7-letter words containing m, r, s, a
- marshal — a military officer of the highest rank, as in the French and some other armies. Compare field marshal.
- marshes — a tract of low wet land, often treeless and periodically inundated, generally characterized by a growth of grasses, sedges, cattails, and rushes.
- marston — John, c1575–1634, English dramatist and satirical poet.
- marsyas — a satyr who lost in a flute-playing competition with Apollo and was flayed alive as a penalty.
- martens — Plural form of marten.
- martins — Archer John Porter [ahr-cher] /ˈɑr tʃər/ (Show IPA), 1910–2002, English biochemist: Nobel Prize in chemistry 1952.
- martyrs — Plural form of martyr.
- marvels — Plural form of marvel.
- marxism — the system of economic and political thought developed by Karl Marx, along with Friedrich Engels, especially the doctrine that the state throughout history has been a device for the exploitation of the masses by a dominant class, that class struggle has been the main agency of historical change, and that the capitalist system, containing from the first the seeds of its own decay, will inevitably, after the period of the dictatorship of the proletariat, be superseded by a socialist order and a classless society.
- marxist — an adherent of Karl Marx or his theories.
- masaryk — Jan [yahn] /yɑn/ (Show IPA), 1886–1948, Czech statesman (son of Tomáŝ).
- mascara — a substance used as a cosmetic to color the eyelashes and eyebrows.
- mashers — Plural form of masher.
- maskers — Plural form of masker.
- masonry — the craft or occupation of a mason.
- masorah — 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.
- maspero — Sir Gaston Camille Charles [gas-tawn ka-mee-yuh sharl] /gasˈtɔ̃ kaˈmi yə ʃarl/ (Show IPA), 1846–1916, French Egyptologist.
- masquer — a person who masks; a person who takes part in a masque.
- masseur — a man who provides massage as a profession or occupation.
- massora — 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.
- masters — a degree awarded by a graduate school or department, usually to a person who has completed at least one year of graduate study.
- mastery — command or grasp, as of a subject: a mastery of Italian.
- masuria — a region in NE Poland, formerly in East Prussia, Germany: German defeat of Russians 1914–15.
- matrass — a rounded, long-necked glass container, formerly used for distilling and dissolving substances.
- matress — Archaic form of mattress.
- matrons — Plural form of matron.
- matross — an artilleryman who ranked below a gunner and who acted as a gunner's assistant, aiding in the loading and firing of guns
- matsuri — A solemn festival celebrated periodically at Shinto shrines in Japan.
- matters — the substance or substances of which any physical object consists or is composed: the matter of which the earth is made.
- matures — complete in natural growth or development, as plant and animal forms: a mature rose bush.
- maulers — a heavy hammer, as for driving stakes or wedges.
- 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.
- maurois — André [ahn-drey] /ɑ̃ˈdreɪ/ (Show IPA), (Émile Salomon Wilhelm Herzog) 1885–1967, French biographer and novelist.
- maurras — Charles (ʃarl). 1868–1952, French writer and political theorist, who founded (1899) the extreme right-wing group L'Action Française: sentenced (1945) to life imprisonment for supporting Pétain during World War II
- meaders — Plural form of meader.
- meagres — Plural form of meagre.
- measter — (obsolete, UK) eye dialect of master.
- measure — a unit or standard of measurement: weights and measures.
- medlars — a small tree, Mespilus germanica, of the rose family, the fruit of which resembles a crab apple and is not edible until the early stages of decay.
- megaris — a district in ancient Greece, between the Gulf of Corinth and Saronic Gulf.
- mercast — a broadcasting system used by U.S. agencies to deliver messages to government-operated ships.
- 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.
- midrash — an early Jewish interpretation of or commentary on a Biblical text, clarifying or expounding a point of law or developing or illustrating a moral principle.
- mihrabs — Plural form of mihrab.
- minbars — Plural form of minbar.
- mirages — Plural form of mirage.
- mirasol — A variety of chili; when dried, the chilis are called guajillos.
- misaver — to state incorrectly
- misdraw — to cause to move in a particular direction by or as if by a pulling force; pull; drag (often followed by along, away, in, out, or off).
- misfare — to get on or fare badly