5-letter words containing m, a
- harem — the part of a Muslim palace or house reserved for the residence of women.
- harim — the part of a Muslim palace or house reserved for the residence of women.
- harms — a U.S. air-to-surface missile designed to detect and destroy radar sites by homing on their emissions.
- haulm — stems or stalks collectively, as of grain or of peas, beans, or hops, especially as used for litter or thatching.
- hema- — hemo-
- hemal — Also, hematal. of or relating to the blood or blood vessels.
- heman — Misspelling of he-man.
- herma — herm.
- hiram — a king of Tyre in the 10th century b.c. I Kings 5.
- hmake — (programming) A compilation manager for Haskell. hmake recompiles a given module or program by extracting dependencies between source modules and issuing appropriate compiler commands to rebuild only changed modules. hmake can use whatever Haskell compilers and preprocessors you have installed. If an .hi interface file is unchanged then changes in the corresponding implementation code will not trigger recompilation of calling code. Malcolm Wallace of the York Functional Programming Group developed hmake in 2005 based on Thomas Hallgren's hbcmake and nhc13make.
- homas — haoma (def 2).
- houma — a city in S Louisiana.
- human — of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or having the nature of people: human frailty.
- humma — (chat) A filler word used on various "chat" and "talk" programs when you had nothing to say but felt that it was important to say something. The word apparently originated (at least with this definition) on the MECC Timeshare System (MTS, a now-defunct educational time-sharing system running in Minnesota during the 1970s and the early 1980s) but was later sighted on early Unix systems.
- hyman — a male given name.
- iambi — iamb.
- iambs — Plural form of iamb.
- idams — A pictorial retrieval language implemented in APL.
- ihram — the dress worn by male Muslims on their pilgrimage to Mecca, consisting of two white cotton cloths, one worn round the waist, the other over the left shoulder.
- ijma' — the consensus of all believers on the rightness of a belief or practice.
- image — a physical likeness or representation of a person, animal, or thing, photographed, painted, sculptured, or otherwise made visible.
- imago — Entomology. an adult insect.
- imake — A tool which generates Makefiles from a template, a set of cpp macros, and a per-directory input file called an Imakefile. This allows machine dependencies (such has compiler options, alternate command names, and special make rules) to be kept separate from the descriptions of the various items to be built. imake is distributed with, and used extensively by, the X Window System.
- imami — a member of the principal sect of Shiʿah, believing in a succession of twelve divinely inspired imams, beginning with Ali and ending with Muhammad al-Muntazar (d. a.d. c880), who supposedly retired to a cave, later to return as the Mahdi.
- imare — Institute of Marine Engineers
- imari — a type of decorated Japanese porcelain
- imena — a female given name: from an Arabic word meaning “faith.”.
- impar — unpaired; azygous.
- imsai — (company) One of the companies that made very early microprocessor systems.
- inarm — to embrace
- islam — the religious faith of Muslims, based on the words and religious system founded by the prophet Muhammad and taught by the Koran, the basic principle of which is absolute submission to a unique and personal god, Allah.
- ismap — (web) An attribute of the HTML tag
(inline image) which specifies that if the image is selected, the browser will generate a request indicating the coordinates of the point which was clicked. This request is then interpreted by the server by mapping certain regions of the image to certain actions.
- jamal — a male given name: from an Arabic word meaning “beauty.”.
- jambe — Architecture, Building Trades. either of the vertical sides of a doorway, arch, window, or other opening. either of two stones, timbers, etc., forming the sidepieces for the frame of an opening.
- jambi — a province on SE Sumatra, in W Indonesia.
- jambo — an E African salutation
- jambs — Plural form of jamb.
- jambu — Alternative form of jambul.
- james — James I.
- jamie — a male given name, form of James.
- jammu — a city in and the capital of Jammu and Kashmir, in the SW part, in N India.
- jammy — very lucky.
- jarmo — a Neolithic village site in northeastern Iraq, dated c6500 b.c. and noted as one of the world's earliest food-producing settlements.
- joram — Alternative spelling of jorum.
- jumar — A clamp that is attached to a fixed rope and automatically tightens when weight is applied and relaxes when it is removed.
- jumna — a river in N India, flowing SE from the Himalayas to the Ganges at Allahabad. 860 miles (1385 meters) long.
- kaama — a large African antelope with lyre-shaped horns
- kalam — (sometimes lowercase) a school of philosophical theology originating in the 9th century a.d., asserting the existence of God as a prime mover and the freedom of the will.
- kamal — A navigation device, known to the Arabs and Chinese of the ancient world, consisting of a wooden card and knotted string.
- kamba — an agricultural people of central Kenya, renowned as traders and woodcarvers.