7-letter words containing r, i, m
- lamiger — a disabled person
- laminar — composed of, or arranged in, laminae.
- laramie — a city in SE Wyoming.
- larmier — (anatomy) A tearpit.
- latimer — Hugh, c1470–1555, English Protestant Reformation bishop, reformer, and martyr.
- leitrim — a county of N Republic of Ireland in Connacht province, on Donegal Bay: agricultural. County town: Carrick-on-Shannon. Pop: 25 799 (2002). Area: 1525 sq km (589 sq miles)
- lempira — a paper money and monetary unit of Honduras, equal to 100 centavos. Abbreviation: L.
- librium — a brand of the drug chlordiazepoxide
- limbers — Plural form of limber.
- limburg — a medieval duchy in W Europe: now divided into a province in the SE Netherlands (Limburg) and a province in NE Belgium (Limbourg)
- limiter — a person or thing that limits.
- loamier — Comparative form of loamy.
- lorimer — a craftsperson who makes hardware for harnesses and riding habits, as bits or spurs.
- lumiere — Auguste Marie Louis Nicolas [oh-gyst ma-ree lwee nee-kaw-lah] /oʊˈgüst maˈri lwi ni kɔˈlɑ/ (Show IPA), 1862–1954, and his brother, Louis Jean [lwee zhahn] /lwi ʒɑ̃/ (Show IPA) 1864–1948, French chemists and manufacturers of photographic materials: inventors of a motion-picture camera (1895) and a process of color photography.
- lumpier — Comparative form of lumpy.
- m'sieur — monsieur
- ma'ariv — the evening service
- machair — (geology) A type of calcerous sandy terrain formed mostly from seashells, found by the coast in areas of Scotland and Ireland.
- maciver — Loren, 1909–1998, U.S. painter.
- madeira — a group of eight islands off the NW coast of Africa, part of Portugal. 308 sq. mi. (798 sq. km). Capital: Funchal.
- madrina — An animal (usually an old mare), wearing a bell and acting as the leader of a troop of pack mules.
- madurai — a city in S Tamil Nadu, in S India.
- maestri — Plural form of maestro.
- mailers — Plural form of mailer.
- maimers — Plural form of maimer.
- mainour — a stolen article found on the person of or near the thief: to be taken with the mainour.
- maistre — Josephe de (ʒozɛf də). 1753–1821, French writer and diplomat, noted for his extreme reactionary views, expounded in such works as Les Soirées de St Petersbourg (1821)
- maistry — (obsolete) mastery.
- makurdi — a port in E central Nigeria, capital of Benue State on the Benue River: agricultural trade centre. Pop: 259 000 (2005 est)
- malaria — Pathology. any of a group of diseases, usually intermittent or remittent, characterized by attacks of chills, fever, and sweating: formerly supposed to be due to swamp exhalations but now known to be caused by a parasitic protozoan, which is transferred to the human bloodstream by a mosquito of the genus Anopheles and which occupies and destroys red blood cells.
- mandira — a Hindu temple.
- mandirs — Plural form of mandir.
- mandril — a shaft or bar the end of which is inserted into a workpiece to hold it during machining.
- mandrin — (medicine) A metal wire or stylet inserted into a flexible catheter to give it shape and firmness while passing through a hollow tubular structure.
- manhire — Bill. born 1946, New Zealand poet and writer. His poetry collections include How to Take Off Your Clothes at the Picnic (1977), Zoetropes (1984), Sunshine (1996), and Lifted (2005)
- manifer — a gauntlet for protecting the left hand when holding the reins of a horse.
- manipur — a state in NE India between Assam and Burma. 8620 sq. mi. (22,326 sq. km). Capital: Imphal.
- manlier — Comparative form of manly.
- mantric — Hinduism. a word or formula, as from the Veda, chanted or sung as an incantation or prayer.
- marathi — an Indic language of western and central India: the principal language of the state of Maharashtra.
- marcian — a.d. 392?–457, emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire 450–457.
- marcion — a.d. c100–c160, Christian Gnostic.
- marconi — Guglielmo [goo-lyel-maw] /guˈlyɛl mɔ/ (Show IPA), Marchese, 1874–1937, Italian electrical engineer and inventor, especially in the field of wireless telegraphy: Nobel Prize in physics 1909.
- margins — Plural form of margin.
- maribor — a city in N Slovenia, on the Drava River.
- marilia — a city in SE Brazil.
- marilyn — a female given name, form of Mary.
- marimba — a musical instrument, originating in Africa but popularized and modified in Central America, consisting of a set of graduated wooden bars, often with resonators beneath to reinforce the sound, struck with mallets.
- marinas — Plural form of marina.
- mariner — a person who directs or assists in the navigation of a ship; sailor.