8-letter words containing m
- bar meal — a simple meal served in a bar
- barfmail — (messaging) Multiple bounce messages accumulating to the level of serious annoyance, or worse. The sort of thing that happens when an inter-network mail gateway goes down or misbehaves.
- bargeman — a man who operates, or works aboard, a barge
- bargemen — Plural form of bargeman.
- barogram — the record of atmospheric pressure traced by a barograph or similar instrument
- barometz — a type of Asian fern, Cibotium barometz, the woolly rhizoma of which is thought to resemble a lamb
- barrooms — Plural form of barroom.
- base map — an outline map on which data may be plotted
- basecamp — Alternative spelling of base camp.
- basement — The basement of a building is a floor built partly or completely below ground level.
- basename — (file system) The name of a file which, in contrast to a pathname, does not mention any of the directories containing the file. Examples:
- bashment — (slang, countable, especially Jamaican) A party or rave.
- basidium — the structure, produced by basidiomycetous fungi after sexual reproduction, in which spores are formed at the tips of projecting slender stalks
- batement — reduction; abatement
- bath mat — a mat or washable rug used to stand on when entering or leaving a bath.
- bathmats — Plural form of bathmat.
- bathmism — a hypothetical growth-force, once thought to animate living beings
- bathroom — A bathroom is a room in a house that contains a bath or shower, a washbasin, and sometimes a toilet.
- batinism — a secret movement in Islam, often associated with Ismaʿili Shiʿism.
- batwoman — a female servant in any of the armed forces
- baysmelt — topsmelt.
- bdellium — any of several African or W Asian trees of the burseraceous genus Commiphora that yield a gum resin
- beadsman — a person who prays for another's soul, esp one paid or fed for doing so
- beadsmen — Plural form of beadsman.
- beam sea — a sea striking the vessel at right angles to its keel.
- beamless — Not having a beam.
- beamline — (physics) The line traveled by a particle beam in an accelerator.
- beat man — district man.
- beaumont — a city in SE Texas. Pop: 112 434 (2003 est)
- becalmed — If a sailing ship is becalmed, it is unable to move because there is no wind.
- bechamel — a basic white sauce made of milk, butter, flour, and, sometimes, cream
- beckmann — Ernst Otto (ɛrnst ˈɔːto). 1853–1923, German chemist: devised the Beckmann thermometer, used for measuring small temperature changes in liquids
- beclamor — clamour excessively
- becoming — A piece of clothing, a colour, or a hairstyle that is becoming makes the person who is wearing it look attractive.
- bedesman — beadsman
- bedframe — the framework of a bed
- bedimmed — Simple past tense and past participle of bedim.
- bedimple — to form dimples in
- bedlamer — a harp seal, beyond the beater stage but not yet mature.
- bedmaker — a person who constructs beds
- bedrooms — Plural form of bedroom.
- bee balm — Oswego tea
- bee moth — any of various pyralid moths, such as the wax moth, whose larvae live in the nests of bees or wasps, feeding on nest materials and host larvae
- beer mug — a glass of a standard size (in Britain holding one pint, or half a pint) with a handle, to drink beer from
- beerbohm — Sir (Henry) Max(imilian). 1872–1956, English critic, wit, and caricaturist, whose works include Zuleika Dobson (1911), a satire on Oxford undergraduates
- beermats — Plural form of beermat.
- begombed — smudged and sticky; soiled, usually with sticky residue.
- begrimed — dirty
- begummed — to smear, soil, clog, etc., with or as if with gum or a gummy substance.
- behemoth — If you refer to something as a behemoth, you mean that it is extremely large, and often that it is unpleasant, inefficient, or difficult to manage.