8-letter words containing m, t, b
- bigamist — A bigamist is a person who commits the crime of marrying someone when they are already legally married to someone else.
- bigmouth — a noisy, indiscreet, or boastful person
- bimbette — a woman who is considered sexually attractive but unintelligent
- bimester — a period of two months
- biometer — a device for measuring the production of carbon dioxide in functioning tissue
- biometry — the analysis of biological data using mathematical and statistical methods
- bit mask — (programming) A pattern of binary values which is combined with some value using bitwise AND with the result that bits in the value in positions where the mask is zero are also set to zero. For example, if, in C, we want to test if bits 0 or 2 of x are set, we can write int mask = 5; /* binary 101 */ if (x & mask) ... A bit mask might also be used to set certain bits using bitwise OR, or to invert them using bitwise exclusive OR.
- blastema — a mass of undifferentiated animal cells that will develop into an organ or tissue: present at the site of regeneration of a lost part
- blastoma — a tumour composed of embryonic tissue that has not yet developed a specialized function
- bluestem — a name applied to a number of North American prairie grasses
- boatsman — boatman.
- bodement — a foreboding or omen; presentiment.
- boehmite — a grey, red, or brown mineral that consists of alumina in rhombic crystalline form and occurs in bauxite. Formula: AlO(OH)
- bomb out — If a building or area is bombed out, it is destroyed by bombs. If people are bombed out, their houses are destroyed by bombs.
- bombsite — an area where the buildings have been destroyed by bombs
- bontemps — Arna Wendell [ahr-nuh] /ˈɑr nə/ (Show IPA), 1902–73, U.S. author.
- boom out — sound loudly and deeply
- boomtown — a town that has sprung up or expanded rapidly as a result of an economic boom
- bot army — a group of computers, infected with malign programs via the internet, that can be controlled remotely to, for example, mount denial-of-service attacks
- bothrium — one of two groove-shaped suckers on the scolex of a tapeworm
- bothyman — a person who lives in a bothy
- bottomer — a person who makes the seat part of a chair
- bottomry — a contract whereby the owner of a ship borrows money to enable the vessel to complete the voyage and pledges the ship as security for the loan
- botulism — Botulism is a serious form of food poisoning.
- bramante — Donato (doˈnato). ?1444–1514, Italian architect and artist of the High Renaissance. He modelled his designs for domed centrally planned churches on classical Roman architecture
- brampton — city in SE Ontario, Canada, near Toronto: pop. 268,000
- bultmann — Rudolf Karl. 1884–1976, German theologian, noted for his demythologizing approach to the New Testament
- bumsters — trousers cut so that the top lies just above the cleft of the buttocks
- bunkmate — a person who sleeps in the same quarters as another
- bushmeat — meat taken from any animal native to African forests, including species that may be endangered or not usually eaten outside Africa
- buttyman — a male homosexual
- buy time — gain time (sense 2) (at , time)
- cambiata — a melodic ornamental tone following a principal tone by a skip, usually of a third above or below, and progressing by a step.
- cambists — Plural form of cambist.
- catacomb — Catacombs are ancient underground passages and rooms, especially under a city, where people used to be buried.
- chimbote — a port in N central Peru: contains Peru's first steelworks (1958), using hydroelectric power from the Santa River. Pop: 328 000 (2005 est)
- clubmate — A person who is in the same club as another person.
- comb out — to remove (tangles or knots) from (the hair) with a comb
- comb-out — a thorough combing or brushing of the hair.
- combated — to fight or contend against; oppose vigorously: to combat crime.
- combater — One who combats.
- crabmeat — Crabmeat is the part of a crab that you eat.
- drumbeat — the rhythmic sound of a drum.
- dumbshit — (vulgar, pejorative, colloquial) A stupid person or someone who makes or has just made a significant mistake.
- embattle — Set (an army) in battle array.
- embitter — Cause (someone) to feel bitter or resentful.
- entameba — any of a genus (Entamoeba) of amoebas parasitic in vertebrates, esp. a species (E. histolytica) causing amoebic dysentery
- entombed — Simple past tense and past participle of entomb.
- fat lamb — a lamb bred for its tender meat, esp for export trade
- fistbump — A fist bump.