5-letter words containing ma
- kaama — a large African antelope with lyre-shaped horns
- kamal — A navigation device, known to the Arabs and Chinese of the ancient world, consisting of a wooden card and knotted string.
- karma — Hinduism, Buddhism. action, seen as bringing upon oneself inevitable results, good or bad, either in this life or in a reincarnation: in Hinduism one of the means of reaching Brahman. Compare bhakti (def 1), jnana.
- keema — (in Indian cookery) minced meat
- kerma — the quotient of the sum of the initial kinetic energies of all the charged particles liberated by indirectly ionizing radiation in a volume element of a material divided by the mass of the volume element. The SI unit is the gray
- khama — Sir Seretse [suh-ret-sey] /səˈrɛt seɪ/ (Show IPA), 1921–80, Botswanan political leader: president 1966–80.
- korma — A mildly spiced Indian curry dish of meat or fish marinated in yogurt or curds.
- krama — A traditional Cambodian garment with many uses, including as a scarf or bandanna or to carry children.
- lamar — Joseph R. 1857–1916, U.S. jurist: associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1911–16.
- lamas — a priest or monk in Lamaism.
- leman — Lake. Geneva, Lake of.
- lemay — Curtis (Emerson) 1906–90, U.S. Air Force officer: chief of the Strategic Air Command 1948–61; Chief of Staff of the Air Force 1961–65.
- lemma — a subsidiary proposition introduced in proving some other proposition; a helping theorem.
- liman — a muddy lagoon, marsh, or lake near the mouth of a river behind part of the delta and more or less protected from open water by a barrier or spit.
- limax — a slug
- limma — any of several musical intervals of small size, such as a semitone
- llama — a woolly-haired South American ruminant of the genus Lama, believed to be a domesticated variety of the guanaco: often used as a beast of burden.
- lokma — A pastry made of fried dough soaked in sugar syrup or honey and cinnamon, typically shaped into a ring or ball. (used especially of the Turkish variant of this pastry).
- lomas — city in E Argentina: suburb of Buenos Aires: pop. 573,000
- lomax — John Avery, 1867–1948, and his son, Alan, born 1915, U.S. folklorists.
- lyman — a male given name.
- ma'am — madam (def 1).
- maars — Plural form of maar.
- mabel — a female given name.
- mabey — Misspelling of maybe.
- mable — a female given name.
- mabye — Misspelling of maybe.
- mac-1 — (language) The assembly language used in the book cited below. See Mic-1.
- macao — a Portuguese overseas territory in S China, in the delta of the Zhu Jiang River and including two small adjacent islands. 6 sq. mi. (16 sq. km).
- macau — Macao.
- macaw — any of various large, long-tailed parrots, chiefly of the genus Ara, of tropical and subtropical America, noted for their brilliant plumage and harsh voice.
- macc. — Maccabees (books of the Apocrypha)
- maced — Simple past tense and past participle of mace.
- macer — macebearer.
- maces — a spice ground from the layer between a nutmeg shell and its outer husk, resembling nutmeg in flavor.
- mache — corn salad.
- macho — having or characterized by qualities considered manly, especially when manifested in an assertive, self-conscious, or dominating way.
- macke — August [ou-goo st] /ˈaʊ gʊst/ (Show IPA), 1887–1914, German painter.
- macks — Plural form of mack.
- macle — chiastolite.
- macon — a department in E France. 3331 sq. mi. (8625 sq. km). Capital: Mâcon.
- macro — very large in scale, scope, or capability.
- madam — (often initial capital letter) a polite term of address to a woman, originally used only to a woman of rank or authority: Madam President; May I help you, madam?
- madge — a female given name, form of Margaret.
- madid — wet or damp
- madly — insanely or wildly: The old witch cackled madly.
- madre — mother1 .
- maera — Hecuba, after being changed into a dog for blinding Polymestor.
- maerl — an accumulation of red coralline algae
- maewo — an almost uninhabited island in Vanuatu