5-letter words that end in um
- pilum — a javelin used in ancient Rome by legionaries, consisting of a three-foot-long shaft with an iron head of the same length.
- rheum — a thin discharge of the mucous membranes, especially during a cold.
- sagum — a Roman soldier's cloak
- 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.
- sebum — the fatty secretion of the sebaceous glands.
- sedum — any fleshy plant belonging to the genus Sedum, of the stonecrop family, usually having small, overlapping leaves and yellow, white, or pink flowers.
- serum — the clear, pale-yellow liquid that separates from the clot in the coagulation of blood; blood serum.
- solum — the upper part of the soil profile, which is influenced by plant roots; the A horizon and the B horizon.
- strum — to play on (a stringed musical instrument) by running the fingers lightly across the strings.
- tatum — Art, 1910–56, U.S. jazz pianist.
- thrum — to play on a stringed instrument, as a guitar, by plucking the strings, especially in an idle, monotonous, or unskillful manner; strum.
- ungum — (in silk preparation) to remove gum from
- velum — Biology. any of various veillike or curtainlike membranous partitions.
- vinum — (in prescriptions) a solution of a medicinal substance in wine.