5-letter words containing im
- limed — Also called burnt lime, calcium oxide, caustic lime, calx, quicklime. a white or grayish-white, odorless, lumpy, very slightly water-soluble solid, CaO, that when combined with water forms calcium hydroxide (slaked lime) obtained from calcium carbonate, limestone, or oyster shells: used chiefly in mortars, plasters, and cements, in bleaching powder, and in the manufacture of steel, paper, glass, and various chemicals of calcium.
- limen — threshold (def 4).
- limer — (obsolete) A kind of dog kept on a lead; a bloodhound; a mongrel.
- limes — a boundary, especially the fortified border or frontier of a country.
- limey — a British sailor.
- limit — the final, utmost, or furthest boundary or point as to extent, amount, continuance, procedure, etc.: the limit of his experience; the limit of vision.
- limma — any of several musical intervals of small size, such as a semitone
- limns — to represent in drawing or painting.
- limon — José [haw-se] /hɔˈsɛ/ (Show IPA), 1908–72, Mexican dancer and choreographer in the U.S.
- limos — Plural form of limo.
- limpa — a rye bread made using brown sugar or molasses
- limps — Plural form of limp.
- maims — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of maim.
- maxim — Hiram Percy, 1869–1936, U.S. inventor.
- mckim — Charles Follen [fol-uh n] /ˈfɒl ən/ (Show IPA), 1847–1909, U.S. architect.
- mimas — Astronomy. one of the moons of Saturn.
- mimba — (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)
- mimed — Simple past tense and past participle of mime.
- mimeo — A mimeograph.
- mimer — Someone who mimes during a performance of a song.
- mimes — Plural form of mime.
- mimic — to imitate or copy in action, speech, etc., often playfully or derisively.
- mimir — a giant who guarded the well of wisdom near the roots of Yggdrasil
- mimsy — (nonce) A nonce word in w Lewis Carroll's w Jabberwocky combining the senses of
- minim — the smallest unit of liquid measure, 1/60 (0.0167) of a fluid dram, roughly equivalent to one drop. Symbol: ♍, ♏. Abbreviation: min, min.;
- mirim — Lake, a lake on the E Uruguay-S Brazil border. About 108 miles (174 km) long.
- naima — a female given name: from an Arabic word meaning “benevolent.”.
- nim's — a game in which two players alternate in drawing counters, pennies, or the like, from a set of 12 arranged in three rows of 3, 4, and 5 counters, respectively, the object being to draw the last counter, or, sometimes, to avoid drawing it.
- nimbi — Classical Mythology. a shining cloud sometimes surrounding a deity when on earth.
- nimbs — Plural form of nimb.
- nimby — (chiefly, US) Not In My BackYard.
- nimes — a department in S France. 2271 sq. mi. (5882 sq. km). Capital: Nîmes.
- nimps — easy
- ojime — a Japanese bead which is used to secure cords in place
- oxime — any of a group of compounds containing the group >C=NOH, produced by the condensation of ketones or aldehydes with hydroxylamine.
- panim — a heathen or pagan
- piman — any of various groupings of Uto-Aztecan languages, of varying degrees of inclusiveness, comprising Pima and its closest relatives.
- prima — (of a female) first among equals.
- prime — of the first importance; demanding the fullest consideration: a prime requisite.
- primi — the part of a piano duet played on the upper half of the keyboard.
- primo — the part of a piano duet played on the upper half of the keyboard.
- primp — to dress or adorn with care.
- prims — formally precise or proper, as persons or behavior; stiffly neat.
- primy — prime
- 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.
- quims — vagina; vulva.
- reims — a city in NE France: scene of the coronation of most French monarchs. Pop: 188 078 (2006)
- rimed — identity in sound of some part, especially the end, of words or lines of verse.
- rimes — identity in sound of some part, especially the end, of words or lines of verse.
- sclim — to climb