5-letter words starting with m
- mayas — the power, as of a god, to produce illusions.
- maybe — perhaps; possibly: Maybe I'll go too.
- mayed — the fifth month of the year, containing 31 days.
- mayer — Julius Robert von [jool-yuh s rob-ert von;; German yoo-lee-oo s roh-bert fuh n] /ˈdʒul yəs ˈrɒb ərt vɒn;; German ˈyu li ʊs ˈroʊ bɛrt fən/ (Show IPA), 1814–78, German physicist.
- mayon — an active volcano in the Philippines, on SE Luzon Island. 7926 feet (2415 meters).
- mayor — the chief executive official, usually elected, of a city, village, or town.
- mayst — 2nd person singular present indicative of may1 .
- mazda — Ahura Mazda.
- mazed — Simple past tense and past participle of maze.
- mazer — a large metal drinking bowl or cup, formerly of wood.
- mazes — Plural form of maze.
- mazey — Obsolete form of mazy.
- mazut — a liquid residue remaining after the distillation of petroleum and which is chiefly used as a fuel oil
- mbari — (Nigeria, West Africa) A ceremonial clay shrine filled with clay models of humans or deities, made by the Igbo tribe.
- mbeki — Thabo [tah-boh] /ˈtɑ boʊ/ (Show IPA), born 1942, South African economist and politician: president of the Republic of South Africa 1999–.
- mbira — a musical instrument of Africa usually made out of a gourd that serves as a resonating box, to which vibrating metal or wooden strips are attached for plucking.
- mbomu — Bomu.
- mbone — Virtual Internet Backbone for Multicast IP. IP Multicast-based routing allows distributed applications to achieve real-time communication over IP wide area networks through a lightweight, highly threaded model of communication. Each network-provider participant in the MBONE provides one or more IP multicast routers to connect with tunnels to other participants and to customers. The multicast routers are typically separate from a network's production routers since most production routers don't yet support IP multicast. Most sites use workstations running the mrouted program, but the experimental MOSPF software for Proteon routers is an alternative. Ideally, the machines running mrouted should be dedicated to this task, for reasons of real-time performance and ease of installing kernel patches. Since most intermediate nodes have at least three tunnels, each carrying a separate (unicast) copy of each packet, it is also useful to have multiple network interfaces so it can be installed parallel to the unicast router for those sites with configurations like this: Note that end-user sites may participate with as little as one workstation that runs the packet audio and video software and has a tunnel to a network-provider node.
- mboya — Tom (Thomas Joseph Mboya) 1930–69, African political leader in Kenya.
- mbyte — megabyte
- mccaw — Richard (Hugh), known as Richie born 1980, New Zealand Rugby Union player; a flanker, he played in 148 tests (a world record), 110 as captain. Captained the All Blacks to consecutive World Cup wins (2011, 2015)
- mccay — Winsor, 1871?–1934, U.S. artist, cartoonist, and animator.
- mccoy — the genuine thing or person as promised, stated, or implied (usually preceded by the or the real): Those other paintings are copies, but this one is the McCoy.
- mcdba — Microsoft Certified Database Administrator
- mcdst — Microsoft Certified Desktop Support Technician
- mcfee — William, 1881–1966, English writer.
- mcjob — an unstimulating, low-wage job with few benefits, especially in a service industry.
- mckay — Claude, 1890–1948, U.S. author, born in Jamaica: leader in the Harlem Renaissance.
- mckim — Charles Follen [fol-uh n] /ˈfɒl ən/ (Show IPA), 1847–1909, U.S. architect.
- mcrae — Carmen, 1920–94, U.S. jazz singer and songwriter.
- mcvax — mcvax.cwi.nl used to be the international backbone node of EUnet, the European Unix network. It was located in Amsterdam, Netherlands and belonged to "Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica" (Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science) which is an institute belonging to a foundation called "Mathematisch Centrum". Since the first mcvax was on of the first VAXen in Europe and one of it's first uucp connections was to a machine called decvax it was quickly christened mcvax. Some also say this was done to give Jim McKie a nice mail address: mcvax!mckie. But this is certainly not true at all. The function of EUnet international backbone moved to another VAX later but the name moved with it, because in those days of mainly uucp based mail and before widespread use of pathalias it was simply not feasible to rename the machine to "europa" as was suggested at one stage. Mcsun (or relay.eu.net or net.eu.relay in some parts of Europe) replaced the international backbone host of EUnet around 1990. This machine was donated by Sun Microsystems owned by the European Unix Systems User Group (EUUG). It was located about 5m from where mcvax used to be and operated by the same people. Mcvax has finally ceased to exist in the domain and uucp namespaces. It still exists in the EARN/BITNET namespace.
- mdlle — Mademoiselle
- mdme. — Madame.
- meach — To skulk; to cower.
- meade — George Gordon, 1815–72, Union general in the American Civil War.
- meads — George Herbert, 1863–1931, U.S. philosopher and author.
- meals — a coarse, unsifted powder ground from the edible seeds of any grain: wheat meal; cornmeal.
- mealy — having the qualities of meal; powdery; soft, dry, and crumbly: mealy potatoes; a mealy stone.
- meane — (archaic, music) The middle voice of a three-voice polyphonic musical composition.
- means — to have in mind as one's purpose or intention; intend: I meant to compliment you on your work. Synonyms: contemplate.
- meant — simple past tense and past participle of mean1 .
- meany — a small-minded, petty, or malicious person: The children said their teacher was a real meany.
- mears — a boundary or boundary marker.
- mease — (UK, dialect, dated) five hundred.
- meath — a county in Leinster, in the E Republic of Ireland. 902 sq. mi. (2335 sq. km). County seat: Trim.
- meats — Plural form of meat.
- meaty — of or like meat.
- mebbe — (nonstandard, dialect) maybe.
- mebby — (slang) maybe.
- mebi- — denoting 220