5 letter word starting with man

Words Parts of Speech Meaning/Definition/Similar Words
manca noun See Mancus.
maned adjective Having a mane.
maneh noun A Hebrew weight for gold or silver, being one hundred shekels of gold and sixty shekels of silver.
manes noun pl. The benevolent spirits of the dead, especially of dead ancestors, regarded as family deities and protectors.
mange noun The scab or itch in cattle, dogs, and other beasts.
mango noun The fruit of the mango tree. It is rather larger than an apple, and of an ovoid shape. Some varieties are fleshy and luscious, and others tough and tasting of turpentine. The green fruit is pickled for market., A green muskmelon stuffed and pickled.
mangy superl. Infected with the mange; scabby.
mania noun Violent derangement of mind; madness; insanity. Cf. Delirium., Excessive or unreasonable desire; insane passion affecting one or many people; as, the tulip mania.
manid noun Any species of the genus Manis, or family Manidae.
manie noun Mania; insanity.
manis noun A genus of edentates, covered with large, hard, triangular scales, with sharp edges that overlap each other like tiles on a roof. They inhabit the warmest parts of Asia and Africa, and feed on ants. Called also Scaly anteater. See Pangolin.
manks adjective Of or pertaining to the language or people of the of Man., The language spoken in the Isle of Man. See Manx.
manly superl. Having qualities becoming to a man; not childish or womanish; manlike, esp. brave, courageous, resolute, noble., In a manly manner; with the courage and fortitude of a manly man; as, to act manly.
manna noun The food supplied to the Israelites in their journey through the wilderness of Arabia; hence, divinely supplied food., A name given to lichens of the genus Lecanora, sometimes blown into heaps in the deserts of Arabia and Africa, and gathered and used as food., A sweetish exudation in the form of pale yellow friable flakes, coming from several trees and shrubs and used in medicine as a gentle laxative, as the secretion of Fraxinus Ornus, and F. rotundifolia, the manna ashes of Southern Europe.
manor noun The land belonging to a lord or nobleman, or so much land as a lord or great personage kept in his own hands, for the use and subsistence of his family., A tract of land occupied by tenants who pay a free-farm rent to the proprietor, sometimes in kind, and sometimes by performing certain stipulated services.
manse noun A dwelling house, generally with land attached., The parsonage; a clergyman’s house.
manta noun See Coleoptera and Sea devil.
manto noun See Manteau.
manul noun A wild cat (Felis manul), having long, soft, light-colored fur. It is found in the mountains of Central Asia, and dwells among rocks.
manus plural of Manus, The distal segment of the fore limb, including the carpus and fore foot or hand.