5-letter words containing m, u
- cusum — a statistical technique used to analyse an individual's use of language
- datum — a single piece of information; fact
- dayum — (slang, emphatic) eye dialect of damn, representing Southern US.
- degum — to remove gum from (a substance or object)
- demur — If you demur, you say that you do not agree with something or will not do something that you have been asked to do.
- dorum — Draft Once ReUse Many
- douma — duma.
- drums — a musical percussion instrument consisting of a hollow, usually cylindrical, body covered at one or both ends with a tightly stretched membrane, or head, which is struck with the hand, a stick, or a pair of sticks, and typically produces a booming, tapping, or hollow sound.
- dumas — (in Russia prior to 1917) a council or official assembly.
- dumbo — a stupid person: a class full of dumbos.
- dumbs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dumb.
- dumka — a Slavic folk song that alternates in character between sadness and gaiety.
- dummy — a representation or copy of something, as for displaying to indicate appearance: a display of lipstick dummies made of colored plastic.
- dumps — an accumulation of discarded garbage, refuse, etc.
- dumpy — short and stout; squat: a dumpy figure.
- dunam — a unit of land area measurement used in Israel equivalent to 1,000 square metres
- duomi — cathedral, especially in Italy.
- duomo — cathedral, especially in Italy.
- durum — a wheat, Triticum turgidum, the grain of which yields flour used in making pasta.
- embus — To put (troops) onto a bus.
- fanum — a temple or sacred place
- fayum — a province in N central Egypt: many archaeological remains. 691 sq. mi. (1790 sq. km).
- 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.
- filum — a threadlike structure; filament.
- fiume — Italian name of Rijeka.
- flume — a deep narrow defile containing a mountain stream or torrent.
- flump — the act or sound of flumping.
- forum — the marketplace or public square of an ancient Roman city, the center of judicial and business affairs and a place of assembly for the people.
- frump — a person who is dowdy, drab, and unattractive.
- 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.
- fumid — Smoky, vaporous.
- gamut — the entire scale or range: the gamut of dramatic emotion from grief to joy.
- garum — A fish sauce popular in Ancient Rome.
- gaumy — sticky; smeared
- glaum — to snatch at something
- 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.
- glump — (colloquial) To be sullen; to sulk.
- grume — blood when viscous.
- grump — a person given to constant complaining.
- gumba — (slang, US) A person of Sicilian descent, often used pejoratively.
- gumbe — A style of music from Guinea-Bissau which is primarily vocal and percussive.
- gumbo — a stew or thick soup, usually made with chicken or seafood, greens, and okra or sometimes filé as a thickener.
- gumma — a rubbery, tumorlike lesion associated with tertiary syphilis.
- gummi — A sugary, gelatinous material used to make candies.
- gummy — of, resembling, or of the consistency of gum; viscid; mucilaginous.
- gumri — a city in NW Armenia, NW of Yerevan.
- haulm — stems or stalks collectively, as of grain or of peas, beans, or hops, especially as used for litter or thatching.