9-letter words containing m, r, a
- major key — a key whose essential harmony is based on the major scale.
- majordomo — The head servant or official in a royal Spanish or Italian household; later, any head servant in a wealthy household in a foreign country; a leading servant or butler.
- majorette — drum majorette.
- make over — to bring into existence by shaping or changing material, combining parts, etc.: to make a dress; to make a channel; to make a work of art.
- make sure — free from doubt as to the reliability, character, action, etc., of something: to be sure of one's data.
- make-work — work, usually of little importance, created to keep a person from being idle or unemployed.
- makeovers — Plural form of makeover.
- makeready — the final adjustment of the printing surfaces on a press by the use of leveling devices, overlays, underlays, etc.
- maksoorah — (in a mosque) a screen or partition enclosing an area for prayer or a tomb.
- maladroit — lacking in adroitness; unskillful; awkward; bungling; tactless: to handle a diplomatic crisis in a very maladroit way.
- malanders — a dry, scabby or scurfy eruption or scratch behind the knee in a horse's foreleg.
- malarious — Pathology. any of a group of diseases, usually intermittent or remittent, characterized by attacks of chills, fever, and sweating: formerly supposed to be due to swamp exhalations but now known to be caused by a parasitic protozoan, which is transferred to the human bloodstream by a mosquito of the genus Anopheles and which occupies and destroys red blood cells.
- malaxator — a machine for kneading or grinding
- male fern — a bright-green fern, Dryopteris filix-mas, of Europe and northeastern North America.
- maleberry — swamp andromeda.
- malformed — faultily or anomalously formed.
- malingers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of malinger.
- malingery — The spirit or practices of a malingerer; malingering.
- malipiero — Gian Francesco [jahn frahn-che-skaw] /dʒɑn frɑnˈtʃɛ skɔ/ (Show IPA), 1882–1973, Italian composer.
- malleolar — pertaining to a malleolus.
- malnormal — (mathematics) Of, pertaining to, or exhibiting malnormality.
- malodours — Plural form of malodour.
- maltreats — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of maltreat.
- maltsters — Plural form of maltster.
- malware's — software intended to damage a computer, mobile device, computer system, or computer network, or to take partial control over its operation: tips on finding and removing viruses, spyware, and other malware.
- mamberamo — a river in Irian Jaya, W New Guinea, flowing NW to the Pacific Ocean. 500 miles (805 km) long.
- mamillary — Of, relating to, or on the mamilla.
- mammaries — Female breasts; Plural form of mammary.
- mammering — to stammer or mutter.
- mammifers — Plural form of mammifer.
- mammiform — having the shape of a breast
- mammogram — an x-ray photograph obtained by mammography.
- man crush — an intense but non-sexual admiration felt by one man for another
- man power — the power supplied by human physical exertions: an ancient building constructed entirely by man power.
- man-eater — an animal, especially a tiger or lion, that eats or is said to eat human flesh.
- man-hater — someone, esp a woman, who dislikes or hates men
- manchuria — a historic region in NE China: ancestral home of the Manchu. About 413,000 sq. mi. (1,070,000 sq. km).
- mandarine — Alternative spelling of mandarin (in the term
- mandarins — Plural form of mandarin.
- mandatary — a person or nation holding a mandate.
- mandatory — authoritatively ordered; obligatory; compulsory: It is mandatory that all students take two years of math.
- mandrakes — a narcotic, short-stemmed European plant, Mandragora officinarum, of the nightshade family, having a fleshy, often forked root somewhat resembling a human form.
- mandrills — Plural form of mandrill.
- maneouvre — Misspelling of manoeuvre.
- maneuvers — Plural form of maneuver.
- maneuvres — Plural form of maneuvre.
- manfriend — A male friend.
- mangalore — a city and port in SW Karnataka state, in SW India.
- mangaluru — a city and port in SW Karnataka state, in SW India.
- mangroves — Plural form of mangrove.