9-letter words containing i, m, o, b
- improbity — lack of honesty or moral scruples.
- intombing — Present participle of intomb.
- jiggumbob — an indistinct thing; thingamabob
- jumboized — Simple past tense and past participle of jumboize.
- labourism — Support for the labour movement, the development of a collective organization of working people to campaign for better working conditions and treatment.
- libriform — (of a fibre of woody tissue) elongated and having a pitted thickened cell wall
- lombardia — a region of N central Italy, bordering on the Alps: dominated by prosperous lordships and city-states during the Middle Ages; later ruled by Spain and then by Austria before becoming part of Italy in 1859; intensively cultivated and in parts highly industrialized. Pop: 9 108 645 (2003 est). Area: 23 804 sq km (9284 sq miles)
- lombardic — a native or inhabitant of Lombardy.
- macrobian — Having an exceptionally long life span.
- mail bomb — letter bomb.
- mail-bomb — Military. a projectile, formerly usually spherical, filled with a bursting charge and exploded by means of a fuze, by impact, or otherwise, now generally designed to be dropped from an aircraft.
- mailboxes — Plural form of mailbox.
- main body — the hull, as distinguished from the rest of a ship.
- mainboard — (computing) motherboard.
- manitoban — a province in central Canada. 246,512 sq. mi. (638,466 sq. km). Abbreviation: Man. Capital: Winnipeg.
- māori bug — a large shining black wingless cockroach of New Zealand, Platyzosteria novae-zelandiae
- maracaibo — a seaport in NW Venezuela.
- meibomian — Alternative form of Meibomian.
- merbromin — an iridescent green, water-soluble powder, C 2 0 H 8 Br 2 HgNa 2 O 6 , that forms a red solution when dissolved in water: used as an antiseptic and as a germicide.
- 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.
- microbrew — beer brewed in a microbrewery.
- microtube — A microscopic tube, especially one used in the construction of specialized lasers.
- millboard — a strong, thick pasteboard used to make book covers.
- mind-body — taking into account the physiological, psychic, and spiritual connections between the state of the body and that of the mind: mind-body medicine.
- mindblown — Having a blown mind.
- mini-boom — a brief period of strong economic growth
- misbecome — to be unsuitable, unbecoming, or unfit for.
- misbestow — to bestow wrongly
- misbutton — (transitive) To button wrongly.
- misdoubts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of misdoubt.
- mislabour — to labour wrongly
- miter box — any of various fixed or adjustable guides for a saw in making miters or cross cuts, especially a troughlike box open at the ends and guiding the saw by slots in the opposite sides.
- mitre box — an open-ended box with sides having narrow slots to guide a saw in cutting mitre joints
- mobbishly — in a mobbish, chaotic or turbulent manner
- mobilised — Simple past tense and past participle of mobilise.
- mobilises — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mobilise.
- mobilized — to assemble or marshal (armed forces, military reserves, or civilian persons of military age) into readiness for active service.
- mobilizer — to assemble or marshal (armed forces, military reserves, or civilian persons of military age) into readiness for active service.
- mobilizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mobilize.
- moby dick — a novel (1851) by Herman Melville.
- monobasic — Chemistry. (of an acid) containing one replaceable hydrogen atom.
- moonblind — (obsolete) Dim-sighted; purblind.
- moonblink — Nyctalopia.