9-letter words containing m, a, s, r
- rabbinism — the beliefs, practices, and precepts of the rabbis of the Talmudic period.
- racemates — Plural form of racemate.
- racialism — racism.
- rainstorm — a storm with heavy rain.
- rakeshame — a shamefully dissolute person; rogue
- ram singh — 1816–85, Indian leader of a puritanical Sikh sect, the Kukas, who tried to remove the British from India through a policy of noncooperation
- ramaphosa — (Matamela) Cyril. born 1952, South African statesman and trade unionist; secretary general of the ANC (1991–97); deputy president of South Africa from 2014
- ramblings — If you describe a speech or piece of writing as someone's ramblings, you are saying that it is meaningless because the person who said or wrote it was very confused or insane.
- ramillies — a village in central Belgium: Marlborough's defeat of the French 1706.
- ramses ii — 1292–1225 b.c, king of ancient Egypt.
- ranterism — a radical 17th-century Christian doctrine based on a personal relationship with the Holy Spirit and disregard of formal worship
- rap music — a style of popular music, developed by disc jockeys and urban blacks in the late 1970s, in which an insistent, recurring beat pattern provides the background and counterpoint for rapid, slangy, and often boastful rhyming patter glibly intoned by a vocalist or vocalists.
- rascaldom — the domain of rascals, a group of rascals
- rascalism — the traits or character of a rascal
- rasmussen — Knud Johan Victor [knooth yoo-hahn veek-tawr] /knuð yʊˈhɑn ˈvik tɔr/ (Show IPA), 1879–1933, Danish arctic explorer.
- reaffirms — to state or assert positively; maintain as true: to affirm one's loyalty to one's country; He affirmed that all was well.
- realmless — having no realm
- red maids — a fleshy plant, Calandrinia ciliata menziesi, of the purslane family, native to the western U.S., having rose-colored or crimson flowers.
- redtapism — excessive formality and routine required before official action can be taken.
- remeasure — a unit or standard of measurement: weights and measures.
- resampled — a small part of anything or one of a number, intended to show the quality, style, or nature of the whole; specimen.
- rest camp — a camp where soldiers rest
- rest mass — the mass of a body as measured when the body is at rest relative to an observer, an inherent property of the body.
- rhopalism — the art, skill, or incidence of writing rhopalic verse
- rhotacism — Historical Linguistics. a change of a speech sound, especially (s), to (r), as in the change from Old Latin lases to Latin lares.
- ritualism — adherence to or insistence on ritual.
- romanesco — a variety of green cauliflower
- romanised — to make Roman Catholic.
- rosemarie — a female given name.
- rosemarys — a female given name.
- roundsman — a person who makes rounds, as of inspection.
- royalmast — the highest part of a mast
- saccharum — a brewing sugar derived from cane sugar
- sacciform — resembling a sac
- sacrament — Ecclesiastical. a visible sign of an inward grace, especially one of the solemn Christian rites considered to have been instituted by Jesus Christ to symbolize or confer grace: the sacraments of the Protestant churches are baptism and the Lord's Supper; the sacraments of the Roman Catholic and Greek Orthodox churches are baptism, confirmation, the Eucharist, matrimony, penance, holy orders, and extreme unction.
- sacrarium — Roman Catholic Church. a piscina.
- sailmaker — a person who makes or repairs sails.
- salambria — a river in N Greece, in Thessaly, flowing E to the Gulf of Salonika. 125 miles (200 km) long.
- salaryman — (in Japan) a white-collar businessman.
- salesroom — a room in which goods are sold or displayed.
- salimeter — salinometer.
- salometer — salinometer.
- samarinda — a city on E Borneo, in Indonesia.
- samaritan — an inhabitant of Samaria.
- samarkand — a province of the ancient Persian Empire between the Oxus and Jaxartes rivers: now in Uzbekistan. Capital: Samarkand.
- san ramon — a town in W California.
- sandstorm — a windstorm, especially in a desert, that blows along great clouds of sand (distinguished from dust storm).
- sanhedrim — Also called Great Sanhedrin. the highest council of the ancient Jews, consisting of 71 members, and exercising authority from about the 2nd century b.c.
- sapraemia — blood poisoning caused by toxins of putrefactive bacteria
- sarcomere — any of the segments of myofibril in striated muscle fibers.