5-letter words containing ma
- derma — beef or fowl intestine used as a casing for certain dishes, esp kishke
- dmake — Required by uC++.
- dogma — an official system of principles or tenets concerning faith, morals, behavior, etc., as of a church. Synonyms: doctrine, teachings, set of beliefs, philosophy.
- dolma — a dish of tomatoes, green peppers, vine leaves, or eggplants stuffed with a mixture of meat, rice, and spices.
- domal — of or like a dome.
- douma — duma.
- drama — a composition in prose or verse presenting in dialogue or pantomime a story involving conflict or contrast of character, especially one intended to be acted on the stage; a play.
- dumas — (in Russia prior to 1917) a council or official assembly.
- edema — effusion of serous fluid into the interstices of cells in tissue spaces or into body cavities.
- edman — Irwin, 1896–1954, U.S. philosopher and essayist.
- ekman — Vagn Walfrid (vaɣən wɑːlfriːd). 1874–1954, Swedish oceanographer: discoverer of the Ekman spiral (a complex interaction on the surface of the sea between wind, rotation of the earth, and friction forces) and the Ekman Layer (the thin top layer of the sea that flows at 90° to the wind direction)
- elman — ˈMischa (ˈmɪʃə ) ; mishˈə) 1891-1967; U.S. violinist, born in Russia
- emacs — Any implementation or reimplementation of Emacs.
- email — (obsolete, circa 13th century) a raised or embossed image pressed into metal, such as a seal pressed into a foil and attached to a document.
- enema — A procedure in which liquid or gas is injected into the rectum, typically to expel its contents, but also to introduce drugs or permit X-ray imaging.
- etyma — Plural form of etymon.
- femal — effeminate
- g-man — an agent for the FBI.
- gamay — a grape grown especially in the Beaujolais region of France and in N California.
- gamma — the third letter of the Greek alphabet (Γ, γ).
- gemma — a bud.
- glama — the longest river in Norway, flowing S to the Skagerrak. 365 miles (587 km) long.
- grama — any grass of the genus Bouteloua, of South America and western North America, as B. gracilis (blue grama)
- groma — an instrument having a cruciform wooden frame with a plumb line at the end of each arm, used for laying out lines at right angles to existing lines.
- gumma — a rubbery, tumorlike lesion associated with tertiary syphilis.
- halma — a board game in which players attempt to transfer their pieces from their own to their opponents' bases
- hamal — (in some Muslim countries) a porter.
- haman — a powerful prince at the court of Ahasuerus, who was hanged upon exposure of his plan to destroy the Jews of Persia. Esther 3–6.
- hamas — a city in W Syria, on the Orontes River.
- haoma — a leafless vine, Sarcostemma acidum, of eastern India, yielding a sour, milky juice.
- hema- — hemo-
- hemal — Also, hematal. of or relating to the blood or blood vessels.
- heman — Misspelling of he-man.
- herma — herm.
- 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.
- 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
- 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.”.
- jumar — A clamp that is attached to a fixed rope and automatically tightens when weight is applied and relaxes when it is removed.