6-letter words containing o, m, i
- omnify — (transitive) To render universal; to enlarge.
- omnium — (cycling) A multiple race event in track cycling. Historically the omnium has had a variety of formats. Currently it consists of the following six events: flying lap, points race, elimination, individual pursuit, scratch race, and time trial.
- omotic — a proposed branch of the Afroasiatic family comprising a group of languages spoken in Ethiopia and often included within the Cushitic branch.
- oomiac — umiak
- oomiak — an open Eskimo boat that consists of a wooden frame covered with skins and provided with several thwarts: used for transport of goods and passengers.
- opiums — Plural form of opium.
- optima — the best or most favorable point, degree, amount, etc., as of temperature, light, and moisture for the growth or reproduction of an organism.
- optime — (formerly at Cambridge University, England) a student taking second or third honors in the mathematical tripos. Compare wrangler (def 2).
- osmics — the science dealing with the sense of smell.
- osmium — a hard, heavy, metallic element having the greatest density of the known elements and forming octavalent compounds, as OsO 4 and OsF 8 : used chiefly as a catalyst, in alloys, and in the manufacture of electric-light filaments. Symbol: Os; atomic weight: 190.2; atomic number: 76; specific gravity: 22.57.
- ostium — Anatomy, Zoology. a small opening or orifice, as at the end of the oviduct.
- pimola — an olive stuffed with red sweet pepper; stuffed olive.
- pithom — one of the two cities built by Israelite slaves in Egypt. Ex. 1:11.
- podium — a small platform for the conductor of an orchestra, a public speaker, the recipient of a sports medal, etc.
- pommie — a British person, especially one who is a recent immigrant.
- porism — a type of mathematical proposition considered by Euclid, the meaning of which is now obscure. It is thought to be a proposition affirming the possibility of finding such conditions as will render a certain problem indeterminate or capable of innumerable solutions
- rhombi — an oblique-angled equilateral parallelogram; any equilateral parallelogram except a square.
- rimose — full of crevices, chinks, or cracks.
- rimous — full of crevices, chinks, or cracks.
- romaic — demotic (def 5).
- romaji — a system of writing Japanese using the letters of the Latin alphabet.
- romani — Romany.
- romish — of or relating to Rome as the center of the Roman Catholic Church.
- roomie — roommate.
- seboim — Zeboim.
- sidamo — a member of a people in SW Ethiopia.
- siloam — a spring and pool near Jerusalem. John 9:7.
- simcoe — a town in SE Ontario, in S Canada.
- simeon — a son of Jacob and Leah. Gen. 29:33.
- simone — (language) A simulation language by A. Hoare et al. based on Pascal.
- simony — the making of profit out of sacred things.
- simoom — a strong suffocating sand-laden wind of the deserts of Arabia and North Africa
- simorg — a wise, bird-like creature in Persian myth
- sitcom — situation comedy.
- smokie — a smoked haddock
- sodium — Chemistry. a soft, silver-white, metallic element that oxidizes rapidly in moist air, occurring in nature only in the combined state, and used in the synthesis of sodium peroxide, sodium cyanide, and tetraethyllead: a necessary element in the body for the maintenance of normal fluid balance and other physiological functions. Symbol: Na; atomic weight: 22.9898; atomic number: 11; specific gravity: 0.97 at 20°C.
- somali — a member of a Hamitic population showing an admixture of Arab, black, and other ancestry, and dwelling in Somalia and adjacent regions.
- somite — any of the longitudinal series of segments or parts into which the body of certain animals is divided; a metamere.
- somni- — sleep
- somoni — the standard monetary unit of Tajikistan, consisting of 100 dirams
- taoism — the philosophical system evolved by Lao-tzu and Chuang-tzu, advocating a life of complete simplicity and naturalness and of noninterference with the course of natural events, in order to attain a happy existence in harmony with the Tao.
- timour — Tamerlane.
- timrod — Henry, 1828–67, U.S. poet.
- tolima — a volcano in W Colombia, in the Andes. 18,438 feet (5620 meters).
- tomial — of or relating to a tomium
- tomism — Uncle Tomism.
- tomium — the cutting edge of a bird's bill.
- tommie — a male given name, form of Thomas.
- tomtit — a titmouse.
- ultimo — in or of the month preceding the current one: on the 12th ultimo. Abbreviation: ult., ulto. Compare instant (def 11), proximo.