5-letter words containing um
- kokum — a tropical evergreen tree from India, Garcinia indica, that produces fruit which is dark purple when ripe containing large seeds from which an important edible fat is obtained
- krump — Krumping: an energetic style of hip-hop dance.
- kumon — a method of teaching mathematics, reading, and languages in which the student uses worksheets to follow a programme that becomes increasingly advanced
- larum — alarum.
- ledum — any of various evergreen shrubs of the genus Ledum, native to temperate and subarctic areas of the northern hemisphere
- linum — any of numerous plants of the genus Linum, including flax, L. usitatissimum, and various other species grown as ornamentals.
- locum — locum tenens.
- lumen — Optics. the unit of luminous flux, equal to the luminous flux emitted in a unit solid angle by a point source of one candle intensity. Abbreviation: lm.
- lumic — Having the speed of light.
- lumme — (UK, dated) Expressing surprise.
- lummy — Alternative form of lumme.
- lumps — a piece or mass of solid matter without regular shape or of no particular shape: a lump of coal.
- lumpy — full of lumps: lumpy gravy.
- malum — An evil or wrongdoing.
- minum — (printing, obsolete) A small kind of printing type; minion.
- 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.
- nahum — a Minor Prophet of the 7th century b.c.
- neume — any of various symbols representing from one to four notes, used in the musical notation of the Middle Ages but now employed solely in the notation of Gregorian chant in the liturgical books of the Roman Catholic Church.
- nexum — A contract in early Ancient Rome in which the debtor pledged his own person as collateral should he default on his loan (thus risking becoming a slave to the creditor).
- notum — a dorsal plate or sclerite of the thorax of an insect.
- novum — A new feature.
- numbs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of numb.
- numen — divine power or spirit; a deity, especially one presiding locally or believed to inhabit a particular object.
- numic — a branch of the Uto-Aztecan family of languages including Northern Paiute, Shoshone, Comanche, Southern Paiute, Ute, and others.
- nummi — Plural form of nummus.
- oakum — loose fiber obtained by untwisting and picking apart old ropes, used for caulking the seams of ships.
- odeum — a hall, theater, or other structure for musical or dramatic performances.
- odium — intense hatred or dislike, especially toward a person or thing regarded as contemptible, despicable, or repugnant.
- oleum — Pharmacology. oil.
- onium — (chemistry) any cation derived by the addition of a proton to the hydride of any element of the nitrogen, chalcogen or halogen families.
- opium — the dried, condensed juice of a poppy, Papaver somniferum, that has a narcotic, soporific, analgesic, and astringent effect and contains morphine, codeine, papaverine, and other alkaloids used in medicine in their isolated or derived forms: a narcotic substance, poisonous in large doses.
- pilum — a javelin used in ancient Rome by legionaries, consisting of a three-foot-long shaft with an iron head of the same length.
- plumb — J(ohn) H(arold) 1911–2001, British historian.
- plume — a feather.
- plump — direct; downright; blunt.
- plumy — having plumes or feathers.
- pumie — pumice
- rheum — a thin discharge of the mucous membranes, especially during a cold.
- rhumb — rhumb line.
- rumal — a kerchief worn as a headdress by men in India.
- rumba — a dance, Cuban in origin and complex in rhythm.
- rumbo — a rum-based cocktail
- rumen — the first stomach of ruminating animals, lying next to the reticulum.
- rummy — any of various card games for two, three, or four players, each usually being dealt seven, nine, or ten cards, in which the object is to match cards into sets and sequences.
- rumor — a story or statement in general circulation without confirmation or certainty as to facts: a rumor of war.
- rumpf — kernel (def 7).
- rumpo — sexual intercourse