Umiak is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.
You can make 40 anagrams from letters in umiak (aikmu).
First recorded in 1760-70, umiak is from the Inuit word umiaq women's boat
The skins and poles can be transported when the umiak is able to carry them.
The name kayak is properly only applied to the boat used by an Eskimo man—that used by a woman is called an umiak.
An Eskimo even thinks it an indignity to row in an umiak, the large boat used by women.
When Kovik appeared in his umiak with his squat wife and family, there was a general handshaking.
And the umiak and its crew of women stayed there, and wintered in that place.
And at the same moment the sea was lashed into foam, but the umiak had reached the land.
One of them is the great woman's boat called the umiak, from twelve to eighteen yards in length, and four or five in width.
The umiak dashed off, but it seemed as if it were standing still, so swiftly did the whale overhaul it.
I have found a dead whale; to-morrow we must all go out in the umiak and cut it up.
The covering of the umiak is made of skins of the largest seals.