5-letter words containing m, a
- camel — A camel is a large animal that lives in deserts and is used for carrying goods and people. Camels have long necks and one or two lumps on their backs called humps.
- cameo — A cameo is a short description or piece of acting which expresses cleverly and neatly the nature of a situation, event, or person's character.
- cames — a slender, grooved bar of lead for holding together the pieces of glass in windows of latticework or stained glass.
- camil — Computer Assisted/Managed Instructional Language. A language used for CAI at Lowry AFB, CO.
- camis — a light robe
- campi — (nonstandard) Irregular plural form of campus.
- campo — level or undulating savanna country, esp in the uplands of Brazil
- camps — Plural form of camp.
- campy — Campy means the same as camp.
- camra — Campaign for Real Ale
- camus — Albert (albɛr). 1913–60, French novelist, dramatist, and essayist, noted for his pessimistic portrayal of man's condition of isolation in an absurd world: author of the novels L'Étranger (1942) and La Peste (1947), the plays Le Malentendu (1945) and Caligula (1946), and the essays Le Mythe de Sisyphe (1942) and L'Homme révolté (1951): Nobel prize for literature 1957
- carme — a nymph who was one of Diana's attendants and mother of Britomaris by Jupiter
- carom — a shot in which the cue ball is caused to contact one object ball after another
- cavum — (anatomy) A cavity.
- ceram — one of the Molucca Islands, in Indonesia, west of New Guinea: 6,621 sq mi (17,148 sq km)
- cgram — (language) An ANSI C LL1 or LL2 grammar written in Scheme by Mohd Hanafiah Abdullah <[email protected]>. A program (f-f-d.s) extracts the FIRST/FOLLOW/DIRECTOR sets.
- champ — A champ is the same as a champion.
- chams — Plural form of cham.
- charm — Charm is the quality of being pleasant or attractive.
- chasm — A chasm is a very deep crack in rock, earth, or ice.
- claim — If you say that someone claims that something is true, you mean they say that it is true but you are not sure whether or not they are telling the truth.
- clamp — A clamp is a device that holds two things firmly together.
- clams — Plural form of clam.
- cloam — made of clay or earthenware
- cname — (networking) The canonical name query type for Domain Name System. This query asks a DNS server for a host's official hostname.
- coamo — a city in S central Puerto Rico.
- comae — Plural form of coma (In the cometary nuclear dust cloud sense.).
- comal — COMmon Algorithmic Language
- comas — Plural form of coma.
- comma — A comma is the punctuation mark , which is used to separate parts of a sentence or items in a list.
- coram — before; in the presence of
- crame — a merchant's booth or stall at a market
- cramp — Cramp is a sudden strong pain caused by a muscle suddenly contracting. You sometimes get cramp in a muscle after you have been making a physical effort over a long period of time.
- crams — to fill (something) by force with more than it can easily hold.
- cream — Cream is a thick yellowish-white liquid taken from milk. You can use it in cooking or put it on fruit or desserts.
- crema — A brownish foam that forms on the top of freshly made espresso.
- cumae — the oldest Greek colony in Italy, founded about 750 bc near Naples
- cymar — a woman's short fur-trimmed jacket, popular in the 17th and 18th centuries
- daman — a rare name for the hyrax, esp the Syrian rock hyrax
- damão — a district in W India, part of the union territory of Daman and Diu: formerly a Portuguese colony, then (1961–87) part of the union territory of Goa, Daman, and Diu.
- damar — dammar
- damas — French name of Damascus.
- dambo — A kind of seasonal shallow wetland in parts of Africa.
- dames — Plural form of dame.
- damia — a spirit of fertility.
- damme — an exclamation of surprise or annoyance
- dammy — Alternative form of damme.
- damns — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of damn.
- damon — Matt. born 1970, US film actor and screenwriter. His films include Good Will Hunting (1997, which he co-wrote), Saving Private Ryan (1998), The Talented Mr Ripley (1999) and, from 2002, the Bourne series
- damps — Moisture diffused through the air or a solid substance or condensed on a surface, typically with detrimental or unpleasant effects.