5-letter words containing m, r
- moror — a portion of horseradish or other bitter herb that is eaten at the Seder meal on Passover.
- moros — Aldo [al-doh;; Italian ahl-daw] /ˈæl doʊ;; Italian ˈɑl dɔ/ (Show IPA), 1916–78, Italian lawyer, author, and statesman: prime minister 1963–68, 1974–76.
- morph — Linguistics. a sequence of phonemes constituting a minimal unit of grammar or syntax, and, as such, a representation, member, or contextual variant of a morpheme in a specific environment. Compare allomorph (def 2).
- morra — A game in which two (or more) players each suddenly display a hand showing zero to five fingers and call out what they think will be the sum of all fingers shown.
- morro — a rounded hill or promontory
- morse — Jedidiah [jed-i-dahy-uh] /ˌdʒɛd ɪˈdaɪ ə/ (Show IPA), 1761–1826, U.S. geographer and Congregational clergyman (father of Samuel F. B. Morse).
- moser — Johann Jakob [yoh-hahn yah-kawp] /ˈyoʊ hɑn ˈyɑ kɔp/ (Show IPA), 1701–85, German jurist and publicist.
- motor — a comparatively small and powerful engine, especially an internal-combustion engine in an automobile, motorboat, or the like.
- mourn — Feel or show deep sorrow or regret for (someone or their death), typically by following conventions such as the wearing of black clothes.
- mover — a person or thing that moves.
- mower — lawn mower.
- mowra — mahua.
- mpret — a ruler or monarch
- mrcvs — Member of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons
- mucor — any phycomycetous fungus of the genus Mucor, that forms a furry coating on foodstuffs and dead and decaying vegetable matter.
- mucro — a short point projecting abruptly, as at the end of a leaf.
- mudar — (plant) Either of two milkweed-like shrubs, which yield a strong fibre and an acrid milky juice used medicinally:.
- mudir — a local governor
- mudra — Hinduism, Buddhism. any of a series of arm and hand positions expressing an attitude or action of the deity.
- munro — Alice (Laidlaw) [leyd-law] /ˈleɪdˌlɔ/ (Show IPA), born 1931, Canadian short-story writer.
- mural — a large picture painted or affixed directly on a wall or ceiling.
- murat — a river in E Turkey, flowing W to the Euphrates. 425 miles (685 km) long.
- mured — Simple past tense and past participle of mure.
- mures — a river in SE central Europe, flowing W from the Carpathian Mountains in central Romania to the Tisza River in S Hungary. 400 miles (645 km) long.
- murex — any marine gastropod of the genus Murex, common in tropical seas, certain species of which yield the royal purple dye valued by the ancients.
- murgh — (in Indian cookery) chicken.
- murid — A rodent of a very large family ( Muridae ) that includes most kinds of rats, mice, and voles.
- murks — darkness; gloom: the murk of a foggy night.
- murky — dark, gloomy, and cheerless.
- murly — crumbly
- murom — a city in the W Russian Federation in Europe, SW of Nizhni Novgorod.
- murra — a mineral or stone used in ancient Rome for making fine vases, cups, etc.: believed to have been fluorite.
- murre — either of two black and white diving birds of the genus Uria, of northern seas, U. aalge (common murre) or U. lomvia (thick-billed murre)
- murri — A medieval Arab condiment made from fermented barley.
- murry — a male given name, form of Murray.
- murse — (US slang) a man's purse.
- murti — (Hinduism) A sacred image of a deity.
- murus — (palynology) A pattern-forming ridge on the surface of a pollen grain.
- murva — one of two varieties of sansevieria (Sansevieria roxburghiana or Sansevieria zeylanica) cultivated in parts of Asia for the strong fibre found in their leaves
- musar — rabbinic literature concerned with ethics, right conduct, etc
- muser — to think or meditate in silence, as on some subject.
- muter — silent; refraining from speech or utterance.
- mweru — a lake in S central Africa, between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Zambia. 68 miles (109 km) long.
- myers — L(eopold) H(amilton). 1881–1944, British novelist, best known for his novel sequence The Near and the Far (1929–40)
- mylar — A polyester film; see PET film (biaxially oriented).
- myrna — a female given name.
- myron — flourished c450 b.c, Greek sculptor.
- myrrh — an aromatic resinous exudation from certain plants of the genus Myrrhis, especially M. odorata, a small spiny tree: used for incense, perfume, etc.
- namer — a word or a combination of words by which a person, place, or thing, a body or class, or any object of thought is designated, called, or known.
- namur — a province in S Belgium. 1413 sq. mi. (3660 sq. km).