5 Letter Words That Start With MA

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) Acronym of Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution Mission (a space probe designed to investigate the Martian climate)

magus

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

Noun : (Zoroastrianism) A Zoroastrian priest.

mauve

Noun : (historical) A rich purple synthetic dye, which faded easily, briefly popular c. 1859‒1873 and now called mauveine.

Noun : A pale purple or violet colour, like the colour of the dye after it has faded.

Adjective : Having a pale purple colour.

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

major

Adjective : (attributive):

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

Adjective : Greater in number, quantity, or extent.

mania

Noun : Violent derangement of mind; madness; insanity.

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

Noun : (psychiatry) The state of abnormally elevated or irritable mood, arousal, and/or energy levels.

march

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

Noun : A journey so walked.

Noun : A political rally or parade.

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.

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

Noun : (rare, countable) A specific ritual or procedure associated with such magic; a spell; a magical ability.

match

Noun : (sports) A competitive sporting event such as a boxing meet (commonly called a "bout"), 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.

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.

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.

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.

maker

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

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

Noun : (now rare) A poet.

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.

maund

Noun : A wicker basket.

Noun : A unit of capacity with various specific local values.

Noun : (regional) A handbasket with two lids.

manic

Adjective : Characterized by 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.

mangy

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

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

Adjective : Contemptible, despicable, low.

manas

Noun : (philosophy, chiefly theosophy) The mind; that which distinguishes man from the animals.

Noun : A county of Changji prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.

Noun : A town in Manas County, Changji prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.

mater

Noun : (British, 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.

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.

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 : (countable, loosely, sometimes proscribed) Any comic in such a style, regardless of the country of origin.

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).

mazed

Adjective : (archaic) Amazed, astonished, bewildered.

marsh

Noun : An area of low, wet land, often with tall grass or herbaceous plants. (Compare swamp, bog, fen.)

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

Noun : A number of places in England:

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.

manes

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 : Machismo

mavin

Noun : Alternative spelling of maven [(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.]

malum

Noun : (formal) An evil or wrongdoing.

Noun : (India, nautical, historical) The mate serving on a ship with English officers and native crew.

maize

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

Noun : A surname.

Noun : A female given name.

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.]

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.

maine

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

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

Noun : A town in New York.

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.

macao

Noun : Alternative spelling of Macau:

Noun : A city, special administrative region, and peninsula in China, west of Hong Kong

Noun : (historical) a former Portuguese colony in modern southern China between 1557 and 1999

manet

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

Noun : Édouard Manet, French painter.

masks

Noun : "Masks" is the seventeenth episode of the seventh season of the American science fiction television series Star Trek: The Next Generation, the 169th episode overall.

Noun : a 1987 French mystery thriller film directed by Claude Chabrol.

Noun : (German: Masken) a 1929 German silent crime film directed by Rudolf Meinert and starring Karl Ludwig Diehl, Trude Berliner and Marcella Albani.

manky

Adjective : (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, slang) Unpleasantly dirty and disgusting.

Adjective : (Antarctica, slang) Being or having bad weather.

mamil

Noun : (derogatory) Acronym of middle-aged man in Lycra: a previously non-athletic man, between 35 and 50, who has taken up cycling seriously for health and/or social reasons.

Noun : (derogatory) Acronym of middle-aged matron in Lycra: a female equivalent

Noun : Alternative letter-case form of MAMIL

macro

Adjective : Very large in scope or scale.

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

Noun : A surname.

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.

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.

madly

Verb : In a mad manner

Verb : without reason or understanding; wildly.

Verb : angrily

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.]

marie

Noun : A female given name from Hebrew.

magna

Noun : the brand name of an acrylic resin paint, developed by Leonard Bocour and sold by Bocour Artist Colors, Inc. in 1947.

Noun : an American bicycle brand owned by Dynacraft BSC.

Noun : a fictional character in the comic book series The Walking Dead and the television series of the same name, where she is portrayed by Nadia Hilker.

man up

Verb : (idiomatic, intransitive) To be brave or tough enough to deal with something in a manner that is considered strong or manly. (Compare man (“brace oneself, steel oneself”))

Verb : (military) (Of personnel) to assemble, each person manning (attending to) his station, prepared for the departure of an aircraft, ship, etc. (Compare man (“supply with staff; take up position to operate”).)

Verb : (of other personnel) To staff adequately; to staff up; to successfully fill all needed labor positions. (Compare man (“supply with staff”).)

marai

Noun : Alternative form of marae [(archaic) A Polynesian sacred altar or enclosure.]

mable

Noun : A female given name from Latin, variant of Mabel.

Noun : A surname originating as a matronymic.

malak

Noun : A surname from Czech.

mardy

Adjective : (chiefly Lancashire, Yorkshire and Midlands) Sulky or whining.

