5 Letter Words That Start With MA

major

Adjective : (attributive):

Adjective : Greater in dignity, rank, importance, significance, or interest.

Adjective : Greater in number, quantity, or extent.

match

Noun : (sports) A competitive sporting event such as a boxing meet, a baseball game, or a cricket match.

Noun : Any contest or trial of strength or skill, or to determine superiority.

Noun : Someone with a measure of an attribute equaling or exceeding the object of comparison.

maker

Noun : Someone who makes; a person or thing that makes or produces something.

Noun : (usually capitalized and preceded by the) God.

Noun : (now rare) A poet.

magic

Noun : The application of rituals or actions, especially those based on occult knowledge, to subdue or manipulate natural or supernatural beings and forces in order to have some benefit from them.

Noun : A specific ritual or procedure associated with such magic; a spell; a magical ability.

Noun : The supernatural forces which are drawn on in such a ritual.

maxim

Noun : (now rare) A self-evident axiom or premise; a pithy expression of a general principle or rule.

Noun : A precept; a succinct statement or observation of a rule of conduct or moral teaching.

Noun : A surname

magna

maven

Noun : (chiefly US) An expert in a given field; also, a person who is interested in and knowledgeable about a particular activity or thing; an aficionado.

Noun : (NASA, space science) Initialism of Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution Mission (a space probe designed to investigate the Martian climate)

march

Noun : A formal, rhythmic way of walking, used especially by soldiers, bands and in ceremonies.

Noun : A political rally or parade

Noun : Any song in the genre of music written for marching (see Wikipedia's article on this type of music)

mater

Noun : (Britain, slang, now chiefly archaic or humorous) Mother.

Noun : (anatomy) A meninx; the dura mater, arachnoid mater, or pia mater of the brain.

Noun : (biology) Someone or something that mates.

maple

Noun : A tree of the genus Acer, characterised by its usually palmate leaves and winged seeds.

Noun : The wood of such a tree, prized for its hardness and attractive appearance

Noun : A surname.

mason

Noun : A bricklayer, one whose occupation is to build with stone or brick

Noun : One who prepares stone for building purposes.

Noun : A member of the fraternity of Freemasons. See Freemason.

maria

Noun : A female given name from Hebrew.

Noun : Synonym of Mary, mother of Jesus, in Latin, Spanish, etc. contexts.

Noun : A surname originating as a matronymic.

masse

Noun : A surname from French.

Noun : Obsolete form of mass. [(physical) Matter, material.]

madam

Noun : A polite form of address for a woman or lady.

Noun : The mistress of a household.

Noun : (colloquial) A conceited or quarrelsome girl.

matte

Noun : (art, photography) A decorative border around a picture used to inset and center the contents of a frame.

Noun : (film) A background, often painted or created with computers

Noun : (pyrometallurgy) The molten metal sulfide phases typically formed during smelting of copper, nickel, and other base metals.

mania

Noun : Violent derangement of mind; madness; insanity.

Noun : Excessive or unreasonable desire; insane passion affecting one or many people; fanaticism.

Noun : 2013-07-20, “The attack of the MOOCs”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845:

mango

Noun : A tropical Asian fruit tree, Mangifera indica.

Noun : The fruit of the mango tree.

Noun : A pickled vegetable or fruit with a spicy stuffing; a vegetable or fruit which has been mangoed.

maybe

Verb : Perhaps, possibly.

Verb : (as a pro-sentence) Perhaps that is true (expressing no commitment to a decision or a neutral viewpoint to a statement).

Verb : (UK, meiosis) Certainly.

macro

Adjective : Very large in scope or scale.

Noun : (programming) A comparatively human-friendly abbreviation of complex input to a computer program.

Adjective : (cooking, colloquial) Clipping of macrobiotic. [Of a lifestyle incorporating a dietary regimen including locally grown, seasonal, natural foods, or of the diet itself.]

matic

Noun : A surname from Serbo-Croatian.

marsh

Noun : An area of low, wet land, often with tall grass.

Noun : A topographic surname from Middle English for someone living by a marsh.

Noun : A number of places in England:

manor

Noun : A landed estate.

Noun : The main house of such an estate or a similar residence; a mansion.

Noun : A district over which a feudal lord could exercise certain rights and privileges in medieval western Europe.

magma

Noun : (geology) The molten matter within the earth, the source of the material of lava flows, dikes of eruptive rocks, etc.

Noun : (mathematics) A basic algebraic structure consisting of a set equipped with a single binary operation.

Noun : Any soft doughy mass.

marry

Verb : (intransitive) To enter into the conjugal or connubial state; to take a husband or a wife.

Verb : (intransitive) To enter into marriage with one another.

