List #26 Words that came from Mother

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Across
  1. 2. the school, college, or university that one once attended.
  2. 5. the capital or chief city of a country or region.
  3. 6. an environment or material in which something develops; a surrounding medium or structure.
  4. 7. a person who engages in a pursuit, especially a sport, on an unpaid rather than a professional basis.
  5. 8. a member of a religious community of women, especially a cloistered one, living under vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience.
Down
  1. 1. the state or ceremony of being married; marriage.
  2. 3. physical substance in general, as distinct from mind and spirit; (in physics) that which occupies space and possesses rest mass, especially as distinct from energy.
  3. 4. relating to a mother, especially during pregnancy or shortly after childbirth.
  4. 5. from Mary, mother of Jesus + Middle English gold.