5-letter words containing um
- filum — a threadlike structure; filament.
- fiume — Italian name of Rijeka.
- flume — a deep narrow defile containing a mountain stream or torrent.
- flump — the act or sound of flumping.
- forum — the marketplace or public square of an ancient Roman city, the center of judicial and business affairs and a place of assembly for the people.
- frump — a person who is dowdy, drab, and unattractive.
- fumed — darkened or colored by exposure to ammonia fumes, as oak and other wood.
- fumer — Often, fumes. any smokelike or vaporous exhalation from matter or substances, especially of an odorous or harmful nature: tobacco fumes; noxious fumes of carbon monoxide.
- fumes — Often, fumes. any smokelike or vaporous exhalation from matter or substances, especially of an odorous or harmful nature: tobacco fumes; noxious fumes of carbon monoxide.
- fumet — a stock made by simmering fish, chicken, game, etc., in water, wine, or in both, often boiled down to concentrate the flavor and used as a flavoring.
- fumid — Smoky, vaporous.
- garum — A fish sauce popular in Ancient Rome.
- gaumy — sticky; smeared
- glaum — to snatch at something
- glume — one of the characteristic chafflike bracts of the inflorescence of grasses, sedges, etc., especially one of the pair of bracts at the base of a spikelet.
- glump — (colloquial) To be sullen; to sulk.
- grume — blood when viscous.
- grump — a person given to constant complaining.
- gumba — (slang, US) A person of Sicilian descent, often used pejoratively.
- gumbe — A style of music from Guinea-Bissau which is primarily vocal and percussive.
- gumbo — a stew or thick soup, usually made with chicken or seafood, greens, and okra or sometimes filé as a thickener.
- gumma — a rubbery, tumorlike lesion associated with tertiary syphilis.
- gummi — A sugary, gelatinous material used to make candies.
- gummy — of, resembling, or of the consistency of gum; viscid; mucilaginous.
- gumri — a city in NW Armenia, NW of Yerevan.
- hilum — Botany. the mark or scar on a seed produced by separation from its funicle or placenta. the nucleus of a granule of starch.
- hokum — out-and-out nonsense; bunkum.
- houma — a city in S Louisiana.
- human — of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or having the nature of people: human frailty.
- humic — of or noting a substance, as an acid, obtained from humus.
- humid — containing a high amount of water or water vapor; noticeably moist: humid air; a humid climate.
- humin — The part of the organic matter in soil that does not dissolve in dilute alkali.
- humma — (chat) A filler word used on various "chat" and "talk" programs when you had nothing to say but felt that it was important to say something. The word apparently originated (at least with this definition) on the MECC Timeshare System (MTS, a now-defunct educational time-sharing system running in Minnesota during the 1970s and the early 1980s) but was later sighted on early Unix systems.
- humor — hacker humour
- humph — Used to express slightly scornful doubt or dissatisfaction.
- humps — Plural form of hump.
- humpy — full of humps.
- humus — the dark organic material in soils, produced by the decomposition of vegetable or animal matter and essential to the fertility of the earth.
- ileum — Anatomy. the third and lowest division of the small intestine, extending from the jejunum to the cecum.
- ilium — the broad, upper portion of either hipbone.
- ishum — the Akkadian god of fire and the companion of Irra.
- jorum — a large bowl or container for holding drink.
- jugum — the posterior basal area or lobe in the forewing of certain insects, sometimes serving to couple the forewings and hind wings in flight.
- jumar — A clamp that is attached to a fixed rope and automatically tightens when weight is applied and relaxes when it is removed.
- jumbo — a very large person, animal, or thing.
- jumna — a river in N India, flowing SE from the Himalayas to the Ganges at Allahabad. 860 miles (1385 meters) long.
- jumps — Plural form of jump.
- jumpy — subject to sudden, involuntary starts, especially from nervousness, fear, excitement, etc.
- khnum — a god in the form of a ram who created human beings from clay on a potter's wheel.
- khoum — A monetary unit of Mauritania, equal to one fifth of an ouguiya.