11-letter words containing b, a, m
- mersey beat — the characteristic pop music of the Beatles and other groups from Liverpool in the 1960s
- mescal bean — an evergreen shrub or small tree, Sophora secundiflora, of the legume family, of the southwestern U.S. and northern Mexico, having clusters of fragrant, violet-blue flowers and pods containing highly poisonous, bright red seeds.
- mesoblastic — (biology) of, relating to, or resembling the mesoblast.
- message bag — a shopping bag
- metabolical — Alternative form of metabolic.
- metabolised — Simple past tense and past participle of metabolise.
- metabolises — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of metabolise.
- metabolisms — Plural form of metabolism.
- metabolites — Plural form of metabolite.
- metabolized — Simple past tense and past participle of metabolize.
- metabolizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of metabolize.
- metabolomes — Plural form of metabolome.
- metharbital — A barbiturate anticonvulsant used in the treatment of epilepsy.
- miami beach — a city in SE Florida on an island 2½ miles (4 km) across Biscayne Bay from Miami: seaside resort.
- minangkabau — a member of an Indonesian people native to west-central Sumatra.
- minas basin — a bay in E Canada, the easternmost arm of the Bay of Fundy, in N Nova Scotia: noted for its high tides.
- minicabbing — the act of driving a minicab
- mirror ball — a large revolving ball covered with small pieces of mirror glass so that it reflects light in changing patterns: used in discos and ballrooms
- misassemble — to assemble incorrectly
- misbalanced — badly balanced
- misbefallen — Simple past tense and past participle of misbefall.
- misbehaving — to behave badly or improperly: The children misbehaved during our visit.
- misbehavior — improper, inappropriate, or bad behavior.
- misbestowal — a wrong or improper bestowal
- miserablest — Superlative form of miserable.
- mislabeling — Present participle of mislabel.
- mislabelled — to label wrongly, incorrectly, or misleadingly: to mislabel a bottle of medicine.
- miss a beat — If you say or do something without missing a beat, you continue to speak or do it, even though people might have expected you to hesitate or stop.
- mob oratory — oratory designed to appeal to and inflame the emotions of a crowd, as for example Hitler's oratory
- mobocracies — Plural form of mobocracy.
- mobuto lake — Lake Albert.
- moldability — a hollow form or matrix for giving a particular shape to something in a molten or plastic state.
- monday club — (in Britain) a club made up of right-wing Conservatives who originally met together for lunch on Monday: founded in 1961
- monetizable — Able to be converted into cash with relative ease.
- monkey bars — children's climbing frame
- monoblastic — having a single layer, as an embryo in the blastula stage or developing from a single layer.
- montbéliard — an industrial town in E France: former capital of the duchy of Burgundy. Pop: 27 570 (1999)
- monte alban — a major ceremonial center of the Zapotec culture, near the city of Oaxaca, Mexico, occupied from 600 b.c. to a.d. 700.
- montego bay — a city in NW Jamaica: seaside resort.
- moorbuzzard — a bird of prey known as the marsh harrier, Circus Aeruginosus
- moral fiber — Moral fiber is the quality of being determined to do what you think is right.
- moral fibre — Moral fibre is the quality of being determined to do what you think is right.
- mortarboard — a board, usually square, used by masons to hold mortar.
- mothballing — Present participle of mothball.
- motherboard — a rigid, slotted board upon which other boards that contain the basic circuitry of a computer or of a computer component can be mounted. Compare board (def 14).
- motorboater — Someone who pilots a motorboat.
- mount tabor — a mountain in N Israel, near Nazareth: traditionally regarded as the mountain where the Transfiguration took place. Height: 588 m (1929 ft)
- mountbatten — Louis (Francis Albert Victor Nicholas), 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma 1900–79, British naval commander; great-grandson of Queen Victoria. During World War II he was supreme allied commander in SE Asia (1943–46). He was the last viceroy of India (1947) and governor general (1947–48); killed by an IRA bomb
- mountebanks — Plural form of mountebank.
- movableness — The quality or state of being movable; mobility.