7-letter words containing m, r, s
- 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.
- meerest — Superlative form of meer.
- megaris — a district in ancient Greece, between the Gulf of Corinth and Saronic Gulf.
- megrims — megrims, low spirits; the blues.
- meister — Denoting a person regarded as skilled or prominent in a specified area of activity.
- mellers — melodrama (def 1).
- melrose — a city in E Massachusetts, near Boston.
- members — Plural form of member.
- memoirs — a record of events written by a person having intimate knowledge of them and based on personal observation.
- menhirs — Plural form of menhir.
- mentors — Plural form of mentor.
- mercast — a broadcasting system used by U.S. agencies to deliver messages to government-operated ships.
- mercers — Plural form of mercer.
- mercies — compassionate or kindly forbearance shown toward an offender, an enemy, or other person in one's power; compassion, pity, or benevolence: Have mercy on the poor sinner.
- mergers — Plural form of merger.
- merinos — Plural form of merino.
- merisis — growth, especially growth resulting from cell division.
- merlons — (in a battlement) the solid part between two crenels.
- mersion — an immersion or act of dipping in water, esp as a baptism
- 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.
- messers — Plural form of messer.
- messier — Charles [sharl] /ʃarl/ (Show IPA), 1730–1817, French astronomer.
- messrs. — mister: a title of respect prefixed to a man's name or position: Mr. Lawson; Mr. President.
- meteors — Plural form of meteor.
- metiers — Plural form of metier.
- metrics — Mathematics. a nonnegative real-valued function having properties analogous to those of the distance between points on a real line, as the distance between two points being independent of the order of the points, the distance between two points being zero if, and only if, the two points coincide, and the distance between two points being less than or equal to the sum of the distances from each point to an arbitrary third point.
- metrist — a person who is skilled in the use of poetic meters.
- microns — Plural form of micron.
- 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.
- midribs — the central or middle rib of a leaf.
- mihrabs — Plural form of mihrab.