5-letter words containing em
- salem — a state in the NW United States, on the Pacific coast. 96,981 sq. mi. (251,180 sq. km). Capital: Salem. Abbreviation: Oreg., Ore., OR (for use with zip code).
- satem — belonging to or consisting of those branches of the Indo-European family in which alveolar or palatal fricatives, as the sounds (s) or (sh), developed in ancient times from Proto-Indo-European palatal stops: the satem branches are Indo-Iranian, Armenian, Slavic, Baltic, and Albanian.
- semen — the viscid, whitish fluid produced in the male reproductive organs, containing spermatozoa.
- semey — Semipalatinsk.
- semi- — Semi- combines with adjectives and nouns to form other adjectives and nouns that describe someone or something as being partly, but not completely, in a particular state.
- semie — the historical name for a student in the second year at a Scottish university
- semis — semitrailer (def 1).
- shema — a liturgical prayer, prominent in Jewish history and tradition, that is recited daily at the morning and evening services and expresses the Jewish people's ardent faith in and love of God.
- spoem — a poem made up entirely from the subject lines of different spam emails
- stems — science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, considered as a group of academic or career fields (often used attributively): degree programs in STEM disciplines; teaching STEM in high school.
- teems — to abound or swarm; be prolific or fertile (usually followed by with).
- temin — Howard M(artin) 1934–94, U.S. virologist: Nobel Prize in medicine 1975.
- temne — a member of a people living mainly in Sierra Leone.
- tempe — Vale of, a valley in E Greece, in Thessaly, between Mounts Olympus and Ossa.
- tempi — a plural of tempo.
- tempo — Music. relative rapidity or rate of movement, usually indicated by such terms as adagio, allegro, etc., or by reference to the metronome.
- temps — part of a dance step in which there is no transfer of weight.
- tempt — to entice or allure to do something often regarded as unwise, wrong, or immoral.
- temse — a sieve used to strain meal
- thema — theme (def 7).
- theme — a subject of discourse, discussion, meditation, or composition; topic: The need for world peace was the theme of the meeting.
- totem — a natural object or an animate being, as an animal or bird, assumed as the emblem of a clan, family, or group.
- trema — mark placed over vowel to indicate it is to be pronounced separately
- ulema — Muslim scholars or men of authority in religion and law
- voema — vigour or energy
- weems — Mason Locke ("Parson Weems") 1759–1825, U.S. clergyman and biographer.
- xylem — The vascular tissue in plants that conducts water and dissolved nutrients upward from the root and also helps to form the woody element in the stem.
- yemen — Republic of, a country in S Arabia, formed in 1990 by the merger of the Yemen Arab Republic and the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen. 207,000 sq. mi. (536,130 sq. km). Capital: Aden.
- yquem — Château d', a sweet white wine from the estate of Château d'Yquem in the Sauternes region of France.