8-letter words containing b, m, e
- blamable — that deserves blame; culpable
- blameful — deserving blame; guilty
- blastema — a mass of undifferentiated animal cells that will develop into an organ or tissue: present at the site of regeneration of a lost part
- blenheim — a village in SW Germany, site of a victory of Anglo-Austrian forces under the Duke of Marlborough and Prince Eugène of Savoy that saved Vienna from the French and Bavarians (1704) during the War of the Spanish Succession
- blokedom — the state of being a bloke
- bloomers — Bloomers are an old-fashioned kind of women's underwear which consists of wide, loose trousers gathered at the knees.
- bloomery — a place in which malleable iron is produced directly from iron ore
- blue gum — a tall fast-growing widely cultivated Australian myrtaceous tree, Eucalyptus globulus, having aromatic leaves containing a medicinal oil, bark that peels off in shreds, and hard timber. The juvenile leaves are bluish in colour
- blue mud — a deep-sea sediment of fine silt and clay that derives its bluish color from organic material and iron sulfide.
- bluesman — a musician who plays the blues
- bluestem — a name applied to a number of North American prairie grasses
- blumberg — Baruch Samuel.1925–2011, US physician, noted for work on antigens: shared the Nobel prize for physiology or medicine 1976
- blumenau — a city in Santa Catarina state, S Brazil.
- bodement — a foreboding or omen; presentiment.
- boehm b. — Proposed the COCOMO technique for evaluating the cost of a software project.
- boehmian — of or relating to Boehmenism.
- boehmite — a grey, red, or brown mineral that consists of alumina in rhombic crystalline form and occurs in bauxite. Formula: AlO(OH)
- bogeyism — the recognition of or belief in the existence of ghosts or demons
- bogeyman — A bogeyman is someone whose ideas or actions are disapproved of by some people, and who is described by them as evil or unpleasant in order to make other people afraid.
- bohemian — Bohemian means belonging or relating to Bohemia or its people.
- bombable — able to be bombed, undefended against bombing; targetable
- bombarde — an alto wind instrument similar to the oboe or medieval shawm, used mainly in Breton traditional music
- bombesin — a hormone partly responsible for regulating appetite
- bombsite — an area where the buildings have been destroyed by bombs
- bondsmen — a person who by bond becomes surety for another.
- bonemeal — the product of dried and ground animal bones, used as a fertilizer or in stock feeds
- bonhomie — Bonhomie is happy, good-natured friendliness.
- bontemps — Arna Wendell [ahr-nuh] /ˈɑr nə/ (Show IPA), 1902–73, U.S. author.
- boresome — boring or uninteresting
- bottomer — a person who makes the seat part of a chair
- box beam — a beam or girder built up from shapes and having a hollow, rectangular cross section.
- brakeman — a crew member of a goods or passenger train. His duties include controlling auxiliary braking power and inspecting the train
- bramante — Donato (doˈnato). ?1444–1514, Italian architect and artist of the High Renaissance. He modelled his designs for domed centrally planned churches on classical Roman architecture
- brambled — any prickly shrub belonging to the genus Rubus, of the rose family.
- bramwell — a male given name.
- breaming — to clean (a ship's bottom) by applying burning furze, reeds, etc., to soften the pitch and loosen adherent matter.
- brideman — a male attendant of the bridegroom at a wedding
- bromance — A bromance is a close but not sexual relationship between two men.
- bromberg — German name of Bydgoszcz.
- bromelia — any plant of the family Bromeliaceae of tropical American plants, characterized by a short stem and deeply cleft calyx
- bromelin — a protein-digesting enzyme (see endopeptidase) found in pineapple and extracted for use in treating joint pain and inflammation, hay fever, and various other conditions
- brumaire — the month of mist: the second month of the French revolutionary calendar, extending from Oct 23 to Nov 21
- brummell — George Bryan, called Beau Brummell. 1778–1840, English dandy: leader of fashion in the Regency period
- brunizem — a type of dark prairie soil
- bumblers — to bungle or blunder awkwardly; muddle: He somehow bumbled through two years of college.
- bummaree — a dealer at Billingsgate fish market
- bumsters — trousers cut so that the top lies just above the cleft of the buttocks
- buncombe — bunkum
- bunkmate — a person who sleeps in the same quarters as another
- bushmeat — meat taken from any animal native to African forests, including species that may be endangered or not usually eaten outside Africa