5-letter words containing b, m
- gumba — (slang, US) A person of Sicilian descent, often used pejoratively.
- gumbe — A style of music from Guinea-Bissau which is primarily vocal and percussive.
- gumbo — a stew or thick soup, usually made with chicken or seafood, greens, and okra or sometimes filé as a thickener.
- hamba — go away; be off
- hambo — a Swedish folk dance in three-quarter time, originating in the 16th century.
- himbo — an attractive but stupid young man.
- iambi — iamb.
- iambs — Plural form of iamb.
- imbed — embed.
- imbue — to impregnate or inspire, as with feelings, opinions, etc.: The new political leader was imbued with the teachings of Mahatma Gandhi.
- jambe — Architecture, Building Trades. either of the vertical sides of a doorway, arch, window, or other opening. either of two stones, timbers, etc., forming the sidepieces for the frame of an opening.
- jambi — a province on SE Sumatra, in W Indonesia.
- jambo — an E African salutation
- jambs — Plural form of jamb.
- jambu — Alternative form of jambul.
- jembe — Alternative spelling of djembe.
- jumbo — a very large person, animal, or thing.
- kamba — an agricultural people of central Kenya, renowned as traders and woodcarvers.
- kimbo — to place (one's arms) akimbo
- kombi — (South Africa) A minivan.
- kombu — a brown Japanese seaweed, sun-dried before use in sushi, stocks, etc.
- lambs — Plural form of lamb.
- lamby — Resembling or characteristic of the meat of a lamb.
- limba — an African tree, Terminalia superba, having yellowish-brown wood.
- limbo — (often initial capital letter) Roman Catholic Theology. a region on the border of hell or heaven, serving as the abode after death of unbaptized infants (limbo of infants) and of the righteous who died before the coming of Christ (limbo of the fathers or limbo of the patriarchs)
- limbs — Plural form of limb.
- limby — Having many limbs, or branches.
- mabel — a female given name.
- mabey — Misspelling of maybe.
- mable — a female given name.
- mabye — Misspelling of maybe.
- mamba — any of several long, slender, arboreal snakes of the genus Dendroaspis, of central and southern Africa, the bite of which is often fatal.
- mambo — a fast ballroom dance of Caribbean origin, rhythmically similar to the rumba and cha-cha but having a more complex pattern of steps.
- maneb — a carbamate fungicide, C 4 H 6 MnN 2 S 4 , used for control of numerous crop diseases.
- mauby — (in the E Caribbean) a bittersweet drink made from the bark of a rhamnaceous tree
- maybe — perhaps; possibly: Maybe I'll go too.
- mbari — (Nigeria, West Africa) A ceremonial clay shrine filled with clay models of humans or deities, made by the Igbo tribe.
- mbeki — Thabo [tah-boh] /ˈtɑ boʊ/ (Show IPA), born 1942, South African economist and politician: president of the Republic of South Africa 1999–.
- mbira — a musical instrument of Africa usually made out of a gourd that serves as a resonating box, to which vibrating metal or wooden strips are attached for plucking.
- mbomu — Bomu.
- mbone — Virtual Internet Backbone for Multicast IP. IP Multicast-based routing allows distributed applications to achieve real-time communication over IP wide area networks through a lightweight, highly threaded model of communication. Each network-provider participant in the MBONE provides one or more IP multicast routers to connect with tunnels to other participants and to customers. The multicast routers are typically separate from a network's production routers since most production routers don't yet support IP multicast. Most sites use workstations running the mrouted program, but the experimental MOSPF software for Proteon routers is an alternative. Ideally, the machines running mrouted should be dedicated to this task, for reasons of real-time performance and ease of installing kernel patches. Since most intermediate nodes have at least three tunnels, each carrying a separate (unicast) copy of each packet, it is also useful to have multiple network interfaces so it can be installed parallel to the unicast router for those sites with configurations like this: Note that end-user sites may participate with as little as one workstation that runs the packet audio and video software and has a tunnel to a network-provider node.
- mboya — Tom (Thomas Joseph Mboya) 1930–69, African political leader in Kenya.
- mbyte — megabyte
- mcdba — Microsoft Certified Database Administrator
- mcjob — an unstimulating, low-wage job with few benefits, especially in a service industry.
- mebbe — (nonstandard, dialect) maybe.
- mebby — (slang) maybe.
- mebi- — denoting 220
- mebos — a confection made from salted and sugared dried apricots
- melba — (Dame) Nellie (Helen Porter Mitchell Armstrong) 1861–1931, Australian operatic soprano.