5-letter words containing o, m
- medon — (in the Odyssey) a herald who warned Penelope that her suitors were conspiring against Telemachus.
- melon — the fruit of any of various plants of the gourd family, as the muskmelon or watermelon.
- melos — a city in NE Uruguay.
- memos — Plural form of memo.
- meno- — menstruation
- menon — Vengalil Krishnan Krishna (ˈvɛŋɡəlɪl ˈkriːʃnən ˈkriːʃnə). 1897–1974, Indian diplomat and politician, who was a close associate of Nehru and played a key role in the Indian nationalist movement
- mento — A style of Jamaican folk music based on a traditional dance rhythm in duple time.
- meows — Plural form of meow.
- merlo — a city in E Argentina, near Buenos Aires.
- mero- — part or partial
- meroe — a ruined city in Sudan, on the Nile, NE of Khartoum: a capital of ancient Ethiopia that was destroyed a.d. c350.
- meros — (in the Doric order) a flat surface between two channels of a triglyph.
- meso- — middle or intermediate
- meson — Physics. any hadron, or strongly interacting particle, other than a baryon. Mesons are bosons, having spins of 0, 1, 2, …, and, unlike baryons, do not obey a conservation law.
- mesor — Lb biology A mean value based on the distribution of values across the cycles of the circadian rhythm, computed using a cosine function.
- mesto — sad
- metho — (Australia, colloquial) Methylated spirits.
- metol — a colourless soluble organic substance used, in the form of its sulphate, as a photographic developer; p-methylaminophenol
- metro — the underground electric railway of Paris, France, Montreal, Canada, Washington, D.C., and other cities.
- mezzo — middle; medium; half.
- mhorr — A large gazelle native to the Sahara desert, Nanger dama, formerly Gazella dama.
- miaou — the characteristic sound a cat makes.
- miaow — to make the sound of a cat.
- micro — microprocessor
- milko — (Australia, informal) A milkman.
- mílos — Greek island of the SW Cyclades, in the Aegean Sea: 58 sq mi (150 sq km)
- mimeo — A mimeograph.
- minho — a river in SW Europe, flowing SSW from NW Spain along the N boundary of Portugal into the Atlantic. 171 miles (275 km) long.
- minor — lesser, as in size, extent, or importance, or being or noting the lesser of two: a minor share.
- minos — Minho.
- minot — George Richards [rich-erdz] /ˈrɪtʃ ərdz/ (Show IPA), 1885–1950, U.S. physician: Nobel prize 1934.
- minow — Archaic form of minnow.
- minto — Gilbert John Elliot-Murray-Kynynmond [el-ee-uh t-mur-ee-ki-nin-muh nd,, -muhr-ee-,, el-yuh t-] /ˈɛl i ətˈmɜr i kɪˈnɪn mənd,, -ˈmʌr i-,, ˈɛl yət-/ (Show IPA), 4th Earl of, 1845–1914, British colonial administrator: governor general of Canada 1898–1904; viceroy of India 1905–10.
- misdo — to do badly or wrongly; botch.
- misgo — to go the wrong way
- miso- — indicating hatred
- miwok — a member of an American Indian people formerly living in several noncontiguous areas of California north of San Francisco Bay and eastward from the San Joaquin-Sacramento delta to the Sierras.
- mlowg — Middle Low German
- mo ti — (Mo Ti) flourished 5th century b.c, Chinese philosopher.
- mo-zi — ?470–?391 bc, Chinese religious philosopher; his teaching, expounded in the book Mo-Zi, emphasizes love, frugality, avoidance of aggressive war, and submission to Heaven
- moans — Plural form of moan.
- moany — Tending to grumble or complain, typically about trivial issues.
- moats — Plural form of moat.
- mobad — A Zoroastrian cleric of a particular rank, qualified to serve as celebrant priest at the Yasna ceremony and to train other priests.
- mobby — a drink fermented in the West Indies from sweet potatoes
- mobed — Alternative form of mobad.
- mobes — Plural form of mobe.
- mobie — a mobile phone
- moble — to wrap the head of, as in a hood.
- mobot — A mobile autonomous robot, especially one used in artificial intelligence research, or as a toy.