5-letter words containing m, a
- samel — (of brick) not sufficiently fired
- samey — If you describe a set of things as samey, you mean that they are all very similar, and it would be more interesting if they were different from each other.
- sammy — a male given name, form of Samuel.
- samoa — a group of islands in the S Pacific, the islands W of 170° W longitude constituting an independent state and the rest belonging to the U.S.
- samos — one of a series of U.S. reconnaissance satellites.
- sampi — an ancient Greek number character
- sampo — a magical object or substance that was stolen by Ilmarinen, Vainamoinen, and Lemminkainen from Louhi because of its powers.
- satem — belonging to or consisting of those branches of the Indo-European family in which alveolar or palatal fricatives, as the sounds (s) or (sh), developed in ancient times from Proto-Indo-European palatal stops: the satem branches are Indo-Iranian, Armenian, Slavic, Baltic, and Albanian.
- scamp — an unscrupulous and often mischievous person; rascal; rogue; scalawag.
- scram — to go away; get out (usually used as a command): I said I was busy, so scram.
- sdram — Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory
- seame — grease
- seams — the line formed by sewing together pieces of cloth, leather, or the like.
- seamy — unpleasant or sordid; low; disagreeable: the seamy side of life.
- secam — séquentiel couleur à mémoire: a colour-television broadcasting system used in France, the former Soviet Union, and some other countries
- selma — a city in central Alabama, on the Alabama River.
- seram — an island in Indonesia, in the Moluccas, separated from New Guinea by the Ceram Sea: mountainous and densely forested. Area: 17 150 sq km (6622 sq miles)
- sgram — Synchronous Graphics Random Access Memory
- shama — a slender long-tailed thrush, Copsychus malabaricus, of southern Asia and introduced into Hawaii, having black plumage with a white rump and tail sides and a chestnut belly.
- shame — the painful feeling arising from the consciousness of something dishonorable, improper, ridiculous, etc., done by oneself or another: She was overcome with shame.
- shamo — a desert in E Asia, mostly in Mongolia. About 500,000 sq. mi. (1,295,000 sq. km).
- shawm — an early musical woodwind instrument with a double reed: the forerunner of the modern oboe.
- shema — a liturgical prayer, prominent in Jewish history and tradition, that is recited daily at the morning and evening services and expresses the Jewish people's ardent faith in and love of God.
- sigma — the 18th letter of the Greek alphabet: Σ, σ, ς.
- simak — Clifford, 1904–88, U.S. science-fiction writer.
- siman — SIMulation ANalysis
- simar — Also, cymar. a loose, lightweight jacket or robe for women, fashionable in the 17th and 18th centuries.
- simla — a city in and the capital of Himachal Pradesh, in N India.
- smaak — to like, love, or be keen on (someone or something)
- smack — Arthur, 1863–1935, British statesman and labor leader: Nobel Peace Prize 1934.
- smaik — a Scots word for a rascal or rogue
- smail — snail mail.
- small — of limited size; of comparatively restricted dimensions; not big; little: a small box.
- smalt — a coloring agent made of blue glass produced by fusing silica, potassium carbonate, and cobalt oxide, used in powdered form to add color to vitreous materials.
- smarm — behavior or speech that is smarmy.
- smart — having or showing quick intelligence or ready mental capability: a smart student.
- smash — to break to pieces with violence and often with a crashing sound, as by striking, letting fall, or dashing against something; shatter: He smashed the vase against the wall.
- smatv — (originally) small master antenna television; now more commonly, satellite master antenna television: a system for relaying broadcast television signals, embodying a master receiving antenna with distribution by cable to a small group of dwellings, such as a block of flats
- smaze — a mixture of haze and smoke.
- smear — to spread or daub (an oily, greasy, viscous, or wet substance) on or over something: to smear butter on bread.
- soman — an organophosphorus compound developed as a nerve gas in Germany during World War II
- sp am — Spanish America
- spasm — Pathology. a sudden, abnormal, involuntary muscular contraction, consisting of a continued muscular contraction (tonic spasm) or of a series of alternating muscular contractions and relaxations (clonic spasm)
- ssadm — A software engineering method and toolset required by some UK government agencies.
- stamp — to strike or beat with a forcible, downward thrust of the foot.
- steam — water in the form of an invisible gas or vapor.
- stoma — Also, stomate. Botany. any of various small apertures, especially one of the minute orifices or slits in the epidermis of leaves, stems, etc., through which gases are exchanged.
- sumac — any of several shrubs or small trees belonging to the genus Rhus of the cashew family, having milky sap, compound leaves, and small, fleshy fruit.
- sumba — one of the Lesser Sunda Islands, in Indonesia, S of Flores. 4306 sq. mi. (11,153 sq. km).
- summa — a comprehensive work or series of works covering, synthesizing, or summarizing a particular field or subject.