5-letter words starting with m
- malwa — Beer made with millet.
- mamas — Plural form of mama.
- mamba — any of several long, slender, arboreal snakes of the genus Dendroaspis, of central and southern Africa, the bite of which is often fatal.
- mambo — a fast ballroom dance of Caribbean origin, rhythmically similar to the rumba and cha-cha but having a more complex pattern of steps.
- mamet — David (Alan) born 1947, U.S. playwright.
- mamey — a tall, tropical American tree, Mammea americana, having thick, glossy leaves and fragrant white flowers.
- mamie — a female given name, form of Mary.
- mamil — middle-aged man in Lycra
- mamma — Informal. mother1 .
- mammy — Informal. mother1 .
- manak — a wooden ball fitted with hooks and attached to a rope, used by Eskimos to secure and haul in seals killed offshore.
- manal — Of, like or pertaining to the hand.
- manas — an ancient kingdom in Iran, in Kurdistan.
- manat — a pre-Islamic Arabian goddess personifying fortune, sometimes considered a daughter of Allah.
- manca — A mancus.
- mande — a branch of the Niger-Congo subfamily of languages, spoken in western Africa and including Mende, Malinke, Bambara, and Kpelle.
- mandi — A traditional style of washing oneself in Indonesia and Malaysia, using a small container to scoop water out of a large container and pour it over the body.
- mandy — (UK, slang, uncountable) the drug MDMA.
- maneb — a carbamate fungicide, C 4 H 6 MnN 2 S 4 , used for control of numerous crop diseases.
- maned — the long hair growing on the back of or around the neck and neighboring parts of some animals, as the horse or lion.
- manes — the long hair growing on the back of or around the neck and neighboring parts of some animals, as the horse or lion.
- manet — Édouard [ey-dwar] /eɪˈdwar/ (Show IPA), 1832–83, French painter.
- manga — a Japanese graphic novel, typically intended for adults, characterized by highly stylized art.
- mange — any of various skin diseases caused by parasitic mites, affecting animals and sometimes humans and characterized by loss of hair and scabby eruptions.
- mango — the oblong, sweet fruit of a tropical tree, Mangifera indica, of the cashew family, eaten ripe, or preserved or pickled.
- mangu — Mashed plantain.
- mangy — having, caused by, or like the mange.
- mania — an ancient Roman goddess of the dead.
- manic — pertaining to or affected by mania.
- manid — (zoology) Any species of the genus Manis, or family Manidae.
- manit — man-minute.
- 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