Rheum is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.
You can make 47 anagrams from letters in Rheum (ehmru).
1350-1400; Middle English reume Late Latin rheuma Greek rheûma (rheu-, variant stem of rheîn to flow, stream + -ma noun suffix of result)
Here for instance are the directions to be given a patient suffering from rheum or catarrh.
He turned toward me, and looked into my eyes with two filmy orbs that distilled the rheum of intoxication.
But, pray where is the man who is always suffering from a rheum?
Then he raised his rickety old hat—was that a tear that stole into his eyes, or the rheum of old age?
Here once more he wiped away the rheum, with every appearance of regret and sorrow.
The rheum still, sir, nothing else; I should be well seasoned, for mine eyes lie in brine.
Our young Princess says her husband has a rheum in his eyes.
That very night a rheum fell into his eyes so that within a few days he became stark blind.
English rhubarb is principally produced at Banbury, Oxfordshire, from the rheum rhaponticum.
Tears of emotion actually filled her eyes and mingled with the rheum of her cold.
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