8-letter words containing i, b, m
- millbury — a city in central Massachusetts.
- millibar — a centimeter-gram-second unit of pressure equal to one thousandth of a bar or 1000 dynes per square centimeter, used to measure air pressure. Abbreviation: mb.
- mineable — capable of being mined, especially profitably.
- minibars — Plural form of minibar.
- minibike — a small, lightweight motorcycle with a low frame and designed generally for off-highway use.
- miniboss — (video games) A minor or incidental boss in a video game.
- minicabs — Plural form of minicab.
- minilabs — Plural form of minilab.
- mirabeau — Honoré Gabriel Victor Riqueti [aw-naw-rey ga-bree-el veek-tawr reekuh-tee] /ɔ nɔˈreɪ ga briˈɛl vikˈtɔr rikəˈti/ (Show IPA), Count de, 1749–91, French Revolutionary statesman and orator.
- misbegin — to begin incorrectly or badly
- misbegot — Misbegotten; unlawfully or irregularly begotten; of bad origin.
- misbegun — Begun badly or incorrectly.
- misbirth — An abortion.
- misbrand — to brand or label erroneously.
- 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.
- miscible — capable of being mixed: miscible ingredients.
- misdoubt — doubt or suspicion.
- mislabel — to label wrongly, incorrectly, or misleadingly: to mislabel a bottle of medicine.
- missable — to fail to hit or strike: to miss a target.
- mixblood — A person of mixed racial heritage.
- mobilise — to assemble or marshal (armed forces, military reserves, or civilian persons of military age) into readiness for active service.
- mobility — the quality of being mobile.
- mobilize — to assemble or marshal (armed forces, military reserves, or civilian persons of military age) into readiness for active service.
- mobisode — a typically brief episode of a television show that is available online and formatted for viewing on a mobile phone or smartphone
- mode bit — A flag, usually in hardware, that selects between two (usually quite different) modes of operation. The connotations are different from flag bit in that mode bits are mainly written during a boot or set-up phase, are seldom explicitly read, and seldom change over the lifetime of an ordinary program. The classic example was the EBCDIC-vs.-ASCII bit (#12) of the Program Status Word of the IBM 360. Another was the bit on a PDP-12 that controlled whether it ran the PDP-8 or the LINC instruction set.
- molybdic — of or containing molybdenum, especially in the trivalent or hexavalent states, as molybdic acid, H 2 MoO 4 .
- moorbird — moorfowl.
- morbidly — suggesting an unhealthy mental state or attitude; unwholesomely gloomy, sensitive, extreme, etc.: a morbid interest in death.
- morbific — causing disease.
- morbihan — a department in W France. 2738 sq. mi. (7090 sq. km). Capital: Vannes.
- morbilli — measles (def 1).
- moribund — in a dying state; near death.
- mr---big — a man having the highest authority, control, prestige, or influence in a group, field, situation, or the like, especially in the underworld.
- ms-basic — Microsoft Basic
- mudbrick — A brick made from mud or clay mixed with straw and dried in the sun rather than being fired.
- mumbling — to speak in a low indistinct manner, almost to an unintelligible extent; mutter.
- nabobism — any very wealthy, influential, or powerful person.
- namibian — a republic in SW Africa: a former German protectorate; a mandate of South Africa 1920–66; gained independence 1990. 318,261 sq. mi. (824,296 sq. km). Capital: Windhoek.
- 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.
- nimblest — Superlative form of nimble.
- nimbuses — Plural form of nimbus.
- nimbyism — The ideology of a nimby, often used pejoratively.
- nobelium — a transuranic element in the actinium series. Symbol: No; atomic number: 102.
- nubiform — cloud-like
- numbfish — an electric ray, so called from its power of numbing its prey by means of electric shocks.
- obeahism — the custom of or faith in the form of witchcraft known as obeah
- olibanum — frankincense.
- outclimb — to surpass or outdo in climbing; climb higher or better than: As a child, I could outclimb any kid on the block.
- overbrim — To flow over the brim; to overflow.