6-letter words containing o, a, m
- lamoid — A member of the South American camelid family, a llama, alpaca, vicuna, or guanaco.
- lamont — a male given name.
- lipoma — a benign tumor consisting of fat tissue.
- loamed — Simple past tense and past participle of loam.
- logjam — an immovable pileup or tangle of logs, as in a river, causing a blockage.
- lomami — a river in the S Democratic Republic of the Congo, flowing N to the Congo River. 900 miles (1448 km) long.
- lomita — a town in SW California.
- lupoma — any of the tubercles occurring in lupus vulgaris.
- mac os — Macintosh Operating System
- macaco — any of several lemurs, as Lemur macaco.
- maceio — a state in NE Brazil. 10,674 sq. mi. (27,650 sq. km). Capital: Maceió.
- machos — Machismo.
- macoma — any marine bivalve mollusk of the genus Macoma, having a glossy, thin, usually white shell.
- macomb — a city in NW Illinois.
- macoun — a juicy, late-ripening variety of apple that originated in Canada.
- macro- — Prefix large. Opposite of micro-. In the mainstream and among other technical cultures (for example, medical people) this competes with the prefix mega-, but hackers tend to restrict the latter to quantification.
- macron — a horizontal line used as a diacritic over a vowel to indicate that it has a long sound or other specified pronunciation, as (ā) in fate (fāt).
- macros — Plural form of macro.
- madero — Francisco Indalecio [frahn-sees-kaw een-dah-le-syaw] /frɑnˈsis kɔ ˌin dɑˈlɛ syɔ/ (Show IPA), 1873–1913, Mexican revolutionary and political leader: president 1911–13.
- madoff — Bernard (Lawrence), known as Bernie. born 1938, US financier; chairman of the NASDAQ stock exchange (1990, 1991, 1993); convicted (2009) of running a $65bn (£40bn) Ponzi scheme
- madtom — any of several tadpolelike, freshwater catfishes of the genus Noturus, of the central and eastern U.S., having a poisonous pectoral spine: some are threatened or endangered.
- maduro — strong and darkly colored.
- maggot — a soft-bodied, legless larva of certain flies.
- magnon — (physics) a quantum of a spin wave.
- magnox — an alloy consisting mostly of magnesium with small amounts of aluminium and other metals, used in fuel elements of nuclear reactors
- mahalo — (Hawaiian English) thank you.
- mahoes — Plural form of mahoe.
- mahout — the keeper or driver of an elephant, especially in India and the East Indies.
- mahzor — a Jewish prayer book designed for use on festivals and holy days.
- maikop — Official name Adygei Autonomous Region. an autonomous region in the Russian Federation, part of the Krasnodar territory, in the NW Caucasus Mountains. 1505 sq. mi. (3903 sq. km). Capital: Maikop.
- mainor — (legal, UK, obsolete) A stolen article found on the person of the thief.
- majors — Plural form of major.
- majuro — the capital island of the Marshall Islands. 4 sq. mi. (10 sq. km).
- malabo — a republic in W equatorial Africa, comprising the mainland province of Río Muni and the island province of Bioko: formerly a Spanish colony. 10,824 sq. mi. (28,034 sq. km). Capital: Malabo.
- maldon — a market town in SE England, in Essex; scene of a battle (991) between the East Saxons and the victorious Danes, celebrated in The Battle of Maldon, an Old English poem; notable for Maldon salt, used in cookery. Pop: 20 731 (2001)
- malloc — C's standard library routine for storage allocation. It takes the number of bytes required and returns a pointer to a block of that size. Storage is allocated from a heap which lies after the end of the program and data areas. Memory allocated with malloc must be freed explicitly using the "free" routine before it can be re-used.
- mallon — Mary ("Typhoid Mary") 1869?–1938, U.S. cook, born in Ireland: known immune carrier of typhoid fever who infected many with the disease, institutionalized in 1914.
- mallow — any of various plants of the genus Malva, including several popular garden plants, as the musk mallow.
- maloca — An ancestral longhouse used by the natives of the Amazon, notably in Colombia and Brazil.
- malone — Edmond, 1741–1812, Irish literary critic and Shakespearean scholar.
- malory — Sir Thomas, c1400–71, English author.
- maloti — plural of loti.
- malouf — David. born 1934, Australian novelist, short-story writer, and poet. His novels include An Imaginary Life (1978), Remembering Babylon (1993), The Conversations at Curlow Creek (1996), and Ransom (2009)
- maltol — a crystalline compound, C 6 H 6 O 3 , obtained from larch bark, pine needles, chicory, or roasted malt, used for enhancing flavors and aromas, as in foods, wines, and perfumes.
- mambos — Plural form of mambo.
- mammon — New Testament. riches or material wealth. Matt. 6:24; Luke 16:9,11,13.
- mamore — a river in Bolivia, flowing N to the Beni River on the border of Brazil to form the Madeira River. 700 miles (1125 km) long.
- manado — Menado.
- manaos — a state in NW Brazil. 601,769 sq. mi. (1,558,582 sq. km). Capital: Manáos.
- mandom — the dominion of mankind