7-letter words containing s, m, a, r, i
- 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.
- 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.
- mihrabs — Plural form of mihrab.
- minbars — Plural form of minbar.
- mirages — Plural form of mirage.
- mirasol — A variety of chili; when dried, the chilis are called guajillos.
- misaver — to state incorrectly
- misdraw — to cause to move in a particular direction by or as if by a pulling force; pull; drag (often followed by along, away, in, out, or off).
- misfare — to get on or fare badly
- mishear — to hear incorrectly or imperfectly: to mishear a remark.
- mismark — (transitive) To mark incorrectly; err in noting or marking.
- mispart — to part wrongly
- misrate — to rate or estimate incorrectly
- misread — Read (a piece of text) wrongly.
- mistral — Frédéric [frey-dey-reek] /freɪ deɪˈrik/ (Show IPA), 1830–1914, French Provençal poet: Nobel prize 1904.
- miswart — /mis-wort/ [By analogy with misbug] A feature that superficially appears to be a wart but has been determined to be the Right Thing. For example, in some versions of the Emacs text editor, the "transpose characters" command exchanges the character under the cursor with the one before it on the screen, *except* when the cursor is at the end of a line, in which case the two characters before the cursor are exchanged. While this behaviour is perhaps surprising, and certainly inconsistent, it has been found through extensive experimentation to be what most users want. This feature is a miswart.
- mithras — the god of light and truth, later of the sun.
- myriads — Plural form of myriad.
- narcism — inordinate fascination with oneself; excessive self-love; vanity. Synonyms: self-centeredness, smugness, egocentrism.
- oralism — the theory, practice, or advocacy of education for the deaf chiefly or exclusively through lipreading, training in speech production, and training of residual hearing.
- racisms — a belief or doctrine that inherent differences among the various human racial groups determine cultural or individual achievement, usually involving the idea that one's own race is superior and has the right to dominate others or that a particular racial group is inferior to the others.
- rammish — resembling a ram.
- rankism — discrimination against people on the grounds of rank
- realism — interest in or concern for the actual or real, as distinguished from the abstract, speculative, etc.
- remains — to continue in the same state; continue to be as specified: to remain at peace.
- riesman — David, 1909–2002, U.S. sociologist.
- riksmal — Bokmål.
- romains — Jules [zhyl] /ʒül/ (Show IPA), (Louis Farigoule) 1885–1972, French novelist, poet, and dramatist.
- saimiri — a small South American squirrel-monkey of the genus Chrysothrix (formerly Saimiris)
- samaria — a republic in SW Asia, on the Mediterranean: formed as a Jewish state May 1948. 7984 sq. mi. (20,679 sq. km). Capital: Jerusalem.
- samurai — a member of the hereditary warrior class in feudal Japan.
- sedarim — a plural of Seder.
- seminar — a small group of students, as in a university, engaged in advanced study and original research under a member of the faculty and meeting regularly to exchange information and hold discussions.
- semiraw — (of food) not fully cooked; (of materials) not fully processed; raw to some degree
- seriema — either of two birds of the family Cariamidae, Cariama cristata, of southern Brazil, or Chunga burmeisteri, of Argentina, having long legs, an erectile crest, a short, broad bill, and limited ability to fly.
- sidearm — with a swinging motion of the arm moving to the side of the body at shoulder level or below and nearly parallel to the ground: to pitch sidearm.
- similar — having a likeness or resemblance, especially in a general way: two similar houses.
- simitar — a curved, single-edged sword of Asian, especially Eastern origin.
- simular — a person or thing that simulates; pretender.
- suramin — a drug used to treat trypanosomiasis
- surinam — a republic on the NE coast of South America: formerly a territory of the Netherlands; gained independence 1975. 60,230 sq. mi. (155,995 sq. km). Capital: Paramaribo.
- tsarism — dictatorship; despotic or autocratic government.
- tzarism — dictatorship; despotic or autocratic government.
- warmish — having or giving out a moderate degree of heat, as perceived by the senses: a warm bath.
- warmist — Also called global warmist. a person who accepts global warming as a reality (a term used by people who reject the concept).