5-letter words containing r, a, m
- marvy — marvelous; delightful.
- marwa — Safa and Marwa.
- marya — a female given name, form of Mary.
- maser — a device for amplifying electromagnetic waves by stimulated emission of radiation.
- masur — Kurt, born 1927, German orchestral conductor.
- mater — British Informal. mother1 .
- matra — (music) A term in Indian music referring to the smallest rhythmic unit of a tala.
- maura — a female given name, Irish form of Mary.
- mauri — (NZ) life force, according to Maori beliefs.
- maury — Matthew Fontaine [fon-teyn,, fon-teyn] /fɒnˈteɪn,, ˈfɒn teɪn/ (Show IPA), 1806–73, U.S. naval officer and scientist.
- maxer — maximum.
- mayer — Julius Robert von [jool-yuh s rob-ert von;; German yoo-lee-oo s roh-bert fuh n] /ˈdʒul yəs ˈrɒb ərt vɒn;; German ˈyu li ʊs ˈroʊ bɛrt fən/ (Show IPA), 1814–78, German physicist.
- mayor — the chief executive official, usually elected, of a city, village, or town.
- mazer — a large metal drinking bowl or cup, formerly of wood.
- mbari — (Nigeria, West Africa) A ceremonial clay shrine filled with clay models of humans or deities, made by the Igbo tribe.
- mbira — a musical instrument of Africa usually made out of a gourd that serves as a resonating box, to which vibrating metal or wooden strips are attached for plucking.
- mcrae — Carmen, 1920–94, U.S. jazz singer and songwriter.
- mears — a boundary or boundary marker.
- medar — Alternative form of mether.
- merca — a city in S Somalia.
- metra — (medicine) The uterus.
- mewar — Udaipur (def 2).
- micra — a plural of micron.
- minar — a tower or turret in southern or eastern Asia
- miraj — Muhammad's miraculous ascension from Jerusalem, through the seven heavens, to the throne of God. The site from which he ascended is now the shrine of the Dome of the Rock.
- miras — Astronomy. the first long-period pulsating variable star to be discovered, with a period averaging 331 days. It is a red giant and a component of a binary star in the constellation Cetus.
- mirza — a royal prince (placed after the name when used as a title).
- mitra — the Vedic god of justice.
- mizar — a double star in the middle of the constellation Ursa Major.
- moira — Classical Mythology. the personification of fate. Moirai, the Fates.
- molar — Also called molar tooth. a tooth having a broad biting surface adapted for grinding, being one of twelve in humans, with three on each side of the upper and lower jaws.
- morae — the unit of time equivalent to the ordinary or normal short sound or syllable.
- moral — of, relating to, or concerned with the principles or rules of right conduct or the distinction between right and wrong; ethical: moral attitudes.
- moran — An unmarried Maasai or Samburu warrior.
- moras — Plural form of mora.
- morat — a type of mead containing mulberry juice and honey
- moray — any of numerous chiefly tropical eels of the family Muraenidae, having porelike gill openings and no pectoral fins.
- morea — Peloponnesus.
- moria — a mountainous region in S Palestine, where Abraham prepared to sacrifice Isaac. Gen. 22:3.
- morna — A genre of Cape Verdean music.
- 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.
- mowra — mahua.
- mudar — (plant) Either of two milkweed-like shrubs, which yield a strong fibre and an acrid milky juice used medicinally:.
- mudra — Hinduism, Buddhism. any of a series of arm and hand positions expressing an attitude or action of the deity.
- 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.
- murra — a mineral or stone used in ancient Rome for making fine vases, cups, etc.: believed to have been fluorite.
- 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
- mylar — A polyester film; see PET film (biaxially oriented).