9-letter words containing m, a, b, u
- jump bail — property or money given as surety that a person released from custody will return at an appointed time.
- jump ball — a ball tossed into the air above and between two opposing players by the referee in putting the ball into play.
- kachumber — a salad of chopped onion, tomato, cucumber, and (sometimes) other vegetables, typically seasoned with chilli and coriander, served as an accompaniment to a main meal
- la cumbre — Uspallata Pass.
- labourism — Support for the labour movement, the development of a collective organization of working people to campaign for better working conditions and treatment.
- laburnums — any of several small trees belonging to the genus Laburnum, of the legume family, having elongated clusters of pendulous yellow flowers, especially L. alpinum, the Scotch laburnum.
- lambrusco — a semisweet, lightly effervescent red wine from Italy.
- lampbrush — (rare) A form of brush, containing loops of material, used for dusting light fittings.
- lumberman — a person who deals in lumber.
- lumbrical — any of four wormlike muscles in the palm of the hand and in the sole of the foot.
- mad about — passionate about
- magdeburg — a state in central Germany. 9515 sq. mi. (24,644 sq. km). Capital: Magdeburg.
- mandelbug — (jargon, programming) /man'del-buhg/ (From the Mandelbrot set) A bug whose underlying causes are so complex and obscure as to make its behaviour appear chaotic or even nondeterministic. This term implies that the speaker thinks it is a Bohr bug, rather than a heisenbug. See also schroedinbug.
- mandibula — (anatomy) mandible.
- manubrial — Anatomy, Zoology. a segment, bone, cell, etc., resembling a handle.
- manubrium — Anatomy, Zoology. a segment, bone, cell, etc., resembling a handle.
- manurable — Able, or suitable, to be manured or cultivated on.
- māori bug — a large shining black wingless cockroach of New Zealand, Platyzosteria novae-zelandiae
- marabouts — Plural form of marabout.
- marabunta — A large population of army ants on the move, eating anything in their wake.
- marrubium — Any of the genus Marrubium of bitter aromatic plants; hoarhound.
- marshbuck — an antelope of the central African swamplands, Strepsiceros spekei, with spreading hoofs adapted to boggy ground; an important vector of the tsetse fly
- maturable — capable of being matured
- mbujimayi — a city in the S central Democratic Republic of the Congo.
- mealy bug — any of several scalelike, homopterous insects of the families Pseudococcidae and Eriococcidae that are covered with a powdery wax secretion and feed on plants.
- megabucks — one million dollars.
- mislabour — to labour wrongly
- montauban — a department in S France. 1440 sq. mi. (3730 sq. km). Capital: Montauban.
- mossbauer — Rudolf L [roo-dawlf] /ˈru dɔlf/ (Show IPA), 1929–2011, German physicist: Nobel prize 1961.
- mouldable — something formed in or on a mold: a mold of jelly.
- mountable — Able to be mounted.
- mouthable — able to be recited or spoken well
- muliebral — womanly nature or qualities.
- multiband — Having or employing multiple bands, especially frequency bands.
- multibank — of or involving more than one bank
- mummy bag — a snug-fitting sleeping bag tapered from the shoulders to the feet, enclosing both the body and head except for a small opening for the face.
- munchable — an item of food that can be munched; a snack
- mung bean — small green legume
- numerable — capable of being counted, totaled, or numbered.
- obumbrant — overhanging; projecting over another part.
- obumbrate — to darken, overshadow, or cloud.
- ombudsman — a government official who hears and investigates complaints by private citizens against other officials or government agencies.
- outgamble — to defeat at gambling
- ovalbumin — the principal protein of egg white.
- penumbral — Astronomy. the partial or imperfect shadow outside the complete shadow of an opaque body, as a planet, where the light from the source of illumination is only partly cut off. Compare umbra (def 3a). the grayish marginal portion of a sunspot. Compare umbra (def 3b).
- permabull — an investor who consistently acts in the expectation that the value of stocks and shares will rise
- queen mab — Irish and English Folklore. a mischievous, tantalizing fairy who governs and produces people's dreams.
- quickbeam — a rowan tree
- raw umber — an earth consisting chiefly of a hydrated oxide of iron and some oxide of manganese, used in its natural state as a brown pigment (raw umber) or, after heating, as a reddish-brown pigment (burnt umber)
- rituximab — a monoclonal antibody used to treat non-Hodgkin's lymphoma