7-letter words containing m, a, b, i
- bumelia — a thorny shrub of the genus Bumelia
- cabimas — a town in NW Venezuela, on the NE shore of Lake Maracaibo. Pop: 284 000 (2005 est)
- cacimbo — a heavy mist or drizzle that occurs in the Congo basin area, often accompanied by onshore winds.
- cambial — a layer of delicate meristematic tissue between the inner bark or phloem and the wood or xylem, which produces new phloem on the outside and new xylem on the inside in stems, roots, etc., originating all secondary growth in plants and forming the annual rings of wood.
- cambion — Lb mythology The offspring of an incubus and a human.
- cambism — cambistry
- cambist — a dealer or expert in foreign exchange
- cambium — a meristem that increases the girth of stems and roots by producing additional xylem and phloem
- cambrai — a town in NE France: textile industry: scene of a battle in which massed tanks were first used and broke through the German line (November, 1917). Pop: 33 738 (1999)
- cambria — Wales
- cambric — a fine white linen or cotton fabric
- cembali — Irregular plural form of cembalo.
- cimabue — Giovanni (dʒoˈvanni). ?1240–?1302, Italian painter of the Florentine school, who anticipated the movement, led by Giotto, away from the Byzantine tradition in art towards a greater naturalism
- coimbra — a city in central Portugal: capital of Portugal from 1190 to 1260; seat of the country's oldest university. Pop: 148 474 (2001)
- cumbias — Plural form of cumbia.
- cumbria — (since 1974) a county of NW England comprising the former counties of Westmorland and Cumberland together with N Lancashire: includes the Lake District mountain area and surrounding coastal lowlands with the Pennine uplands in the extreme east. Administrative centre: Carlisle. Pop: 489 800 (2003 est). Area: 6810 sq km (2629 sq miles)
- dicamba — a white crystalline solid used as a weedkiller
- embraid — to braid or interweave
- fibroma — a tumor consisting essentially of fibrous tissue.
- fimbria — Often, fimbriae. Botany, Zoology. a fringe or fringed border.
- gabbaim — a minor official of a synagogue, having limited ceremonial or administrative functions.
- gambian — a river in W Africa, flowing W to the Atlantic. 500 miles (800 km) long.
- gambier — an astringent extract obtained from the leaves and young shoots of a tropical Asian shrub, Uncaria gambir, of the madder family, used in medicine, dyeing, tanning, etc.
- gambist — a person who plays the viola da gamba
- gambits — Plural form of gambit.
- gimbals — Sometimes, gimbal. a contrivance, consisting of a ring or base on an axis, that permits an object, as a ship's compass, mounted in or on it to tilt freely in any direction, in effect suspending the object so that it will remain horizontal even when its support is tipped.
- iambics — Plural form of iambic.
- iambist — a person who writes iambs
- imblaze — Alternative form of emblaze.
- imbrace — Obsolete spelling of embrace.
- jambier — a greave
- jambiya — an Arabian knife having a curved, double-edged blade, usually with a central rib.
- kalimba — mbira.
- kimball — a male given name.
- lambing — a young sheep.
- lambkin — a little lamb.
- limbate — bordered, as a flower in which one color is surrounded by an edging of another.
- mailbag — a large bag used by mail carriers for carrying mail, usually equipped with a shoulder strap.
- mailbox — a public box in which mail is placed for pickup and delivery by the post office.
- mainbol — (language) MAcro ImplementatioN of SNOBOL4.
- maribor — a city in N Slovenia, on the Drava River.
- marimba — a musical instrument, originating in Africa but popularized and modified in Central America, consisting of a set of graduated wooden bars, often with resonators beneath to reinforce the sound, struck with mallets.
- maybird — the bobolink.
- megabit — 2 20 (1,048,576) bits.
- midband — Electronics. a band in the middle of a range of frequencies.
- mihrabs — Plural form of mihrab.
- minable — capable of being mined, especially profitably.
- minbars — Plural form of minbar.
- minibar — a small refrigerator, especially in a hotel room, stocked with liquor, nonalcoholic beverages, and snacks.
- minicab — a minicar that serves as a taxicab.