7-letter words containing a, m, s
- massine — Léonide [ley-aw-need] /leɪ ɔˈnid/ (Show IPA), 1896–1979, U.S. ballet dancer and choreographer, born in Russia.
- massing — a body of coherent matter, usually of indefinite shape and often of considerable size: a mass of dough.
- massive — consisting of or forming a large mass; bulky and heavy: massive columns.
- massora — a collection of critical and explanatory notes on the Hebrew text of the Old Testament, compiled from the 7th? to 10th centuries a.d. and traditionally accepted as an authoritative exegetic guide, chiefly in matters of pronunciation and grammar.
- mastaba — an ancient Egyptian tomb made of mud brick, rectangular in plan with sloping sides and a flat roof.
- masters — a degree awarded by a graduate school or department, usually to a person who has completed at least one year of graduate study.
- mastery — command or grasp, as of a subject: a mastery of Italian.
- mastful — (of a tree) yielding mast in abundance
- mastiff — one of a breed of large, powerful, short-haired dogs having an apricot, fawn, or brindled coat.
- masting — Nautical. a spar or structure rising above the hull and upper portions of a ship or boat to hold sails, spars, rigging, booms, signals, etc., at some point on the fore-and-aft line, as a foremast or mainmast. any of a number of individual spars composing such a structure, as a topmast supported on trestletrees at the head of a lower mast. any of various portions of a single spar that are beside particular sails, as a top-gallant mast and royal mast formed as a single spar.
- mastoid — of or relating to the mastoid process.
- masuria — a region in NE Poland, formerly in East Prussia, Germany: German defeat of Russians 1914–15.
- matatus — Plural form of matatu.
- matches — Plural form of match.
- mathews — ˈMitford M(cLeod) (ˈmɪtfərd ) ; mitˈfərd) 1891-1985; U.S. lexicographer & educator
- mathias — Robert Bruce ("Bob") 1930–2006, U.S. track-and-field athlete.
- matings — Plural form of mating, gerund of 'mate'.
- matisse — Henri [ahn-ree] /ɑ̃ˈri/ (Show IPA), 1869–1954, French painter.
- matless — Without a mat.
- matrass — a rounded, long-necked glass container, formerly used for distilling and dissolving substances.
- matress — Archaic form of mattress.
- matrons — Plural form of matron.
- matross — an artilleryman who ranked below a gunner and who acted as a gunner's assistant, aiding in the loading and firing of guns
- matsudo — a city on E Honshu, in Japan, NE of Tokyo.
- matsuri — A solemn festival celebrated periodically at Shinto shrines in Japan.
- matters — the substance or substances of which any physical object consists or is composed: the matter of which the earth is made.
- mattins — matin (def 1).
- matures — complete in natural growth or development, as plant and animal forms: a mature rose bush.
- maulers — a heavy hammer, as for driving stakes or wedges.
- maurist — a member of the Benedictine “Congregation of St. Maur,” founded in France in 1618, distinguished for its scholarship and literary works: suppressed during the French Revolution.
- maurois — André [ahn-drey] /ɑ̃ˈdreɪ/ (Show IPA), (Émile Salomon Wilhelm Herzog) 1885–1967, French biographer and novelist.
- maurras — Charles (ʃarl). 1868–1952, French writer and political theorist, who founded (1899) the extreme right-wing group L'Action Française: sentenced (1945) to life imprisonment for supporting Pétain during World War II
- mauvais — bad
- mavises — Plural form of mavis.
- mawkins — Plural form of mawkin.
- mawkish — characterized by sickly sentimentality; weakly emotional; maudlin.
- mawseed — the seed of the opium poppy, Papaver somniferum, which is used as feed for caged birds
- maximus — a method rung on twelve bells
- maxixes — Plural form of maxixe.
- maybush — a flowering shrub, Crataegus monogyna, that is native to Europe, northwestern Africa and western Asia, and that produces small white flowers
- mayfish — striped killifish.
- mayhaps — Maybe, perhaps, possibly, perchance.
- mayhems — Plural form of mayhem.
- maypops — Plural form of maypop.
- meaders — Plural form of meader.
- meadows — Plural form of meadow.
- meagres — Plural form of meagre.
- mealies — Sometimes, mealies. corn; maize.
- meaness — Misspelling of meanness.
- meanest — occupying a middle position or an intermediate place, as in kind, quality, degree, or time: a mean speed; a mean course; the mean annual rainfall.