5-letter words containing mu
- mulct — to deprive (someone) of something, as by fraud, extortion, etc.; swindle.
- mules — a lounging slipper that covers the toes and instep or only the instep.
- muley — (of cattle or deer) hornless; polled.
- mulga — an Australian shrub or small tree, Acacia aneura, forming dense growths in some areas and having foliage used as forage for livestock.
- mulki — a native or inhabitant of the former Hyderabad State in India
- mulla — Archaic form of mullah.
- mulls — to study or ruminate; ponder.
- mulse — a drink containing honey mixed with wine or water
- multi — a pattern of several colors or hues, usually in stripes: This dress comes in pink or green multi.
- mumin — one of the devout.
- mummy — the dead body of a human being or animal preserved by the ancient Egyptian process or some similar method of embalming.
- mumps — an infectious disease characterized by inflammatory swelling of the parotid and usually other salivary glands, and sometimes by inflammation of the testes or ovaries, caused by a paramyxovirus.
- mumsy — (informal) Characteristic of a mum; motherly.
- munch — Charles, 1891–1968, French conductor in the U.S.
- munda — a small family of languages spoken in east-central India.
- munds — Plural form of mund.
- mundu — A garment resembling a dhoti, worn around the waist in Kerala, the Tulunadu region, and Maldives.
- munga — (obsolete) The bonnet monkey.
- munge — (transitive, computing) To transform data in an undefined or unexplained manner.
- mungo — a low-grade wool from felted rags or waste.
- munia — Any of certain estrildid finches of the genera Lonchura (most instances) and Amandava (two species).
- munin — one of the two ravens of Odin that brought him news from the whole world.
- munro — Alice (Laidlaw) [leyd-law] /ˈleɪdˌlɔ/ (Show IPA), born 1931, Canadian short-story writer.
- muons — Plural form of muon.
- mural — a large picture painted or affixed directly on a wall or ceiling.
- murat — a river in E Turkey, flowing W to the Euphrates. 425 miles (685 km) long.
- mured — Simple past tense and past participle of mure.
- mures — a river in SE central Europe, flowing W from the Carpathian Mountains in central Romania to the Tisza River in S Hungary. 400 miles (645 km) long.
- murex — any marine gastropod of the genus Murex, common in tropical seas, certain species of which yield the royal purple dye valued by the ancients.
- murgh — (in Indian cookery) chicken.
- murid — A rodent of a very large family ( Muridae ) that includes most kinds of rats, mice, and voles.
- murks — darkness; gloom: the murk of a foggy night.
- murky — dark, gloomy, and cheerless.
- murly — crumbly
- murom — a city in the W Russian Federation in Europe, SW of Nizhni Novgorod.
- 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
- musaf — the religious service celebrated by Jews in addition to and immediately after the morning service on the Sabbath and festivals.
- musar — rabbinic literature concerned with ethics, right conduct, etc
- musca — a small constellation in the S hemisphere lying between the Southern Cross and Chamaeleon
- mused — to think or meditate in silence, as on some subject.
- muser — to think or meditate in silence, as on some subject.
- muses — to think or meditate in silence, as on some subject.
- musha — (Ireland, archaic) an expression of surprise.