9-letter words containing r, a, m, s, e
- mistreats — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mistreat.
- miter saw — a backsaw used for cutting miters.
- mixmaster — a disc jockey
- moderates — Plural form of moderate.
- monastery — a house or place of residence occupied by a community of persons, especially monks, living in seclusion under religious vows.
- mooseyard — an area of trodden snow where moose spend the winter
- moraceous — belonging to the Moraceae, the mulberry family of plants.
- moralised — Simple past tense and past participle of moralise.
- moralizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of moralize.
- moralless — of, relating to, or concerned with the principles or rules of right conduct or the distinction between right and wrong; ethical: moral attitudes.
- mortalise — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of mortalize.
- mortgages — Plural form of mortgage.
- mosbacher — Emil, Jr ("Bus") 1922–1997, U.S. yacht racer and government official.
- mossbauer — Rudolf L [roo-dawlf] /ˈru dɔlf/ (Show IPA), 1929–2011, German physicist: Nobel prize 1961.
- mouse-ear — short for mouse-ear chickweed
- mousetrap — a trap for mice, especially one consisting of a rectangular wooden base on which a metal spring is mounted.
- muckrakes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of muckrake.
- mule-ears — any of several composite plants of the genus Wyethia, of the western U.S., having large leaves and broad flower heads with yellow rays.
- muscarine — a poisonous compound, C 8 H 1 9 NO 3 , found in certain mushrooms, especially fly agaric, and in decaying fish.
- mush area — a region where signals from two or more radio transmitters overlap, causing fading and distortion
- must-read — a piece of literature or writing considered important or classic; writing that should or must be read.
- mustanger — a person who engages in mustanging.
- myristate — (chemistry) any salt or ester of myristic acid.
- mysterial — (obsolete) mysterious.
- near miss — a strike by a missile that is not a direct hit but is close enough to damage the target.
- neuromast — a group of innervated sensory cells occurring along the lateral line of fishes and aquatic amphibians.
- new sarum — a city in S England, in SE Wiltshire: nearby Old Sarum was the site of an Early Iron Age hill fort; its cathedral (1220–58) has the highest spire in England. Pop: 43 355 (2001)
- newsmaker — a person, thing, or event that is newsworthy: a weekly magazine devoted to stories on newsmakers.
- normalise — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of normalize.
- numerates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of numerate.
- nursemaid — Also called nurserymaid. a woman or girl employed to care for a child or several children, especially in a household.
- oarswomen — Plural form of oarswoman.
- oddsmaker — a person who calculates or predicts the outcome of a contest, as in sports or politics, and sets betting odds.
- on stream — If something such as a new factory or a new system comes on stream or is brought on stream, it begins to operate or becomes available.
- on-stream — in or into regular operation, especially as part of a system, assembly line, or the like: When the new printing press goes on-stream, we'll be able to print twice as many newspapers a day.
- orangeism — the principles and practices of the Orangemen.
- ornaments — Plural form of ornament.
- osmeteria — glands in some caterpillars that secrete foul-smelling substances to deter predators
- outmaster — to surpass
- outscream — to scream louder than
- outstream — a body of water flowing in a channel or watercourse, as a river, rivulet, or brook. Synonyms: rill, run, streamlet, runnel.
- oysterman — a person who gathers, cultivates, or sells oysters.
- palmister — a person telling fortunes by reading palms
- panderism — the work of a pander
- pap smear — a test for cancer of the cervix, consisting of the staining of cervical cells taken in a cervical or vaginal smear (Pap smear or pap smear) for examination of exfoliated cells.
- parseeism — the religion and customs of the Parsees.
- pauperism — the state or condition of utter poverty.
- paymaster — a person authorized by a company, government, etc., to pay out wages or salaries, especially in the military.
- periplasm — an outer cytoplasmic layer that surrounds the oosphere in certain fungi.
- peshmerga — a member of the armed forces in the autonomous Kurdish-controlled region of NE Iraq