9-letter words containing n, a, m, b
- cobalamin — vitamin B12
- colombian — Colombian means belonging or relating to Colombia or its people or culture.
- columbian — of or relating to the United States
- combatant — A combatant is a person, group, or country that takes part in the fighting in a war.
- combating — to fight or contend against; oppose vigorously: to combat crime.
- combinate — combined
- cumbrance — a burden, obstacle, or hindrance
- debarment — to shut out or exclude from a place or condition: to debar all those who are not members.
- dumb cane — a West Indian foliage plant, Dieffenbachia seguine, of the arum family, having yellow-blotched leaves that cause temporary speechlessness when chewed.
- dumb-cane — a West Indian foliage plant, Dieffenbachia seguine, of the arum family, having yellow-blotched leaves that cause temporary speechlessness when chewed.
- dumbarton — Also, Dunbarton [duhn-bahr-tn] /dʌnˈbɑr tn/ (Show IPA). Also called Dumbartonshire [duhm-bahr-tn-sheer, -sher] /dʌmˈbɑr tnˌʃɪər, -ʃər/ (Show IPA). a historic county in W Scotland.
- embalming — Present participle of embalm.
- embarking — Present participle of embark.
- embayment — A recess in a coastline forming a bay.
- embracing — Present participle of embrace.
- embrangle — To embroil.
- embryonal — Embryonic.
- emendable — Capable of being emended, corrigible.
- entamoeba — any parasitic amoeba of the genus Entamoeba (or Endamoeba), esp E. histolytica, which lives in the intestines of humans and causes amoebic dysentery
- excambion — an exchange, esp of land
- fabianism — the theories of economic and social reform advocated by the Fabian Society.
- gamboling — (US) present participle of gambol.
- gambrinus — a mythical Flemish king, the reputed inventor of beer.
- hornbeams — Plural form of hornbeam.
- imbalance — the state or condition of lacking balance, as in proportion or distribution.
- imbrangle — embrangle.
- in ambush — If someone is lying in ambush, they are hiding and waiting for someone, usually to attack them.
- inhambane — a seaport in SE Mozambique.
- inumbrate — (obsolete) To shade; to darken.
- jambstone — a stone, or one of the stones, forming one jamb of an opening.
- laburnums — any of several small trees belonging to the genus Laburnum, of the legume family, having elongated clusters of pendulous yellow flowers, especially L. alpinum, the Scotch laburnum.
- lamb down — to persuade (someone) to spend all his money
- lambaréné — a town in W Gabon on the Ogooué River: site of the hospital built by Albert Schweitzer, who died and was buried there (1965). Pop: 9000 (2003 est)
- lambently — In a lambent manner, brightly.
- lambskins — Plural form of lambskin.
- lamebrain — a dunce; booby; fool.
- laminable — capable of being laminated.
- lima bean — a bean, Phaseolus limensis, having a broad, flat, edible seed.
- lumberman — a person who deals in lumber.
- m-banking — the practice of making financial transactions or managing bank accounts using mobile phone technology
- macbinary — (file format) An eight-bit wide representation of the data and resource forks of an Macintosh file and of relevant Finder information. MacBinary files are recognised as "special" by several MacIntosh terminal emulators. These emulators, using Kermit or XMODEM or any other file transfer protocol, can separate the incoming file into forks and appropriately modify the Desktop to display icons, types, creation dates, and the like.
- maccabean — of or relating to the Maccabees or Judas Maccabaeus.
- macrobian — Having an exceptionally long life span.
- main beam — a long thick bar of wood, metal, or concrete used in the construction of houses which transmits its load directly to a wall or column, as opposed to another beam
- main body — the hull, as distinguished from the rest of a ship.
- main verb — a word used as the final verb in a verb phrase, expressing the lexical meaning of the verb phrase, as drink in I don't drink, going in I am going, or spoken in We have spoken.
- mainboard — (computing) motherboard.
- mainbrace — a brace leading to a main yard.
- managable — Misspelling of manageable.
- mandelbug — (jargon, programming) /man'del-buhg/ (From the Mandelbrot set) A bug whose underlying causes are so complex and obscure as to make its behaviour appear chaotic or even nondeterministic. This term implies that the speaker thinks it is a Bohr bug, rather than a heisenbug. See also schroedinbug.