG-13. Not the freelancer platform, Twitch streamer, or medspa software of the same name.

Moxie Marlinspike

Moxie Marlinspike is the pseudonym of American cryptographer Matthew Rosenfeld, who created the Signal messaging service, co-developed the Signal Protocol, and led Signal until 2022.

Moxie Power Melamaruthur Thermal Power Plant

Moxie Power Melamaruthur Thermal Power Plant, also known as Mutiara Coastal Energen, is a 1,200 MW coal-fired power station in Thoothukudi district, Tamil Nadu, India.

Moxifloxacin

Moxifloxacin (Avelox, Vigamox) is a fourth-generation fluoroquinolone antibiotic developed by Bayer, approved in 1999, inhibiting DNA gyrase and topoisomerase IV, given as 400 mg once daily for respiratory, skin, intra-abdominal infections, plague, and conjunctivitis.

Moximed

Moximed, formerly ExploraMed NC4 Inc, is a Fremont, California medical device company that makes the MISHA Knee System, an implantable shock absorber for knee osteoarthritis.

Moxin Technology (魔芯科技) (Moxin Keji)

Moxin Technology (魔芯科技) is a Hangzhou startup founded in 2021 by Chen Tianrun that develops 4D world models, including KOKONI-World and MoWorld, trained on domestic Huawei chips.

Moxion Power

Moxion Power Co. was a Richmond, California manufacturer of mobile battery energy storage units founded in 2020 to replace diesel generators, and it shut down in July 2024.

Moxisylyte

Moxisylyte (thymoxamine, Opilon, Carlytene) is an α1-adrenergic antagonist vasodilator prodrug used for primary Raynaud's phenomenon and, by intracavernous injection, erectile dysfunction; withdrawn in France in 1993 for hepatotoxicity.

Moxonidine

Moxonidine, sold as Physiotens and Cynt, is a centrally acting antihypertensive that stimulates I1-imidazoline receptors in the brainstem; it is approved for mild to moderate hypertension.

Oct 22, 2026

Moy Sand and Gravel

Moy Sand and Gravel is a 2002 poetry collection by the Northern Irish poet Paul Muldoon, which won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize and Griffin Poetry Prize.

Moyai statue

The Moyai statue is a stone sculpture at Shibuya Station, Tokyo, carved from koga stone. It was donated in 1980 by Niijima Village and named for the local dialect word moyai.

Moyamoya disease

Moyamoya disease, a rare progressive cerebrovascular disorder causing bilateral intracranial carotid occlusion with puff-of-smoke collaterals; RNF213 p.R4810K susceptibility gene, Suzuki staging, DSA diagnosis, surgical revascularization treatment.

Sep 19, 2026

Moyann

Moyann is a Jamaican dancehall singer from Montego Bay who debuted in 2018 and was named 2023 breakout artiste of the year by the Jamaica Observer.

Moyen Atlas

Moyen Atlas (Middle Atlas) is a 250-km NE-SW mountain chain in northern Morocco between the Rif and High Atlas, an inverted Jurassic rift with CAMP basalts, Quaternary volcanism, cedar forests holding 75% of world Atlas cedars, and Morocco's 'water tower' feeding the Oum-Er-Rbia and Sebou rivers.

Moyen-Cavally

Moyen-Cavally (Région du Moyen-Cavally), former region of western Côte d'Ivoire, 2000–2011, capital Guiglo; formed from Duékoué, Guiglo, and Toulépleu departments of Dix-Huit Montagnes; abolished 2011 into Montagnes district, yielding Guémon and Cavally regions.