Verb : (transitive) To take as husband or wife.

mauve

Noun : (historical) A bright purple synthetic dye.

Noun : The colour of this dye; a pale purple or violet colour.

Adjective : Having a pale purple colour.

manic

Adjective : Of or pertaining to someone who exhibits mania or craziness; wicked.

Adjective : (psychiatry) Suffering from mania, the state of an abnormally elevated or irritable mood, arousal, and/or energy levels.

Noun : A person exhibiting mania.

manna

Noun : (biblical) Food miraculously produced for the Israelites in the desert in the book of Exodus.

Noun : (by extension) Any boon which comes into one's hands by good luck.

Noun : The sugary sap of the manna gum tree which oozes out from holes drilled by insects and falls to the ground around the tree.http://www.museum.vic.gov.au/forest/plants/gum.html

maize

Noun : Corn; a type of grain of the species Zea mays.

Noun : A surname.

Noun : A female given name.

mambo

Noun : A voodoo priestess (in Haiti)

Noun : A Latin-American musical genre, adapted from rumba, originating from Cuba in the 1940s, or a dance or rhythm of this genre.

Verb : (intransitive) To perform this dance.

mayor

Noun : The chief executive of the municipal government of a city, borough, etc., formerly (historical) usually appointed as a caretaker by European royal courts but now usually appointed or elected locally.

Noun : (historical) Synonym of mair, various former officials in the Kingdom of Scotland.

Noun : (Ireland, rare, obsolete) A member of a city council.

macho

Adjective : (informal) Masculine in an overly assertive or aggressive way.

Noun : A macho person; a man who is masculine in an overly assertive or aggressive way.

Noun : The striped mullet of California (Mugil cephalus, syn. Mugil mexicanus).

macaw

Noun : Any of various parrots of the genera Ara, Anodorhynchus, Cyanopsitta, Orthopsittaca, Primolius and Diopsittaca of Central and South America, including the largest parrots and characterized by long sabre-shaped tails, curved powerful bills, and usually brilliant plumage.

manga

Noun : (countable, comics) A comic originating in Japan.

Noun : (uncountable) An artistic style heavily used in, and associated with, Japanese comics, and that has also been adopted by a comparatively low number of comics from other countries.

Noun : (rare, countable, chiefly proscribed by fandom) A comic in manga style, regardless of the country of origin.

maori

Noun : A member of the indigenous people of New Zealand.

Noun : The language of these people.

Adjective : Of, from, or pertaining to the Maori.

mange

Noun : (veterinary medicine) A skin disease of nonhuman mammals caused by parasitic mites (Sarcoptes spp., Demodecidae spp.).

maine

Noun : A former province of Pays de la Loire, France. Capital: Le Mans.

Noun : A river in Maine-et-Loire department, Pays de la Loire, France, a tributary of the Loire.

Noun : A state of the United States; probably named for the province in France. Capital: Augusta. Largest city: Portland.

magus

Noun : A magician; (derogatory) a conjurer or sorcerer, especially one who is a charlatan or trickster.

Noun : (Zoroastrianism) A Zoroastrian priest.

mamba

Noun : Any of various venomous snakes of the genus Dendroaspis, native to Africa, that live in trees.

Noun : a dialect of the Zimba language spoken in the Congo

marie

Noun : A female given name from Hebrew

mafia

Noun : The Mob: any particular mafia, mentioned uniquely within the discussion's established or implicit context, usually and especially the Sicilian-Italian–Italian-American one (especially in American English) but occasionally others (e.g., the Russian one, the Japanese one).

Noun : The international criminal organization of Sicilian origin operating in Italy and the United States.

Noun : Any other specific organized crime syndicate operating internationally in high-level organized crime; often with a modifying adjective, such as a nationality.

marge

Noun : (archaic) Margin; edge; brink or verge.

Noun : (informal, UK, Ireland, New Zealand, Australia, Canada) Margarine.

Noun : (MLE) Mother.

mayan

Adjective : Of or relating to the Maya people of Central America or South-eastern Mexico.

Noun : A Maya person.

Noun : A Mayan language.

manse

Verb : (transitive) To excommunicate; curse.

Noun : A house inhabited by the minister of a parish.

Noun : (archaic) A family dwelling, an owner-occupied house.

manta

Noun : A kind of fabric or blanket used in Latin America and southwestern United States.

Noun : A Grassfields language spoken in Cameroon.

Noun : Ellipsis of manta ray. [Any of several very large pelagic rays formerly of the genus Manta, now placed in genus Mobula, with winglike pectoral fins, a long tail, and two fins resembling horns that project from the head.]

manny

Noun : (informal) A male nanny (for children).

Noun : A diminutive of the male given name Emmanuel.

