6-letter words starting with m
- maumee — a city in NW Ohio.
- maumet — British Dialect. a doll, puppet, scarecrow, or other figure built to resemble a human being. an empty-headed or mindless person.
- maunch — manche.
- maunds — Plural form of maund.
- maundy — the ceremony of washing the feet of the poor, especially commemorating Jesus' washing of His disciples' feet on Maundy Thursday.
- maungy — (esp of a child) sulky, bad-tempered, or peevish
- maunna — must not
- maurya — a member of an ancient Indian people who united northern India and established an empire 322–184 b.c.
- mauser — Peter Paul, 1838–1914, and his brother, Wilhelm, 1834–82, German inventors of firearms.
- mauver — a pale bluish purple.
- mauves — Plural form of mauve.
- mavens — An expert or connoisseur.
- mavins — an expert or connoisseur.
- mavors — Mars.
- mawger — (of persons or animals) thin or lean
- mawkin — malkin.
- mawlid — a Muslim holiday celebrating the birth of Muhammad, occurring on the twelfth day of the month of Rabiʿ al-awwal, and characterized especially by the recitation of panegyrical poems honoring Muhammad.
- mawson — Sir Douglas, 1882–1958, Australian antarctic explorer, born in England.
- maxima — a plural of maximum.
- maxims — Plural form of maxim.
- maxine — a female given name.
- maxing — Present participle of max.
- maxixe — a ballroom dance originating in Brazil, in moderate duple measure with syncopated rhythms.
- may've — May've is a spoken form of 'may have', especially when 'have' is an auxiliary verb.
- mayday — the international radiotelephone distress signal, used by ships and aircraft.
- mayest — 2nd person singular present indicative of may1 .
- mayfly — Also called shadfly. any insect of the order Ephemeroptera, having delicate, membranous wings with the front pair much larger than the rear and having an aquatic larval stage and a terrestrial adult stage usually lasting less than two days.
- mayhap — perhaps.
- mayhem — Law. the crime of willfully inflicting a bodily injury on another so as to make the victim less capable of self-defense or, under modern statutes, so as to cripple or mutilate the victim.
- mayhew — Jonathan, 1720–66, American Congregational clergyman.
- maying — the fifth month of the year, containing 31 days.
- mayn't — Mayn't is a spoken form of 'may not'.
- mayors — Plural form of mayor.
- maypop — the edible fruit of the passionflower, Passiflora incarnata, of the southern U.S.
- mayten — a tree, Maytenus boaria, native to Chile, having narrow leaves and drooping branches, planted as a street tree in Florida and southern California.
- mazard — Archaic. head. face.
- mazers — Plural form of mazer.
- mazhbi — a Sikh who formerly belonged, or whose ancestors belonged, to the Hindu scavenger caste
- mazily — full of confusing turns, passages, etc.; like a maze; labyrinthine.
- mazing — a confusing network of intercommunicating paths or passages; labyrinth.
- mazuma — money.
- mbasic — Microsoft BASIC.
- mbiras — Plural form of mbira.
- mbundu — Also called Ovimbundu. a Bantu-speaking people of southern Angola.
- mc6809 — Motorola 6809
- mcadoo — William Gibbs, 1863–1941, U.S. lawyer and statesman: Secretary of the Treasury 1913–18.
- mccloy — John Jay, 1895–1989, U.S. lawyer, banker, and government official.
- mccomb — a town in S Mississippi.
- mccrae — John, 1872–1918, Canadian physician, soldier, and poet.
- mcewan — Ian (Russell). born 1948, British novelist and short-story writer. His books include First Love, Last Rites (1975), The Child in Time (1987), The Innocent (1990), Amsterdam (which won the Booker prize in 1998), Atonement (2001), Saturday (2005), and On Chesil Beach (2007)