5-letter words containing a, m
- kames — Plural form of kame.
- kamet — a mountain on the border of China and India, west of Nepal in the Himalayas. Height: 7756 m (25 447 ft)
- kamik — a mukluk made of sealskin.
- karma — Hinduism, Buddhism. action, seen as bringing upon oneself inevitable results, good or bad, either in this life or in a reincarnation: in Hinduism one of the means of reaching Brahman. Compare bhakti (def 1), jnana.
- kasme — I swear!
- keema — (in Indian cookery) minced meat
- kerma — the quotient of the sum of the initial kinetic energies of all the charged particles liberated by indirectly ionizing radiation in a volume element of a material divided by the mass of the volume element. The SI unit is the gray
- khama — Sir Seretse [suh-ret-sey] /səˈrɛt seɪ/ (Show IPA), 1921–80, Botswanan political leader: president 1966–80.
- korma — A mildly spiced Indian curry dish of meat or fish marinated in yogurt or curds.
- krama — A traditional Cambodian garment with many uses, including as a scarf or bandanna or to carry children.
- lakme — an opera (1883) by Léo Delibes.
- lamar — Joseph R. 1857–1916, U.S. jurist: associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1911–16.
- lamas — a priest or monk in Lamaism.
- lambs — Plural form of lamb.
- lamby — Resembling or characteristic of the meat of a lamb.
- lamda — London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art
- lamed — Slang. a person who is out of touch with modern fads or trends, especially one who is unsophisticated.
- lamel — Alternative form of lamella.
- lamen — Alternative form of ramen.
- lameo — (slang) A lame person; someone who is worthless or a loser.
- lamer — crippled or physically disabled, especially in the foot or leg so as to limp or walk with difficulty.
- lames — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of lame.
- lamia — Classical Mythology. one of a class of fabulous monsters, commonly represented with the head and breast of a woman and the body of a serpent, said to allure youths and children in order to suck their blood.
- lamin — (protein) Any of a class of fibrous proteins that provide structure, and regulate transcription in a cell nucleus.
- lammy — a type of thick woollen jacket or duffel coat worn by sailors
- lamps — Plural form of lamp.
- lamus — a son of Hercules and Omphale.
- lamut — Even.
- larum — alarum.
- latam — Latin America
- leams — Plural form of leam.
- leman — Lake. Geneva, Lake of.
- lemay — Curtis (Emerson) 1906–90, U.S. Air Force officer: chief of the Strategic Air Command 1948–61; Chief of Staff of the Air Force 1961–65.
- lemma — a subsidiary proposition introduced in proving some other proposition; a helping theorem.
- lempa — a river rising in NW El Salvador, flowing E and then S to the Pacific Ocean. About 200 miles (320 km) long.
- liman — a muddy lagoon, marsh, or lake near the mouth of a river behind part of the delta and more or less protected from open water by a barrier or spit.
- limax — a slug
- limba — an African tree, Terminalia superba, having yellowish-brown wood.
- limma — any of several musical intervals of small size, such as a semitone
- limpa — a rye bread made using brown sugar or molasses
- llama — a woolly-haired South American ruminant of the genus Lama, believed to be a domesticated variety of the guanaco: often used as a beast of burden.
- loamy — a rich, friable soil containing a relatively equal mixture of sand and silt and a somewhat smaller proportion of clay.
- lokma — A pastry made of fried dough soaked in sugar syrup or honey and cinnamon, typically shaped into a ring or ball. (used especially of the Turkish variant of this pastry).
- lomas — city in E Argentina: suburb of Buenos Aires: pop. 573,000
- lomax — John Avery, 1867–1948, and his son, Alan, born 1915, U.S. folklorists.
- lyman — a male given name.
- m-day — mobilization day: a day assumed by the Department of Defense as the first day of mobilization, used by the military for planning purposes.
- ma'am — madam (def 1).
- maars — Plural form of maar.
- mabel — a female given name.