9-letter words containing a, b, e, m
- la boheme — an opera (1896) by Giacomo Puccini.
- la cumbre — Uspallata Pass.
- labelmate — a musician or singer who makes records for the same company as another
- laborsome — Alternative form of laboursome.
- lambaréné — a town in W Gabon on the Ogooué River: site of the hospital built by Albert Schweitzer, who died and was buried there (1965). Pop: 9000 (2003 est)
- lambasted — to beat or whip severely.
- lambastes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of lambaste.
- lambative — (archaic) Taken by licking with the tongue.
- lambently — In a lambent manner, brightly.
- lambitive — a medicine that is taken by licking it with the tongue
- lamebrain — a dunce; booby; fool.
- laminable — capable of being laminated.
- lima bean — a bean, Phaseolus limensis, having a broad, flat, edible seed.
- limitable — Able to be limited.
- lumberman — a person who deals in lumber.
- macabrely — In a macabre manner.
- maccabean — of or relating to the Maccabees or Judas Maccabaeus.
- maccabees — (used with a plural verb) the members of the Hasmonean family of Jewish leaders and rulers comprising the sons of Mattathias and their descendants and reigning in Judea from 167? to 37 b.c., especially Judas Maccabaeus and his brothers, who defeated the Syrians under Antiochus IV in 165? and rededicated the Temple in Jerusalem.
- machabees — Maccabees (def 2).
- magdeburg — a state in central Germany. 9515 sq. mi. (24,644 sq. km). Capital: Magdeburg.
- mailboxes — Plural form of mailbox.
- main beam — a long thick bar of wood, metal, or concrete used in the construction of houses which transmits its load directly to a wall or column, as opposed to another beam
- main verb — a word used as the final verb in a verb phrase, expressing the lexical meaning of the verb phrase, as drink in I don't drink, going in I am going, or spoken in We have spoken.
- mainbrace — a brace leading to a main yard.
- make bail — If someone who has been arrested makes bail, or if another person makes bail for them, the arrested person is released on bail.
- make bold — to bring into existence by shaping or changing material, combining parts, etc.: to make a dress; to make a channel; to make a work of art.
- make book — to enter in a book or list; record; register.
- maleberry — swamp andromeda.
- malleable — capable of being extended or shaped by hammering or by pressure from rollers.
- malleably — In a malleable manner; flexibly.
- mamberamo — a river in Irian Jaya, W New Guinea, flowing NW to the Pacific Ocean. 500 miles (805 km) long.
- managable — Misspelling of manageable.
- mandelbug — (jargon, programming) /man'del-buhg/ (From the Mandelbrot set) A bug whose underlying causes are so complex and obscure as to make its behaviour appear chaotic or even nondeterministic. This term implies that the speaker thinks it is a Bohr bug, rather than a heisenbug. See also schroedinbug.
- mandibles — Plural form of mandible.
- mangabeys — Plural form of mangabey.
- manurable — Able, or suitable, to be manured or cultivated on.
- marbleize — marble.
- marienbad — a spa and resort town in the Czech Republic.
- mason bee — any of numerous solitary bees, as of the family Megachilidae, that construct nests of clay.
- matchable — a person or thing that equals or resembles another in some respect.
- maturable — capable of being matured
- mealy bug — any of several scalelike, homopterous insects of the families Pseudococcidae and Eriococcidae that are covered with a powdery wax secretion and feed on plants.
- meatballs — Plural form of meatball.
- medicable — responsive to medical treatment; curable.
- megabases — Plural form of megabase.
- megabucks — one million dollars.
- megabytes — Plural form of megabyte.
- meibomian — Alternative form of Meibomian.
- membranal — Of or pertaining to a membrane.
- membraned — Having a (specified type of) membrane.