5-letter words containing m, e
- exeme — to set free (from a duty or obligation); to exempt
- famed — very well known and, often, highly regarded; famous.
- fames — widespread reputation, especially of a favorable character; renown; public eminence: to seek fame as an opera singer.
- femal — effeminate
- femer — feminine.
- femes — a woman or wife.
- femic — of or relating to a group of rock-forming minerals in which iron and magnesium are essential components.
- femme — a lesbian who is notably feminine in appearance.
- femmy — Resembling or characteristic of a femme (a feminine lesbian).
- femur — Anatomy. a bone in the human leg extending from the pelvis to the knee, that is the longest, largest, and strongest in the body; thighbone.
- ferme — (cant) Hole.
- fermi — Enrico [en-ree-koh;; Italian en-ree-kaw] /ɛnˈri koʊ;; Italian ɛnˈri kɔ/ (Show IPA), 1901–54, Italian physicist, in the U.S. after 1939: Nobel Prize 1938.
- ferms — Plural form of ferm.
- fiume — Italian name of Rijeka.
- fixme — (programming) A standard tag often put in comments near a piece of code that needs work. The point of doing so is that a grep or a similar pattern-matching tool can find all such places quickly. This is common in GNU code. Compare XXX.
- flame — burning gas or vapor, as from wood or coal, that is undergoing combustion; a portion of ignited gas or vapor.
- fleam — Surgery. a kind of lancet, as for opening veins.
- flem. — Flemish
- fleme — exile; flight
- flume — a deep narrow defile containing a mountain stream or torrent.
- fomes — any agent, as clothing or bedding, that is capable of absorbing and transmitting the infecting organism of a disease.
- forme — form (def 30).
- frame — a border or case for enclosing a picture, mirror, etc.
- fremd — (rare, or, chiefly dialectal) Strange; foreign; alien; outlandish; far off or away; distant.
- fumed — darkened or colored by exposure to ammonia fumes, as oak and other wood.
- fumer — Often, fumes. any smokelike or vaporous exhalation from matter or substances, especially of an odorous or harmful nature: tobacco fumes; noxious fumes of carbon monoxide.
- fumes — Often, fumes. any smokelike or vaporous exhalation from matter or substances, especially of an odorous or harmful nature: tobacco fumes; noxious fumes of carbon monoxide.
- fumet — a stock made by simmering fish, chicken, game, etc., in water, wine, or in both, often boiled down to concentrate the flavor and used as a flavoring.
- gamed — an amusement or pastime: children's games.
- gamer — an amusement or pastime: children's games.
- games — an amusement or pastime: children's games.
- gamey — having the tangy flavor or odor of game: I like the gamy taste of venison.
- gecom — (language) A language for the GE-255 series, like COBOL with some ALGOL features added, in use around 1964-5. GECOM included many of the early COBOL constructs including report writer and TABSOL (programming by truth table). Another (planned but unimplemented?) component was FRINGE.
- gemel — a twin; one of a pair
- gemma — a bud.
- gemmy — having gems; set with gems.
- gemot — (in Anglo-Saxon England) a legislative or judicial assembly.
- gemse — chamois (def 1).
- genom — a full set of chromosomes; all the inheritable traits of an organism.
- geom. — geometric(al)
- gerim — Plural form of ger.
- germs — a microorganism, especially when disease-producing; microbe.
- germy — full of germs.
- gimel — the third letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
- gimme — Golf. a final short putt that a player is not required to take in informal play.
- gleam — a flash or beam of light: the gleam of a lantern in the dark.
- gleem — Misspelling of gleam.
- glime — a sideways glance
- glome — (anatomy) One of the two prominences at the posterior extremity of the frog of a horse's foot.
- glume — one of the characteristic chafflike bracts of the inflorescence of grasses, sedges, etc., especially one of the pair of bracts at the base of a spikelet.