5-letter words containing em
- himem — (software, storage) An IBM PC extended memory manager, part of MS-DOS version 5.00 or higher. HIMEM can also act as an A20 handler.
- items — Plural form of item.
- jembe — Alternative spelling of djembe.
- jemmy — jimmy1 .
- keema — (in Indian cookery) minced meat
- kempe — (obsolete) rough; shaggy.
- kemps — Plural form of kemp.
- kempt — neatly or tidily kept: a kempt little cottage.
- kempy — a short, coarse, brittle fiber, used chiefly in the manufacture of carpets.
- krems — a city in NE Austria, on the Danube.
- leman — Lake. Geneva, Lake of.
- lemay — Curtis (Emerson) 1906–90, U.S. Air Force officer: chief of the Strategic Air Command 1948–61; Chief of Staff of the Air Force 1961–65.
- lemel — metal filings
- lemen — a sweetheart; lover; beloved.
- lemma — a subsidiary proposition introduced in proving some other proposition; a helping theorem.
- lemme — Let me.
- lemon — the yellowish, acid fruit of a subtropical citrus tree, Citrus limon.
- lempa — a river rising in NW El Salvador, flowing E and then S to the Pacific Ocean. About 200 miles (320 km) long.
- lemur — any of various small, arboreal, chiefly nocturnal mammals of the family Lemuridae, of Madagascar and the Comoro Islands, especially of the genus Lemur, usually having large eyes, a foxlike face, and woolly fur: most lemurs are endangered.
- memel — German name of Klaipeda.
- memes — a cultural item that is transmitted by repetition and replication in a manner analogous to the biological transmission of genes. a cultural item in the form of an image, video, phrase, etc., that is spread via the Internet and often altered in a creative or humorous way.
- memex — (hypertext) Vannevar Bush's original name for hypertext, which he invented in the 1930s.
- memic — Relating to memes.
- memos — Plural form of memo.
- menem — Carlos Saul, born 1930, Argentine political leader: president 1989–99.
- mneme — Psychology. the retentive basis or basic principle in a mind or organism accounting for memory.
- modem — an electronic device that makes possible the transmission of data to or from a computer via telephone or other communication lines.
- neems — Plural form of neem.
- neman — a river rising in central Byelorussia (Belarus), flowing W through Lithuania into the Baltic. 582 miles (937 km) long.
- nemea — a valley in SE Greece, in ancient Argolis.
- noema — (philosophy) The perceived as perceived.
- noemi — Naomi (def 1).
- odema — Misspelling of oedema.
- ofgem — Office of Gas and Electricity Markets: a government body formed in 1999 by the merger of the separate regulatory bodies for gas and electricity; its functions are to promote competition and protect consumers' interests
- oueme — a river in Benin, flowing S to the Bight of Benin near Porto Novo. About 310 miles (500 km) long.
- pemba — an island near the E coast of equatorial Africa: formerly part of Zanzibar protectorate; now a part of Tanzania. 164,321; 380 sq. mi. (984 sq. km).
- proem — an introductory discourse; introduction; preface; preamble.
- queme — to please, satisfy, or mitigate
- rehem — to hem (garments, etc) again
- reman — to man again; furnish with a fresh supply of personnel.
- remap — map again
- remen — an ancient Egyptian measurement unit of length
- remex — one of the flight feathers of the wing.
- remit — to transmit or send (money, a check, etc.) to a person or place, usually in payment.
- remix — to mix again.
- 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.
- retem — a shrub, Retama raetam, of Syria and Arabia, having white flowers: said to be the juniper of the Old Testament.
- rheme — comment (def 7).
- ripem — Riordan's Internet Privacy Enhanced Mail
- rorem — Ned, born 1923, U.S. composer and author.