6-letter words containing m, o, r, a
- malory — Sir Thomas, c1400–71, English author.
- mamore — a river in Bolivia, flowing N to the Beni River on the border of Brazil to form the Madeira River. 700 miles (1125 km) long.
- mandor — (historical) A chief worker or a supervisor, who oversees the work of other workers.
- manoir — A type of manor or country house.
- manors — Plural form of manor.
- manour — Obsolete spelling of manor.
- marajo — an island in N Brazil, at the mouth of the Amazon. 19,000 sq. mi. (49,000 sq. km).
- marcos — Ferdinand E(dralin) [ed-ruh-lin] /ˈɛd rə lɪn/ (Show IPA), 1917–1989, Philippine political leader: president 1965–86.
- marcot — (botany) A branch formed by marcottage.
- marero — a member of a mara in the US or Central America
- margot — a female given name, form of Margaret.
- marino — Daniel Constantine ("Dan") born 1961, U.S. football player.
- marion — Francis ("the Swamp Fox") 1732?–95, American Revolutionary general.
- markov — See Andrei Markov, Markov chain, Markov model, Markov process.
- marlon — a male given name.
- marmot — any bushy-tailed, stocky rodent of the genus Marmota, as the woodchuck.
- marone — Archaic form of maroon (the colour).
- maroni — a river in N South America, forming the border between French Guiana and Suriname, flowing N to the Atlantic Ocean: upper course called the Itany. 450 miles (724 km) long.
- maroon — dark brownish-red.
- marron — a large European chestnut, especially as used in cookery: candied or preserved in syrup.
- marrow — a partner; fellow worker.
- masora — a collection of critical and explanatory notes on the Hebrew text of the Old Testament, compiled from the 7th? to 10th centuries a.d. and traditionally accepted as an authoritative exegetic guide, chiefly in matters of pronunciation and grammar.
- mataro — a city in Catalonia, NE Spain, on the Mediterranean Sea NE of Barcelona.
- matron — a married woman, especially one who is mature and staid or dignified and has an established social position.
- mavors — Mars.
- mayors — Plural form of mayor.
- menora — Alternative spelling of menorah.
- merano — a town and resort in NE Italy, in the foothills of the central Alps: capital of the Tyrol (12th–15th century); under Austrian rule until 1919. Pop: 33 656 (2001)
- moaner — One who moans.
- mohair — the coat or fleece of an Angora goat.
- moirai — Classical Mythology. the personification of fate. Moirai, the Fates.
- molars — Also called molar tooth. a tooth having a broad biting surface adapted for grinding, being one of twelve in humans, with three on each side of the upper and lower jaws.
- molnar — Ferenc [fe-rents] /ˈfɛ rɛnts/ (Show IPA), 1878–1952, Hungarian playwright, novelist, and short-story writer.
- monera — a taxonomic kingdom of prokaryotic organisms that typically reproduce by asexual budding or fission and have a nutritional mode of absorption, photosynthesis, or chemosynthesis, comprising the bacteria, blue-green algae, and various primitive pathogens.
- moraea — any of various plants belonging to the genera Moraea and Dietes, of the iris family, native to tropical Africa.
- moraga — a city in W California.
- morale — emotional or mental condition with respect to cheerfulness, confidence, zeal, etc., especially in the face of opposition, hardship, etc.: the morale of the troops.
- morals — of, relating to, or concerned with the principles or rules of right conduct or the distinction between right and wrong; ethical: moral attitudes.
- morass — a tract of low, soft, wet ground.
- morava — German March. a river in central Europe, flowing S from NE Czech Republic, along part of the border between the Czech Republic and Slovakia, and Slovakia and Austria, into the Danube W of Bratislava. 240 miles (385 km) long.
- morays — any of numerous chiefly tropical eels of the family Muraenidae, having porelike gill openings and no pectoral fins.
- morcha — (in India) a hostile demonstration against the government
- moreau — Gustave [gys-tav] /güsˈtav/ (Show IPA), 1826–98, French painter.
- morena — (South Africa) Someone in authority, a master or leader, especially among Sotho-speakers. (Chiefly as a form of address.) (from 19th c.).
- morgan — Augustus, 1806–71, English mathematician and logician.
- morgay — a European small-spotted dogfish, Scyllium canicula
- moriah — a mountainous region in S Palestine, where Abraham prepared to sacrifice Isaac. Gen. 22:3.
- mornay — Also called Duplessis-Mornay. Philippe de [fee-leep duh] /fiˈlip də/ (Show IPA), Seigneur du Plessis-Marly [se-nyœr dy ple-see-mar-lee] /sɛˈnyœr dü plɛ si marˈli/ (Show IPA), ("Pope of the Huguenots") 1549–1623, French statesman and Protestant leader.
- mortal — subject to death; having a transitory life: all mortal creatures.
- mortar — a mixture of lime or cement or a combination of both with sand and water, used as a bonding agent between bricks, stones, etc.