7-letter words containing m, i, s, a, t
- 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.
- mastoid — of or relating to the mastoid process.
- mathias — Robert Bruce ("Bob") 1930–2006, U.S. track-and-field athlete.
- matings — Plural form of mating, gerund of 'mate'.
- matisse — Henri [ahn-ree] /ɑ̃ˈri/ (Show IPA), 1869–1954, French painter.
- matsuri — A solemn festival celebrated periodically at Shinto shrines in Japan.
- mattins — matin (def 1).
- maurist — a member of the Benedictine “Congregation of St. Maur,” founded in France in 1618, distinguished for its scholarship and literary works: suppressed during the French Revolution.
- mestiza — a woman of mixed racial or ethnic ancestry, especially, in Latin America, of mixed American Indian and European descent or, in the Philippines, of mixed native and foreign descent.
- mideast — Middle East.
- misacts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of misact.
- miscast — to assign an unsuitable role to (an actor): Tom was miscast as Romeo.
- misdate — to assign or affix a wrong date to.
- mismate — (transitive) To mate or match wrongly or unsuitably; mismatch.
- mispart — to part wrongly
- misrate — to rate or estimate incorrectly
- misseat — to seat wrongly
- mistake — an error in action, calculation, opinion, or judgment caused by poor reasoning, carelessness, insufficient knowledge, etc.
- mistral — Frédéric [frey-dey-reek] /freɪ deɪˈrik/ (Show IPA), 1830–1914, French Provençal poet: Nobel prize 1904.
- miswart — /mis-wort/ [By analogy with misbug] A feature that superficially appears to be a wart but has been determined to be the Right Thing. For example, in some versions of the Emacs text editor, the "transpose characters" command exchanges the character under the cursor with the one before it on the screen, *except* when the cursor is at the end of a line, in which case the two characters before the cursor are exchanged. While this behaviour is perhaps surprising, and certainly inconsistent, it has been found through extensive experimentation to be what most users want. This feature is a miswart.
- mithras — the god of light and truth, later of the sun.
- mitsvah — mitzvah.
- osmatic — of or relating to the sense of smell.
- pastime — something that serves to make time pass agreeably; a pleasant means of amusement, recreation, or sport: to play cards as a pastime.
- saktism — Shaktism.
- samhita — Veda (def 2).
- samnite — an ancient country in central Italy.
- santims — a former coin of Latvia, the 100th part of a lat.
- sematic — serving as a sign or warning of danger, as the conspicuous colors or markings of certain poisonous animals.
- sigmate — having the form of the Greek sigma or the letter S.
- simatic — an assemblage of rocks, rich in silica and magnesium, that constitutes the lower layer of the earth's crust and is found beneath the ocean floors and the sial of continents.
- simitar — a curved, single-edged sword of Asian, especially Eastern origin.
- somatic — of the body; bodily; physical.
- somital — any of the longitudinal series of segments or parts into which the body of certain animals is divided; a metamere.
- stadium — a sports arena, usually oval or horseshoe-shaped, with tiers of seats for spectators.
- stamina — a plural of stamen.
- stamitz — Carl Philipp, 1745–1801, German composer and violinist (son of Johann).
- stasima — (in ancient Greek drama) a choral ode, especially in tragedy, divided into strophe and antistrophe: usually alternating with the epeisodion and, in the final ode, preceding the exodos.
- statism — the principle or policy of concentrating extensive economic, political, and related controls in the state at the cost of individual liberty.
- steamie — a public wash house
- stigmal — (of a vein) extending from the marginal vein on an insect's wing
- suimate — self-mate.
- sumgait — a city in SE Azerbaijan, on the Caspian Sea.
- tachism — action painting (def 1).
- tamasic — See under guna.
- tsarism — dictatorship; despotic or autocratic government.
- tsunami — an unusually large sea wave produced by a seaquake or undersea volcanic eruption.
- tzarism — dictatorship; despotic or autocratic government.
- warmist — Also called global warmist. a person who accepts global warming as a reality (a term used by people who reject the concept).