8-letter words containing b, i, m, e
- imbedded — embed.
- imbibers — to consume (liquids) by drinking; drink: He imbibed great quantities of iced tea.
- imbitter — embitter.
- imblazed — Simple past tense and past participle of imblaze.
- imbodies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of imbody.
- imbolden — embolden.
- imbosked — Simple past tense and past participle of imbosk.
- imbossed — Simple past tense and past participle of imboss.
- imbowers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of imbower.
- imbursed — Simple past tense and past participle of imburse.
- imitable — capable or worthy of being imitated: She has many good, imitable qualities.
- immobile — incapable of moving or being moved.
- incomber — Archaic form of encumber.
- incumber — encumber.
- intombed — Simple past tense and past participle of intomb.
- jumboize — (nautical) To lengthen a ship replacing an existing section with a longer section or inserting an additional section.
- kimberly — a city in E Cape of Good Hope province, in the central Republic of South Africa: diamond mines.
- lamblike — like a lamb; gentle; meek.
- limbered — Simple past tense and past participle of limber.
- limberly — In a limber manner.
- limbless — a part or member of an animal body distinct from the head and trunk, as a leg, arm, or wing: the lower limbs; artificial limbs.
- limbmeal — (Shakespeare) Into pieces; limb from limb.
- macbride — Seán [shawn] /ʃɔn/ (Show IPA), 1904–88, Irish politician and diplomat, born in France: Nobel Peace Prize 1974.
- maebashi — a city in the central part of Honshu, in central Japan.
- maghrebi — a native or inhabitant of the Maghreb.
- mailable — legally acceptable as mail, as in terms of content, size, or weight.
- mandible — the bone of the lower jaw.
- maniable — (obsolete) manageable.
- mebibyte — (computing) 220 (1,048,576) bytes. Abbreviated MiB.
- 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
- microbes — Plural form of microbe.
- millable — capable of being milled: millable wheat.
- millbrae — a city in W California, on San Francisco Bay.
- mineable — capable of being mined, especially profitably.
- minibike — a small, lightweight motorcycle with a low frame and designed generally for off-highway use.
- 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.
- misbegin — to begin incorrectly or badly
- misbegot — Misbegotten; unlawfully or irregularly begotten; of bad origin.
- misbegun — Begun badly or incorrectly.
- miscible — capable of being mixed: miscible ingredients.
- mislabel — to label wrongly, incorrectly, or misleadingly: to mislabel a bottle of medicine.
- missable — to fail to hit or strike: to miss a target.
- mobilise — to assemble or marshal (armed forces, military reserves, or civilian persons of military age) into readiness for active service.
- mobilize — to assemble or marshal (armed forces, military reserves, or civilian persons of military age) into readiness for active service.
- mobisode — a typically brief episode of a television show that is available online and formatted for viewing on a mobile phone or smartphone