By then, she began composing her Diccionario de uso del español which she thought she would have finished within two years but in reality it took more than fifteen years of work at her home. She had noticed the shortcomings of the DRAE, the official dictionary published by the Real Academia Española (Spanish Royal Academy), she was already making notes on terms, so this English book gave her the idea of making a dictionary. In 1952 her son Fernando brought her a book from Paris that caught her attention, the Learner's Dictionary of Current English by A.S.
Her method was to look up words, read newspapers and note words she had heard in the street. In the early 1950s, she started work on her Diccionario de uso del español, getting up at about five in the morning, working a little, watering her flowers, going to work, having a small siesta before returning to her dictionary work.
In 1946, Moliner was put in charge of the library at the Superior Technical School of Industrial Engineers in Madrid, until her retirement in 1970. Years later the couple moved to Valencia. She married Fernando Ramón Ferrando, a physics graduate, in 1925 and had four children. She pursued her Bachillerato at the Instituto General y Técnico Cardenal Cisneros, and obtained a degree in History in 1921 from the University of Zaragoza. While a teenager her father left for Argentina and never came back, while Moliner, according to her son Fernando, lived with her mother, sister Matilde and brother Enrique in severe poverty. At the age of two, her family moved from Zaragoza to Almazán in the border province of Soria. María Juana Moliner Ruiz was the eldest daughter of Enrique Moliner, a doctor and son of a doctor, and Matilde Ruiz.
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