7-letter words containing i, n, t, m, a
- 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.
- matinal — (often initial capital letter) matins, Also, especially British, mattins. (usually used with a singular verb) Ecclesiastical. the first of the seven canonical hours. the service for it, properly beginning at midnight, but sometimes beginning at daybreak. Also called Morning Prayer. the service of public prayer, said in the morning, in the Anglican Church.
- matinee — an entertainment, especially a dramatic or musical performance, held in the daytime, usually in the afternoon.
- matings — Plural form of mating, gerund of 'mate'.
- matting — a piece of cardboard or other material placed over or under a drawing, painting, photograph, etc., to serve as a frame or provide a border between the picture and the frame.
- mattins — matin (def 1).
- maturin — a city in NE Venezuela.
- mediant — the third degree of a major or minor musical scale.
- meranti — wood from any of several Malaysian trees of the dipterocarpaceous genus Shorea
- migrant — migrating, especially of people; migratory.
- minaret — a lofty, often slender, tower or turret attached to a mosque, surrounded by or furnished with one or more balconies, from which the muezzin calls the people to prayer.
- miniate — to illuminate (a manuscript) in red; rubricate.
- mintage — the act or process of minting.
- minutia — Usually, minutiae. precise details; small or trifling matters: the minutiae of his craft.
- mitanni — the Hurrian kingdom in NW Mesopotamia in the 15th and 14th centuries b.c.
- naptime — a time set aside for taking a nap; a period during which one naps.
- natrium — (formerly) sodium.
- nematic — noting a mesomorphic state in which the arrangement of the molecules is linear.
- ominate — (obsolete) To presage; to foreshow; to foretoken.
- omnitab — Statistical analysis and desk calculator. Version: OMNITAB II.
- raiment — clothing; apparel; attire.
- samnite — an ancient country in central Italy.
- santims — a former coin of Latvia, the 100th part of a lat.
- stamina — a plural of stamen.
- tamarin — any South American marmoset of the genera Saguinus and Leontopithecus (Leontideus), having silky fur and a nonprehensile tail: several species are threatened or endangered.
- tamping — to force in or down by repeated, rather light, strokes: He tamped the tobacco in his pipe.
- tampion — a plug or stopper placed in the muzzle of a piece of ordnance when not in use, to keep out dampness and dust.
- tannaim — one of a group of Jewish scholars, active in Palestine during the 1st and 2nd centuries a.d., whose teachings are found chiefly in the Mishnah.
- taximan — a taxi driver.
- teaming — a number of persons forming one of the sides in a game or contest: a football team.
- thiamin — a white, crystalline, water-soluble compound of the vitamin-B complex, containing a thiazole and a pyrimidine group, C 12 H 17 ClN 4 OS, essential for normal functioning of the nervous system, a deficiency of which results chiefly in beriberi and other nerve disorders: occurring in many natural sources, as green peas, liver, and especially the seed coats of cereal grains, the commercial product of which is chiefly synthesized in the form of its chloride (thiamine chloride or thiamine hydrochloride) for therapeutic administration, or in nitrate form (thiamine mononitrate) for enriching flour mixes.
- timpana — a traditional Maltese baked pasta and pastry dish
- timpani — a set of kettledrums, especially as used in an orchestra or band.
- timpano — a kettledrum
- tinamou — any of several birds of the family Tinamidae, of South and Central America, related to the ratite birds but superficially resembling the gallinaceous birds.
- tit man — the runt of an animal litter, especially the smallest pig.
- tormina — severe pains in the stomach
- trigman — A system for symbolic mathematics, especially celestial mechanics.
- tsunami — an unusually large sea wave produced by a seaquake or undersea volcanic eruption.
- tympani — a set of kettledrums, especially as used in an orchestra or band.
- varmint — Chiefly Southern and South Midland U.S. vermin. an objectionable or undesirable animal, usually predatory, as a coyote or bobcat.
- vietnam — Official name Socialist Republic of Vietnam. a country in SE Asia, comprising the former states of Annam, Tonkin, and Cochin-China: formerly part of French Indochina; divided into North Vietnam and South Vietnam during the Vietnam War but now reunified. 126,104 sq. mi. (326,609 sq. km). Capital: Hanoi. Compare North Vietnam, South Vietnam.
- vitamin — any of a group of organic substances essential in small quantities to normal metabolism, found in minute amounts in natural foodstuffs or sometimes produced synthetically: deficiencies of vitamins produce specific disorders.
- whitman — Marcus, 1802–47, U.S. missionary and pioneer.