5-letter words that end in m
- 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.
- qeshm — the largest island in the Persian Gulf: part of Iran. Area: 1336 sq km (516 sq miles)
- qishm — an island S of and belonging to Iran, in the Strait of Hormuz. 68 miles (109 km) long; about 510 sq. mi. (1320 sq. km).
- qualm — an uneasy feeling or pang of conscience as to conduct; compunction: He has no qualms about lying.
- radom — a city in E Poland.
- rdram — Rambus DRAM
- realm — a royal domain; kingdom: the realm of England.
- rearm — to arm again.
- rehem — to hem (garments, etc) again
- retem — a shrub, Retama raetam, of Syria and Arabia, having white flowers: said to be the juniper of the Old Testament.
- rheum — a thin discharge of the mucous membranes, especially during a cold.
- ripem — Riordan's Internet Privacy Enhanced Mail
- rorem — Ned, born 1923, U.S. composer and author.
- sagum — a Roman soldier's cloak
- 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.
- sclim — to climb
- scram — to go away; get out (usually used as a command): I said I was busy, so scram.
- scrim — a cotton or linen fabric of open weave used for bunting, curtains, etc.
- scrum — a Rugby play in which, typically, three members of each team line up opposite one another with a group of two and a group of three players behind them, making an eight-person, three-two-three formation on each side; the ball is then rolled between the opposing front lines, the players of which stand with arms around a teammate's waist, meeting the opponent shoulder to shoulder, and attempt to kick the ball backward to a teammate.
- sdram — Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory
- sebum — the fatty secretion of the sebaceous glands.
- secam — séquentiel couleur à mémoire: a colour-television broadcasting system used in France, the former Soviet Union, and some other countries
- sedum — any fleshy plant belonging to the genus Sedum, of the stonecrop family, usually having small, overlapping leaves and yellow, white, or pink flowers.
- seism — an earthquake.
- seram — an island in Indonesia, in the Moluccas, separated from New Guinea by the Ceram Sea: mountainous and densely forested. Area: 17 150 sq km (6622 sq miles)
- serum — the clear, pale-yellow liquid that separates from the clot in the coagulation of blood; blood serum.
- sgram — Synchronous Graphics Random Access Memory
- shawm — an early musical woodwind instrument with a double reed: the forerunner of the modern oboe.
- skelm — a villain or crook
- sloom — a sleepy state or slumber
- slorm — to wipe carelessly
- smarm — behavior or speech that is smarmy.
- sodom — an ancient city destroyed, with Gomorrah, because of its wickedness. Gen. 18–19.
- solum — the upper part of the soil profile, which is influenced by plant roots; the A horizon and the B horizon.
- sp am — Spanish America
- spasm — Pathology. a sudden, abnormal, involuntary muscular contraction, consisting of a continued muscular contraction (tonic spasm) or of a series of alternating muscular contractions and relaxations (clonic spasm)
- sperm — semen.
- spoem — a poem made up entirely from the subject lines of different spam emails
- spoom — a kind of sherbet made from fruit juice or wine, mixed after freezing with uncooked meringue.
- sq. m — square meter; square meters.
- ssadm — A software engineering method and toolset required by some UK government agencies.
- steam — water in the form of an invisible gas or vapor.
- storm — Theodore Woldsen [tey-aw-dawr vawlt-suh n] /ˈteɪ ɔˌdɔr ˈvɔlt sən/ (Show IPA), 1817–88, German poet and novelist.
- strim — to cut (grass) using a Strimmer
- strum — to play on (a stringed musical instrument) by running the fingers lightly across the strings.
- stulm — a shaft for draining a mine
- swarm — a body of honeybees that emigrate from a hive and fly off together, accompanied by a queen, to start a new colony.
- tarim — a river in NW China, in Xinjiang Uygur region. About 1300 miles (2090 km) long.
- tatum — Art, 1910–56, U.S. jazz pianist.