9-letter words containing b, e, r, m
- mole crab — a burrowing crustacean of the genus Emerita, found on sandy ocean beaches of North America, having a distinctly curved carapace.
- moonprobe — an information-gathering spacecraft designed to pass close by or land on the lunar surface.
- moosebird — gray jay.
- morecambe — a port and resort in NW England, in NW Lancashire on Morecambe Bay (an inlet of the Irish Sea). Pop (with Heysham): 49 569 (2001)
- mosbacher — Emil, Jr ("Bus") 1922–1997, U.S. yacht racer and government official.
- mossbauer — Rudolf L [roo-dawlf] /ˈru dɔlf/ (Show IPA), 1929–2011, German physicist: Nobel prize 1961.
- motorable — Which can be traveled on by motor cars.
- motorbike — a small, lightweight motorcycle.
- mousebird — coly.
- mr. bones — the end man in a minstrel troupe who plays the bones.
- mud berth — a mooring place in which a vessel rests on the bottom at low tide.
- muliebral — womanly nature or qualities.
- muybridge — Eadweard [ed-werd] /ˈɛd wərd/ (Show IPA), (Edward James Muggeridge) 1830–1904, U.S. photographer, born in England: pioneered in photographic studies of animals and humans in motion.
- nameboard — a signboard that identifies a place or object.
- new broom — Someone who has just started a new job and who is expected to make a lot of changes can be referred to as a new broom.
- nonmember — a person who is not a member: The election meeting of the club is not open to nonmembers.
- numbering — a numeral or group of numerals.
- numberous — Obsolete form of numerous.
- numerable — capable of being counted, totaled, or numbered.
- nuremberg — a city in central Bavaria, in SE Germany: site of international trials (1945–46) of Nazis accused of war crimes.
- obamacare — a federal law providing for a fundamental reform of the U.S. healthcare and health insurance system, signed by President Barack Obama in 2010: formally called Affordable Care Act or Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
- obumbrate — to darken, overshadow, or cloud.
- outnumber — to exceed in number.
- penumbral — Astronomy. the partial or imperfect shadow outside the complete shadow of an opaque body, as a planet, where the light from the source of illumination is only partly cut off. Compare umbra (def 3a). the grayish marginal portion of a sunspot. Compare umbra (def 3b).
- permabear — an investor who consistently acts in the expectation that the value of stocks and shares will fall
- permabull — an investor who consistently acts in the expectation that the value of stocks and shares will rise
- permeable — capable of being permeated.
- preambled — an introductory statement; preface; introduction. Synonyms: opening, beginning; foreword, prologue, prelude. Antonyms: epilogue, appendix, conclusion, afterword, closing.
- premorbid — suggesting an unhealthy mental state or attitude; unwholesomely gloomy, sensitive, extreme, etc.: a morbid interest in death.
- prenumber — a numeral or group of numerals.
- prime rib — beef: meat from ribs
- proembryo — any of the stages prior to embryo formation in plants
- rabatment — the act of rotating a plane to align it with another
- ramble on — to wander around in a leisurely, aimless manner: They rambled through the shops until closing time.
- raw umber — an earth consisting chiefly of a hydrated oxide of iron and some oxide of manganese, used in its natural state as a brown pigment (raw umber) or, after heating, as a reddish-brown pigment (burnt umber)
- re-embark — to (cause to) board a ship or aircraft again
- re-embody — to embody again
- reblossom — (of a plant or flower) to blossom again
- rebutment — the act of rebutting something or the state of being rebutted; rebuttal
- recombine — to bring into or join in a close union or whole; unite: She combined the ingredients to make the cake. They combined the two companies.
- recumbent — lying down; reclining; leaning.
- reimburse — to make repayment to for expense or loss incurred: The insurance company reimbursed him for his losses in the fire.
- rembrandt — (Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn or van Ryn) 1606–69, Dutch painter.
- removable — that may be removed.
- resembled — to be like or similar to.
- resembles — to be like or similar to.
- rocambole — a European plant, Allium scorodoprasum, of the amaryllis family, used like garlic.
- rood beam — a beam above the entrance to the choir or chancel of a church, supporting the rood.
- rose comb — a low comb with rounded points and a rear-extending spike of some breeds of chickens, as Wyandotte.
- rumble on — If you say that something such as an argument rumbles on, you mean that it continues for a long time after it should have been settled.