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8-letter words containing e, m, b, l

  • beplumed — decorated with feathers
  • bepommel — to beat vigorously
  • bergmehl — a light powdery variety of calcite
  • beseemly — becoming; suitable
  • bimensal — occurring every two months
  • birdlime — a sticky substance, prepared from holly, mistletoe, or other plants, smeared on twigs to catch small birds
  • 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.
  • bombable — able to be bombed, undefended against bombing; targetable
  • bonemeal — the product of dried and ground animal bones, used as a fertilizer or in stock feeds
  • brambled — any prickly shrub belonging to the genus Rubus, of the rose family.
  • bramwell — a male given name.
  • 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
  • brummell — George Bryan, called Beau Brummell. 1778–1840, English dandy: leader of fashion in the Regency period
  • bumblers — to bungle or blunder awkwardly; muddle: He somehow bumbled through two years of college.
  • campbell — Sir Colin, Baron Clyde. 1792–1863, British field marshal who relieved Lucknow for the second time (1857) and commanded in Oudh, suppressing the Indian Mutiny
  • chimbley — (UK, dialect) A chimney.
  • clambake — A clambake is a picnic at which clams and other food are served.
  • clambers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of clamber.
  • climbers — Plural form of climber.
  • clubmate — A person who is in the same club as another person.
  • colombes — an industrial and residential suburb of NW Paris. Pop: 83 220 (2006)
  • combless — without a comb
  • comblike — resembling a comb
  • crumbled — Simple past tense and past participle of crumble.
  • crumbles — Plural form of crumble.
  • damnable — You use damnable to emphasize that you dislike or disapprove of something a great deal.
  • delubrum — a shrine or sanctuary
  • demibold — Semibold.
  • dimbleby — Richard. 1913–65, British broadcaster
  • dimmable — Able to be dimmed; able to have illumination decreased in brightness.
  • 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.
  • ebullism — (physiology) The formation of bubbles of gas in biological fluids due to reduced environmental pressure.
  • embalmed — Simple past tense and past participle of embalm.
  • embalmer — One who embalms a corpse; a practicioner of mortuary science.
  • embattle — Set (an army) in battle array.
  • embezzle — Steal or misappropriate (money placed in one's trust or belonging to the organization for which one works).
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