10-letter words containing b, u, l, e, m
- humbleness — not proud or arrogant; modest: to be humble although successful.
- hump bluey — to carry one's bundle; tramp
- impugnable — to challenge as false (another's statements, motives, etc.); cast doubt upon.
- jebel musa — a mountain in NW Morocco, opposite Gibraltar: one of the Pillars of Hercules. 2775 feet (846 meters).
- kumbh mela — a Hindu festival held once every twelve years in one of four sacred sites, where bathing for purification from sin is considered especially efficacious
- laboursome — (obsolete) Hard-working.
- lambrequin — a woven fabric covering for a helmet in medieval times to protect it from heat, rust, etc.
- lebensraum — additional territory considered by a nation, especially Nazi Germany, to be necessary for national survival or for the expansion of trade.
- limburgite — a glassy, dark-coloured volcanic rock containing olivine and augite but little or no feldspar
- lumberjack — a person who works at lumbering; logger.
- lumbermill — a mill for dressing logs and lumber.
- lumbersome — unwieldy; cumbrous
- lumberyard — a yard where lumber is stored for sale.
- luxembourg — a grand duchy surrounded by Germany, France, and Belgium. 999 sq. mi. (2585 sq. km).
- malmesbury — William of, William of Malmesbury.
- manducable — chewable or edible
- measurable — capable of being measured.
- measurably — capable of being measured.
- melburnian — 2nd Viscount, William Lamb.
- melon-bulb — a large, bulbous turning, sometimes with surface carving, found especially on the legs and posts of Elizabethan and Jacobean furniture.
- mensurable — measurable.
- middelburg — a province in the SW Netherlands, consisting largely of islands. 1041 sq. mi. (2695 sq. km). Capital: Middelburg.
- molybdenum — a silver-white metallic element, used as an alloy with iron in making hard, high-speed cutting tools. Symbol: Mo; atomic weight: 95.94; atomic number: 42; specific gravity: 10.2.
- mouse belt — rat belt
- muesli bar — a snack made of compressed muesli ingredients
- muhlenberg — Frederick Augustus Conrad, 1750–1801, U.S. clergyman and statesman: first Speaker of the House 1789–91, 1793–95.
- mulberries — Plural form of mulberry.
- muliebrity — womanly nature or qualities.
- multilobed — having many lobes
- mumblement — the act of mumbling
- mumbly-peg — a children's game played with a pocketknife, the object being to cause the blade to stick in the ground or a wooden surface by flipping the knife in a number of prescribed ways or from a number of prescribed positions.
- murderball — A team sport resembling dodgeball in which players are eliminated (\"murdered\") by being struck with the ball.
- mussel bed — an area on the sea bed where mussels are bred
- numberable — a numeral or group of numerals.
- numberless — innumerable; countless; myriad.
- obambulate — (intransitive) To walk about, to wander aimlessly.
- permutable — to alter; change.
- plumb line — a cord with a lead bob attached to one end, used to determine perpendicularity, the depth of water, etc. Compare plumb (def 1).
- plumb rule — a device for determining perpendicularity, consisting of a narrow board with a plumb line and bob suspended from an upper edge.
- postbellum — occurring after a war, especially after the American Civil War: postbellum reforms.
- presumable — capable of being taken for granted; probable.
- presumably — by assuming reasonably; probably: Since he is a consistent winner, he is presumably a superior player.
- re-plumbed — a small mass of lead or other heavy material, as that suspended by a line and used to measure the depth of water or to ascertain a vertical line. Compare plumb line.
- rhumb line — a curve on the surface of a sphere that cuts all meridians at the same angle. It is the path taken by a vessel or aircraft that maintains a constant compass direction.
- semidouble — having more petals than those of a single flower but fewer than those of a double flower.
- semipublic — partly or to some degree public.
- slumberful — characterized by sleep or slumber
- slumbering — to sleep, especially lightly; doze; drowse.
- slumberous — sleepy; heavy with drowsiness, as the eyelids.
- somnambule — a person who sleepwalks