5-letter words containing ma
- manjo — (musici, Ireland, informal) A mandolin-banjo.
- manky — (British, Scotland, Ireland, slang) Unpleasantly dirty and disgusting.
- manly — having qualities traditionally ascribed to men, as strength or bravery.
- manna — the food miraculously supplied to the Israelites in the wilderness. Ex. 16:14–36.
- manny — a male given name, form of Emanuel.
- manon — an opera (1884) by Jules Massenet.
- manor — (in England) a landed estate or territorial unit, originally of the nature of a feudal lordship, consisting of a lord's demesne and of lands within which he has the right to exercise certain privileges, exact certain fees, etc.
- manos — the upper or handheld stone used when grinding maize or other grains on a metate.
- manse — the house and land occupied by a minister or parson.
- mansi — a member of a Uralic people now living in scattered settlements along western tributaries of the Ob River in Siberia, and known from historical records to have lived in northern European Russia.
- manta — (in Spain and Spanish America) a cloak or wrap.
- manto — Obsolete form of manteau.
- manue — Manoah.
- manul — A small wild cat of Central Asia, Otocolobus manul.
- manus — Anatomy, Zoology. the distal segment of the forelimb of a vertebrate, including the carpus and the forefoot or hand.
- manye — Obsolete spelling of many.
- manzu — Giacomo [jah-kaw-maw] /ˈdʒɑ kɔ mɔ/ (Show IPA), 1908–91, Italian sculptor.
- maori — a member of the native Polynesian population of New Zealand.
- mapau — a small New Zealand tree, Myrsine australis, with reddish bark, aromatic leaves, and dark berries
- mapes — Walter, c1140–1209? Welsh ecclesiastic, poet, and satirist.
- maple — any of numerous trees or shrubs of the genus Acer, species of which are grown as shade or ornamental trees, for timber, or for sap. Compare maple family.
- maqaf — (Hebrew typography) The Hebrew script hyphen (־).
- maqui — an evergreen shrub, Aristotelia chilensis, of Chile, having toothed, oblong leaves, greenish-white flowers, and purple berries, grown as an ornamental in S California.
- marae — (archaic) a Polynesian sacred altar or enclosure.
- marah — bitterness or a source of bitterness
- maras — a city in S Turkey, near the Taurus mountain range.
- marat — Jean Paul [zhahn-pawl] /ʒɑ̃ pɔl/ (Show IPA), 1743–93, French politician and journalist: leader in the French Revolution; assassinated by Charlotte Corday d'Armont.
- march — to touch at the border; border.
- marcy — Mount, a mountain in NE New York: highest peak of the Adirondack Mountains, 5344 feet (1629 meters).
- mardy — grumpy or moody; sulky: She's behaving like a typical mardy teenager, refusing to tell us what's wrong.
- mares — Plural form of mare.
- marga — any of the three ways to salvation, which are those of devotion to certain gods (bhakti-marga) of study (jnana-marga) and of actions (karma-marga)
- marge — a female given name, form of Margaret.
- margo — (anatomy) border, margin.
- maria — nightmare (def 3).
- marid — a spirit in Arabian and Muslim mythology
- marie — (Marie Alexandra Victoria of Saxe-Coburg) 1875–1938, queen of Romania 1914–27.
- maril — Machine description language used by the Marion code generator.
- marin — John, 1870–1953, U.S. painter and etcher.
- mario — a male given name: from the Roman family name Marius.
- maris — Roger (Eugene) 1934–85, U.S. baseball player.
- marka — the basic monetary unit of Bosnia and Herzegovina, equal to 100 pfenigs.
- marke — Obsolete spelling of mark.
- marks — Plural form of mark.
- marla — (Ireland) Plasticine; modelling clay.
- marly — Geology. a friable earthy deposit consisting of clay and calcium carbonate, used especially as a fertilizer for soils deficient in lime.
- marne — a river in NE France, flowing W to the Seine near Paris: battles 1914, 1918, 1944. 325 miles (525 km) long.
- maroc — French name of Morocco.
- maron — a camaron
- maror — a portion of horseradish or other bitter herb that is eaten at the Seder meal on Passover.