8-letter words containing m, t, b
- gambetta — Léon [ley-awn] /leɪˈɔ̃/ (Show IPA), 1838–82, French statesman.
- gumboots — a rubber boot.
- gumbotil — a sticky clay formed by the thorough weathering of glacial drift, the thickness of the clay furnishing means for comparing relative lengths of interglacial ages.
- hecatomb — (in ancient Greece and Rome) a public sacrifice of 100 oxen to the gods.
- hot comb — a comblike device that is heated, usually electrically, and used to straighten or style the hair
- hot-comb — to arrange or style (the hair) with a hot comb.
- humblest — not proud or arrogant; modest: to be humble although successful.
- humboldt — Friedrich Heinrich Alexander [free-drikh hahyn-rikh ah-lek-sahn-duh r] /ˈfri drɪx ˈhaɪn rɪx ˌɑ lɛkˈsɑn dər/ (Show IPA), Baron von [fuh n] /fən/ (Show IPA), 1769–1859, German naturalist, writer, and statesman.
- imbitter — embitter.
- imitable — capable or worthy of being imitated: She has many good, imitable qualities.
- intombed — Simple past tense and past participle of intomb.
- khambhat — Gulf of, a gulf of the Arabian Sea, on the NW coast of India.
- lambaste — to beat or whip severely.
- lambasts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of lambast.
- lamberts — Plural form of lambert.
- lobotomy — the operation of cutting into a lobe, as of the brain or the lung.
- mableton — a town in NW Georgia.
- mailboat — a boat for transporting mail.
- makebate — a person who causes contention or discord.
- mangbetu — a member of a people of the northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo.
- manitoba — a province in central Canada. 246,512 sq. mi. (638,466 sq. km). Abbreviation: Man. Capital: Winnipeg.
- marabout — Islam. a hermit or holy man, especially in N Africa, often wielding political power and credited with supernatural powers. the tomb or shrine of such a man.
- martaban — Gulf of, an inlet of the Bay of Bengal, in Burma.
- marybeth — a female given name.
- mast bed — a construction in a wooden deck around the opening for a mast.
- mastabah — Alt form mastaba.
- mastabas — Plural form of mastaba.
- matabele — Ndebele (def 1).
- matchbox — a small box, usually of cardboard, for matches.
- meatball — a small ball of ground meat, especially beef, often mixed with bread crumbs, seasonings, etc., before cooking.
- mebibyte — (computing) 220 (1,048,576) bytes. Abbreviated MiB.
- megabits — Plural form of megabit.
- megabyte — 2 20 (1,048,576) bytes.
- megadebt — An enormous debt.
- meltable — to become liquefied by warmth or heat, as ice, snow, butter, or metal.
- meta bit — (character) The most-signigicant bit of an 8-bit character, which is on in character values 128--255. Also called the high bit, "alt bit" (alternate bit) or hobbit. Some terminals and consoles (see space-cadet keyboard) have a META shift key. Others (including, *mirabile dictu*, keyboards on IBM PC-class machines) have an ALT key. See also bucky bits. Historical note: although, in modern usage shaped by a universe of 8-bit bytes, the meta bit is invariably hex 80 (octal 0200), things were different on earlier machines with 36-bit words and 9-bit bytes. The MIT and Stanford keyboards (see space-cadet keyboard) generated hex 100 (octal 400) from their meta keys.
- metablog — (neologism, Internet) a blog about blogs.
- metabola — (in the plural, entomology) Insects that metamorphose.
- metabole — Alternative spelling of metabola.
- metaboly — the ability of some cells, esp protozoans, to alter their shape
- microbat — Any of the small bats in the suborder Microchiroptera.
- microbot — A small mobile robot equipped with a microcontroller.
- misbegot — Misbegotten; unlawfully or irregularly begotten; of bad origin.
- misbirth — An abortion.
- misbuilt — to construct (especially something complex) by assembling and joining parts or materials: to build a house.
- misdoubt — doubt or suspicion.
- mmabatho — a self-governing Bantu territory of South Africa, consisting of several landlocked areas, along the NE part: granted independence in 1977 by South Africa, but not recognized by any other country as an independent state. 16,988 sq. mi. (44,000 sq. km). Capital: Mmabatho.
- mobility — the quality of being mobile.
- mobocrat — One who favours a form of government in which the unintelligent populace rules without restraint.
- mobsters — Plural form of mobster.