7-letter words containing m, a, b
- breamed — to clean (a ship's bottom) by applying burning furze, reeds, etc., to soften the pitch and loosen adherent matter.
- brecham — a straw collar for a draught-horse or ox
- brenham — a town in central Texas.
- brigham — a male given name.
- bromate — any salt or ester of bromic acid, containing the monovalent group -BrO3 or ion BrO3–
- buchman — Frank Nathan Daniel, 1878–1961, U.S. evangelist, founder of Moral Re-Armament movement.
- buckram — cotton or linen cloth stiffened with size, etc, used in lining or stiffening clothes, bookbinding, etc
- bulimia — Bulimia or bulimia nervosa is an illness in which a person has a very great fear of becoming fat, and so they make themselves vomit after eating.
- bum bag — A bum bag consists of a small bag attached to a belt which you wear round your waist. You use it to carry things such as money and keys.
- bum rap — a trumped-up or false charge
- bumbaze — to confuse; bewilder
- bumboat — any small boat used for ferrying supplies or goods for sale to a ship at anchor or at a mooring
- bumelia — a thorny shrub of the genus Bumelia
- bummalo — Bombay duck.
- burnham — Daniel Hudson, 1846–1912, U.S. architect and city planner.
- bushman — A Bushman is an aboriginal person from the southwestern part of Africa, especially the Kalahari desert region.
- by name — When you mention someone or something by name, or address someone by name, you use their name.
- by-name — a secondary name; cognomen; surname.
- byreman — a man who works in a byre
- cabimas — a town in NW Venezuela, on the NE shore of Lake Maracaibo. Pop: 284 000 (2005 est)
- cabomba — any of several aquatic plants of the genus Cabomba of the family Cabombaceae, having both submerged and floating leaves
- cacimbo — a heavy mist or drizzle that occurs in the Congo basin area, often accompanied by onshore winds.
- calumba — the root of the Mozambiquan plant Jateorhiza columba, used as an aid to digestion and as a mild tonic
- cambelt — Part of an internal combustion engine that synchronizes the rotation of the crankshaft and the camshaft(s) so that the engine's valves open and close at the proper times during each cylinder's intake and exhaust strokes.
- cambers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of camber.
- 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)
- cambrel — gambrel.
- cambria — Wales
- cambric — a fine white linen or cotton fabric
- caramba — an exclamation of surprise or amazement
- cembali — Irregular plural form of cembalo.
- cembalo — harpsichord
- chamber — A chamber is a large room, especially one that is used for formal meetings.
- chambly — a city in S Quebec, in E Canada.
- chambre — (of wine) at room temperature
- 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
- clamber — If you clamber somewhere, you climb there with difficulty, usually using your hands as well as your feet.
- clubman — a man who is an enthusiastic member of a club or clubs
- coimbra — a city in central Portugal: capital of Portugal from 1190 to 1260; seat of the country's oldest university. Pop: 148 474 (2001)
- columba — as in Alpha Columbae. a small constellation in the S hemisphere south of Orion
- combats — Plural form of combat.
- corumba — a city in W Brazil.
- 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)
- cwmbran — a new town in SE Wales, in Torfaen county borough, developed in the 1950s. Pop: 47 254 (2001)