6-letter words containing e, m, a, n
- marine — of or relating to the sea; existing in or produced by the sea: marine vegetation.
- marone — Archaic form of maroon (the colour).
- marten — any of several slender, chiefly arboreal carnivores of the genus Martes, of northern forests, having a long, glossy coat and bushy tail.
- matane — a city in E Quebec, in SE Canada, on the St. Lawrence River.
- mavens — An expert or connoisseur.
- maxine — a female given name.
- mayten — a tree, Maytenus boaria, native to Chile, having narrow leaves and drooping branches, planted as a street tree in Florida and southern California.
- mcewan — Ian (Russell). born 1948, British novelist and short-story writer. His books include First Love, Last Rites (1975), The Child in Time (1987), The Innocent (1990), Amsterdam (which won the Booker prize in 1998), Atonement (2001), Saturday (2005), and On Chesil Beach (2007)
- mckean — Tom. born 1963, Scottish athlete: European 800 metres gold medallist (1990)
- mclean — John (1785-1861), US Supreme Court associate justice 1829-61. The US postmaster general 1823-29, he was appointed to the Court by President Jackson.
- meacon — to give false signals to (electronic navigational equipment), as by means of a radio transmitter.
- meaner — 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.
- meanie — Informal. meany.
- meanly — moderately.
- median — a Mede.
- medina — a city in W Saudi Arabia, where Muhammad was first accepted as the supreme Prophet from Allah and where his tomb is located.
- meghan — a female given name.
- meidan — Alternative spelling of maidan An urban open space.
- melan- — melano-
- melena — the discharge of black, tarry, bloody stools, usually resulting from a hemorrhage in the alimentary tract.
- melian — a Greek island in the Cyclades, in the SW Aegean: statue, Venus de Milo, found here 1820. 51 sq. mi. (132 sq. km).
- menace — something that threatens to cause evil, harm, injury, etc.; a threat: Air pollution is a menace to health.
- menado — a seaport on NE Sulawesi, in NE Indonesia.
- menage — a domestic establishment; household.
- mencap — a charity that helps people with learning difficulties and promotes their interests in society
- menial — lowly and sometimes degrading: menial work.
- menora — Alternative spelling of menorah.
- mensae — Irregular plural form of mensa.
- mensal — of, relating to, or used at the table.
- mensan — an international fellowship organization for people with IQ's in the top 2 percent of the general population.
- mental — of or relating to the chin.
- mentat — (language) (After the human computers in Frank Herbert's SF classic, "Dune") An object-oriented distributed language developed at the University of Virginia some time before Dec 1987. Mentat is an extension of C++ and is portable to a variety of MIMD architectures. By 1994 Mentat was available for Sun-3, Sun-4, iPSC/2 with plans for Mach, iPSC860, RS/6000 and Iris. The language is now (May 1998) supported in a new project, Legion. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
- mentha — (botany) Any of the mint genus Mentha, mints and similar species.
- merano — a town and resort in NE Italy, in the foothills of the central Alps: capital of the Tyrol (12th–15th century); under Austrian rule until 1919. Pop: 33 656 (2001)
- merina — a member of a Malagasy-speaking people who primarily inhabit the interior plateau of Madagascar.
- merman — (in folklore) a male marine creature, having the head, torso, and arms of a man and the tail of a fish.
- messan — a lap dog; small pet dog.
- minyae — descended from Minyas.
- mirena — a type of intrauterine system
- moaned — a prolonged, low, inarticulate sound uttered from or as if from physical or mental suffering.
- moaner — One who moans.
- modena — a city in N Italy, NW of Bologna.
- monera — a taxonomic kingdom of prokaryotic organisms that typically reproduce by asexual budding or fission and have a nutritional mode of absorption, photosynthesis, or chemosynthesis, comprising the bacteria, blue-green algae, and various primitive pathogens.
- moneta — Ernesto Teodoro [er-ne-staw te-aw-daw-raw] /ɛrˈnɛ stɔ ˌtɛ ɔˈdɔ rɔ/ (Show IPA), 1833–1918, Italian journalist: Nobel Peace Prize 1907.
- mopane — A tree, Colophospermum mopane, native to Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Botswana, Zambia, Namibia, Angola and Malawi.
- morena — (South Africa) Someone in authority, a master or leader, especially among Sotho-speakers. (Chiefly as a form of address.) (from 19th c.).
- namely — that is to say; explicitly; specifically; to wit: an item of legislation, namely, the housing bill.
- namers — Plural form of namer.
- namibe — a port in SW Angola: fishing industry. Pop: 132 900 (2004 est)
- namier — Sir Lewis Bernstein, original name Ludwik Bernsztajn vel Niemirowski. 1888–1960, British historian, born in Poland: noted esp for his studies of 18th-century British politics