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7-letter words that end in um

  • offscum — refuse or waste which is removed by skimming off
  • omentum — a fold of the peritoneum connecting the stomach and the abdominal viscera forming a protective and supportive covering.
  • opossum — a prehensile-tailed marsupial, Didelphis virginiana, of the eastern U.S., the female having an abdominal pouch in which its young are carried: noted for the habit of feigning death when in danger.
  • oppidum — A large, defended Iron Age settlement associated with the Celtic La Tène culture.
  • opposum — Misspelling of opossum.
  • optimum — the best or most favorable point, degree, amount, etc., as of temperature, light, and moisture for the growth or reproduction of an organism.
  • orarium — orarion.
  • organum — an organon.
  • orgasum — Misspelling of orgasm.
  • osculum — a small mouthlike aperture, as of a sponge.
  • ovarium — ovary.
  • pabulum — something that nourishes an animal or vegetable organism; food; nutriment.
  • paestum — an ancient coastal city of Lucania, in S Italy: the extant ruins include three Greek temples and a Roman amphitheater.
  • pallium — a large, rectangular mantle worn by men in ancient Greece and Rome.
  • panicum — any of the grasses in the genus Panicum, including panic grass
  • pantoum — a Malay verse form consisting of an indefinite number of quatrains with the second and fourth lines of each quatrain repeated as the first and third lines of the following one.
  • papadum — an Indian flatbread made of lentil flour, often topped with chutney or various dips or salsas.
  • pentium — (processor)   Intel's superscalar successor to the 486. It has two 32-bit 486-type integer pipelines with dependency checking. It can execute a maximum of two instructions per cycle. It does pipelined floating-point and performs branch prediction. It has 16 kilobytes of on-chip cache, a 64-bit memory interface, 8 32-bit general-purpose registers and 8 80-bit floating-point registers. It is built from 3.1 million transistors on a 262.4 mm^2 die with ~2.3 million transistors in the core logic. Its clock rate is 66MHz, heat dissipation is 16W, integer performance is 64.5 SPECint92, floating-point performance 56.9 SPECfp92. It is called "Pentium" because it is the fifth in the 80x86 line. It would have been called the 80586 had a US court not ruled that you can't trademark a number. The successors are the Pentium Pro and Pentium II. The following Pentium variants all belong to "x86 Family 6", as reported by "Microsoft Windows" when identifying the CPU: Model Name 1 Pentium Pro 2 ? 3 Pentium II 4 ? 5, 6 Celeron or Pentium II 7 Pentium III 8 Celeron uPGA2 or Mobile Pentium III A floating-point division bug was discovered in October 1994.
  • pinetum — an arboretum of pines and coniferous trees.
  • plagium — the crime of kidnapping a child
  • plumbum — lead2 (def 1).
  • pomatum — pomade.
  • premium — a prize, bonus, or award given as an inducement, as to purchase products, enter competitions initiated by business interests, etc.
  • protium — the lightest and most common isotope of hydrogen. Symbol: H 1.
  • punctum — a tip or small point
  • pycnium — a flask-shaped or conical sporangium of a rust fungus, which develops below the epidermis of the host and bears pycniospores.
  • pythium — a genus of parasitic oomycotes, most of which are plant parasites
  • quantum — time slice
  • rastrum — a pen for drawing the five lines of a musical stave simultaneously
  • red gum — strophulus.
  • relatum — one of the objects between which a relation is said to hold
  • rhenium — a rare metallic element of the manganese subgroup: used, because of its high melting point, in platinum-rhenium thermocouples. Symbol: Re; atomic number: 75; atomic weight: 186.2.
  • rhodium — a silvery-white metallic element of the platinum family, forming salts that give rose-colored solutions: used to electroplate microscopes and instrument parts to prevent corrosion. Symbol: Rh; atomic weight: 102.905; atomic number: 45; specific gravity: 12.5 at 20°C.
  • rostrum — any platform, stage, or the like, for public speaking.
  • rum-dum — a stupid or ignorant person.
  • samnium — an ancient country in central Italy.
  • sanctum — a sacred or holy place.
  • scrotum — the pouch of skin that contains the testes.
  • seculum — an age or period of time in astronomy or geology
  • sirenum — Mare, Mare Sirenum.
  • sistrum — an ancient Egyptian percussion instrument consisting of a looped metal frame set in a handle and fitted with loose crossbars that rattle when shaken.
  • skellum — a rascal.
  • skookum — large; powerful; impressive.
  • slumgum — the impure material left after honey and wax are extracted from honeycomb
  • smeddum — any fine powder
  • solanum — any tree, shrub, or herbaceous plant of the mainly tropical solanaceous genus Solanum: includes the potato, aubergine, and certain nightshades
  • solidum — a part of a pedestal
  • sorghum — a cereal grass, Sorghum bicolor (or S. vulgare), having broad, cornlike leaves and a tall, pithy stem bearing the grain in a dense terminal cluster.
  • spodium — a fine black powder formed by calcination
  • stadium — a sports arena, usually oval or horseshoe-shaped, with tiers of seats for spectators.
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