9-letter words containing m, o, b
- jambstone — a stone, or one of the stones, forming one jamb of an opening.
- jeroboams — Plural form of jeroboam.
- jiggumbob — an indistinct thing; thingamabob
- jumbo jet — a widebody jet airliner.
- jumboized — Simple past tense and past participle of jumboize.
- jumbotron — A very large video screen, typically used in a stadium or concert venue to show close-up shots.
- jump boot — a heavy leather boot originally designed for wear by paratroopers.
- kreymborg — Alfred, 1883–1966, U.S. poet, playwright, and critic.
- la boheme — an opera (1896) by Giacomo Puccini.
- laborsome — Alternative form of laboursome.
- labourism — Support for the labour movement, the development of a collective organization of working people to campaign for better working conditions and treatment.
- lamb chop — cutlets of young sheep's meat
- lamb down — to persuade (someone) to spend all his money
- lambdamoo — (games) The most frequently used server software for running a MOO and also the nerve-center (of sorts) of the MOO community.
- lambrusco — a semisweet, lightly effervescent red wine from Italy.
- lambswool — Fine wool from a young sheep, used to make knitted garments, blankets, etc., with a soft texture.
- libriform — (of a fibre of woody tissue) elongated and having a pitted thickened cell wall
- lobectomy — excision of a lobe of an organ or gland.
- 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.
- lumberton — a city in S North Carolina.
- lynch mob — A lynch mob is an angry crowd of people who want to kill someone without a trial, because they believe that person has committed a crime.
- macrobian — Having an exceptionally long life span.
- mad about — passionate about
- maggotbox — (abuse) /mag'*t-boks/ An even more derogatory term than Macintrash.
- 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.
- make bold — to bring into existence by shaping or changing material, combining parts, etc.: to make a dress; to make a channel; to make a work of art.
- make book — to enter in a book or list; record; register.
- mamberamo — a river in Irian Jaya, W New Guinea, flowing NW to the Pacific Ocean. 500 miles (805 km) long.
- 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
- marabouts — Plural form of marabout.
- maracaibo — a seaport in NW Venezuela.
- mason bee — any of numerous solitary bees, as of the family Megachilidae, that construct nests of clay.
- mass book — missal (def 1).
- matchbook — a small cardboard folder into which several rows of paper matches are stapled or glued.
- may blobs — marsh marigold.
- meibomian — Alternative form of Meibomian.
- melbourne — the ancient Roman goddess of victory, identified with the Greek goddess Nike.
- memorable — worth remembering; notable: a memorable speech.
- memorably — worth remembering; notable: a memorable speech.
- 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.
- mesoblast — the mesoderm.
- metabolic — of, relating to, or affected by metabolism.
- microbars — Plural form of microbar.
- microbeam — (physics) A beam having a small cross section.