9-letter words containing a, m, b
- lombardic — a native or inhabitant of Lombardy.
- lumberman — a person who deals in lumber.
- lumbrical — any of four wormlike muscles in the palm of the hand and in the sole of the foot.
- m-banking — the practice of making financial transactions or managing bank accounts using mobile phone technology
- macabrely — In a macabre manner.
- macbinary — (file format) An eight-bit wide representation of the data and resource forks of an Macintosh file and of relevant Finder information. MacBinary files are recognised as "special" by several MacIntosh terminal emulators. These emulators, using Kermit or XMODEM or any other file transfer protocol, can separate the incoming file into forks and appropriately modify the Desktop to display icons, types, creation dates, and the like.
- 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).
- macrobian — Having an exceptionally long life span.
- mad about — passionate about
- magdeburg — a state in central Germany. 9515 sq. mi. (24,644 sq. km). Capital: Magdeburg.
- maggotbox — (abuse) /mag'*t-boks/ An even more derogatory term than Macintrash.
- mail bomb — letter bomb.
- mail-bomb — Military. a projectile, formerly usually spherical, filled with a bursting charge and exploded by means of a fuze, by impact, or otherwise, now generally designed to be dropped from an aircraft.
- 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 body — the hull, as distinguished from the rest of a ship.
- 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.
- mainboard — (computing) motherboard.
- 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.
- mandibula — (anatomy) mandible.
- mangabeys — Plural form of mangabey.
- manitoban — a province in central Canada. 246,512 sq. mi. (638,466 sq. km). Abbreviation: Man. Capital: Winnipeg.
- manta bay — an inlet of the Pacific, on the W coast of Ecuador.
- manubrial — Anatomy, Zoology. a segment, bone, cell, etc., resembling a handle.
- manubrium — Anatomy, Zoology. a segment, bone, cell, etc., resembling a handle.
- manurable — Able, or suitable, to be manured or cultivated on.
- māori bug — a large shining black wingless cockroach of New Zealand, Platyzosteria novae-zelandiae
- marabouts — Plural form of marabout.
- marabunta — A large population of army ants on the move, eating anything in their wake.
- maracaibo — a seaport in NW Venezuela.
- marbleize — marble.
- marienbad — a spa and resort town in the Czech Republic.
- marimbist — A player of the marimba.
- marrubium — Any of the genus Marrubium of bitter aromatic plants; hoarhound.
- 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.