6-letter words containing m, a, y
- matsys — Quentin, Massys, Quentin.
- maundy — the ceremony of washing the feet of the poor, especially commemorating Jesus' washing of His disciples' feet on Maundy Thursday.
- maungy — (esp of a child) sulky, bad-tempered, or peevish
- maurya — a member of an ancient Indian people who united northern India and established an empire 322–184 b.c.
- may've — May've is a spoken form of 'may have', especially when 'have' is an auxiliary verb.
- mayday — the international radiotelephone distress signal, used by ships and aircraft.
- mayest — 2nd person singular present indicative of may1 .
- mayfly — Also called shadfly. any insect of the order Ephemeroptera, having delicate, membranous wings with the front pair much larger than the rear and having an aquatic larval stage and a terrestrial adult stage usually lasting less than two days.
- mayhap — perhaps.
- mayhem — Law. the crime of willfully inflicting a bodily injury on another so as to make the victim less capable of self-defense or, under modern statutes, so as to cripple or mutilate the victim.
- mayhew — Jonathan, 1720–66, American Congregational clergyman.
- maying — the fifth month of the year, containing 31 days.
- mayn't — Mayn't is a spoken form of 'may not'.
- mayors — Plural form of mayor.
- maypop — the edible fruit of the passionflower, Passiflora incarnata, of the southern U.S.
- mayten — a tree, Maytenus boaria, native to Chile, having narrow leaves and drooping branches, planted as a street tree in Florida and southern California.
- mazily — full of confusing turns, passages, etc.; like a maze; labyrinthine.
- meanly — moderately.
- measly — Informal. contemptibly small, meager, or slight: They paid me a measly fifteen dollars for a day's work. wretchedly bad or unsatisfactory: a measly performance.
- medway — a river in SE England, flowing through Kent and the Medway towns (Rochester, Chatham, and Gillingham) to the Thames estuary. Length: 110 km (70 miles)
- midday — the middle of the day; noon or the time centering around noon.
- midpay — (of an occupation, industry, etc) paying or tending to pay more than an unskilled job but less than a high-income one
- midway — several U.S. islets in the N Pacific, about 1300 miles (2095 km) NW of Hawaii: Japanese defeated in a naval battle June, 1942; 2 sq. mi. (5 sq. km).
- milady — an English noblewoman (often used as a term of address).
- millay — Edna St. Vincent (Mrs. Eugen Jan Boissevain) 1892–1950, U.S. poet.
- minyae — descended from Minyas.
- minyan — the number of persons required by Jewish law to be present to conduct a communal religious service, traditionally a minimum of 10 Jewish males over 13 years of age.
- minyas — a king of Orchomenus, famed for his wealth.
- mislay — to lose temporarily; misplace: He mislaid his keys.
- mispay — (transitive) To pay incorrectly, or to the wrong person.
- missay — to say or speak ill of; vilify; slander.
- misway — (obsolete) A wrong way.
- misyar — A temporary marriage in Sunni Islam.
- monday — the second day of the week, following Sunday.
- morays — any of numerous chiefly tropical eels of the family Muraenidae, having porelike gill openings and no pectoral fins.
- morgay — a European small-spotted dogfish, Scyllium canicula
- mornay — Also called Duplessis-Mornay. Philippe de [fee-leep duh] /fiˈlip də/ (Show IPA), Seigneur du Plessis-Marly [se-nyœr dy ple-see-mar-lee] /sɛˈnyœr dü plɛ si marˈli/ (Show IPA), ("Pope of the Huguenots") 1549–1623, French statesman and Protestant leader.
- moryah — an exclamation of annoyance, disbelief, etc
- murray — Sir (George) Gilbert (Aimé) [ey-mey] /eɪˈmeɪ/ (Show IPA), 1866–1957, English classical scholar.
- muzaky — (of music) having a light, bland sound
- my bad — not good in any manner or degree.
- my hat — my word! my goodness!
- my lai — a hamlet in S Vietnam: U.S. forces' massacre of South Vietnamese civilians 1968.
- my man — People sometimes address a man as my man.
- myasis — myiasis.
- mycale — a promontory in W Asia Minor, in present-day W Turkey, opposite Samos: site of a Persian defeat by the Greeks in 479 b.c.
- mycota — an alternative taxonomic name for the kingdom Fungi.
- mygale — any spider of the genus Mygale, native to parts of North, Central and South America, commonly known as bird-eating spiders
- mynahs — Plural form of mynah.
- myomas — Plural form of myoma.