8-letter words containing b, e, a, m, i
- mailable — legally acceptable as mail, as in terms of content, size, or weight.
- mandible — the bone of the lower jaw.
- maniable — (obsolete) manageable.
- medibank — the national health-insurance program instituted in Australia.
- megabits — Plural form of megabit.
- membrain — Misspelling of membrane.
- memsahib — (formerly, in India) a term of respect for a married European woman.
- 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.
- micawber — a person who idles and trusts to fortune
- millable — capable of being milled: millable wheat.
- millbrae — a city in W California, on San Francisco Bay.
- mineable — capable of being mined, especially profitably.
- 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.
- mislabel — to label wrongly, incorrectly, or misleadingly: to mislabel a bottle of medicine.
- missable — to fail to hit or strike: to miss a target.
- obeahism — the custom of or faith in the form of witchcraft known as obeah
- semibald — partly bald
- tie beam — a horizontal timber or the like for connecting two structural members to keep them from spreading apart, as a beam connecting the feet of two principal rafters in a roof truss.
- timbales — a pair of single-headed, cylindrical drums joined by a frame and played with drumsticks, used, esp. originally, in Latin American dance music
- verbatim — word for word and letter for letter; in exactly the same words.
- zimbabwe — Formerly Southern Rhodesia, Rhodesia. a republic in S Africa: a former British colony and part of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland; gained independence 1980. 150,330 sq. mi. (389,362 sq. km). Capital: Harare.