8-letter words containing i, m, b, e
- bogeyism — the recognition of or belief in the existence of ghosts or demons
- bohemian — Bohemian means belonging or relating to Bohemia or its people.
- bombesin — a hormone partly responsible for regulating appetite
- bombsite — an area where the buildings have been destroyed by bombs
- bonhomie — Bonhomie is happy, good-natured friendliness.
- breaming — to clean (a ship's bottom) by applying burning furze, reeds, etc., to soften the pitch and loosen adherent matter.
- brideman — a male attendant of the bridegroom at a wedding
- 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
- brumaire — the month of mist: the second month of the French revolutionary calendar, extending from Oct 23 to Nov 21
- brunizem — a type of dark prairie soil
- buy time — gain time (sense 2) (at , time)
- cherubim — a celestial being. Gen. 3:24; Ezek. 1, 10.
- chimbley — (UK, dialect) A chimney.
- chimbote — a port in N central Peru: contains Peru's first steelworks (1958), using hydroelectric power from the Santa River. Pop: 328 000 (2005 est)
- climbers — Plural form of climber.
- combined — A combined effort or attack is made by two or more groups of people at the same time.
- combiner — Any of various electronic devices that combine signals, in particular.
- combines — Plural form of combine.
- comblike — resembling a comb
- combwise — in the manner of a comb
- demibold — Semibold.
- dimbleby — Richard. 1913–65, British broadcaster
- dime bag — a packet containing an amount of an illegal drug selling for ten dollars.
- dimmable — Able to be dimmed; able to have illumination decreased in brightness.
- disembed — (transitive) To remove (something) from what it is embedded in.
- divebomb — (of an aircraft) To bomb whilst in a steep dive.
- drambuie — a liqueur based on Scotch whisky and made exclusively in Scotland from a recipe dating from the 18th century
- dumbsize — (informal) To reduce the number of employees in a business without regard to organizational efficiency, such that its operations become unprofitable or inefficient.
- ebionism — the teaching upheld by the Ebionites that said that Jesus was a mortal human being, that Christians should adhere to Jewish law and that absence of wealth was a preferred religious quality
- ebullism — (physiology) The formation of bubbles of gas in biological fluids due to reduced environmental pressure.
- embitter — Cause (someone) to feel bitter or resentful.
- embodied — Be an expression of or give a tangible or visible form to (an idea, quality, or feeling).
- embodier — One who embodies.
- embodies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of embody.
- embolism — Obstruction of an artery, typically by a clot of blood or an air bubble.
- embolize — To perform an embolization.
- embryoid — Of, pertaining to, or resembling an embryo.
- eximbank — a U.S. government agency that aids in the exporting of U.S. goods and services by making or guaranteeing loans to foreign buyers of U.S. exports
- filmable — noting or pertaining to a story or to a literary work readily adaptable to motion picture form.
- fimbriae — Often, fimbriae. Botany, Zoology. a fringe or fringed border.
- firebomb — an explosive device with incendiary effects.
- forelimb — a front limb of an animal.
- giambeux — Obsolete form of jambeux.
- gimbaled — Simple past tense and past participle of gimbal.
- hebraism — an expression or construction distinctive of the Hebrew language.
- homebird — a person who is reluctant to leave their hometown or their childhood home, or who returns after a period of living away
- ibsenism — a manner or style of dramatic structure or content characteristic of Ibsen.
- imagable — Alternative form of imageable.
- imbecile — Informal. a dunce; blockhead; dolt: Don't stand there like an imbecile. Open the door!.