8-letter words containing b, e, m, u
- crumbles — Plural form of crumble.
- cucumber — A cucumber is a long thin vegetable with a hard green skin and wet transparent flesh. It is eaten raw in salads.
- cumbered — Simple past tense and past participle of cumber.
- cumberer — Someone or something that cumbers.
- delubrum — a shrine or sanctuary
- drambuie — a liqueur based on Scotch whisky and made exclusively in Scotland from a recipe dating from the 18th century
- drumbeat — the rhythmic sound of a drum.
- dumbbell — a gymnastic apparatus consisting of two wooden or metal balls connected by a short bar serving as a handle, used as a weight for exercising.
- dumbells — Plural form of dumbell.
- dumbhead — blockhead.
- dumbness — lacking intelligence or good judgment; stupid; dull-witted.
- dumbsize — (informal) To reduce the number of employees in a business without regard to organizational efficiency, such that its operations become unprofitable or inefficient.
- e number — E numbers are artificial substances which are added to some foods and drinks to improve their flavour or colour or to make them last longer. They are called E numbers because they are represented in Europe by code names which begin with the letter 'E'.
- eboracum — ancient name of York, England.
- ebullism — (physiology) The formation of bubbles of gas in biological fluids due to reduced environmental pressure.
- embushed — Simple past tense and past participle of embush.
- embusque — man who avoids military conscription by obtaining a government job
- emu bush — any of various Australian shrubs, esp those of the genus Eremophila (family Myoporaceae), whose fruits are eaten by emus
- emulable — Worthy of emulation.
- encumber — Restrict or burden (someone or something) in such a way that free action or movement is difficult.
- f-number — a number corresponding to the ratio of the focal length to the diameter of a lens system, especially a camera lens. In f /1.4, 1.4 is the f-number and signifies that the focal length of the lens is 1.4 times as great as the diameter. /, f/, f, f: Abbreviation: f.
- flambeau — a flaming torch.
- gemsbuck — gemsbok.
- giambeux — Obsolete form of jambeux.
- grumbled — to murmur or mutter in discontent; complain sullenly.
- grumbler — A person who persistently grumbles; a complainer.
- grumbles — Plural form of grumble.
- humblest — not proud or arrogant; modest: to be humble although successful.
- hummable — (of a piece of music) able to be hummed easily; melodic; tuneful.
- imbursed — Simple past tense and past participle of imburse.
- incumber — encumber.
- jambeaux — Plural form of jambeau.
- jumboize — (nautical) To lengthen a ship replacing an existing section with a longer section or inserting an additional section.
- keurboom — (South Africa) A species of tree, Virgilia oroboides, noted for it's pretty lilac flowers.
- labellum — the petal of an orchid that differs more or less markedly from the other petals, often forming the most conspicuous part; the lip.
- lumbered — timber sawed or split into planks, boards, etc.
- lumberer — A person engaged in the lumber trade, especially a lumberjack.
- lumberly — heavy and unwieldy
- mangbetu — a member of a people of the northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo.
- maubeuge — a city in N France, on the Sambre River, near the Belgian border.
- 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.
- megabuck — one million dollars.
- 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.
- 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.
- misbegun — Begun badly or incorrectly.
- mob rule — the fact or state of large groups of people acting without the consent of the government, authorities, etc
- mulberry — the edible, berrylike collective fruit of any tree of the genus Morus.
- mumblage — /muhm'bl*j/ The topic of one's mumbling (see mumble). "All that mumblage" is used like "all that stuff" when it is not quite clear how the subject of discussion works, or like "all that crap" when "mumble" is being used as an implicit replacement for pejoratives.
- muteable — Capable of being muted.
- nebulium — a hypothetical element once thought to be present in emission nebulae because of certain unidentified spectral lines, now known to be forbidden transitions of oxygen and nitrogen ions.