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9-letter words containing i, c, b, m

  • columbite — a black mineral consisting of a niobium oxide of iron and manganese in orthorhombic crystalline form: occurs in coarse granite, often with tantalite, and is an ore of niobium. Formula: (Fe, Mn)(Nb)2O6
  • columbium — niobium
  • combating — to fight or contend against; oppose vigorously: to combat crime.
  • combative — A person who is combative is aggressive and eager to fight or argue.
  • combinate — combined
  • combining — the process or an act of combining two or more things
  • comboloio — A Muslim rosary consisting of ninety-nine beads.
  • comptible — (obsolete) accountable; responsible.
  • coulombic — relating to the discoveries of Charles Augustin de Coulomb
  • cribellum — a sievelike spinning organ in certain spiders that occurs between the spinnerets
  • crumbiest — Superlative form of crumby.
  • crumbling — to break into small fragments or crumbs.
  • cubiculum — an underground burial chamber in Imperial Rome, such as those found in the catacombs
  • cumbering — Present participle of cumber.
  • cymbalist — A musician who plays the cymbals.
  • cymbeline — a romantic drama (1610?) by Shakespeare.
  • cymbidium — a genus, Cymbidium, of subtropical and tropical orchids native to Australia and Asia, having boat-shaped showy flowers
  • cymbiform — having the shape of a boat
  • discumber — (archaic, transitive) To free from that which cumbers or impedes; to disencumber.
  • embracing — Present participle of embrace.
  • embracive — (archaic) Disposed to embrace; fond of caressing.
  • embryonic — Of or relating to an embryo.
  • embryotic — Embryonic.
  • excambion — an exchange, esp of land
  • fine-comb — to use a fine-tooth comb on.
  • ibm pc at — (computer)   ("Advanced Technology") A version of the IBM PC, released in Aug 1984 with an Intel 80286 processor, a 16-bit bus, a medium-speed hard disk and a 1.2 megabyte floppy disk drive. It had a larger case than the PC, which allowed it to accept "tall cards". The AT keyboard corrected the PC's non-standard placement of the return and left shift keys but shortened the backspace key, making it harder to reach.
  • ibm pc xt — (computer)   An IBM PC with a (slow) hard disk. The XT was released in March 1983. It had an Intel 8088 CPU. The XT/370, released in October 1983, added IBM 370 mainframe emulation, and the XT 286 followed in September 1986 with an Intel 80286 CPU [Why?].
  • imbalance — the state or condition of lacking balance, as in proportion or distribution.
  • imbecilic — of, relating to, or characteristic of an imbecile.
  • imbracery — embracery.
  • imbricate — overlapping in sequence, as tiles or shingles on a roof.
  • impacable — (obsolete) Not to be appeased or quieted.
  • incumbent — holding an indicated position, role, office, etc., currently: the incumbent officers of the club.
  • lombardic — a native or inhabitant of Lombardy.
  • lumbrical — any of four wormlike muscles in the palm of the hand and in the sole of the foot.
  • lumbricus — a member of a genus of worms of the same name, the most common of which is the common earth worm, Lumbricus terrestris
  • macbinary — (file format)   An eight-bit wide representation of the data and resource forks of an Macintosh file and of relevant Finder information. MacBinary files are recognised as "special" by several MacIntosh terminal emulators. These emulators, using Kermit or XMODEM or any other file transfer protocol, can separate the incoming file into forks and appropriately modify the Desktop to display icons, types, creation dates, and the like.
  • macrobian — Having an exceptionally long life span.
  • mainbrace — a brace leading to a main yard.
  • maracaibo — a seaport in NW Venezuela.
  • medicable — responsive to medical treatment; curable.
  • metabatic — Relating to metabasis.
  • metabolic — of, relating to, or affected by metabolism.
  • microbars — Plural form of microbar.
  • microbeam — (physics) A beam having a small cross section.
  • microbial — a microorganism, especially a pathogenic bacterium.
  • microbian — (biology) Of, relating to, or caused by, microbes; microbial.
  • microblog — to post very short entries, as a brief update or a photo, on a blog or social media website: A lot of people were microblogging during the crisis.
  • microbody — (cytology): A cellular organelle bound by a single membrane and containing enzymes.
  • microbots — Plural form of microbot.
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