6-letter words starting with ma
- mahzor — a Jewish prayer book designed for use on festivals and holy days.
- maidan — an open area or space in or near a town, often used as a marketplace or parade ground.
- maiden — a girl or young unmarried woman; maid.
- maigre — containing neither flesh nor its juices, as food permissible on days of religious abstinence.
- maihem — mayhem.
- maikop — Official name Adygei Autonomous Region. an autonomous region in the Russian Federation, part of the Krasnodar territory, in the NW Caucasus Mountains. 1505 sq. mi. (3903 sq. km). Capital: Maikop.
- mailed — of or relating to mail.
- mailer — letters, packages, etc., that are sent or delivered by means of the postal system: Storms delayed delivery of the mail.
- maille — Alternative form of mail.
- maimed — to deprive of the use of some part of the body by wounding or the like; cripple: The explosion maimed him for life.
- maimer — Agent noun of maim; one who maims.
- mained — chief in size, extent, or importance; principal; leading: the company's main office; the main features of a plan.
- mainer — a principal pipe or duct in a system used to distribute water, gas, etc.
- mainly — chiefly; principally; for the most part; in the main; to the greatest extent: Our success was due mainly to your efforts. The audience consisted mainly of students.
- mainor — (legal, UK, obsolete) A stolen article found on the person of the thief.
- maisie — a female given name, Scottish form of Margaret.
- maizes — Plural form of maize.
- majlis — a public audience held by a chieftain, monarch, or other ruler to listen to the requests of petitioners.
- majors — Plural form of major.
- majuro — the capital island of the Marshall Islands. 4 sq. mi. (10 sq. km).
- makalu — a mountain in the Himalayas, on the boundary between Nepal and Tibet. 27,790 feet (8470 meters).
- makati — a city in Luzon, in the Philippines, east of Manila.
- makeba — Miriam. 1932–2008, South African singer and political activist; banned from South Africa from 1960 to 1990
- makers — Plural form of maker.
- makest — Archaic second-person singular form of make.
- maketh — (archaic) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of make.
- makeup — facial cosmetics, as eye shadow or lipstick.
- making — the style or manner in which something is made; form; build.
- makkah — Mecca (def 1).
- makuta — plural of likuta.
- makutu — witchcraft or magic
- malabo — a republic in W equatorial Africa, comprising the mainland province of Río Muni and the island province of Bioko: formerly a Spanish colony. 10,824 sq. mi. (28,034 sq. km). Capital: Malabo.
- malady — any disorder or disease of the body, especially one that is chronic or deepseated.
- malaga — a province in S Spain, in Andalusia. 2813 sq. mi. (7285 sq. km).
- malang — a city on E Java, in S Indonesia.
- malate — a salt or ester of malic acid.
- malawi — Formerly Nyasaland. a republic in SE Africa, on the W and S shores of Lake Malawi: formerly a British protectorate and part of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland; gained independence July 6, 1964; a member of the Commonwealth of Nations. 49,177 sq. mi. (127,368 sq. km). Capital: Lilongwe.
- malaya — Malay Peninsula.
- malbec — a black grape originally grown in the Bordeaux region of France and now in Argentina and Chile, used for making wine
- malden — a city in E Massachusetts, near Boston.
- maldon — a market town in SE England, in Essex; scene of a battle (991) between the East Saxons and the victorious Danes, celebrated in The Battle of Maldon, an Old English poem; notable for Maldon salt, used in cookery. Pop: 20 731 (2001)
- maleic — (chemistry) of, or relating to maleic acid or its derivatives.
- malema — Julius (Sello). born 1981, South African politician; President of the ANC Youth League from 2008 until he was expelled in 2012; founded the Economic Freedom Fighters (2013)
- malest — a person bearing an X and Y chromosome pair in the cell nuclei and normally having a penis, scrotum, and testicles, and developing hair on the face at adolescence; a boy or man.
- malfed — having malfunctioned
- malian — an inhabitant or native of Mali
- malice — desire to inflict injury, harm, or suffering on another, either because of a hostile impulse or out of deep-seated meanness: the malice and spite of a lifelong enemy.
- malign — to speak harmful untruths about; speak evil of; slander; defame: to malign an honorable man.
- maliki — one of the four schools of Islamic law, founded by Malik ibn Anas (c715–795).
- maline — Also, maline. a delicate net resembling tulle, originally made by hand in the town of Mechlin, Belgium.