9-letter words containing m, r, a
- marquetry — inlaid work of variously colored woods or other materials, especially in furniture.
- marquette — Jacques [zhahk] /ʒɑk/ (Show IPA), ("Père Marquette") 1637–75, French Jesuit missionary and explorer in America.
- marquises — Plural form of marquis.
- marrakech — a city in W Morocco.
- marrakesh — a city in W Morocco.
- marranism — the practices, principles, or condition characteristic of the Marranos.
- marriages — Plural form of marriage.
- marrooned — Simple past tense and past participle of marroon.
- marrowfat — a large-seeded variety of pea.
- marrowish — Similar to a marrow.
- marrowsky — spoonerism
- marrubium — Any of the genus Marrubium of bitter aromatic plants; hoarhound.
- marruecos — Spanish name of Morocco.
- marry off — to take in marriage: After dating for five years, I finally asked her to marry me.
- marseille — a seaport in and the capital of Bouches-du-Rhône department, in SE France.
- marsh gas — a gaseous decomposition product of organic matter, consisting primarily of methane.
- marsh hen — any of various rails or raillike birds.
- marsh tit — a small European songbird, Parus palustris, with a black head and greyish-brown body: family Paridae (tits)
- marshaled — a military officer of the highest rank, as in the French and some other armies. Compare field marshal.
- marshaler — (computing) A mechanism for marshalling data.
- marshalls — Plural form of marshall.
- marshbuck — an antelope of the central African swamplands, Strepsiceros spekei, with spreading hoofs adapted to boggy ground; an important vector of the tsetse fly
- marshland — a region, area, or district characterized by marshes, swamps, bogs, or the like.
- marshlike — Resembling a marsh or some aspect of one.
- marshwort — A small, white-flowered plant, of the genus Apium, that grows in marshy habitats.
- marsquake — a tremor, similar to an earthquake, on Mars
- marsupial — any viviparous, nonplacental mammal of the order Marsupialia, comprising the opossums, kangaroos, wombats, and bandicoots, the females of most species having a marsupium containing the mammary glands and serving as a receptacle for the young.
- marsupian — (obsolete) marsupial.
- marsupium — the pouch or fold of skin on the abdomen of a female marsupial.
- martagons — Plural form of martagon.
- martemper — (transitive) To subject (steel) to a heat treatment involving austenitization followed by step quenching (at a rate fast enough to avoid the formation of ferrite, pearlite or bainite), used to produce martensite under relatively low stress.
- martially — inclined or disposed to war; warlike: The ancient Romans were a martial people.
- martin ii — died a.d. 884, pope 882–884.
- martin iv — (Simon de BrieorSimon de Brion) c1210–85, French ecclesiastic: pope 1281–85.
- martineau — Harriet, 1802–76, English novelist and economist.
- martinets — Plural form of martinet.
- martingal — Alternative form of martingale (piece of harness for a horse).
- martinmas — a church festival, November 11, in honor of St. Martin.
- martinson — Harry Edmund [har-ee ed-muh nd;; Swedish hah-ri ed-moo nt] /ˈhær i ˈɛd mənd;; Swedish ˈhɑ rɪ ˈɛd mʊnt/ (Show IPA), 1904–78, Swedish novelist and poet: Nobel prize 1974.
- martyrdom — the condition, sufferings, or death of a martyr.
- martyring — a person who willingly suffers death rather than renounce his or her religion.
- martyrise — Alt form martyrize.
- martyrish — a person who willingly suffers death rather than renounce his or her religion.
- martyrium — a place where the relics of a martyr are kept.
- martyrize — to make a martyr of: The ancient Romans martyrized many Christians.
- marveling — something that causes wonder, admiration, or astonishment; a wonderful thing; a wonder or prodigy: The new bridge is an engineering marvel.
- marvelled — something that causes wonder, admiration, or astonishment; a wonderful thing; a wonder or prodigy: The new bridge is an engineering marvel.
- marveller — One who marvel.
- marvelous — superb; excellent; great: a marvelous show.
- marxisant — sympathetic to Marxism