9-letter words containing b, i, s, m
- in ambush — If someone is lying in ambush, they are hiding and waiting for someone, usually to attack them.
- islamabad — Islamic Republic of, a republic in S Asia, between India and Afghanistan: formerly part of British India; known as West Pakistan from 1947–71 to distinguish it from East Pakistan (now Bangladesh). 310,403 sq. mi. (803,881 sq. km). Capital: Islamabad.
- istambuli — a native or inhabitant of Istanbul.
- kabbalism — The study of the Kabbalah.
- labialism — a tendency, sometimes habitual, to make sounds labial, as in pronouncing the l in love as a w- like sound.
- labourism — Support for the labour movement, the development of a collective organization of working people to campaign for better working conditions and treatment.
- lambskins — Plural form of lambskin.
- lumbricus — a member of a genus of worms of the same name, the most common of which is the common earth worm, Lumbricus terrestris
- mailboxes — Plural form of mailbox.
- mandibles — Plural form of mandible.
- marimbist — A player of the marimba.
- memsahibs — Plural form of memsahib.
- metabasis — (rhetoric) A change from one subject to another.
- microbars — Plural form of microbar.
- microbots — Plural form of microbot.
- midbrains — Plural form of midbrain.
- millibars — Plural form of millibar.
- minibeast — (informal) An insect / bug etc.
- minibuses — Plural form of minibus.
- mint bush — an aromatic shrub of the genus Prostanthera with a mintlike odour: family Lamiaceae (labiates): native to Australia
- mirabilis — (botany) Any of the plant genus Mirabilis; a four-o'clock.
- misbecame — Simple past tense and past participle of misbecome.
- misbecome — to be unsuitable, unbecoming, or unfit for.
- misbefall — (transitive, obsolete) Of an event, to happen unfortunately to (a person).
- misbehave — to behave badly or improperly: The children misbehaved during our visit.
- misbelief — erroneous belief; false opinion.
- misbeseem — to be unsuitable for
- misbestow — to bestow wrongly
- misbutton — (transitive) To button wrongly.
- misdoubts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of misdoubt.
- miserable — wretchedly unhappy, uneasy, or uncomfortable: miserable victims of war.
- miserably — wretchedly unhappy, uneasy, or uncomfortable: miserable victims of war.
- mislabels — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mislabel.
- mislabour — to labour wrongly
- misnumber — a numeral or group of numerals.
- mobbishly — in a mobbish, chaotic or turbulent manner
- mobilised — Simple past tense and past participle of mobilise.
- mobilises — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mobilise.
- mobilizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mobilize.
- monobasic — Chemistry. (of an acid) containing one replaceable hydrogen atom.
- moosebird — gray jay.
- mousebird — coly.
- mumblings — Plural form of mumbling.
- music box — a box or case containing an apparatus for producing music mechanically, as by means of a comblike steel plate with tuned teeth sounded by small pegs or pins in the surface of a revolving cylinder or disk.
- omissible — capable of being or allowed to be omitted.
- omnibuses — Plural form of omnibus.
- quilombos — Plural form of quilombo.
- rabbinism — the beliefs, practices, and precepts of the rabbis of the Talmudic period.
- ramblings — If you describe a speech or piece of writing as someone's ramblings, you are saying that it is meaningless because the person who said or wrote it was very confused or insane.
- reimburse — to make repayment to for expense or loss incurred: The insurance company reimbursed him for his losses in the fire.