a tributary of the Mississippi River that rises in Missouri and flows southeastward through Arkansas | a dialect of the Chiwere language spoken by the Missouri |
(Roman Catholic Church) an Italian and the Roman Catholic monk who founded the Franciscan order of friars (1181-1226) | a midwestern state in central United States; a border state during the American Civil War, Missouri was admitted to the Confederacy without actually seceding from the Union |
| the longest river in the United States; arises in Montana and flows southeastward to become a tributary of the Mississippi at Saint Louis |
| a member of the Siouan people formerly inhabiting the valley of the Missouri river in Missouri |