6-letter words starting with m
- madams — (often initial capital letter) a polite term of address to a woman, originally used only to a woman of rank or authority: Madam President; May I help you, madam?
- madang — a seaport on the N coast of New Guinea, in Papua New Guinea.
- madcap — wildly or heedlessly impulsive; reckless; rash: a madcap scheme.
- madded — Simple past tense and past participle of mad.
- madden — to anger or infuriate: The delays maddened her.
- madder — an angry or ill-tempered period, mood, or spell: The last time he had a mad on, it lasted for days.
- maddux — Gregory Alan ("Greg") born 1966, U.S. baseball pitcher.
- madefy — (rare) To make wet or moist.
- madera — a city in central California.
- madero — Francisco Indalecio [frahn-sees-kaw een-dah-le-syaw] /frɑnˈsis kɔ ˌin dɑˈlɛ syɔ/ (Show IPA), 1873–1913, Mexican revolutionary and political leader: president 1911–13.
- madian — Midian.
- madiba — a title of respect for Nelson Mandela, deriving from his Xhosa clan name
- madiun — a city on E central Java, in Indonesia.
- madlyn — a female given name, form of Magdalene.
- madman — a person who is or behaves as if insane; lunatic; maniac.
- madmen — a person who is or behaves as if insane; lunatic; maniac.
- madnep — (obsolete) The masterwort (Peucedanum ostruthium).
- madoff — Bernard (Lawrence), known as Bernie. born 1938, US financier; chairman of the NASDAQ stock exchange (1990, 1991, 1993); convicted (2009) of running a $65bn (£40bn) Ponzi scheme
- madras — former name of Chennai.
- madrid — a kingdom in SW Europe. Including the Balearic and Canary islands, 194,988 sq. mi. (505,019 sq. km). Capital: Madrid.
- madtom — any of several tadpolelike, freshwater catfishes of the genus Noturus, of the central and eastern U.S., having a poisonous pectoral spine: some are threatened or endangered.
- madura — Dutch Madoera [mah-doo-rah] /mɑˈdu rɑ/ (Show IPA). an island in Indonesia, off the NE coast of Java. 2112 sq. mi. (5470 sq. km).
- maduro — strong and darkly colored.
- maelid — a mythical apple nymph
- maenad — bacchante.
- maffle — To stammer.
- mafias — Plural form of mafia.
- mafted — suffering under oppressive heat
- maftir — the concluding section of the portion of the Torah chanted or read in a Jewish service on the Sabbath and festivals.
- maggid — (especially in Poland and Russia) a wandering Jewish preacher whose sermons contained religious and moral instruction and words of comfort and hope.
- maggie — Margaret ("Maggie") 1905–95, U.S. activist: a founder of the Gray Panthers.
- maggot — a soft-bodied, legless larva of certain flies.
- magick — Archaic. magic.
- magics — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of magic.
- magilp — Alternative form of megilp.
- maglev — magnetic levitation.
- magma2 — (language) A language that allows programmability of the control environment, e.g. recursion, backtracking, coroutines, nondeterminism, etc. Magma2 was the successor to MagmaLISP.
- magmas — Plural form of magma.
- magnes — a magnetic iron ore
- magnet — a body, as a piece of iron or steel, that possesses the property of attracting certain substances, as iron.
- magni- — great, big, large
- magnon — (physics) a quantum of a spin wave.
- magnox — an alloy consisting mostly of magnesium with small amounts of aluminium and other metals, used in fuel elements of nuclear reactors
- magnum — a large wine bottle having a capacity of two ordinary bottles or 1.5 liters (1.6 quarts).
- magnus — the Great Year: a cycle of years, usually a thousand, that begins with a Golden Age, steadily deteriorates, and ends with a universal catastrophe, either a fire or a flood.
- magpie — either of two corvine birds, Pica pica (black-billed magpie) of Eurasia and North America, or P. nuttalli (yellow-billed magpie) of California, having long, graduated tails, black-and-white plumage, and noisy, mischievous habits.
- magret — A fillet of meat cut from a breast of duck.
- magtig — (South Africa) my God! An expression of surprise.
- maguey — any of several plants of the genus Agave, of the agave family, especially the cantala, A. cantala.
- magyar — a member of the ethnic group, of the Finno-Ugric stock, that forms the predominant element of the population of Hungary.