6-letter words containing m, e
- enmity — The state or feeling of being actively opposed or hostile to someone or something.
- enseam — to put a seam on
- entame — to make tame
- entomb — Place (a dead body) in a tomb.
- enwomb — (poetic, archaic) To place or cause to be contained in the womb; to make pregnant; to conceive.
- enzyme — A substance produced by a living organism that acts as a catalyst to bring about a specific biochemical reaction.
- eonism — the adoption of female dress and behaviour by a male
- epimer — (chemistry) any diastereoisomer that has the opposite configuration at only one of the stereogenic centres.
- eponym — A person after whom a discovery, invention, place, etc., is named or thought to be named.
- erbium — The chemical element of atomic number 68, a soft silvery-white metal of the lanthanide series.
- eremic — pertaining to deserts
- ermine — A stoat, especially when in its white winter coat.
- ermite — a salty blue cheese made in Quebec, Canada
- eruvim — Plural form of eruv.
- eskimo — Inuit person
- esteem — Respect and admire.
- etymic — relating to an etymon
- etymon — A word or morpheme from which a later word is derived.
- eumung — any of various Australian acacias
- euonym — (rare) A name well suited to a person, place or thing so named.
- exacum — any plant of the annual or perennial tropical genus Exacum; some are grown as greenhouse biennials for their bluish-purple platter-shaped flowers: family Gentianaceae
- examen — A formal examination of the soul or conscience, made usually daily by Jesuits and some other Roman Catholics.
- examin — Obsolete form of examine.
- excamb — to exchange
- exclam — (grammar) abbreviation of exclamation.
- exempt — Free from an obligation or liability imposed on others.
- exhume — Dig out (something buried, especially a corpse) from the ground.
- exmoor — a high moorland in SW England, in W Somerset and N Devon: chiefly grazing ground for Exmoor ponies, sheep, and red deer
- exomis — a Roman sleeveless vest, often worn by slaves or artisans
- exonym — A name given to a group or category of people by a secondary person or persons other than the people it refers to.
- extemp — (US, informal) extemporaneous speaking; a competitive event in schools and colleges in which students speak persuasively or informatively about current events and politics.
- famble — (obsolete, slang) A hand.
- famine — extreme and general scarcity of food, as in a country or a large geographical area.
- farmed — a tract of land, usually with a house, barn, silo, etc., on which crops and often livestock are raised for livelihood.
- farmer — Fannie (Merritt) [mer-it] /ˈmɛr ɪt/ (Show IPA), 1857–1915, U.S. authority on cooking.
- female — a person bearing two X chromosomes in the cell nuclei and normally having a vagina, a uterus and ovaries, and developing at puberty a relatively rounded body and enlarged breasts, and retaining a beardless face; a girl or woman.
- fembot — (science fiction) A robot in female form.
- femdom — (BDSM) female domination, a paraphilia in which women dominate men or other women.
- femora — 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.
- femto- — prefix
- femurs — Plural form of femur.
- fenman — a dweller in the Fens of England.
- feprom — Flash Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory
- ferbam — an iron carbamate, C 9 H 18 FeN 3 S 6 , used chiefly as a fungicide for protecting certain farm crops.
- fermat — Pierre de [pyer duh] /pyɛr də/ (Show IPA), 1601–65, French mathematician.
- fermor — Sir Patrick (Michael) Leigh. 1915–2011, British traveller and author, noted esp for the travel books A Time of Gifts (1977) and Between the Woods and the Water (1986)
- filmed — Simple past tense and past participle of film.
- filmer — One who films; that is, one who copies media to microfilm.
- fimble — the male or staminate plant of hemp, which is harvested before the female or pistillate plant.
- firmed — not soft or yielding when pressed; comparatively solid, hard, stiff, or rigid: firm ground; firm texture.