8-letter words containing b, u, m, l
- dumbbell — a gymnastic apparatus consisting of two wooden or metal balls connected by a short bar serving as a handle, used as a weight for exercising.
- dumbells — Plural form of dumbell.
- dzhambul — a city in S Kazakhstan, NE of Chimkent.
- ebullism — (physiology) The formation of bubbles of gas in biological fluids due to reduced environmental pressure.
- emulable — Worthy of emulation.
- fabulism — (literature) A form of magic realism in which fantastical elements are placed into an everyday setting.
- flambeau — a flaming torch.
- fumbling — to feel or grope about clumsily: She fumbled in her purse for the keys.
- galbanum — a gum resin with a peculiar, strong odor, obtained from certain Asian plants of the genus Ferula, used in incense and formerly in medicine.
- glum bum — a pessimistic person
- grumbled — to murmur or mutter in discontent; complain sullenly.
- grumbler — A person who persistently grumbles; a complainer.
- grumbles — Plural form of grumble.
- gumballs — Plural form of gumball.
- gumboils — Plural form of gumboil.
- gumbotil — a sticky clay formed by the thorough weathering of glacial drift, the thickness of the clay furnishing means for comparing relative lengths of interglacial ages.
- humblest — not proud or arrogant; modest: to be humble although successful.
- humbling — not proud or arrogant; modest: to be humble although successful.
- humboldt — Friedrich Heinrich Alexander [free-drikh hahyn-rikh ah-lek-sahn-duh r] /ˈfri drɪx ˈhaɪn rɪx ˌɑ lɛkˈsɑn dər/ (Show IPA), Baron von [fuh n] /fən/ (Show IPA), 1769–1859, German naturalist, writer, and statesman.
- hummable — (of a piece of music) able to be hummed easily; melodic; tuneful.
- ipsambul — Abu Simbel.
- jumbling — Present participle of jumble.
- labarums — Plural form of labarum.
- labdanum — a resinous juice that exudes from various rockroses of the genus Cistus: used in perfumery, fumigating substances, etc.
- labellum — the petal of an orchid that differs more or less markedly from the other petals, often forming the most conspicuous part; the lip.
- laburnum — any of several small trees belonging to the genus Laburnum, of the legume family, having elongated clusters of pendulous yellow flowers, especially L. alpinum, the Scotch laburnum.
- limbourg — a medieval duchy in W Europe: now divided into a province in the SE Netherlands (Limburg) and a province in NE Belgium (Limbourg)
- lumbered — timber sawed or split into planks, boards, etc.
- lumberer — A person engaged in the lumber trade, especially a lumberjack.
- lumberly — heavy and unwieldy
- mail hub — mail server
- mealybug — any of several scalelike, homopterous insects of the families Pseudococcidae and Eriococcidae that are covered with a powdery wax secretion and feed on plants.
- millburn — a township in NE New Jersey.
- millbury — a city in central Massachusetts.
- misbuild — to construct (especially something complex) by assembling and joining parts or materials: to build a house.
- misbuilt — to construct (especially something complex) by assembling and joining parts or materials: to build a house.
- mob rule — the fact or state of large groups of people acting without the consent of the government, authorities, etc
- muhlbach — Luise [loo-ee-zuh] /luˈi zə/ (Show IPA), (Klara Müller Mundt) 1814–73, German novelist.
- mulberry — the edible, berrylike collective fruit of any tree of the genus Morus.
- mumblage — /muhm'bl*j/ The topic of one's mumbling (see mumble). "All that mumblage" is used like "all that stuff" when it is not quite clear how the subject of discussion works, or like "all that crap" when "mumble" is being used as an implicit replacement for pejoratives.
- mumbling — to speak in a low indistinct manner, almost to an unintelligible extent; mutter.
- muteable — Capable of being muted.
- nebulium — a hypothetical element once thought to be present in emission nebulae because of certain unidentified spectral lines, now known to be forbidden transitions of oxygen and nitrogen ions.
- nembutal — pentobarbital sodium
- nobelium — a transuranic element in the actinium series. Symbol: No; atomic number: 102.
- oblongum — (geometry, archaic) A prolate spheroid; a figure described by the revolution of an ellipse about its greater axis.
- olibanum — frankincense.
- outbloom — to bloom more than or better than
- outclimb — to surpass or outdo in climbing; climb higher or better than: As a child, I could outclimb any kid on the block.
- plumb in — When someone plumbs in a device such as a washing machine, toilet, or bath, they connect it to the water and waste pipes in a building.