6-letter words containing e, s, m
- massey — Vincent, 1887–1967, Canadian statesman: governor general 1952–59.
- masted — Having masts.
- master — botmaster
- maters — British Informal. mother1 .
- mateys — Plural form of matey.
- maties — Plural form of maty.
- matjes — Plural form of matje.
- matres — Plural form of mater.
- mattes — Plural form of matte.
- mauser — Peter Paul, 1838–1914, and his brother, Wilhelm, 1834–82, German inventors of firearms.
- mauves — Plural form of mauve.
- mavens — An expert or connoisseur.
- mayest — 2nd person singular present indicative of may1 .
- mazers — Plural form of mazer.
- measle — singular of measles (def 3).
- measly — Informal. contemptibly small, meager, or slight: They paid me a measly fifteen dollars for a day's work. wretchedly bad or unsatisfactory: a measly performance.
- meatus — an opening or foramen, especially in a bone or bony structure, as the opening of the ear or nose.
- meccas — Plural form of mecca.
- mecism — abnormal prolongation of one or more parts of the body.
- medals — Plural form of medal.
- medias — Plural form of media.
- medics — Plural form of medic.
- medius — the middle finger.
- medusa — a saucer-shaped or dome-shaped, free-swimming jellyfish or hydra.
- meeces — (jargon) /mees'*z/ (TMRC) Occasional furry visitors who are not urchins; that is, mice. This may no longer be in live use. According to ESR it derives from the refrain of the early-1960s cartoon character Mr. Jinx: "I hate meeces to *pieces*!"
- megass — bagasse.
- meishi — A Japanese business card.
- meknes — a city in N Morocco: former capital of Morocco.
- melees — Plural form of melee.
- melies — Georges [zhawrzh] /ʒɔrʒ/ (Show IPA), 1861–1938, French film director.
- melons — the fruit of any of various plants of the gourd family, as the muskmelon or watermelon.
- mendes — a member of a people living in Sierra Leone and Liberia.
- mensae — Irregular plural form of mensa.
- mensal — of, relating to, or used at the table.
- mensan — an international fellowship organization for people with IQ's in the top 2 percent of the general population.
- mensch — a decent, upright, mature, and responsible person.
- menses — propriety; discretion.
- mentes — (in the Odyssey) a captain of the Taphians. Athena assumed his form when she urged Telemachus to search for Odysseus.
- mentos — Plural form of mento.
- merese — (on a stemmed glass) a flat, sharp-edged knop joining the stem to the bowl or foot.
- merest — Superlative form of mere.
- merges — to cause to combine or coalesce; unite.
- merils — an old-fashioned game played by two people, involving the placing of counters at the intersections of lines drawn on a board or on the ground.
- merise — Methode d'Etude et de Realisation Informatique pour les Systemes d'Enteprise. A software engineering method popular in France; many IPSEs are based on it.
- merism — (literature, rhetoric) Referring to something by its polar extremes, as in
- merits — claim to respect and praise; excellence; worth.
- merles — Plural form of merle.
- merops — (in the Iliad) a Percosian augur who foresaw and unsuccessfully tried to prevent the death of his sons in the Trojan War.
- merrys — a female given name.
- mersey — a river in W England, flowing W from Derbyshire to the Irish Sea. 70 miles (115 km) long.