Noun : A diminutive of the male given name Manfred.

marks

Noun : A surname transferred from the given name derived from the given name Mark.

Noun : A city, the county seat of Quitman County, Mississippi, United States.

mamma

Noun : (anatomy, plural mammae) The milk-secreting organ of female humans and other mammals which includes the mammary gland and the nipple or teat; a breast; an udder.

Noun : (meteorology) An accessory cloud like a mammary in appearance, which can form on the underside of most cloud genera.

Noun : Alternative spelling of mama: mother. [(hypocoristic, usually childish, Canada, US) Mother, female parent.]

maths

Noun : (informal, Commonwealth, rarely Canada) Clipping of mathematics. [An abstract representational system studying numbers, shapes, structures, quantitative change and relationships between them.]

mache

Noun : (dated) A former unit of volumic radioactivity: the quantity of radon (ignoring its daughters) per litre of air which ionizes a sustained current of 0.001 esu.

Noun : (Philippines) Glutinous rice balls flavoured with coconut and pandan.

Noun : A district of Otuzco province, Peru.

macon

Noun : A dry red or white burgundy wine produced around Mâcon or extremely similar to such wines.

Noun : A surname.

Noun : A city, the county seat of Bibb County, Georgia, United States, with which it is now consolidated as Macon-Bibb County.

manly

Adjective : Having the characteristics of a man.

Adjective : Having qualities viewed as befitting a man; courageous, resolute, noble.

Noun : A surname.

malta

Noun : A country and archipelago in Southern Europe, in the Mediterranean Sea. Official name: Republic of Malta. Capital: Valletta.

Noun : The largest island of the Maltese archipelago of Malta.

Noun : A small city, the county seat of Phillips County, Montana, United States.

malay

Adjective : Of or relating to the Malays, a people living in Brunei, on the eastern coast of Sumatra, the islands of Bangka and Belitung, the Riau archipelago and the coastal areas of Kalimantan in Indonesia, in most of Malaysia (states where they are politically dominant), in Singapore and in the southernmost provinces of Thailand.

Adjective : (generally proscribed by Malays and Malaysians) Of or related to Malaysia, its people and/or culture.

Adjective : In, of or otherwise relating to the languages spoken by Malays.

mavic

marin

Noun : The place name of a county of 252,409 in northern California (see Marin County).

Noun : A male given name from Serbo-Croatian

Noun : A female given name

matzo

Noun : (uncountable) Thin, unleavened bread in Jewish cuisine.

Noun : (countable) A piece of the above bread.

mayne

Noun : A surname.

Noun : A neighbourhood of Bowen Hills, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

macao

Noun : Alternative spelling of Macau [A Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China just west of Hong Kong, previously under Portuguese control.]

mamie

Noun : (dated) A diminutive of Mary or Mavis, also used as a formal female given name.

Noun : Alternative form of mamey [An evergreen tree of species Mammea americana, or its edible fruit]

magog

Noun : (biblical) The second of the seven sons of Japheth.

Noun : A city and river in Quebec, Canada.

malar

Adjective : Pertaining to the cheek.

Noun : (anatomy) The cheekbone, which forms a part of the lower edge of the orbit.

mains

Noun : (chiefly Britain) The domestic electrical power supply.

Noun : The pipes of a centralized water supply that transport the water to individual buildings.

Noun : The main course of a meal.

marne

Noun : A river in France, a right tributary of the Seine in the area east and southeast of Paris.

Noun : One of the departments of Champagne-Ardenne, now of Grand Est, France. Capital: Châlons-en-Champagne (INSEE code 51).

Noun : A city in Iowa

mangy

Adjective : Afflicted, or looking as if afflicted, with mange.

Adjective : (by extension) Worn and squalid-looking; bedraggled or decrepit.

marco

Noun : A male given name from the Romance languages, equivalent to English Mark

Noun : A male given name from Italian

Noun : A male given name from Portuguese

manus

Noun : (formal) A hand, as the part of the fore limb below the forearm in a human, or the corresponding part in other vertebrates.

Noun : (obsolete, Roman law) The power over other people, especially that of a man over his wife.

Noun : A surname from Irish.

maser

Noun : (physics) a device for the coherent amplification or generation of electromagnetic radiation (especially of microwave frequency) by the use of excitation energy in resonant atomic or molecular systems

Noun : (astronomy) Any celestial object that generates microwaves using the same method

Noun : Obsolete spelling of mazer [(obsolete) The maple tree, or maple wood.]

madge

Noun : The barn owl.

Noun : The magpie.

Noun : A diminutive of the female given name Margaret or, rarely, Madonna.

matin

Adjective : of or relating to matins

Noun : (obsolete) morning

Noun : A surname.

masai

Noun : Alternative spelling of Maasai [An indigenous group of people located in Kenya and Tanzania.]

matey

Adjective : (UK) Sociable or friendly.

