9-letter words containing e, m, b, a, n
- boogieman — bogeyman.
- boomerang — A boomerang is a curved piece of wood which comes back to you if you throw it in the correct way. Boomerangs were first used by the people who were living in Australia when Europeans arrived there.
- brainstem — the stalklike part of the brain consisting of the medulla oblongata, the midbrain, and the pons Varolii
- brakesman — a pithead winch operator
- bridgeman — a person who works on a bridge or on the construction of bridges.
- bromelain — an enzyme derived from pineapple, used as an anti-inflammatory agent in homeopathy and as a meat tenderizer in the food industry
- brominate — to treat or react with bromine
- bushelman — a person who alters or repairs garments; busheler.
- byrewoman — a woman who works in a byre
- cabinmate — a person with whom one shares a cabin
- cambering — a slight arching, upward curve, or convexity, as of the deck of a ship.
- candomble — any of a number of similar religious cults in Brazil that combine elements of Roman Catholicism with elements of West African, esp Yoruba, and South American Indian religions
- carbenium — (organic chemistry, informal) Any carbocation.
- combinate — combined
- cumbrance — a burden, obstacle, or hindrance
- debarment — to shut out or exclude from a place or condition: to debar all those who are not members.
- dumb cane — a West Indian foliage plant, Dieffenbachia seguine, of the arum family, having yellow-blotched leaves that cause temporary speechlessness when chewed.
- dumb-cane — a West Indian foliage plant, Dieffenbachia seguine, of the arum family, having yellow-blotched leaves that cause temporary speechlessness when chewed.
- embalming — Present participle of embalm.
- embarking — Present participle of embark.
- embayment — A recess in a coastline forming a bay.
- embracing — Present participle of embrace.
- embrangle — To embroil.
- embryonal — Embryonic.
- emendable — Capable of being emended, corrigible.
- entamoeba — any parasitic amoeba of the genus Entamoeba (or Endamoeba), esp E. histolytica, which lives in the intestines of humans and causes amoebic dysentery
- excambion — an exchange, esp of land
- hornbeams — Plural form of hornbeam.
- imbalance — the state or condition of lacking balance, as in proportion or distribution.
- imbrangle — embrangle.
- inhambane — a seaport in SE Mozambique.
- inumbrate — (obsolete) To shade; to darken.
- jambstone — a stone, or one of the stones, forming one jamb of an opening.
- lambaréné — a town in W Gabon on the Ogooué River: site of the hospital built by Albert Schweitzer, who died and was buried there (1965). Pop: 9000 (2003 est)
- lambently — In a lambent manner, brightly.
- lamebrain — a dunce; booby; fool.
- laminable — capable of being laminated.
- lima bean — a bean, Phaseolus limensis, having a broad, flat, edible seed.
- lumberman — a person who deals in lumber.
- maccabean — of or relating to the Maccabees or Judas Maccabaeus.
- main beam — a long thick bar of wood, metal, or concrete used in the construction of houses which transmits its load directly to a wall or column, as opposed to another beam
- main verb — a word used as the final verb in a verb phrase, expressing the lexical meaning of the verb phrase, as drink in I don't drink, going in I am going, or spoken in We have spoken.
- mainbrace — a brace leading to a main yard.
- managable — Misspelling of manageable.
- mandelbug — (jargon, programming) /man'del-buhg/ (From the Mandelbrot set) A bug whose underlying causes are so complex and obscure as to make its behaviour appear chaotic or even nondeterministic. This term implies that the speaker thinks it is a Bohr bug, rather than a heisenbug. See also schroedinbug.
- mandibles — Plural form of mandible.
- mangabeys — Plural form of mangabey.
- manurable — Able, or suitable, to be manured or cultivated on.
- marienbad — a spa and resort town in the Czech Republic.
- mason bee — any of numerous solitary bees, as of the family Megachilidae, that construct nests of clay.