8-letter words containing b, a, m
- membrane — Anatomy. a thin, pliable sheet or layer of animal or vegetable tissue, serving to line an organ, connect parts, etc.
- memsahib — (formerly, in India) a term of respect for a married European woman.
- 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.
- 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.
- mesh bag — bag made of netting
- meta bit — (character) The most-signigicant bit of an 8-bit character, which is on in character values 128--255. Also called the high bit, "alt bit" (alternate bit) or hobbit. Some terminals and consoles (see space-cadet keyboard) have a META shift key. Others (including, *mirabile dictu*, keyboards on IBM PC-class machines) have an ALT key. See also bucky bits. Historical note: although, in modern usage shaped by a universe of 8-bit bytes, the meta bit is invariably hex 80 (octal 0200), things were different on earlier machines with 36-bit words and 9-bit bytes. The MIT and Stanford keyboards (see space-cadet keyboard) generated hex 100 (octal 400) from their meta keys.
- 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
- micawber — a person who idles and trusts to fortune
- microbar — a centimeter-gram-second unit of pressure, equal to one millionth of a bar; one dyne per square centimeter.
- microbat — Any of the small bats in the suborder Microchiroptera.
- midbrain — the middle of the three primary divisions of the brain in the embryo of a vertebrate or the part of the adult brain derived from this tissue; mesencephalon.
- 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.
- minibars — Plural form of minibar.
- minicabs — Plural form of minicab.
- minilabs — Plural form of minilab.
- 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.
- misbrand — to brand or label erroneously.
- mislabel — to label wrongly, incorrectly, or misleadingly: to mislabel a bottle of medicine.
- missable — to fail to hit or strike: to miss a target.
- mmabatho — a self-governing Bantu territory of South Africa, consisting of several landlocked areas, along the NE part: granted independence in 1977 by South Africa, but not recognized by any other country as an independent state. 16,988 sq. mi. (44,000 sq. km). Capital: Mmabatho.
- mobocrat — One who favours a form of government in which the unintelligent populace rules without restraint.
- 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.
- moneybag — a bag for money.
- monobath — a developer and fixer combined in the same solution.
- moon bag — a small bag worn on a belt, round the waist
- moonball — a high lob in tennis.
- moonbase — (scifi) A base located on a moon.
- moonbeam — a ray of moonlight.
- mootable — Capable of being mooted.
- mopboard — baseboard (def 1).
- morbihan — a department in W France. 2738 sq. mi. (7090 sq. km). Capital: Vannes.
- mossback — Informal. a person holding very antiquated notions; reactionary. a person living in the backwoods; rustic.
- 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
- ms-basic — Microsoft Basic
- 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