9-letter words containing a, m, b, s
- in ambush — If someone is lying in ambush, they are hiding and waiting for someone, usually to attack them.
- islamabad — Islamic Republic of, a republic in S Asia, between India and Afghanistan: formerly part of British India; known as West Pakistan from 1947–71 to distinguish it from East Pakistan (now Bangladesh). 310,403 sq. mi. (803,881 sq. km). Capital: Islamabad.
- istambuli — a native or inhabitant of Istanbul.
- jamborees — Plural form of jamboree.
- jambstone — a stone, or one of the stones, forming one jamb of an opening.
- jambuster — (Canada, Manitoba and northwestern Ontario) A doughnut filled with jam.
- james bay — the S arm of Hudson Bay, in E Canada between Ontario and Quebec provinces. 300 miles (483 km) long; 160 miles (258 km) wide.
- jeroboams — Plural form of jeroboam.
- kabbalism — The study of the Kabbalah.
- labialism — a tendency, sometimes habitual, to make sounds labial, as in pronouncing the l in love as a w- like sound.
- laborsome — Alternative form of laboursome.
- labourism — Support for the labour movement, the development of a collective organization of working people to campaign for better working conditions and treatment.
- laburnums — any of several small trees belonging to the genus Laburnum, of the legume family, having elongated clusters of pendulous yellow flowers, especially L. alpinum, the Scotch laburnum.
- lambasted — to beat or whip severely.
- lambastes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of lambaste.
- lambrusco — a semisweet, lightly effervescent red wine from Italy.
- lambskins — Plural form of lambskin.
- lambswool — Fine wool from a young sheep, used to make knitted garments, blankets, etc., with a soft texture.
- lampbrush — (rare) A form of brush, containing loops of material, used for dusting light fittings.
- 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).
- mailboxes — Plural form of mailbox.
- mandibles — Plural form of mandible.
- mangabeys — Plural form of mangabey.
- marabouts — Plural form of marabout.
- marimbist — A player of the marimba.
- marshbuck — an antelope of the central African swamplands, Strepsiceros spekei, with spreading hoofs adapted to boggy ground; an important vector of the tsetse fly
- mason bee — any of numerous solitary bees, as of the family Megachilidae, that construct nests of clay.
- mass book — missal (def 1).
- mast ball — an ornamental ball forming the truck of a mast.
- mast band — a hoop of metal around a mast, used as a reinforcement or as an object for attaching stays, tackles, etc.
- may blobs — marsh marigold.
- meatballs — Plural form of meatball.
- megabases — Plural form of megabase.
- megabucks — one million dollars.
- megabytes — Plural form of megabyte.
- membranes — Plural form of membrane.
- memsahibs — Plural form of memsahib.
- mesoblast — the mesoderm.
- metabasis — (rhetoric) A change from one subject to another.
- microbars — Plural form of microbar.
- midbrains — Plural form of midbrain.
- millibars — Plural form of millibar.
- minibeast — (informal) An insect / bug etc.
- mirabilis — (botany) Any of the plant genus Mirabilis; a four-o'clock.
- misbecame — Simple past tense and past participle of misbecome.
- misbefall — (transitive, obsolete) Of an event, to happen unfortunately to (a person).
- misbehave — to behave badly or improperly: The children misbehaved during our visit.
- miserable — wretchedly unhappy, uneasy, or uncomfortable: miserable victims of war.
- miserably — wretchedly unhappy, uneasy, or uncomfortable: miserable victims of war.