8-letter words containing b, a, l
- mendable — to make (something broken, worn, torn, or otherwise damaged) whole, sound, or usable by repairing: to mend old clothes; to mend a broken toy.
- metablog — (neologism, Internet) a blog about blogs.
- metabola — (in the plural, entomology) Insects that metamorphose.
- metabole — Alternative spelling of metabola.
- metaboly — the ability of some cells, esp protozoans, to alter their shape
- miliband — David (Wright). born 1965, British Labour politician; foreign secretary (2007–10)
- milk bar — a simple restaurant, often with an open front, or a counter or booth where milk drinks, sandwiches, etc., are sold.
- millable — capable of being milled: millable wheat.
- millbrae — a city in W California, on San Francisco Bay.
- millibar — a centimeter-gram-second unit of pressure equal to one thousandth of a bar or 1000 dynes per square centimeter, used to measure air pressure. Abbreviation: mb.
- mineable — capable of being mined, especially profitably.
- minilabs — Plural form of minilab.
- mislabel — to label wrongly, incorrectly, or misleadingly: to mislabel a bottle of medicine.
- missable — to fail to hit or strike: to miss a target.
- mockable — to attack or treat with ridicule, contempt, or derision.
- moddable — (video games) That can be modded (modified by the end user).
- moldable — a hollow form or matrix for giving a particular shape to something in a molten or plastic state.
- moonball — a high lob in tennis.
- mootable — Capable of being mooted.
- mothball — a small ball of naphthalene or sometimes of camphor for placing in closets or other storage areas to repel moths from clothing, blankets, etc.
- movables — Plural form of movable.
- moveable — capable of being moved; not fixed in one place, position, or posture.
- moveably — in a movable manner
- 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.
- muteable — Capable of being muted.
- myoblast — any of the cells derived from the mesoderm in the vertebrate embryo that develop into muscle tissue.
- mysql ab — (company) The Swedish company that developes, distributes and supports the MySQL open source rdbms. MySQL AB is a subsidiary of Sun Microsystems, themselves acquired by Oracle Corporation on 2009-04-20.
- nail bar — a type of beauty salon specializing in manicure and the decoration of, esp women's, fingernails
- nail bed — the dermis and epidermis under a fingernail or toenail.
- nameable — capable of or susceptible to being named or identified; identifiable.
- nembutal — pentobarbital sodium
- neoblast — any large and undifferentiated stem cell in certain worms, esp planarian worms, involved in regeneration and repair
- nestable — a pocketlike, usually more or less circular structure of twigs, grass, mud, etc., formed by a bird, often high in a tree, as a place in which to lay and incubate its eggs and rear its young; any protected place used by a bird for these purposes.
- nettable — net income, profit, or the like.
- nobleman — a man of noble birth or rank; noble; peer.
- nonblack — (of a person) not black.
- nonlabor — productive activity, especially for the sake of economic gain.
- notables — Plural form of notable.
- noteable — Misspelling of notable.
- nubecula — (astronomy) A nebula; specifically, the Magellanic Clouds.
- nullable — That may be nullified; nullifiable.
- oathable — having the ability to take an oath or to be believed while on oath
- oberland — a mountain region in central Switzerland, mostly in S Bern canton.
- obeyable — to comply with or follow the commands, restrictions, wishes, or instructions of: to obey one's parents.
- oblately — In an oblate manner.
- oblation — the offering to God of the elements of bread and wine in the Eucharist.
- oblatory — Of or pertaining to oblation; oblational.
- obligant — a person who promises or is obliged to pay a sum or carry out a task
- obligate — to bind or oblige morally or legally: to obligate oneself to purchase a building.