9-letter words containing b, c, m
- cumbering — Present participle of cumber.
- cumbrance — a burden, obstacle, or hindrance
- currycomb — a square comb consisting of rows of small teeth, used for grooming horses
- cymbalist — A musician who plays the cymbals.
- cymbeline — a romantic drama (1610?) by Shakespeare.
- cymbidium — a genus, Cymbidium, of subtropical and tropical orchids native to Australia and Asia, having boat-shaped showy flowers
- cymbiform — having the shape of a boat
- deck beam — a stiffening deck member supported at its extremities by knee connections to frames or bulkheads
- decumbent — lying down or lying flat
- discumber — (archaic, transitive) To free from that which cumbers or impedes; to disencumber.
- dumb cane — a West Indian foliage plant, Dieffenbachia seguine, of the arum family, having yellow-blotched leaves that cause temporary speechlessness when chewed.
- dumb-cane — a West Indian foliage plant, Dieffenbachia seguine, of the arum family, having yellow-blotched leaves that cause temporary speechlessness when chewed.
- emboscata — a sudden attack or raid
- embraceor — a person guilty of embracery
- embracery — the offence of attempting by corrupt means to influence a jury or juror, as by bribery or threats
- embracing — Present participle of embrace.
- embracive — (archaic) Disposed to embrace; fond of caressing.
- embrocate — (medicine, transitive) To moisten and rub (a diseased part) with a liquid substance, as with spirit, oil, etc., by means of a cloth or sponge.
- embryonic — Of or relating to an embryo.
- embryotic — Embryonic.
- encumbers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of encumber.
- excambion — an exchange, esp of land
- fine-comb — to use a fine-tooth comb on.
- hecatombs — Plural form of hecatomb.
- honeycomb — a structure of rows of hexagonal wax cells, formed by bees in their hive for the storage of honey, pollen, and their eggs.
- humbucker — (music) A pickup, on an electric guitar, that has a pair of coils of reverse polarity connected in series - to
- humpbacks — Plural form of humpback.
- ibm pc at — (computer) ("Advanced Technology") A version of the IBM PC, released in Aug 1984 with an Intel 80286 processor, a 16-bit bus, a medium-speed hard disk and a 1.2 megabyte floppy disk drive. It had a larger case than the PC, which allowed it to accept "tall cards". The AT keyboard corrected the PC's non-standard placement of the return and left shift keys but shortened the backspace key, making it harder to reach.
- ibm pc xt — (computer) An IBM PC with a (slow) hard disk. The XT was released in March 1983. It had an Intel 8088 CPU. The XT/370, released in October 1983, added IBM 370 mainframe emulation, and the XT 286 followed in September 1986 with an Intel 80286 CPU [Why?].
- imbalance — the state or condition of lacking balance, as in proportion or distribution.
- imbecilic — of, relating to, or characteristic of an imbecile.
- imbracery — embracery.
- imbricate — overlapping in sequence, as tiles or shingles on a roof.
- impacable — (obsolete) Not to be appeased or quieted.
- incumbent — holding an indicated position, role, office, etc., currently: the incumbent officers of the club.
- 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.
- lamb chop — cutlets of young sheep's meat
- lambrusco — a semisweet, lightly effervescent red wine from Italy.
- lampblack — a fine black pigment consisting of almost pure carbon collected as soot from the smoke of burning oil, gas, etc.
- lehmbruck — Wilhelm [vil-helm] /ˈvɪl hɛlm/ (Show IPA), 1881–1919, German sculptor.
- lobectomy — excision of a lobe of an organ or gland.
- lombardic — a native or inhabitant of Lombardy.
- lumbrical — any of four wormlike muscles in the palm of the hand and in the sole of the foot.
- lumbricus — a member of a genus of worms of the same name, the most common of which is the common earth worm, Lumbricus terrestris
- lynch mob — A lynch mob is an angry crowd of people who want to kill someone without a trial, because they believe that person has committed a crime.
- 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.
- maccabean — of or relating to the Maccabees or Judas Maccabaeus.
- maccabees — (used with a plural verb) the members of the Hasmonean family of Jewish leaders and rulers comprising the sons of Mattathias and their descendants and reigning in Judea from 167? to 37 b.c., especially Judas Maccabaeus and his brothers, who defeated the Syrians under Antiochus IV in 165? and rededicated the Temple in Jerusalem.