5-letter words containing u, m, r
- murra — a mineral or stone used in ancient Rome for making fine vases, cups, etc.: believed to have been fluorite.
- murre — either of two black and white diving birds of the genus Uria, of northern seas, U. aalge (common murre) or U. lomvia (thick-billed murre)
- murri — A medieval Arab condiment made from fermented barley.
- murry — a male given name, form of Murray.
- murse — (US slang) a man's purse.
- murti — (Hinduism) A sacred image of a deity.
- murus — (palynology) A pattern-forming ridge on the surface of a pollen grain.
- murva — one of two varieties of sansevieria (Sansevieria roxburghiana or Sansevieria zeylanica) cultivated in parts of Asia for the strong fibre found in their leaves
- musar — rabbinic literature concerned with ethics, right conduct, etc
- muser — to think or meditate in silence, as on some subject.
- muter — silent; refraining from speech or utterance.
- mweru — a lake in S central Africa, between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Zambia. 68 miles (109 km) long.
- namur — a province in S Belgium. 1413 sq. mi. (3660 sq. km).
- nurmi — Paavo Johannes [pah-vaw yaw-hahn-nes] /ˈpɑ vɔ ˈyɔ hɑn nɛs/ (Show IPA), 1897–1973, Finnish athlete.
- ormuz — Strait of. Hormuz, Strait of.
- 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.
- ramus — a branch, as of a plant, vein, bone, etc.
- remus — the founder of Rome, in 753 b.c., and its first king: a son of Mars and Rhea Silvia, he and his twin brother (Remus) were abandoned as babies, suckled by a she-wolf, and brought up by a shepherd; Remus was finally killed for mocking the fortifications of Rome, which Romulus had just founded.
- rheum — a thin discharge of the mucous membranes, especially during a cold.
- rhumb — rhumb line.
- romus — a son of either Aeneas or Ascanius: sometimes believed to be the founder of Rome.
- rumal — a kerchief worn as a headdress by men in India.
- rumba — a dance, Cuban in origin and complex in rhythm.
- rumbo — a rum-based cocktail
- rumen — the first stomach of ruminating animals, lying next to the reticulum.
- rummy — any of various card games for two, three, or four players, each usually being dealt seven, nine, or ten cards, in which the object is to match cards into sets and sequences.
- rumor — a story or statement in general circulation without confirmation or certainty as to facts: a rumor of war.
- rumpf — kernel (def 7).
- rumpo — sexual intercourse
- rumpy — a tailless Manx cat
- rusma — a Turkish depilatory
- scrum — a Rugby play in which, typically, three members of each team line up opposite one another with a group of two and a group of three players behind them, making an eight-person, three-two-three formation on each side; the ball is then rolled between the opposing front lines, the players of which stand with arms around a teammate's waist, meeting the opponent shoulder to shoulder, and attempt to kick the ball backward to a teammate.
- serum — the clear, pale-yellow liquid that separates from the clot in the coagulation of blood; blood serum.
- strum — to play on (a stringed musical instrument) by running the fingers lightly across the strings.
- sumer — an ancient region in southern Mesopotamia that contained a number of independent cities and city-states of which the first were established possibly as early as 5000 b.c.: conquered by the Elamites and, about 2000 b.c., by the Babylonians; a number of its cities, as Ur, Uruk, Kish, and Lagash, are major archaeological sites in southern Iraq.
- thrum — to play on a stringed instrument, as a guitar, by plucking the strings, especially in an idle, monotonous, or unskillful manner; strum.
- thurm — to carve (a piece of wood, as a post or table leg) across the grain so as to produce an effect of turning.
- timur — Tamerlane.
- trump — a trumpet.
- tumor — a swollen part; swelling; protuberance.
- umber — an earth consisting chiefly of a hydrated oxide of iron and some oxide of manganese, used in its natural state as a brown pigment (raw umber) or, after heating, as a reddish-brown pigment (burnt umber)
- umbra — shade; shadow.
- umrah — the pilgrimage, consisting of rituals performed at various shrines, made by a Muslim upon entering Mecca: often part of the hajj.
- unarm — to deprive or relieve of arms; disarm.
- urman — a geographical or climatic area of conifer forest
- urmia — Lake, a salt lake in NW Iran. About 2000 sq. mi. (5180 sq. km).