9-letter words containing b, a, r, m
- hamburger — a sandwich consisting of a cooked patty of ground or chopped beef, usually in a roll or bun, variously garnished.
- hammurabi — 18th century b.c. or earlier, king of Babylonia.
- herbalism — The study or practice of the medicinal and therapeutic use of plants, now especially as a form of alternative medicine.
- herbarium — a collection of dried plants systematically arranged.
- hornbeams — Plural form of hornbeam.
- hybridoma — a hybrid cell made in the laboratory by fusing a normal cell with a cancer cell, usually a myeloma or lymphoma, in order to combine desired features of each, as the ability of the cancer cell to multiply rapidly with the ability of the normal cell to dictate the production of a specific antibody.
- imambarah — a building, rooms, etc., used by Shiʿites for ceremonies, especially during the first 10 days of Muharram.
- imbracery — embracery.
- imbrangle — embrangle.
- imbricate — overlapping in sequence, as tiles or shingles on a roof.
- inumbrate — (obsolete) To shade; to darken.
- jamborees — Plural form of jamboree.
- jambuster — (Canada, Manitoba and northwestern Ontario) A doughnut filled with jam.
- jeroboams — Plural form of jeroboam.
- kachumber — a salad of chopped onion, tomato, cucumber, and (sometimes) other vegetables, typically seasoned with chilli and coriander, served as an accompaniment to a main meal
- la cumbre — Uspallata Pass.
- laborsome — Alternative form of laboursome.
- labourism — Support for the labour movement, the development of a collective organization of working people to campaign for better working conditions and treatment.
- laburnums — 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.
- lambaréné — a town in W Gabon on the Ogooué River: site of the hospital built by Albert Schweitzer, who died and was buried there (1965). Pop: 9000 (2003 est)
- lambrusco — a semisweet, lightly effervescent red wine from Italy.
- lamebrain — a dunce; booby; fool.
- lampbrush — (rare) A form of brush, containing loops of material, used for dusting light fittings.
- lombardia — a region of N central Italy, bordering on the Alps: dominated by prosperous lordships and city-states during the Middle Ages; later ruled by Spain and then by Austria before becoming part of Italy in 1859; intensively cultivated and in parts highly industrialized. Pop: 9 108 645 (2003 est). Area: 23 804 sq km (9284 sq miles)
- lombardic — a native or inhabitant of Lombardy.
- lumberman — a person who deals in lumber.
- lumbrical — any of four wormlike muscles in the palm of the hand and in the sole of the foot.
- macabrely — In a macabre manner.
- macbinary — (file format) An eight-bit wide representation of the data and resource forks of an Macintosh file and of relevant Finder information. MacBinary files are recognised as "special" by several MacIntosh terminal emulators. These emulators, using Kermit or XMODEM or any other file transfer protocol, can separate the incoming file into forks and appropriately modify the Desktop to display icons, types, creation dates, and the like.
- macrobian — Having an exceptionally long life span.
- magdeburg — a state in central Germany. 9515 sq. mi. (24,644 sq. km). Capital: Magdeburg.
- main verb — a word used as the final verb in a verb phrase, expressing the lexical meaning of the verb phrase, as drink in I don't drink, going in I am going, or spoken in We have spoken.
- mainboard — (computing) motherboard.
- mainbrace — a brace leading to a main yard.
- maleberry — swamp andromeda.
- mamberamo — a river in Irian Jaya, W New Guinea, flowing NW to the Pacific Ocean. 500 miles (805 km) long.
- manubrial — Anatomy, Zoology. a segment, bone, cell, etc., resembling a handle.
- manubrium — Anatomy, Zoology. a segment, bone, cell, etc., resembling a handle.
- manurable — Able, or suitable, to be manured or cultivated on.
- māori bug — a large shining black wingless cockroach of New Zealand, Platyzosteria novae-zelandiae
- marabouts — Plural form of marabout.
- marabunta — A large population of army ants on the move, eating anything in their wake.
- maracaibo — a seaport in NW Venezuela.
- marbleize — marble.
- marienbad — a spa and resort town in the Czech Republic.
- marimbist — A player of the marimba.
- marrubium — Any of the genus Marrubium of bitter aromatic plants; hoarhound.
- marshbuck — an antelope of the central African swamplands, Strepsiceros spekei, with spreading hoofs adapted to boggy ground; an important vector of the tsetse fly
- maturable — capable of being matured
- membranal — Of or pertaining to a membrane.