8-letter words containing i, b, m
- lambdoid — having the shape of the Greek capital lambda.
- lambkill — sheep laurel.
- lambkins — Plural form of lambkin.
- lamblike — like a lamb; gentle; meek.
- lambling — a small lamb
- lambskin — the skin of a lamb, especially when dressed with its wool, and used for clothing.
- limbered — Simple past tense and past participle of limber.
- limberly — In a limber manner.
- limbless — a part or member of an animal body distinct from the head and trunk, as a leg, arm, or wing: the lower limbs; artificial limbs.
- limbmeal — (Shakespeare) Into pieces; limb from limb.
- limbourg — a medieval duchy in W Europe: now divided into a province in the SE Netherlands (Limburg) and a province in NE Belgium (Limbourg)
- lip balm — salve for the lips
- lipscomb — William Nunn [nuhn] /nʌn/ (Show IPA), Jr. 1919–2011, U.S. chemist: Nobel Prize 1976.
- lobbyism — a person who tries to influence legislation on behalf of a special interest; a member of a lobby.
- lombardi — Vince(nt Thomas) 1913–70, U.S. football coach.
- macbride — Seán [shawn] /ʃɔn/ (Show IPA), 1904–88, Irish politician and diplomat, born in France: Nobel Peace Prize 1974.
- madbrain — (archaic) A rash or hotheaded person.
- maebashi — a city in the central part of Honshu, in central Japan.
- maghrebi — a native or inhabitant of the Maghreb.
- mail hub — mail server
- mailable — legally acceptable as mail, as in terms of content, size, or weight.
- mailbags — Plural form of mailbag.
- mailboat — a boat for transporting mail.
- mailbomb — Alternative form of mail bomb.
- mainboom — the spar for the mainsail
- malibran — Maria Felicita [Spanish mah-ree-ah fe-lee-thee-tah] /Spanish mɑˈri ɑ ˌfɛ liˈθi tɑ/ (Show IPA), 1808–36, Spanish opera singer, born in France.
- mandible — the bone of the lower jaw.
- maniable — (obsolete) manageable.
- manitoba — a province in central Canada. 246,512 sq. mi. (638,466 sq. km). Abbreviation: Man. Capital: Winnipeg.
- marbling — metamorphosed limestone, consisting chiefly of recrystallized calcite or dolomite, capable of taking a high polish, occurring in a wide range of colors and variegations and used in sculpture and architecture.
- marimbas — Plural form of marimba.
- mebibyte — (computing) 220 (1,048,576) bytes. Abbreviated MiB.
- medibank — the national health-insurance program instituted in Australia.
- megabits — Plural form of megabit.
- membrain — Misspelling of membrane.
- memsahib — (formerly, in India) a term of respect for a married European woman.
- meta bit — (character) The most-signigicant bit of an 8-bit character, which is on in character values 128--255. Also called the high bit, "alt bit" (alternate bit) or hobbit. Some terminals and consoles (see space-cadet keyboard) have a META shift key. Others (including, *mirabile dictu*, keyboards on IBM PC-class machines) have an ALT key. See also bucky bits. Historical note: although, in modern usage shaped by a universe of 8-bit bytes, the meta bit is invariably hex 80 (octal 0200), things were different on earlier machines with 36-bit words and 9-bit bytes. The MIT and Stanford keyboards (see space-cadet keyboard) generated hex 100 (octal 400) from their meta keys.
- micawber — a person who idles and trusts to fortune
- microbar — a centimeter-gram-second unit of pressure, equal to one millionth of a bar; one dyne per square centimeter.
- microbat — Any of the small bats in the suborder Microchiroptera.
- microbes — Plural form of microbe.
- microbic — a microorganism, especially a pathogenic bacterium.
- microbot — A small mobile robot equipped with a microcontroller.
- microbus — minibus.
- midbrain — the middle of the three primary divisions of the brain in the embryo of a vertebrate or the part of the adult brain derived from this tissue; mesencephalon.
- miliband — David (Wright). born 1965, British Labour politician; foreign secretary (2007–10)
- milk bar — a simple restaurant, often with an open front, or a counter or booth where milk drinks, sandwiches, etc., are sold.
- millable — capable of being milled: millable wheat.
- millbrae — a city in W California, on San Francisco Bay.
- millburn — a township in NE New Jersey.