Word.ws English Dictionary

Words Ending in EM

There are 88 words ending in EM on Word.ws, from 2 to 13 letters. The most common length is 4 letters (23 words). The words used most often are them, system, problem, seem and em.

Meanings from Wiktionary. Not an official Scrabble, Words With Friends or Wordle word list.

2-letter words ending in EM

  • em4n. The name of the Latin script letter M/m.

3-letter words ending in EM

  • cem7n. Cemetery.
  • dem6det. (clitic, suffix) A group of.
  • fem8n. Synonym of femme.
  • gem6n. A precious stone, usually of substantial monetary value or prized for...
  • hem8interj. Used to fill in the gap of a pause with a vocalized sound.
  • mem7n. The thirteenth letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician...
  • rem5n. A non-SI unit of measure for radiation dose, measured as equivalent...
  • wem8n. A spot, stain, or mark; (by extension) a (moral) blemish or fault.
  • yem8n. A Vietnamese bodice with a halterneck and a V-shaped bottom worn by...
  • zem14n. A zemidjan.

4-letter words ending in EM

  • ahem9interj. The sound of a quiet cough or of clearing one's throat.
  • blem8n. A blemished item.
  • chem11n. A chemical weapon.
  • clem8v. To be hungry; starve.
  • crem8n. Crematorium.
  • deem7v. To hold in belief or estimation; to adjudge as a conclusion; to regard...
  • etem6n. The fungicide ethylenethiuram monosulfide.
  • grem7n. A young or inexperienced surfer or skateboarder.
  • haem9n. Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa, and UK standard...
  • idem7pron. The same.
  • item6n. A distinct physical object.
  • jeem13n. The letter ج in the Arabic script.
  • meem8n. The letter م (m) in the Arabic script.
  • neem6n. Azadirachta indica, a large, mostly evergreen tree from India, whose...
  • poem8n. A literary piece written in verse.
  • prem8n. The Premier League.
  • reem6n. A large horned animal in ancient Hebrew literature, variously...
  • seem6v. To appear; to look outwardly; to be perceived as.
  • stem6n. The stock of a family; a race or generation of progenitors.
  • teem6v. To be stocked to overflowing.
  • them9pron. Used as the direct object of a verb.
  • trem6n. The vibrato system on a guitar.
  • weem9v. We are.

5-letter words ending in EM

  • autem7n. A church.
  • golem8n. A humanoid creature made from clay, animated by magic. The most famous...
  • harem10n. The private section of a Muslim household forbidden to male strangers.
  • herem10n. A prohibition enacted by rabbinic authority.
  • modem10n. A device that encodes digital computer signals into analog telephone...
  • preem9n. The premiere of a film.
  • proem9n. An introduction, preface or preamble.
  • satem7adj. Of or relating to a Proto-Indo-European language group that produced...
  • steem7n. A gleam of light; a flame.
  • terem7n. Separate living quarters occupied by elite women of the Principality of...
  • totem7n. Any natural object or living creature that serves as an emblem of a...
  • xylem17n. A vascular tissue in land plants primarily responsible for the...

6-letter words ending in EM

  • anthem11n. A choral or vocal composition, often with a religious or political...
  • diadem10n. An ornamental headband worn as a badge of royalty.
  • dodgem11n. A bumper car in an amusement park.
  • emblem12n. A representative symbol, such as a trademark, a badge or logo.
  • esteem8n. Assessment, estimation, or regard; especially; favourable estimation or...
  • haleem11n. A stew-like dish traditionally consisting of wheat, mutton, spices, and...
  • ibidem11adv. In the same place; indicates a reference to the same source as the...
  • jenkem19n. A purported hallucinogenic inhalant made from fermented sewage.
  • mandem11n. A group of men or boys; male friends or fellow gang members.
  • mayhem16n. The criminal offence of maiming (“seriously wounding”) a person such...
  • montem10n. A former custom of Eton schoolboys to go to a hill on the Bath road...
  • phloem13n. A vascular tissue in land plants primarily responsible for the...
  • redeem9v. To recover ownership of something by buying it back.
  • sachem13n. A chief of one or several Native American tribe(s), especially of the...
  • system11n. A group or set of related things that operate together as a complex...
  • tandem9n. A carriage pulled by two or more draught animals (generally draught...

7-letter words ending in EM

  • biochem16n. Biochemistry (science or industry).
  • problem13n. A difficulty that has to be resolved or dealt with.
  • requiem18n. A Mass (especially Catholic) to honor and remember a dead person.
  • theorem12n. A mathematical statement of some importance that has been proven to be...

8-letter words ending in EM

  • bluestem12n. Any of various grasses having bluish stems, including little bluestem...
  • imipenem14n. A broad-spectrum beta-lactam antibiotic.
  • mainstem12n. The principal watercourse of a river that has multiple streams.
  • meridiem13n. The property of a timestamp of being either a.m. or p.m.
  • meristem12n. The plant tissue composed of totipotent cells that allows plant growth.
  • pipestem14n. The hollow stem or tube of a pipe used for smoking tobacco, etc.
  • zolpidem22n. A sedative and hypnotic drug administered orally in the form of its...

9-letter words ending in EM

  • brummagem18adj. Cheap and showy; meretricious.
  • chernozem25n. A fertile black soil containing a very high percentage of humus (3% to...
  • diltiazem21n. A benzothiazepine drug, a potent vasodilator used to treat...
  • ecosystem16n. A system formed by an ecological community and its environment that...
  • meropenem15n. A broad-spectrum beta-lactam antibiotic used to treat meningitis and...
  • stratagem12n. A tactic or artifice designed to gain the upper hand, especially one...

10-letter words ending in EM

  • antemortem14adj. Having occurred or having been inflicted before death.
  • carbapenem18n. Any of a class of broad-spectrum beta-lactam antibiotics that are...
  • subproblem18n. A problem whose solution contributes to the solution of a larger...

11-letter words ending in EM

  • intersystem16adj. Between systems.
  • microsystem20n. A microscopic system, especially a system using microscopic...
  • multisystem18adj. Of or pertaining to more than one system (especially computer systems).
  • photosystem21n. Either of two biochemical systems, active in chloroplasts, that are...

12-letter words ending in EM

13-letter words ending in EM

  • agroecosystem21n. A conceptual model of an agricultural system (crop, farm or whole...
221 rare words ending in EM

Questions about these words

How many words ending in EM are there?
Word.ws lists 88 words ending in EM, plus 221 rare ones.
What are common words ending in EM?
them, system, problem, seem, em, item, stem and poem.
Which of the words ending in EM has the highest letter score?
chernozem scores 25 points with the standard letter tile values.

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Word lists and meanings adapted from the Wiktionary entry of each word. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out names, abbreviations, misspellings and offensive words, and ordered the most common words by how often they appear in English (wordfreq). Meanings from Wiktionary; this is not an official Scrabble, Words With Friends or Wordle word list. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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