5-letter words containing e, m, u
- murse — (US slang) a man's purse.
- mused — to think or meditate in silence, as on some subject.
- muser — to think or meditate in silence, as on some subject.
- muses — to think or meditate in silence, as on some subject.
- muted — silent; refraining from speech or utterance.
- muter — silent; refraining from speech or utterance.
- mutes — Plural form of mute.
- mutex — (tool, music) An extension of TeX for typesetting music.
- muxes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mux.
- mvule — a tropical African tree, Chlorophora excelsa (or Milicia excelsa)
- mweru — a lake in S central Africa, between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Zambia. 68 miles (109 km) long.
- neume — any of various symbols representing from one to four notes, used in the musical notation of the Middle Ages but now employed solely in the notation of Gregorian chant in the liturgical books of the Roman Catholic Church.
- nexum — A contract in early Ancient Rome in which the debtor pledged his own person as collateral should he default on his loan (thus risking becoming a slave to the creditor).
- numen — divine power or spirit; a deity, especially one presiding locally or believed to inhabit a particular object.
- odeum — a hall, theater, or other structure for musical or dramatic performances.
- oleum — Pharmacology. oil.
- oueme — a river in Benin, flowing S to the Bight of Benin near Porto Novo. About 310 miles (500 km) long.
- plume — a feather.
- pumie — pumice
- quame — (formerly, especially in creole-speaking cultures) a name given at birth to a black child, in accordance with African customs, indicating the child's sex and the day of the week on which he or she was born, as the male and female names for Sunday (Quashee and Quasheba) Monday (Cudjo or Cudjoe and Juba) Tuesday (Cubbena and Beneba) Wednesday (Quaco and Cuba or Cubba) Thursday (Quao and Abba) Friday (Cuffee or Cuffy and Pheba or Phibbi) and Saturday (Quamin or Quame and Mimba)
- queme — to please, satisfy, or mitigate
- remus — the founder of Rome, in 753 b.c., and its first king: a son of Mars and Rhea Silvia, he and his twin brother (Remus) were abandoned as babies, suckled by a she-wolf, and brought up by a shepherd; Remus was finally killed for mocking the fortifications of Rome, which Romulus had just founded.
- rheum — a thin discharge of the mucous membranes, especially during a cold.
- rumen — the first stomach of ruminating animals, lying next to the reticulum.
- sebum — the fatty secretion of the sebaceous glands.
- sedum — any fleshy plant belonging to the genus Sedum, of the stonecrop family, usually having small, overlapping leaves and yellow, white, or pink flowers.
- serum — the clear, pale-yellow liquid that separates from the clot in the coagulation of blood; blood serum.
- spume — to eject or discharge as or like foam or froth; spew (often followed by forth).
- sumer — an ancient region in southern Mesopotamia that contained a number of independent cities and city-states of which the first were established possibly as early as 5000 b.c.: conquered by the Elamites and, about 2000 b.c., by the Babylonians; a number of its cities, as Ur, Uruk, Kish, and Lagash, are major archaeological sites in southern Iraq.
- tumen — a river in E Asia, flowing NE along the China-North Korea border and then SE along the border between China and Russia to the Sea of Japan. About 325 miles (525 km) long.
- ulema — Muslim scholars or men of authority in religion and law
- umbel — an inflorescence in which a number of flower stalks or pedicels, nearly equal in length, spread from a common center.
- umber — an earth consisting chiefly of a hydrated oxide of iron and some oxide of manganese, used in its natural state as a brown pigment (raw umber) or, after heating, as a reddish-brown pigment (burnt umber)
- unmet — simple past tense and past participle of meet1 .
- unmew — to set free (something mewed up); release, as from confinement.
- velum — Biology. any of various veillike or curtainlike membranous partitions.
- yquem — Château d', a sweet white wine from the estate of Château d'Yquem in the Sauternes region of France.