8-letter words containing b, a, m
- mailable — legally acceptable as mail, as in terms of content, size, or weight.
- mailbags — Plural form of mailbag.
- mailboat — a boat for transporting mail.
- mailbomb — Alternative form of mail bomb.
- mainboom — the spar for the mainsail
- makeable — a rough stone
- makebate — a person who causes contention or discord.
- malherbe — François de (frɑ̃swa də). 1555–1628, French poet and critic. He advocated the classical ideals of clarity and concision of meaning
- malibran — Maria Felicita [Spanish mah-ree-ah fe-lee-thee-tah] /Spanish mɑˈri ɑ ˌfɛ liˈθi tɑ/ (Show IPA), 1808–36, Spanish opera singer, born in France.
- mancozeb — A grayish-yellow pesticide.
- mandible — the bone of the lower jaw.
- mangabey — any of several slender, long-tailed monkeys of the genus Cercocebus, inhabiting forests of Africa: some species are endangered.
- mangbetu — a member of a people of the northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo.
- maniable — (obsolete) manageable.
- manitoba — a province in central Canada. 246,512 sq. mi. (638,466 sq. km). Abbreviation: Man. Capital: Winnipeg.
- mappable — a representation, usually on a flat surface, as of the features of an area of the earth or a portion of the heavens, showing them in their respective forms, sizes, and relationships according to some convention of representation: a map of Canada.
- 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.
- marbella — a seaport in S Spain, on the Mediterranean: resort center.
- marbling — metamorphosed limestone, consisting chiefly of recrystallized calcite or dolomite, capable of taking a high polish, occurring in a wide range of colors and variegations and used in sculpture and architecture.
- marimbas — Plural form of marimba.
- markable — Capable of being marked.
- marlboro — a city in E Massachusetts.
- martaban — Gulf of, an inlet of the Bay of Bengal, in Burma.
- marybeth — a female given name.
- mashable — Of a consistency suitable for mashing.
- maskable — capable of being masked
- mast bed — a construction in a wooden deck around the opening for a mast.
- mastabah — Alt form mastaba.
- mastabas — Plural form of mastaba.
- matabele — Ndebele (def 1).
- matchbox — a small box, usually of cardboard, for matches.
- maubeuge — a city in N France, on the Sambre River, near the Belgian border.
- mawbound — (of cattle) constipated
- may-blob — marsh marigold.
- mbandaka — a city in the W Democratic Republic of the Congo.
- mbaqanga — a style of Black popular music of urban South Africa
- 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.
- meanable — (mostly, philosophy) Capable of being meant.
- meatball — a small ball of ground meat, especially beef, often mixed with bread crumbs, seasonings, etc., before cooking.
- medibank — the national health-insurance program instituted in Australia.
- megaband — (music, informal) A particularly successful band.
- megabase — A length of double-stranded DNA containing two million nucleotides, one million on each strand.
- megabits — Plural form of megabit.
- megabook — An extremely large book.
- megabuck — one million dollars.
- megabyte — 2 20 (1,048,576) bytes.
- megadebt — An enormous debt.
- meltable — to become liquefied by warmth or heat, as ice, snow, butter, or metal.
- membrain — Misspelling of membrane.