6-letter words containing b, e, m
- embank — Construct a wall or bank of earth or stone in order to confine (a river) within certain limits.
- embark — Go on board a ship, aircraft, or other vehicle.
- embase — to degrade or debase
- embeds — An embedded journalist.
- embers — The smoldering or glowing remains of a fire.
- emblem — A heraldic device or symbolic object as a distinctive badge of a nation, organization, or family.
- emblic — a deciduous tree, Phyllanthus emblica, found in eastern India and belonging to the family Euphorbiaceae, used for tanning
- embody — Be an expression of or give a tangible or visible form to (an idea, quality, or feeling).
- emboil — to enrage or be enraged
- embola — Plural form of embolon.
- emboli — Plural form of embolus.
- emboly — (biology) embolic invagination.
- embosk — to hide or cover, esp with greenery
- emboss — Carve or mold a design on (a surface) so that it stands out in relief.
- embrio — Archaic form of embryo.
- embrue — imbrue
- embryo — An unborn or unhatched offspring in the process of development.
- embush — (obsolete) To place or hide in a thicket; to ambush.
- embusy — to keep occupied
- enjamb — to encroach
- entomb — Place (a dead body) in a tomb.
- enwomb — (poetic, archaic) To place or cause to be contained in the womb; to make pregnant; to conceive.
- erbium — The chemical element of atomic number 68, a soft silvery-white metal of the lanthanide series.
- excamb — to exchange
- famble — (obsolete, slang) A hand.
- fembot — (science fiction) A robot in female form.
- ferbam — an iron carbamate, C 9 H 18 FeN 3 S 6 , used chiefly as a fungicide for protecting certain farm crops.
- fimble — the male or staminate plant of hemp, which is harvested before the female or pistillate plant.
- flambe — Also, flambéed [flahm-beyd] /flɑmˈbeɪd/ (Show IPA). (of food) served in flaming liquor, especially brandy: steak flambé.
- fumble — to feel or grope about clumsily: She fumbled in her purse for the keys.
- gambet — Any bird of the genus Totanus; a tattler.
- gamble — to play at any game of chance for money or other stakes.
- gimbel — Jacob, 1850–1922, U.S. retail merchant.
- gimble — To grimace.
- gombey — (music, Bermuda) A type of Afro-Bermudan folk music and dance tradition.
- h-beam — an I-beam having flanges the same width as its web, or connecting vertical section.
- hamble — (obsolete, transitive) To mutilate; hamstring; cut away.
- hombre — a card game popular in the 17th and 18th centuries and played, usually by three persons, with 40 cards.
- humber — an estuary of the Ouse and Trent rivers in E England. 37 miles (60 km) long.
- humble — not proud or arrogant; modest: to be humble although successful.
- i-beam — a rolled or extruded metal beam having a cross section resembling an I. Compare H-beam.
- ibidem — in the same book, chapter, page, etc.
- imbibe — to consume (liquids) by drinking; drink: He imbibed great quantities of iced tea.
- imbrex — a convex tile, used especially in ancient Rome to cover joints in a tile roof.
- imbrue — to stain: He refused to imbrue his hands with the blood of more killing.
- imbued — to impregnate or inspire, as with feelings, opinions, etc.: The new political leader was imbued with the teachings of Mahatma Gandhi.
- imbues — to impregnate or inspire, as with feelings, opinions, etc.: The new political leader was imbued with the teachings of Mahatma Gandhi.
- jambee — a light cane or walking stick that was fashionable in the 18th century
- jumbie — A spirit of a dead person, typically an evil one.
- jumble — to mix in a confused mass; put or throw together without order: You've jumbled up all the cards.