7-letter words containing m, c, r
- mantric — Hinduism. a word or formula, as from the Veda, chanted or sung as an incantation or prayer.
- maracas — a gourd or a gourd-shaped rattle filled with seeds or pebbles and used, often in a pair, as a rhythm instrument.
- maracay — a city in NE Venezuela, SW of Caracas.
- marasca — a wild cherry, Prunus cerasus marasca, yielding a small, bitter fruit, from which maraschino is made.
- marcato — (of notes or chords in a musical score) strongly accented.
- marceau — Marcel [mahr-sel;; French mar-sel] /mɑrˈsɛl;; French marˈsɛl/ (Show IPA), 1923–2007, French actor and mime.
- marcels — Plural form of marcel.
- marched — Simple past tense and past participle of march.
- marchen — a German fairy tale or fictional story
- marcher — an inhabitant of, or an officer or lord having jurisdiction over, a march or border territory.
- marches — Francis Andrew, 1825–1911, U.S. philologist and lexicographer.
- marcian — a.d. 392?–457, emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire 450–457.
- marcion — a.d. c100–c160, Christian Gnostic.
- marconi — Guglielmo [goo-lyel-maw] /guˈlyɛl mɔ/ (Show IPA), Marchese, 1874–1937, Italian electrical engineer and inventor, especially in the field of wireless telegraphy: Nobel Prize in physics 1909.
- marcuse — Herbert, 1898–1979, U.S. political and social philosopher, born in Germany.
- mascara — a substance used as a cosmetic to color the eyelashes and eyebrows.
- matcher — a person or thing that equals or resembles another in some respect.
- matrice — Obsolete form of matrix.
- mauriac — François [frahn-swa] /frɑ̃ˈswa/ (Show IPA), 1885–1970, French novelist: Nobel prize 1952.
- maurice — German Moritz. 1521–53, German general: elector of Saxony 1547–53.
- mcbride — Willie John. born 1940, Irish Rugby Union footballer. A forward, he played for Ireland (1962–75) and the British Lions (1962–74)
- mcclure — Samuel Sidney, 1857–1949, U.S. editor and publisher, born in Ireland.
- mcenroe — John Patrick, born 1959, U.S. tennis player.
- mcgrath — Glenn (Donald). born 1970, Australian cricketer: played 124 test matches (1993–2007) and took 563 wickets, a record for a fast bowler
- mcgwire — Mark David, born 1963, U.S. baseball player.
- mchenry — a town in NE Illinois.
- mclaren — Norman, 1914–87, Canadian film director and animator, born in Scotland.
- meercat — Alt form meerkat.
- menorca — Minorca.
- meramec — a river in SE Missouri, flowing generally E to the Mississippi River below St. Louis. 207 miles (333 km) long.
- mercado — a market.
- mercast — a broadcasting system used by U.S. agencies to deliver messages to government-operated ships.
- mercers — Plural form of mercer.
- mercery — a mercer's shop.
- merchet — (obsolete) In Middle Ages England, a fine paid to a lord on a daughter's marriage, in recompense for the loss of a worker.
- mercian — of or relating to Mercia, its inhabitants, or their dialect.
- mercier — Désiré Joseph [dey-zee-rey zhaw-zef] /deɪ ziˈreɪ ʒɔˈzɛf/ (Show IPA), 1851–1926, Belgian cardinal and patriot.
- mercies — compassionate or kindly forbearance shown toward an offender, an enemy, or other person in one's power; compassion, pity, or benevolence: Have mercy on the poor sinner.
- mercify — (obsolete, rare, transitive) To have mercy on; to pity. (16th-19th c.).
- mercury — Chemistry. a heavy, silver-white, highly toxic metallic element, the only one that is liquid at room temperature; quicksilver: used in barometers, thermometers, pesticides, pharmaceutical preparations, reflecting surfaces of mirrors, and dental fillings, in certain switches, lamps, and other electric apparatus, and as a laboratory catalyst. Symbol: Hg; atomic weight: 200.59; atomic number: 80; specific gravity: 13.546 at 20°C; freezing point: −38.9°C; boiling point: 357°C.
- meropic — having the ability to speak
- merrick — David (David Margulies) 1912–2000, U.S. theatrical producer.
- mesarch — Botany. (of a primary xylem or root) developing from both the periphery and the center; having the older cells surrounded by the younger cells.
- metrics — Mathematics. a nonnegative real-valued function having properties analogous to those of the distance between points on a real line, as the distance between two points being independent of the order of the points, the distance between two points being zero if, and only if, the two points coincide, and the distance between two points being less than or equal to the sum of the distances from each point to an arbitrary third point.
- mickery — a waterhole, esp in a dry riverbed
- micrify — to make small or insignificant.
- microbe — a microorganism, especially a pathogenic bacterium.
- microhm — Alternative spelling of micro-ohm.
- microns — Plural form of micron.
- mimicry — the act, practice, or art of mimicking.