7-letter words containing s, i, r
- lurries — Plural form of lurry.
- lustier — Comparative form of lusty.
- lycoris — any of several bulbous plants belonging to the genus Lycoris, of the amaryllis family, native to eastern Asia, bearing clustered, variously colored flowers that appear after the leaves have faded and disappeared.
- lyrists — Plural form of lyrist.
- m'sieur — monsieur
- maestri — Plural form of maestro.
- mailers — Plural form of mailer.
- maimers — Plural form of maimer.
- 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.
- mandirs — Plural form of mandir.
- margins — Plural form of margin.
- marinas — Plural form of marina.
- marines — of or relating to the sea; existing in or produced by the sea: marine vegetation.
- marinus — died a.d. 946, pope 942–946.
- marisat — one of a series of geostationary communications satellites that relay telecommunications between ships at sea and shore stations.
- marisol — (Marisol Escobar) born 1930, Venezuelan artist, in U.S. since 1950.
- maritsa — a river in S Europe, flowing from S Bulgaria along the boundary between Greece and European Turkey and into the Aegean. 300 miles (485 km) long.
- marlais — (language) A simple-minded interpreter by Brent Benson at Harris for a programming language strongly resembling Dylan. Marlais version 0.2a is a "hackers release" for education, experimentation, porting, extension, and bug fixing. It has been ported to Sun-3, Sun-4, VAX/BSD, OS/2, Linux, Sequent Symmetry, Encore, HP-UX, Ultrix, SGI, Sony News, and A/UX.
- marlins — Plural form of marlin.
- marquis — a nobleman ranking next below a duke and above an earl or count.
- marries — to take in marriage: After dating for five years, I finally asked her to marry me.
- martins — Archer John Porter [ahr-cher] /ˈɑr tʃər/ (Show IPA), 1910–2002, English biochemist: Nobel Prize in chemistry 1952.
- marxism — the system of economic and political thought developed by Karl Marx, along with Friedrich Engels, especially the doctrine that the state throughout history has been a device for the exploitation of the masses by a dominant class, that class struggle has been the main agency of historical change, and that the capitalist system, containing from the first the seeds of its own decay, will inevitably, after the period of the dictatorship of the proletariat, be superseded by a socialist order and a classless society.
- marxist — an adherent of Karl Marx or his theories.
- masuria — a region in NE Poland, formerly in East Prussia, Germany: German defeat of Russians 1914–15.
- matsuri — A solemn festival celebrated periodically at Shinto shrines in Japan.
- maurist — a member of the Benedictine “Congregation of St. Maur,” founded in France in 1618, distinguished for its scholarship and literary works: suppressed during the French Revolution.
- maurois — André [ahn-drey] /ɑ̃ˈdreɪ/ (Show IPA), (Émile Salomon Wilhelm Herzog) 1885–1967, French biographer and novelist.
- megaris — a district in ancient Greece, between the Gulf of Corinth and Saronic Gulf.
- megrims — megrims, low spirits; the blues.
- meister — Denoting a person regarded as skilled or prominent in a specified area of activity.
- memoirs — a record of events written by a person having intimate knowledge of them and based on personal observation.
- menhirs — Plural form of menhir.
- mercies — compassionate or kindly forbearance shown toward an offender, an enemy, or other person in one's power; compassion, pity, or benevolence: Have mercy on the poor sinner.
- merinos — Plural form of merino.
- merisis — growth, especially growth resulting from cell division.
- mersion — an immersion or act of dipping in water, esp as a baptism
- messier — Charles [sharl] /ʃarl/ (Show IPA), 1730–1817, French astronomer.
- metiers — Plural form of metier.
- metrics — Mathematics. a nonnegative real-valued function having properties analogous to those of the distance between points on a real line, as the distance between two points being independent of the order of the points, the distance between two points being zero if, and only if, the two points coincide, and the distance between two points being less than or equal to the sum of the distances from each point to an arbitrary third point.
- metrist — a person who is skilled in the use of poetic meters.
- microns — Plural form of micron.
- midrash — an early Jewish interpretation of or commentary on a Biblical text, clarifying or expounding a point of law or developing or illustrating a moral principle.
- midribs — the central or middle rib of a leaf.
- mihrabs — Plural form of mihrab.
- milkers — Plural form of milker.
- millers — Plural form of miller.
- milords — Plural form of milord.
- milreis — a silver coin and former monetary unit of Brazil, equal to 1000 reis, discontinued in 1942.