Wart vs. Mole — What's the Difference?

Warts are typically small, rough, hard growths that are similar in color to the rest of the skin. They typically do not result in other symptoms, except when on the bottom of the feet, where they may be painful.

A small burrowing mammal with dark velvety fur, a long muzzle, and very small eyes, feeding mainly on worms, grubs, and other invertebrates.

A hard rough lump growing on the skin, caused by infection with certain viruses and occurring typically on the hands or feet.

A spy who gradually achieves an important position within the security defences of a country

A similar growth or protuberance, as on a plant.

A small, often slightly raised blemish on the skin made dark by a high concentration of melanin

A genital wart.

A large solid structure on a shore serving as a pier, breakwater, or causeway.

One that resembles or is likened to a wart, especially in unattractiveness or smallness.

The SI unit of amount of substance, equal to the quantity containing as many elementary units as there are atoms in 0.012 kg of carbon-12.

An imperfection; a flaw.

An abnormal mass of tissue in the uterus.

(pathology) A type of deformed growth occurring on the skin caused by the human papillomavirus (HPV).

A highly spiced Mexican sauce made chiefly from chilli peppers and chocolate, served with meat.

Any similar growth occurring in plants or animals, such as the parotoid glands in the back of toads.

A skin lesion, commonly a nevus, that is typically raised and discolored.

Any of the prefixes used in Hungarian notation.

Any of various small insectivorous mammals of the family Talpidae of North America and Eurasia, usually living underground and having a thickset body with light brown to dark gray silky fur, strong forefeet for burrowing, and often rudimentary eyes.

A small, usually hard, tumor on the skin formed by enlargement of its vascular papillæ, and thickening of the epidermis which covers them.

A machine that bores through hard surfaces, used especially for tunneling through rock.

An excrescence or protuberance more or less resembling a true wart; specifically (Bot.), a glandular excrescence or hardened protuberance on plants.

A spy who operates from within an organization, especially a double agent operating against that agent's own government from within its intelligence establishment.

Any small rounded protuberance (as on certain plants or animals)

A massive, usually stone wall constructed in the sea, used as a breakwater and built to enclose or protect an anchorage or a harbor.

(pathology) a firm abnormal elevated blemish on the skin; caused by a virus

The anchorage or harbor enclosed by a mole.

A fleshy abnormal mass formed in the uterus by the degeneration or abortive development of an ovum.

In the International System, the base unit used in representing an amount of a substance, equal to the amount of that substance that contains as many atoms, molecules, ions, or other elementary units as the number of atoms in 0.012 kilogram of carbon-12. The number is 6.0221 × 1023, or Avogadro's number. See Table at measurement.

A pigmented spot on the skin, a naevus, slightly raised, and sometimes hairy.

Any of several small, burrowing insectivores of the family Talpidae; also any of southern African mammals in the family Chrysochloridae (golden moles) and any of several Australian mammals in the family Notoryctidae (marsupial moles), similar to but not closely related to Talpidae moles

Any of the burrowing rodents also called mole-rats.

(espionage) An internal spy, a person who involves himself or herself with an enemy organisation, especially an intelligence or governmental organisation, to determine and betray its secrets from within.

A kind of self-propelled excavator used to form underground drains, or to clear underground pipelines

A type of underground drain used in farm fields, in which a mole plow creates an unlined channel through clay subsoil.

A moll, a bitch, a slut.

(nautical) A massive structure, usually of stone, used as a pier, breakwater or junction between places separated by water.

(rare) A haven or harbour, protected with such a breakwater.

(historical) An Ancient Roman mausoleum.

In the International System of Units, the base unit of amount of substance; the amount of substance of a system which contains exactly 6.02214076×10²³ elementary entities (atoms, ions, molecules, etc.). Symbol: mol. The number of atoms is known as Avogadro’s number. from 1897

A hemorrhagic mass of tissue in the uterus caused by a dead ovum.

One of several spicy sauces typical of the cuisine of Mexico and neighboring Central America, especially a sauce which contains chocolate and which is used in cooking main dishes, not desserts.

A spot; a stain; a mark which discolors or disfigures.

A spot, mark, or small permanent protuberance on the human body; esp., a spot which is dark-colored, from which commonly issue one or more hairs.

A mass of fleshy or other more or less solid matter generated in the uterus.

A mound or massive work formed of masonry or large stones, etc., laid in the sea, often extended either in a right line or an arc of a circle before a port which it serves to defend from the violence of the waves, thus protecting ships in a harbor; also, sometimes, the harbor itself.

Any insectivore of the family Talpidæ. They have minute eyes and ears, soft fur, and very large and strong fore feet.

A plow of peculiar construction, for forming underground drains.

A spy who lives for years an apparently normal life (to establish a cover) before beginning his spying activities.

A quantity of a substance equal to the molecular weight of a substance expressed in grams; a gram molecule; the basic unit of amount of substance adopted under the System International d'Unites; as, he added two moles of sodium chloride to the medium.

To form holes in, as a mole; to burrow; to excavate; as, to mole the earth.

To clear of molehills.

The molecular weight of a substance expressed in grams; the basic unit of amount of substance adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites

A spy who works against enemy espionage

Spicy sauce often containing chocolate

A small congenital pigmented spot on the skin

A protective structure of stone or concrete; extends from shore into the water to prevent a beach from washing away

Small velvety-furred burrowing mammal having small eyes and fossorial forefeet