8-letter words containing m, i, l, b
- mandible — the bone of the lower jaw.
- maniable — (obsolete) manageable.
- marbling — metamorphosed limestone, consisting chiefly of recrystallized calcite or dolomite, capable of taking a high polish, occurring in a wide range of colors and variegations and used in sculpture and architecture.
- miliband — David (Wright). born 1965, British Labour politician; foreign secretary (2007–10)
- milk bar — a simple restaurant, often with an open front, or a counter or booth where milk drinks, sandwiches, etc., are sold.
- millable — capable of being milled: millable wheat.
- millbrae — a city in W California, on San Francisco Bay.
- millburn — a township in NE New Jersey.
- millbury — a city in central Massachusetts.
- millibar — a centimeter-gram-second unit of pressure equal to one thousandth of a bar or 1000 dynes per square centimeter, used to measure air pressure. Abbreviation: mb.
- mineable — capable of being mined, especially profitably.
- minilabs — Plural form of minilab.
- misbuild — to construct (especially something complex) by assembling and joining parts or materials: to build a house.
- misbuilt — to construct (especially something complex) by assembling and joining parts or materials: to build a house.
- miscible — capable of being mixed: miscible ingredients.
- mislabel — to label wrongly, incorrectly, or misleadingly: to mislabel a bottle of medicine.
- missable — to fail to hit or strike: to miss a target.
- mixblood — A person of mixed racial heritage.
- mobilise — to assemble or marshal (armed forces, military reserves, or civilian persons of military age) into readiness for active service.
- mobility — the quality of being mobile.
- mobilize — to assemble or marshal (armed forces, military reserves, or civilian persons of military age) into readiness for active service.
- molybdic — of or containing molybdenum, especially in the trivalent or hexavalent states, as molybdic acid, H 2 MoO 4 .
- morbidly — suggesting an unhealthy mental state or attitude; unwholesomely gloomy, sensitive, extreme, etc.: a morbid interest in death.
- morbilli — measles (def 1).
- mumbling — to speak in a low indistinct manner, almost to an unintelligible extent; mutter.
- nebulium — a hypothetical element once thought to be present in emission nebulae because of certain unidentified spectral lines, now known to be forbidden transitions of oxygen and nitrogen ions.
- nimblest — Superlative form of nimble.
- nobelium — a transuranic element in the actinium series. Symbol: No; atomic number: 102.
- olibanum — frankincense.
- outclimb — to surpass or outdo in climbing; climb higher or better than: As a child, I could outclimb any kid on the block.
- periblem — the histogen in plants that gives rise to the cortex.
- plumb in — When someone plumbs in a device such as a washing machine, toilet, or bath, they connect it to the water and waste pipes in a building.
- plumbing — a small mass of lead or other heavy material, as that suspended by a line and used to measure the depth of water or to ascertain a vertical line. Compare plumb line.
- plumbism — lead poisoning (def 1b).
- plumbite — a substance containing lead oxide
- quilombo — (historical, in Brazil) A remote, inland settlement originally settled by fugitive slaves (or others).
- rambling — aimlessly wandering.
- rumbling — a deep, heavy, somewhat muffled, continuous sound: the rumble of tanks across a bridge.
- semibald — partly bald
- semibold — denoting a weight of typeface between medium and bold face
- semibull — a bull or official document issued by the pope after his election but before his coronation
- subclaim — a claim that is part of a larger claim
- subilium — the broad, upper portion of either hipbone.
- sublimit — a limit on a subcategory
- symbolic — serving as a symbol of something (often followed by of).
- tablinum — (in an ancient Roman house) a large, open room at the side of the peristyle farthest from the main entrance.
- timbales — a pair of single-headed, cylindrical drums joined by a frame and played with drumsticks, used, esp. originally, in Latin American dance music
- tomblike — an excavation in earth or rock for the burial of a corpse; grave.
- tumbling — an act of tumbling or falling.
- unlimber — not limber; inflexible; stiff.