8-letter words containing b, e, t, m
- bushmeat — meat taken from any animal native to African forests, including species that may be endangered or not usually eaten outside Africa
- buy time — gain time (sense 2) (at , time)
- chimbote — a port in N central Peru: contains Peru's first steelworks (1958), using hydroelectric power from the Santa River. Pop: 328 000 (2005 est)
- clubmate — A person who is in the same club as another person.
- combated — to fight or contend against; oppose vigorously: to combat crime.
- combater — One who combats.
- crabmeat — Crabmeat is the part of a crab that you eat.
- drumbeat — the rhythmic sound of a drum.
- embattle — Set (an army) in battle array.
- embitter — Cause (someone) to feel bitter or resentful.
- entameba — any of a genus (Entamoeba) of amoebas parasitic in vertebrates, esp. a species (E. histolytica) causing amoebic dysentery
- entombed — Simple past tense and past participle of entomb.
- gambetta — Léon [ley-awn] /leɪˈɔ̃/ (Show IPA), 1838–82, French statesman.
- hecatomb — (in ancient Greece and Rome) a public sacrifice of 100 oxen to the gods.
- humblest — not proud or arrogant; modest: to be humble although successful.
- imbitter — embitter.
- imitable — capable or worthy of being imitated: She has many good, imitable qualities.
- intombed — Simple past tense and past participle of intomb.
- lambaste — to beat or whip severely.
- lamberts — Plural form of lambert.
- mableton — a town in NW Georgia.
- makebate — a person who causes contention or discord.
- mangbetu — a member of a people of the northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo.
- marybeth — a female given name.
- mast bed — a construction in a wooden deck around the opening for a mast.
- matabele — Ndebele (def 1).
- meatball — a small ball of ground meat, especially beef, often mixed with bread crumbs, seasonings, etc., before cooking.
- mebibyte — (computing) 220 (1,048,576) bytes. Abbreviated MiB.
- megabits — Plural form of megabit.
- megabyte — 2 20 (1,048,576) bytes.
- megadebt — An enormous debt.
- meltable — to become liquefied by warmth or heat, as ice, snow, butter, or metal.
- 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.
- metablog — (neologism, Internet) a blog about blogs.
- metabola — (in the plural, entomology) Insects that metamorphose.
- metabole — Alternative spelling of metabola.
- metaboly — the ability of some cells, esp protozoans, to alter their shape
- misbegot — Misbegotten; unlawfully or irregularly begotten; of bad origin.
- mobsters — Plural form of mobster.
- mode bit — A flag, usually in hardware, that selects between two (usually quite different) modes of operation. The connotations are different from flag bit in that mode bits are mainly written during a boot or set-up phase, are seldom explicitly read, and seldom change over the lifetime of an ordinary program. The classic example was the EBCDIC-vs.-ASCII bit (#12) of the Program Status Word of the IBM 360. Another was the bit on a PDP-12 that controlled whether it ran the PDP-8 or the LINC instruction set.
- mootable — Capable of being mooted.
- mortbell — a bell rung for a funeral
- muteable — Capable of being muted.
- nembutal — pentobarbital sodium
- nembutsu — meditation on the name of Amida.
- nimblest — Superlative form of nimble.
- obtemper — to comply (with)
- plumbate — a compound formed from lead oxide
- plumbite — a substance containing lead oxide
- resubmit — to give over or yield to the power or authority of another (often used reflexively).