5-Letter Words Starting: UM

• A large, open boat made of skins stretched over a wooden frame that is propelled by paddles; used by the Eskimos for transportation.

• To act as an umpire.

• an earth pigment

• a medium brown to dark-brown color

• of the color of any of various natural brown earth pigments

• a region of complete shadow resulting from total obstruction of light

• One of the five basic tastes, the savory taste of foods such as seaweed, cured fish, aged cheeses and meats.

• flat-topped or rounded inflorescence characteristic of the family Umbelliferae in which the individual flower stalks arise from about the same point; youngest flowers are at the center

• A boss, or rounded elevation, or a corresponding depression, in a palate, disk, or membrane. For example the umbo in the integument of the larvæ of echinoderms or in the tympanic membrane of the ear.

• One of the lateral prominences just above the hinge of a bivalve shell.

• A bump or protrusion on the top of the cap.

• The boss of a shield, at or near the middle, and usually projecting, sometimes in a sharp spike.