Noun : (nautical, slang) A fellow sailor; often used affectedly, especially when portraying a pirate.

Noun : (nautical, slang) A dockyard worker.

mahdi

Noun : (Sunni Islam) A leader who, according to Sunni eschatology, will appear and restore peace and justice before the end of the world.

Noun : (Twelver Shiite Islam) Muhammad b. Hasan al-Mahdi, the last of the Twelve Imams, born in 868 AD but believed alive and present in this world in a state of occultation; officially the head of state of the Islamic Republic of Iran; similarly to Sunni belief he will reappear before the end of time.

macer

Noun : A mace bearer; specifically, an officer of a court in Scotland.

Noun : (slang) A cardsharp.

marat

Noun : a common given name for males from the former Soviet republics.

massa

Noun : (uncountable) A town in Tuscany, Italy

Noun : (countable) A surname.

Noun : (US, historical, colloquial) Pronunciation spelling of master, representing African-American Vernacular English. [Someone who has control over something or someone.]

manet

Verb : (theater) Used in stage directions; literally, he, she or it remains. Compare exit, exeunt.

Noun : Édouard Manet, French painter.

manon

Noun : an opéra comique in five acts by Jules Massenet to a French libretto by Henri Meilhac and Philippe Gille, based on the 1731 novel L'histoire du chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut by the Abbé Prévost.

Noun : a 1949 French drama film directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot and starring Serge Reggiani, Michel Auclair and Cécile Aubry.

Noun : an opera by Jules Massenet, adapted from Abbé Prévost's novel Manon Lescaut.

mates

Adjective : Friendly; having a friendship (with).

Noun : A surname.

mario

Noun : A male given name from Italian or Spanish.

Noun : (automotive, motor racing, figurative) Ellipsis of Mario Andretti (“one who drives fast or recklessly”). [(figuratively) Someone who drives fast or recklessly, as if driving a race car.]

mavis

Noun : A female given name from English.

Noun : (poetic) song thrush

mahoe

Noun : Any of certain trees in the mallow family, native to the Caribbean.

Noun : Talipariti elatum (syn. Hibiscus elatus, blue mahoe)

Noun : Talipariti tiliaceum (syn. Hibiscus tiliaceus, seaside mahoe)

macau

Noun : A Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China just west of Hong Kong, previously under Portuguese control.

mammy

Noun : (childish) mamma; mother

Noun : (US, historical, often pejorative) In the southern United States, a black nanny employed to look after white children; or in the antebellum South, a female slave who was close to the household and looked after the children.

marta

Noun : A female given name, variant of Martha.

Noun : Initialism of Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority.

maude

Noun : A female given name from the Germanic languages; a less common spelling of Maud.

mazed

Adjective : (archaic) Amazed, astonished, bewildered.

malty

Adjective : Of, pertaining to, containing, or characteristic of malt

malik

Noun : A male given name from Arabic.

Noun : A surname from Arabic.

Noun : A tribal chieftain in certain areas of Afghanistan and Pakistan, especially among the Pashtuns.

mazda

Noun : (Zoroastrianism) Ahura Mazda, the supreme and transcendental god of Zoroastrianism.

Noun : A vehicle, especially a car, manufactured by the Mazda Motor Corporation.

mabel

Noun : A female given name from Latin.

mazer

Noun : (obsolete) The maple tree, or maple wood.

Noun : (archaic or historical) A large drinking bowl made from such wood; a mazer bowl.

Noun : A surname.

malus

Noun : (business) The loss or return of performance-related compensation originally paid by an employer to an employee as a result of the discovery of a defect in the performance.

Noun : (rare) A penalty or negative thing.

Noun : A plant of the genus Malus (the apples).

mally

Noun : A surname.

malic

Adjective : Pertaining to apples.

Adjective : (organic chemistry) Of or pertaining to malic acid or its derivatives.

manes

Noun : The souls or spirits of dead ancestors, conceived as deities or the subjects of reverence, or of other deceased relatives.

mahal

Noun : A summerhouse.

Noun : Private lodgings.

Noun : (historical) A territorial division of pre-independence India.

maris

Noun : A surname.

Noun : Name component for agricultural plant varieties:

macle

Noun : (mineralogy) Chiastolite; so called from the tessellated appearance of a cross-section.

Noun : (mineralogy) A crystal having a similar tessellated appearance.

Noun : (mineralogy) A twin crystal.

makes

Noun : (UK dialectal or obsolete) A grub or maggot.

madly

Verb : In a mad manner

Verb : without reason or understanding; wildly.

Verb : angrily

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