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a. - Designating, or pertaining to, an American Indian linguistic stock occupying the Mexican States of Veracruz, Chiapas, Tabasco, Campeche, and Yucatan, together with a part of Guatemala and a part of Salvador. The Mayan peoples are dark, short, and brachycephallic, and at the time of the discovery had attained a higher grade of culture than any other American people. They cultivated a variety of crops, were expert in the manufacture and dyeing of cotton fabrics, used cacao as a medium of exchange, and were workers of gold, silver, and copper. Their architecture comprised elaborately carved temples and places, and they possessed a superior calendar, and a developed system of hieroglyphic writing, with records said to go back to about 700 a. d. ²
a. - Of or pertaining to the Mayas. ²

The word "mayan" uses 5 letters: A A M N Y.

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b -   bayman   c -   cayman   l -   layman  

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aa   am   ama   an   ana   any   ay   ma   man   mana   many   may   maya   my   myna   na   nam   nay   ya   yam  

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