5-letter words containing m, o
- groma — an instrument having a cruciform wooden frame with a plumb line at the end of each arm, used for laying out lines at right angles to existing lines.
- groom — a bridegroom.
- gumbo — a stew or thick soup, usually made with chicken or seafood, greens, and okra or sometimes filé as a thickener.
- haemo — (informal) haemodialysis.
- hambo — a Swedish folk dance in three-quarter time, originating in the 16th century.
- haoma — a leafless vine, Sarcostemma acidum, of eastern India, yielding a sour, milky juice.
- hemo- — blood
- hemon — Louis [lwee] /lwi/ (Show IPA), 1880–1913, Canadian novelist, born in France.
- himbo — an attractive but stupid young man.
- hmong — Miao.
- hokum — out-and-out nonsense; bunkum.
- holme — Small island.
- holms — Plural form of holm.
- homas — haoma (def 2).
- homed — a house, apartment, or other shelter that is the usual residence of a person, family, or household.
- homee — Misspelling of homey.
- homer — 9th-century b.c, Greek epic poet: reputed author of the Iliad and Odyssey.
- homes — a house, apartment, or other shelter that is the usual residence of a person, family, or household.
- homey — comfortably informal and inviting; cozy; homelike: a homey little inn.
- homie — a homeboy or homegirl.
- homme — a man.
- homo- — being the same or like
- homos — Plural form of homo.
- horme — activity directed toward a goal; purposive effort.
- houma — a city in S Louisiana.
- humor — hacker humour
- icomp — Intel Comparative Microprocessor Performance index
- idiom — an expression whose meaning is not predictable from the usual meanings of its constituent elements, as kick the bucket or hang one's head, or from the general grammatical rules of a language, as the table round for the round table, and that is not a constituent of a larger expression of like characteristics.
- imago — Entomology. an adult insect.
- imido — containing the imido group.
- imino — containing the imino group.
- impot — an imposition or written task used as a punishment for bad behaviour
- impro — Improv.
- jambo — an E African salutation
- jarmo — a Neolithic village site in northeastern Iraq, dated c6500 b.c. and noted as one of the world's earliest food-producing settlements.
- jomon — of or relating to the period of Japanese culture, c8000–300 b.c., corresponding to Mesolithic or early Neolithic, characterized by sunken-pit dwellings and heavy handmade pottery formed with a rope pattern of clay coils.
- joram — Alternative spelling of jorum.
- jorum — a large bowl or container for holding drink.
- jumbo — a very large person, animal, or thing.
- khoum — A monetary unit of Mauritania, equal to one fifth of an ouguiya.
- kimbo — to place (one's arms) akimbo
- kokum — a tropical evergreen tree from India, Garcinia indica, that produces fruit which is dark purple when ripe containing large seeds from which an important edible fat is obtained
- kombi — (South Africa) A minivan.
- kombu — a brown Japanese seaweed, sun-dried before use in sushi, stocks, etc.
- komos — an ancient Greek and Roman god of drinking and revelry.
- korma — A mildly spiced Indian curry dish of meat or fish marinated in yogurt or curds.
- kumon — a method of teaching mathematics, reading, and languages in which the student uses worksheets to follow a programme that becomes increasingly advanced
- lameo — (slang) A lame person; someone who is worthless or a loser.
- lecom — Version of COMIT on GE 225 ca. 1966. Sammet 1969, p.419.
- lemon — the yellowish, acid fruit of a subtropical citrus tree, Citrus limon.