6-letter words containing u, m
- pneuma — the vital spirit; the soul.
- podium — a small platform for the conductor of an orchestra, a public speaker, the recipient of a sports medal, etc.
- possum — opossum.
- primus — Scottish Episcopal Church. a bishop who is elected to represent the church body and to summon and preside at synods but who possesses no metropolitan power.
- pumelo — pomelo.
- pumice — Also called pumice stone. a porous or spongy form of volcanic glass, used as an abrasive.
- pummel — to beat or thrash with or as if with the fists.
- pumped — full of confidence, enthusiasm, etc.; pumped up
- pumper — a person or thing that pumps.
- purism — strict observance of or insistence on purity in language, style, etc.
- putnam — Herbert, 1861–1955, U.S. librarian: headed Library of Congress 1899–1939.
- quagma — Theorized phase of matter occurring at extremely high temperature and density, composed of free quarks.
- qualms — an uneasy feeling or pang of conscience as to conduct; compunction: He has no qualms about lying.
- qualmy — Queasy; nauseous.
- quamin — (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)
- quemoy — an island off the SE coast of China, in the Taiwan Strait: controlled by Taiwan. 50 sq. mi. (130 sq. km).
- quidam — an unspecified or inconsequential person
- qumran — Khirbet Qumran.
- quorum — the number of members of a group or organization required to be present to transact business legally, usually a majority.
- quotum — A part or proportion; a fraction; quota.
- radium — Chemistry. a highly radioactive metallic element whose decay yields radon gas and alpha rays. Symbol: Ra; atomic weight: 226; atomic number: 88.
- rameau — Jean Philippe [zhahn fee-leep] /ʒɑ̃ fiˈlip/ (Show IPA), 1683–1764, French composer and musical theorist.
- ramous — ramose.
- rampur — a city in Uttar Pradesh state in N India.
- reaum. — Réaumur (scale)
- rectum — the comparatively straight, terminal section of the intestine, ending in the anus.
- regnum — a reign or rule
- relume — to light or illuminate again; relumine.
- remuda — a group of saddle horses from which ranch hands choose mounts for the day.
- replum — the thin internal separating wall or partition between valves or compartments in some fruits
- repump — to pump again
- resume — a summing up; summary.
- rheumy — pertaining to, causing, full of, or affected with rheum.
- rhumba — a dance, Cuban in origin and complex in rhythm.
- rimous — full of crevices, chinks, or cracks.
- romulo — Carlos Pena [kahr-laws pe-nah] /ˈkɑr lɔs ˈpɛ nɑ/ (Show IPA), 1901–85, Philippine diplomat, journalist, and educator.
- rovuma — a river in SE Africa, flowing E along the Tanzania-Mozambique border to the Indian Ocean. About 450 miles (725 km) long.
- rumaki — a dish of chicken liver and sliced water chestnuts wrapped in bacon
- rumble — to make a deep, heavy, somewhat muffled, continuous sound, as thunder.
- rumbly — attended with, making, or causing a rumbling sound.
- rumker — a crater in the second quadrant of the face of the moon: about 25 miles (40 km) in diameter.
- rumkin — a drinking vessel
- rummer — a large drinking glass or cup.
- rumour — a story or statement in general circulation without confirmation or certainty as to facts: a rumor of war.
- rumple — to crumple or crush into wrinkles: to rumple a sheet of paper.
- rumply — rumpled or tending to rumple: This suit always looks rumply.
- rumpus — a noisy or violent disturbance; commotion; uproar: There was a terrible rumpus going on upstairs.
- rumsey — James, 1743–92, U.S. engineer and inventor.
- ruvuma — a river in SE Africa, flowing E along the Tanzania-Mozambique border to the Indian Ocean. About 450 miles (725 km) long.
- sacrum — a bone resulting from the fusion of two or more vertebrae between the lumbar and the coccygeal regions, in humans being composed usually of five fused vertebrae and forming the posterior wall of the pelvis.