6-letter words containing m, n, e
- enigma — A person or thing that is mysterious, puzzling, or difficult to understand.
- enjamb — to encroach
- enmesh — Cause to become entangled in something.
- 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
- eponym — A person after whom a discovery, invention, place, etc., is named or thought to be named.
- ermine — A stoat, especially when in its white winter coat.
- 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.
- examen — A formal examination of the soul or conscience, made usually daily by Jesuits and some other Roman Catholics.
- examin — Obsolete form of examine.
- exonym — A name given to a group or category of people by a secondary person or persons other than the people it refers to.
- famine — extreme and general scarcity of food, as in a country or a large geographical area.
- fenman — a dweller in the Fens of England.
- flamen — (in ancient Rome) a priest.
- flymen — Plural form of flyman.
- foeman — an enemy in war.
- foment — to instigate or foster (discord, rebellion, etc.); promote the growth or development of: to foment trouble; to foment discontent.
- frenum — a fold of membrane that checks or restrains the motion of a part, as the fold on the underside of the tongue.
- gagmen — Plural form of gagman.
- gamine — a neglected girl who is left to run about the streets.
- gamone — any chemical substance secreted by a gamete that attracts another gamete during sexual reproduction
- gasmen — Plural form of gasman.
- gemini — zodiac sign: Twins
- geminy — a pair
- gemman — (archaic) gentleman.
- genome — a full set of chromosomes; all the inheritable traits of an organism.
- gensym — (library) /jen'sim/ (From the MacLISP for "generated symbol") To invent a new name for something temporary, in such a way that the name is almost certainly not in conflict with one already in use. The canonical form of a gensym is "Gnnnn" where nnnn represents a number; any LISP hacker would recognise G0093 (for example) as a gensym. Gensymmed names are useful for storing or uniquely identifying crufties.
- geonim — a plural of Gaon.
- german — of or relating to Germany, its inhabitants, or their language.
- germen — a germ.
- germin — (protein) Any of a group of proteins, resistant to proteases, associated with the germination of cereals.
- gnomes — Plural form of gnome.
- gunmen — Plural form of gunman.
- haemin — Alternative spelling of hemin.
- hamden — a town in S Connecticut.
- hameln — a city in N central Germany, on the Weser River: scene of the legend of the Pied Piper of Hamelin.
- he-man — a strong, tough, virile man.
- hem in — to fold back and sew down the edge of (cloth, a garment, etc.); form an edge or border on or around.
- hemans — Felicia Dorothea (Browne) 1793–1835, English poet.
- hemina — an ancient liquid measure equal to about a half pint
- hempen — of, like, or pertaining to hemp.
- herman — Woodrow ("Woody") 1913–1987, U.S. jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, and bandleader.
- hermon — Mount, a mountain in SW Syria, in the Anti-Lebanon range. 9232 feet (2814 meters).