10-letter words containing i, m, b, u
- microbuses — Plural form of microbus.
- microtubes — Plural form of microtube.
- middelburg — a province in the SW Netherlands, consisting largely of islands. 1041 sq. mi. (2695 sq. km). Capital: Middelburg.
- minibudget — a group of economic measures proposed between full annual budgets
- misbuttons — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of misbutton.
- misdoubted — Simple past tense and past participle of misdoubt.
- mocambique — Mozambique.
- mons pubis — a rounded prominence of fatty tissue over the pubic symphysis, covered with hair after puberty.
- morbillous — of, relating to, or resembling measles
- moribundly — In a moribund way.
- mozambique — Formerly Portuguese East Africa. a republic in SE Africa: formerly an overseas province of Portugal; gained independence in 1975. 297,731 sq. mi. (771,123 sq. km). Capital: Maputo.
- muesli bar — a snack made of compressed muesli ingredients
- mulberries — Plural form of mulberry.
- muliebrity — womanly nature or qualities.
- mulligrubs — ill temper; colic; grumpiness.
- multilobar — of or relating to a lobe, as of the lungs.
- multilobed — having many lobes
- multiqubit — (physics) Involving multiple qubits.
- muni bonds — Muni bonds are bonds issued by local municipal governments on which the interest is often tax-free.
- musophobia — Fear of mice.
- mutability — liable or subject to change or alteration.
- muttonbird — any of several long-winged seabirds, often used as food, especially Puffinus tenuirostris (short-tailed shearwater) of Australia and Puffinus griseus (sooty shearwater) which breeds in the Southern Hemisphere and winters in the Northern Hemisphere.
- numbfishes — Plural form of numbfish.
- omnibusses — (dated) Plural form of omnibus.
- opprobrium — the disgrace or the reproach incurred by conduct considered outrageously shameful; infamy.
- plumb line — a cord with a lead bob attached to one end, used to determine perpendicularity, the depth of water, etc. Compare plumb (def 1).
- procambium — the meristem from which vascular bundles are developed.
- rhumb line — a curve on the surface of a sphere that cuts all meridians at the same angle. It is the path taken by a vessel or aircraft that maintains a constant compass direction.
- rumbullion — a drink of rum
- seaborgium — a superheavy, synthetic, radioactive element with a very short half-life. Symbol: Sg; atomic number: 106.
- semi-bantu — a group of languages of W Africa, mainly SE Nigeria and Cameroon, that were not traditionally classed as Bantu but that show certain essential Bantu characteristics. They are now classed with Bantu in the Benue-Congo branch of the Niger-Congo family
- semidouble — having more petals than those of a single flower but fewer than those of a double flower.
- semipublic — partly or to some degree public.
- slumbering — to sleep, especially lightly; doze; drowse.
- stimulable — to rouse to action or effort, as by encouragement or pressure; spur on; incite: to stimulate his interest in mathematics.
- strabismus — a disorder of vision due to a deviation from normal orientation of one or both eyes so that both cannot be directed at the same object at the same time; squint; crossed eyes.
- subatomics — the study of subatomic particles
- subintimal — the innermost membrane or lining of some organ or part, especially that of an artery, vein, or lymphatic.
- subkingdom — a category of related phyla within a kingdom.
- sublimable — Psychology. to divert the energy of (a sexual or other biological impulse) from its immediate goal to one of a more acceptable social, moral, or aesthetic nature or use.
- subliminal — existing or operating below the threshold of consciousness; being or employing stimuli insufficiently intense to produce a discrete sensation but often being or designed to be intense enough to influence the mental processes or the behavior of the individual: a subliminal stimulus; subliminal advertising.
- submariner — a member of the crew of a submarine.
- submarines — a vessel that can be submerged and navigated under water, usually built for warfare and armed with torpedoes or guided missiles.
- submaxilla — mandible.
- submaximal — of or being a maximum; greatest possible; highest.
- submediant — the sixth tone of a diatonic scale, being midway between the subdominant and the upper tonic.
- submersion — to submerge.
- subminimal — constituting a minimum: a minimal mode of transportation.
- subminimum — being below a minimum standard, rate, quota, etc.: a subminimum wage for teenagers.
- submission — an act or instance of submitting.