9-letter words containing g, b, m
- cumbering — Present participle of cumber.
- demobbing — Present participle of demob.
- digambara — the earlier of the two principal Jain sects, whose members went naked.
- dumb ague — an irregular form of intermittent malarial fever, lacking the usual chill.
- embalming — Present participle of embalm.
- embargoed — Simple past tense and past participle of embargo.
- embargoes — Plural form of embargo.
- embarking — Present participle of embark.
- embassage — The business or message of an envoy.
- embedding — (mathematics) A map which maps a subspace (smaller structure) to the whole space (larger structure).
- embodying — Present participle of embody.
- embossing — Present participle of emboss.
- embracing — Present participle of embrace.
- embrangle — To embroil.
- embroglio — Alternative form of imbroglio.
- entombing — Present participle of entomb.
- fumblings — Plural form of fumbling.
- gambadoes — Gamashes; spatterdashes.
- gamboling — (US) present participle of gambol.
- gambolled — to skip about, as in dancing or playing; frolic.
- gambrinus — a mythical Flemish king, the reputed inventor of beer.
- game bird — any bird hunted chiefly for sport, as a quail or pheasant, especially such a bird that is protected by game laws.
- game-ball — (of a person) in perfect health
- gameboard — A portable surface on which a game is played, and which is marked for play of that game.
- germ tube — a tube produced by a germinating spore, such as the pollen tube produced by a pollen grain
- glabellum — glabella.
- globalism — the attitude or policy of placing the interests of the entire world above those of individual nations.
- goosebump — The bumps on a person's skin, at the base of body hair, which may involuntarily develop when a person is cold or experiences strong emotions.
- grub beam — a curved, laminated wooden beam forming part of a rounded stern.
- grumbling — to murmur or mutter in discontent; complain sullenly.
- gym bunny — a person who spends a lot of time exercising at a gymnasium
- hamburger — a sandwich consisting of a cooked patty of ground or chopped beef, usually in a roll or bun, variously garnished.
- high beam — an automobile headlight beam providing bright, long-range illumination of a darkened road and chiefly for use in driving in nonurban areas.
- high moby — /hi:' mohb'ee/ The high half of a 512K PDP-10's physical address space; the other half was of course the low moby. This usage has been generalised in a way that has outlasted the PDP-10; for example, at the 1990 Washington D.C. Area Science Fiction Conclave (Disclave), when a miscommunication resulted in two separate wakes being held in commemoration of the shutdown of MIT's last ITS machines, the one on the upper floor was dubbed the "high moby" and the other the "low moby". All parties involved grokked this instantly. See moby.
- humbugged — Simple past tense and past participle of humbug.
- imageable — a physical likeness or representation of a person, animal, or thing, photographed, painted, sculptured, or otherwise made visible.
- imbedding — embedding.
- imbosking — Present participle of imbosk.
- imbrangle — embrangle.
- imbroglio — a misunderstanding, disagreement, etc., of a complicated or bitter nature, as between persons or nations.
- intombing — Present participle of intomb.
- jiggumbob — an indistinct thing; thingamabob
- kreymborg — Alfred, 1883–1966, U.S. poet, playwright, and critic.
- limbering — Present participle of limber.
- limburger — a variety of soft white cheese of strong odor and flavor.
- lumbering — timber sawed or split into planks, boards, etc.
- luxemburg — Rosa [roh-zuh;; German roh-zah] /ˈroʊ zə;; German ˈroʊ zɑ/ (Show IPA), ("Red Rosa") 1870–1919, German socialist agitator, born in Poland.
- m-banking — the practice of making financial transactions or managing bank accounts using mobile phone technology
- magdeburg — a state in central Germany. 9515 sq. mi. (24,644 sq. km). Capital: Magdeburg.
- maggotbox — (abuse) /mag'*t-boks/ An even more derogatory term than Macintrash.