9-letter words containing a, t, r, m
- majorette — drum majorette.
- maladroit — lacking in adroitness; unskillful; awkward; bungling; tactless: to handle a diplomatic crisis in a very maladroit way.
- malaxator — a machine for kneading or grinding
- maltreats — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of maltreat.
- maltsters — Plural form of maltster.
- man-eater — an animal, especially a tiger or lion, that eats or is said to eat human flesh.
- man-hater — someone, esp a woman, who dislikes or hates men
- mandatary — a person or nation holding a mandate.
- mandatory — authoritatively ordered; obligatory; compulsory: It is mandatory that all students take two years of math.
- manhunter — an intensive search for a criminal, suspect, escaped convict, etc., as by law enforcement agencies.
- mannerist — a habitual or characteristic manner, mode, or way of doing something; distinctive quality or style, as in behavior or speech: He has an annoying mannerism of tapping his fingers while he talks. They copied his literary mannerisms but always lacked his ebullience.
- manometer — an instrument for measuring the pressure of a fluid, consisting of a tube filled with a liquid, the level of the liquid being determined by the fluid pressure and the height of the liquid being indicated on a scale.
- manometry — an instrument for measuring the pressure of a fluid, consisting of a tube filled with a liquid, the level of the liquid being determined by the fluid pressure and the height of the liquid being indicated on a scale.
- manta ray — marine fish
- manticore — a legendary monster with a man's head, horns, a lion's body, and the tail of a dragon or, sometimes, a scorpion.
- māori rat — a small brown rat, Rattus exulans, native to New Zealand
- marabouts — Plural form of marabout.
- marabunta — A large population of army ants on the move, eating anything in their wake.
- maranatha — a curse or exclamation
- marathons — Plural form of marathon.
- marcasite — Also called white iron pyrites. a common mineral, iron disulfide, FeS 2 , chemically similar to pyrite but crystallizing in the orthorhombic system.
- margarita — a cocktail made of tequila, lime or lemon juice, and an orange-flavored liqueur, usually served in a salt-rimmed glass.
- margarite — Mineralogy. a gray, pink, or yellow mica, occurring in brittle monoclinic crystals. an aggregate of small, rudimentary crystals resembling minute globules in a row: found in glassy volcanic rocks.
- marginate — having a margin.
- marialite — a member of the scapolite group, rich in sodium and containing no calcium.
- marielito — a refugee from Cuba who came to the U.S. in 1980 as part of a mass migration that sailed from Mariel, Cuba.
- marimbist — A player of the marimba.
- marinated — Simple past tense and past participle of marinate.
- marinates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of marinate.
- marinette — a city in NE Wisconsin.
- marinetti — Emilio Filippo Tommaso [e-mee-lyaw fee-leep-paw tawm-mah-zaw] /ɛˈmi lyɔ fiˈlip pɔ tɔmˈmɑ zɔ/ (Show IPA), 1876–1944, Italian writer.
- maritally — In a marital manner.
- maritimer — a native or inhabitant of the Maritime Provinces of Canada
- mark time — the system of those sequential relations that any event has to any other, as past, present, or future; indefinite and continuous duration regarded as that in which events succeed one another.
- marketeer — a person who sells goods or services in or to a market.
- marketers — Plural form of marketer.
- marketing — an open place or a covered building where buyers and sellers convene for the sale of goods; a marketplace: a farmers' market.
- marketise — Alternative spelling of marketize.
- marketize — (economics, management) To convert to management by open-market principles.
- markowitz — Harry M, born 1927, U.S. economist: Nobel prize 1990.
- marlstone — an indurated marl.
- marmosets — Plural form of marmoset.
- marquetry — inlaid work of variously colored woods or other materials, especially in furniture.
- marquette — Jacques [zhahk] /ʒɑk/ (Show IPA), ("Père Marquette") 1637–75, French Jesuit missionary and explorer in America.
- marrowfat — a large-seeded variety of pea.
- marsh tit — a small European songbird, Parus palustris, with a black head and greyish-brown body: family Paridae (tits)
- marshwort — A small, white-flowered plant, of the genus Apium, that grows in marshy habitats.
- martagons — Plural form of martagon.
- martemper — (transitive) To subject (steel) to a heat treatment involving austenitization followed by step quenching (at a rate fast enough to avoid the formation of ferrite, pearlite or bainite), used to produce martensite under relatively low stress.
- martially — inclined or disposed to war; warlike: The ancient Romans were a martial people.