5-letter words starting with m
- 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.
- maros — Hungarian name of Mures.
- marq. — Marquis
- marra — (Geordie, West Cumbria, informal) A friend, pal, buddy, mate.
- marri — a species of eucalyptus, Eucalyptus calophylla, of Western Australia, widely cultivated for its coloured flowers
- marry — to take in marriage: After dating for five years, I finally asked her to marry me.
- marse — (used chiefly in representation of southern black speech) master.
- marsh — Dame (Edith) Ngaio [nahy-oh] /ˈnaɪ oʊ/ (Show IPA), 1899–1982, New Zealand writer of detective novels.
- marta — a female given name.
- marti — José [haw-se] /hɔˈsɛ/ (Show IPA), 1853–1895, Cuban patriot and writer.
- marts — Plural form of mart.
- marut — any of a group of storm gods, the offspring of Rudra.
- marvy — marvelous; delightful.
- marwa — Safa and Marwa.
- marya — a female given name, form of Mary.
- masai — a member of an African people inhabiting the highlands of Kenya and Tanzania and having a largely pastoral economy and a society based on the patrilineal clan.
- masan — a seaport in SE South Korea.
- masc. — Masc. is a written abbreviation of masculine.
- maser — a device for amplifying electromagnetic waves by stimulated emission of radiation.
- mashy — mashie.