6-letter words containing r, a, m
- armagh — a historical county of S Northern Ireland: in 1973 it was replaced for administrative purposes by the districts of Armagh and Craigavon. Area: 1326 sq km (512 sq miles)
- armand — a male given name, French form of Herman.
- armani — Giorgio. born 1936, Italian fashion designer, noted for his restrained classical style
- armbar — (combat sports) A joint lock where the elbow is hyperextended in order to cause pain and/or injury.
- armful — An armful of something is the amount of it that you can carry fairly easily.
- armies — Plural form of army.
- armill — a garment resembling a stole, worn by a British king at his coronation.
- arming — the act of taking arms or providing with arms
- armlet — a small arm, as of a lake, the sea, etc
- armoir — Dated form of armoire.
- armors — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of armor.
- armory — armor or armorial bearings
- armour — In former times, armour was special metal clothing that soldiers wore for protection in battle.
- armpad — a small cushion forming part of the arm of a chair, sofa, or the like.
- armpit — Your armpits are the areas of your body under your arms where your arms join your shoulders.
- armure — a silk or wool fabric with a small cobbled pattern
- arnhem — a city in the E Netherlands, capital of Gelderland province, on the Rhine: site of a World War II battle. Pop: 142 000 (2003 est)
- aromas — Plural form of aroma.
- asarum — the dried strong-scented root of the wild ginger plant: a flavouring agent and source of an aromatic oil used in perfumery, formerly used in medicine
- ashram — a religious retreat or community where a Hindu holy man lives
- asmara — the capital of Eritrea; cathedral (1922); Grand Mosque (1937); university (1958). Pop: 615 000 (2005 est)
- asmear — in a smeared or soiled manner
- asrama — any of the four phases of the ideally conducted life: education, work, withdrawal from society, and asceticism.
- aswarm — filled, esp with moving things; swarming
- atrium — An atrium is a part of a building such as a hotel or shopping centre, which extends up through several floors of the building and often has a glass roof.
- aumbry — ambry.
- aymara — a member of a South American Indian people of Bolivia and Peru
- bagram — an air base in NE Afghanistan, near Kabul; now under the control of US forces
- bairam — either of two Muslim festivals, one (Lesser Bairam) falling at the end of Ramadan, the other (Greater Bairam) 70 days later at the end of the Islamic year
- balmer — Johann Jakob. 1825–98, Swiss mathematician; discovered a formula giving the wavelengths of a series of lines in the hydrogen spectrum (the Balmer series)
- bammer — (of marijuana) of poor quality
- barium — Barium is a soft, silvery-white metal.
- barman — A barman is a man who serves drinks behind a bar.
- barmen — a former city in W Germany, now incorporated into Wuppertal.
- barnum — P(hineas) T(aylor). 1810–91, US showman, who created The Greatest Show on Earth (1871) and, with J. A. Bailey, founded the Barnum and Bailey Circus (1881)
- beamer — a full-pitched ball bowled at the batsman's head
- birman — a breed of large long-haired cat having a light-coloured coat with dark face, tail, and legs, and white feet
- bismar — a type of weighing scale
- blamer — someone who blames
- bomarc — a winged, surface-to-air interceptor missile.
- borman — Frank, born 1928, U.S. astronaut.
- bpharm — Bachelor of Pharmacy
- brahma — a Hindu god: in later Hindu tradition, the Creator who, with Vishnu, the Preserver, and Shiva, the Destroyer, constitutes the triad known as the Trimurti
- brahmi — a script of India that was probably adapted from the Aramaic alphabet about the 7th century b.c., and from which most of the later Indian scripts developed.
- brahms — Johannes (joˈhanəs). 1833–97, German composer, whose music, though classical in form, exhibits a strong lyrical romanticism. His works include four symphonies, four concertos, chamber music, and A German Requiem (1868)
- bramah — Joseph, 1748–1814, English engineer and inventor.
- bregma — the point on the top of the skull where the coronal and sagittal sutures meet: in infants this corresponds to the anterior fontanelle
- bromal — a yellowish oily synthetic liquid formerly used medicinally as a sedative and hypnotic; tribromoacetaldehyde. Formula: Br3CCHO
- brumal — of, characteristic of, or relating to winter; wintry
- burman — a member of the dominant ethnic group of Burma, living mainly in the lowlands of the Irrawaddy and Chindwin River drainages and the S panhandle.