mote (n.)
- ace
- acropolis
- air
- atom
- bastion
- beachhead
- bit
- blemish
- blockhouse
- bridgehead
- bubble
- bunker
- castle
- chaff
- chip
- citadel
- cobweb
- cork
- crumb
- dab
- dole
- donjon
- dot
- down
- dram
- dribble
- driblet
- drop
- droplet
- dust
- dwarf
- ether
- fairy
- farthing
- fastness
- feather
- fleck
- flue
- fluff
- flyspeck
- foam
- fort
- fortress
- fragment
- froth
- fuzz
- garrison
- gnat
- gobbet
- gossamer
- grain
- granule
- groat
- hair
- handful
- hold
- impurity
- intruder
- iota
- jot
- keep
- little
- microbe
- microorganism
- midge
- minim
- minimum
- minutia
- misfit
- mite
- modicum
- molecule
- nutshell
- oddball
- ounce
- particle
- pebble
- peel
- pillbox
- pinch
- pinhead
- pinpoint
- pittance
- point
- post
- rath
- safehold
- scrap
- scruple
- sliver
- smidgen
- snip
- snippet
- speck
- splinter
- sponge
- spoonful
- spot
- spume
- stone
- straw
- stronghold
- thimbleful
- thistledown
- tittle
- tower
- trivia
- ward
- weed
- whit
mote (v.)
- ace
- air
- bit
- blemish
- bubble
- bunker
- castle
- chaff
- chip
- cork
- crumb
- dab
- dole
- dot
- down
- dribble
- drop
- dust
- dwarf
- ether
- feather
- fleck
- fluff
- foam
- fort
- fragment
- froth
- garrison
- grain
- hair
- hold
- jot
- keep
- little
- mite
- ounce
- peel
- pinch
- pinpoint
- point
- post
- scrap
- scruple
- sliver
- snip
- speck
- splinter
- sponge
- spot
- spume
- stone
- straw
- tower
- ward
- weed