7-letter words containing m, r, s
- maracas — a gourd or a gourd-shaped rattle filled with seeds or pebbles and used, often in a pair, as a rhythm instrument.
- marasca — a wild cherry, Prunus cerasus marasca, yielding a small, bitter fruit, from which maraschino is made.
- marauds — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of maraud.
- marbles — metamorphosed limestone, consisting chiefly of recrystallized calcite or dolomite, capable of taking a high polish, occurring in a wide range of colors and variegations and used in sculpture and architecture.
- marcels — Plural form of marcel.
- marches — Francis Andrew, 1825–1911, U.S. philologist and lexicographer.
- marcuse — Herbert, 1898–1979, U.S. political and social philosopher, born in Germany.
- margays — Plural form of margay.
- margins — Plural form of margin.
- margosa — neem (def 2).
- marinas — Plural form of marina.
- marines — of or relating to the sea; existing in or produced by the sea: marine vegetation.
- marinus — died a.d. 946, pope 942–946.
- marisat — one of a series of geostationary communications satellites that relay telecommunications between ships at sea and shore stations.
- marisol — (Marisol Escobar) born 1930, Venezuelan artist, in U.S. since 1950.
- maritsa — a river in S Europe, flowing from S Bulgaria along the boundary between Greece and European Turkey and into the Aegean. 300 miles (485 km) long.
- markers — Plural form of marker.
- markets — Plural form of market.
- markkas — Plural form of markka.
- markups — Plural form of markup.
- marlais — (language) A simple-minded interpreter by Brent Benson at Harris for a programming language strongly resembling Dylan. Marlais version 0.2a is a "hackers release" for education, experimentation, porting, extension, and bug fixing. It has been ported to Sun-3, Sun-4, VAX/BSD, OS/2, Linux, Sequent Symmetry, Encore, HP-UX, Ultrix, SGI, Sony News, and A/UX.
- marlins — Plural form of marlin.
- marmose — any of several small South American opossums of the genus Marmosa of the family Didelphidae, which do not have pouches
- marmots — Plural form of marmot.
- maroons — Plural form of maroon.
- marques — A make of car, as distinct from a specific model.
- marquis — a nobleman ranking next below a duke and above an earl or count.
- marries — to take in marriage: After dating for five years, I finally asked her to marry me.
- marrons — Plural form of marron.
- marrows — Plural form of marrow.
- marsala — a seaport in W Sicily.
- 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.