7-letter words containing s, t, a, m
- mattins — matin (def 1).
- matures — complete in natural growth or development, as plant and animal forms: a mature rose bush.
- 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.
- meanest — occupying a middle position or an intermediate place, as in kind, quality, degree, or time: a mean speed; a mean course; the mean annual rainfall.
- measter — (obsolete, UK) eye dialect of master.
- mercast — a broadcasting system used by U.S. agencies to deliver messages to government-operated ships.
- mestiza — a woman of mixed racial or ethnic ancestry, especially, in Latin America, of mixed American Indian and European descent or, in the Philippines, of mixed native and foreign descent.
- metages — Plural form of metage.
- metaxas — Joannes [Greek yaw-ah-nyees] /Greek yɔˈɑ nyis/ (Show IPA), 1871–1941, Greek general and political leader: dictator 1936–40.
- metcast — a weather forecast
- mideast — Middle East.
- misacts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of misact.
- miscast — to assign an unsuitable role to (an actor): Tom was miscast as Romeo.
- misdate — to assign or affix a wrong date to.
- mismate — (transitive) To mate or match wrongly or unsuitably; mismatch.
- mispart — to part wrongly
- misrate — to rate or estimate incorrectly
- misseat — to seat wrongly
- mistake — an error in action, calculation, opinion, or judgment caused by poor reasoning, carelessness, insufficient knowledge, etc.
- 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.
- mitsvah — mitzvah.
- mobcast — a podcast created and uploaded using a mobile phone
- mortals — Plural form of mortal.
- mortars — Plural form of mortar.
- moscato — A sweet Italian dessert wine.
- mudcats — Plural form of mudcat.
- muletas — Plural form of muleta.
- muskrat — a large, aquatic, North American rodent, Ondatra zibethica, having a musky odor.
- mustagh — Karakoram (def 1).
- mustang — a small, hardy horse of the American plains, descended from Spanish stock.
- mustard — a pungent powder or paste prepared from the seed of the mustard plant, used as a food seasoning or condiment, and medicinally in plasters, poultices, etc.
- mutants — Plural form of mutant.
- mutases — Plural form of mutase.
- mutates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mutate.
- mutuals — Plural form of mutual.
- namaste — a conventional Hindu expression on meeting or parting, used by the speaker usually while holding the palms together vertically in front of the bosom.
- nasmyth — James. 1808–90, British engineer; inventor of the steam hammer (1839)
- natsume — Soseki [saw-se-kee] /ˈsɔ sɛˌki/ (Show IPA), (Kinnosuke Natsume) 1867–1916, Japanese novelist.
- netmask — (networking) A 32-bit bit mask which shows how an Internet address is to be divided into network, subnet and host parts. The netmask has ones in the bit positions in the 32-bit address which are to be used for the network and subnet parts, and zeros for the host part. The mask should contain at least the standard network portion (as determined by the address's class), and the subnet field should be contiguous with the network portion. If a `+' (plus sign) is given for the netmask value, then the network number is looked up in the NIS netmasks.byaddr map (or in the /etc/netmasks) file if not running the NIS service.
- numbats — Plural form of numbat.
- osmatic — of or relating to the sense of smell.
- osteoma — a benign tumor composed of osseous tissue.
- ostmark — (formerly) a cupronickel coin and monetary unit of East Germany: replaced by the Deutsche mark in 1990.
- paestum — an ancient coastal city of Lucania, in S Italy: the extant ruins include three Greek temples and a Roman amphitheater.
- pastime — something that serves to make time pass agreeably; a pleasant means of amusement, recreation, or sport: to play cards as a pastime.
- postman — a postal employee who carries and delivers mail; mail carrier.
- potsdam — a state in NE central Germany. 10,039 sq. mi. (26,000 sq. km). Capital: Potsdam.
- ramstam — obstinate; headstrong.