5-letter words containing m, u
- musty — having an odor or flavor suggestive of mold, as old buildings, long-closed rooms, or stale food.
- mutat — (Islam) A compensation gift given to a woman when divorced or repudiated by her husband.
- mutch — a close-fitting linen or muslin cap, as worn by elderly women or babies.
- 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.
- muton — The smallest element of genetic material capable of undergoing a distinct mutation, usually identified as a single pair of nucleotides.
- mutts — Plural form of mutt.
- muxes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mux.
- muzak — Alternative capitalization of Muzak.
- muzzy — confused; muddled.
- 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.
- nahum — a Minor Prophet of the 7th century b.c.
- nammu — a Sumerian goddess personifying the primeval sea: the mother of the gods and of heaven and earth.
- namur — a province in S Belgium. 1413 sq. mi. (3660 sq. km).
- namus — (in Arab countries) A concept of virtue and honor within a family, typically relating to chastity of female family members.
- 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).
- notum — a dorsal plate or sclerite of the thorax of an insect.
- novum — A new feature.
- nugmw — National Union of General and Municipal Workers: a trade union representing workers in general and municipal trades
- numbs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of numb.
- numen — divine power or spirit; a deity, especially one presiding locally or believed to inhabit a particular object.
- numic — a branch of the Uto-Aztecan family of languages including Northern Paiute, Shoshone, Comanche, Southern Paiute, Ute, and others.
- nummi — Plural form of nummus.
- nurmi — Paavo Johannes [pah-vaw yaw-hahn-nes] /ˈpɑ vɔ ˈyɔ hɑn nɛs/ (Show IPA), 1897–1973, Finnish athlete.
- oakum — loose fiber obtained by untwisting and picking apart old ropes, used for caulking the seams of ships.
- odeum — a hall, theater, or other structure for musical or dramatic performances.
- odium — intense hatred or dislike, especially toward a person or thing regarded as contemptible, despicable, or repugnant.
- oleum — Pharmacology. oil.
- ombud — (informal) ombudsman.
- omuta — a seaport on W Kyushu, in SW Japan.
- onium — (chemistry) any cation derived by the addition of a proton to the hydride of any element of the nitrogen, chalcogen or halogen families.
- opium — the dried, condensed juice of a poppy, Papaver somniferum, that has a narcotic, soporific, analgesic, and astringent effect and contains morphine, codeine, papaverine, and other alkaloids used in medicine in their isolated or derived forms: a narcotic substance, poisonous in large doses.
- ormuz — Strait of. Hormuz, Strait of.
- oueme — a river in Benin, flowing S to the Bight of Benin near Porto Novo. About 310 miles (500 km) long.
- pamuk — Orhan. born 1952, Turkish novelist and writer; author of The Black Book (1990), My Name is Red (1998), Snow (2002), and Istanbul: Memories of a City (2003). Nobel prize for literature 2006
- pilum — a javelin used in ancient Rome by legionaries, consisting of a three-foot-long shaft with an iron head of the same length.
- plumb — J(ohn) H(arold) 1911–2001, British historian.
- plume — a feather.
- plump — direct; downright; blunt.
- plumy — having plumes or feathers.
- pulmo — a lung
- pumie — pumice
- purim — a Jewish festival celebrated on the 14th day of the month of Adar in commemoration of the deliverance of the Jews in Persia from destruction by Haman.
- qualm — an uneasy feeling or pang of conscience as to conduct; compunction: He has no qualms about lying.
- 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