8-letter words containing a, u, m, b
- cambiums — Plural form of cambium.
- cibarium — Entomology. a food pouch in front of the mouth in certain insects.
- clubmate — A person who is in the same club as another person.
- columbia — a river in NW North America, rising in the Rocky Mountains and flowing through British Columbia, then west to the Pacific. Length: about 1930 km (1200 miles)
- cumbrian — of or relating to Cumbria or its inhabitants
- drambuie — a liqueur based on Scotch whisky and made exclusively in Scotland from a recipe dating from the 18th century
- drumbeat — the rhythmic sound of a drum.
- dumb-ass — a thoroughly stupid person; blockhead.
- dumbhead — blockhead.
- dzhambul — a city in S Kazakhstan, NE of Chimkent.
- eboracum — ancient name of York, England.
- emulable — Worthy of emulation.
- fabulism — (literature) A form of magic realism in which fantastical elements are placed into an everyday setting.
- flambeau — a flaming torch.
- galbanum — a gum resin with a peculiar, strong odor, obtained from certain Asian plants of the genus Ferula, used in incense and formerly in medicine.
- gambusia — any fish of the genus Gambusia, comprising small livebearers that feed on aquatic insect larvae and are used to control mosquitoes.
- giambeux — Obsolete form of jambeux.
- gum band — a rubber band.
- gumballs — Plural form of gumball.
- hummable — (of a piece of music) able to be hummed easily; melodic; tuneful.
- humpback — a back that is humped in a convex position.
- ipsambul — Abu Simbel.
- jambeaux — Plural form of jambeau.
- kombucha — Also called kombucha mushroom. a live culture of multiple species of yeast and bacteria, grown to make a mildly alcoholic fermented beverage.
- labarums — Plural form of labarum.
- labdanum — a resinous juice that exudes from various rockroses of the genus Cistus: used in perfumery, fumigating substances, etc.
- labellum — the petal of an orchid that differs more or less markedly from the other petals, often forming the most conspicuous part; the lip.
- laburnum — 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.
- macahuba — a South American palm tree of the genus Acrocomia
- mail hub — mail server
- mangbetu — a member of a people of the northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo.
- marabous — Plural form of marabou.
- marabout — Islam. a hermit or holy man, especially in N Africa, often wielding political power and credited with supernatural powers. the tomb or shrine of such a man.
- maubeuge — a city in N France, on the Sambre River, near the Belgian border.
- mawbound — (of cattle) constipated
- mealybug — any of several scalelike, homopterous insects of the families Pseudococcidae and Eriococcidae that are covered with a powdery wax secretion and feed on plants.
- megabuck — one million dollars.
- menu bar — a horizontal menu displayed at the top of a computer screen or window, listing available menus for an application, as File, Edit, and View.
- mirabeau — Honoré Gabriel Victor Riqueti [aw-naw-rey ga-bree-el veek-tawr reekuh-tee] /ɔ nɔˈreɪ ga briˈɛl vikˈtɔr rikəˈti/ (Show IPA), Count de, 1749–91, French Revolutionary statesman and orator.
- muck bar — a rough bar of wrought iron, rolled from blooms of iron extracted from a puddling furnace.
- mud bath — skin treatment: soaking in mud
- mud crab — a large edible crab, Scylla serrata, of Australian mangrove regions
- mudbanks — Plural form of mudbank.
- mudbaths — Plural form of mudbath.
- muhlbach — Luise [loo-ee-zuh] /luˈi zə/ (Show IPA), (Klara Müller Mundt) 1814–73, German novelist.
- mumblage — /muhm'bl*j/ The topic of one's mumbling (see mumble). "All that mumblage" is used like "all that stuff" when it is not quite clear how the subject of discussion works, or like "all that crap" when "mumble" is being used as an implicit replacement for pejoratives.
- murdabad — down with; death to: used as part of a slogan in India, Pakistan, etc
- musk bag — the musk-secreting gland of a male musk deer.
- muteable — Capable of being muted.
- nembutal — pentobarbital sodium