Adjective : (chiefly East Midlands, Yorkshire) Non-cooperative, bad-tempered or terse in communication; grumpy.

Noun : (chiefly Yorkshire and Midlands) A sulky, whiny mood; a fit of petulance.

mando

Noun : (disc golf, informal) A mandatory, a sign or line that requires the path of the disc to be above, below or to one side of it.

Noun : (informal) The Mandarin language.

Adjective : (slang) Clipping of mandatory. [obligatory; required or commanded by authority.]

marle

Noun : (now UK dialect) Alternative form of marl [A mixed earthy substance, consisting of carbonate of lime, clay, and possibly sand, in very variable proportions, and accordingly designated as calcareous, clayey, or sandy.]

maman

Noun : a bronze, stainless steel, and marble sculpture in several locations by the artist Louise Bourgeois.

Noun : (born 30 July 1980) a former Indonesian professional footballer who played as a midfielder.

Noun : a 2012 French drama directed by Alexandra Leclère.

maram

Noun : Alternative form of murram [(East Africa, India) Laterite.]

maumy

Adjective : Mellow, soft, insipid

Adjective : (weather) Mild, humid

Adjective : (by extension) pleasant, agreeable

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.]

manly

Adjective : Having the characteristics of a man.

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

Noun : A surname.

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.

maths

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

marge

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

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

Noun : (MLE) Mother.

masse

Noun : A surname from French.

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

ma'am

Noun : Chiefly used as a form of address for a woman: contraction of madam.

Noun : A polite and formal way to address a woman.

Noun : A respectful term of address to a woman of higher rank or position.

madge

Noun : The barn owl.

Noun : The magpie.

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

mated

Adjective : fitted together or interlocked

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.

maqui

Noun : A South American shrub (Aristotelia chilensis) native to the Valdivian temperate rainforest ecoregion of Chile and southern Argentina.

Noun : The edible berry of this shrub.

Noun : Misspelling of maquis (Mediterranean coastal scrub). [(botany) Dense Mediterranean coastal scrub.]

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.

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.

marne

Noun : A right tributary of the Seine, in eastern France, flowing 319 miles east and southeast of Paris through the departments of Haute-Marne, Marne, Aisne, Seine-et-Marne, Seine-Saint-Denis and Val-de-Marne.

Noun : A department of Grand Est, France. Capital: Châlons-en-Champagne (INSEE code 51).

Noun : A city in Iowa.

madid

Adjective : (formal, dated) Wet; moist.

makes

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

manto

Noun : Obsolete form of manteau. [A cloak or gown, especially of a kind popular with women in the 17th and 18th centuries.]

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.

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.

malls

Noun : (chiefly Canada, US, Australia, New Zealand) A pedestrianised street, especially a shopping precinct.

Noun : An enclosed shopping centre.

Noun : (obsolete) An alley where the game of pall mall was played.

maced

Noun : Abbreviation of Macedonia. [A geographic region in Southeast Europe in the Balkans which includes the Republic of North Macedonia, the region of Macedonia in Greece, the Pirin region of Bulgaria, and small parts of Albania and Serbia.]

marla

Noun : A female given name from Hebrew.

Noun : (Ireland) Plasticine; modelling clay.

Noun : (Australia) A rufous hare-wallaby (Lagorchestes hirsutus), a small desert marsupial of Australia.

marse

Noun : A female given name.

Noun : A surname.

Noun : (obsolete, dialectal, US, Caribbean) Alternative form of master, often used as a general title of respect. [Someone who has control over something or someone.]

mansa

Noun : (historical) A king of ancient Mali.

Noun : A city in Punjab, India.

Noun : A city, capital of the province of Luapula in Zambia.

marra

Noun : (West Cumbria, Geordie, Mackem, informal) A friend, pal, buddy, mate.

Noun : A surname.

maiko

Noun : An apprentice geisha.

maler

Noun : A people of northern India who speak the Malto language.

marro

Noun : A surname.

mauri

Noun : (New Zealand) Life force, according to Maori beliefs.

Noun : A surname from Italian.

mangu

Noun : Mashed plantain.

manea

Noun : A village and civil parish in Fenland district, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TL4889).

Noun : Alternative form of Mania (“Roman goddess of the dead”) [(Roman mythology) The goddess of the dead and ghosts.]

makwa

Noun : A short Chinese outer jacket.

mangi

maide

Noun : Obsolete spelling of maid. [(dated or poetic) A girl or an unmarried young woman; maiden.]

marre

Verb : Obsolete spelling of mar. [(transitive) To spoil; to ruin; to scathe; to damage.]

mawle

Noun : A heavy hammer or beetle, often made of wood or lead.

macal

mad on

Noun : A state of anger and resentment toward someone or something.

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.

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