8-letter words containing n, a, m, b
- bedesman — beadsman
- belmopan — (since 1973) the capital of Belize, about 50 miles inland: founded in 1970. Pop: 10 000 (2005 est)
- belt man — a worker responsible for the inspection, maintenance, and repair of machine belts.
- bemadden — to cause to become mad
- bemoaned — to express distress or grief over; lament: to bemoan one's fate.
- bemoaner — a person who bemoans
- benchman — a person whose job requires sitting at a workbench: The TV repair shop employs five benchmen.
- benjamin — the youngest and best-loved son of Jacob and Rachel (Genesis 35:16–18; 42:4)
- bensalem — urban township in SE Pa., near Philadelphia: pop. 58,000
- berryman — John. 1914–72, US poet and critic, author of Homage to Mistress Bradstreet (1956) and Dream Songs (1964–68)
- best man — The best man at a wedding is the man who assists the bridegroom.
- betjeman — Sir John. 1906–84, English poet, noted for his nostalgic and humorous verse and essays and for his concern for the preservation of historic buildings, esp of the Victorian era. Poet laureate (1972–84)
- big name — A big name is a person who is successful and famous because of their work.
- big-name — having a widespread public reputation as a leader in a specified field; famous: a big-name doctor; a big-name actress.
- bimanous — (of man and the higher primates) having two hands distinct in form and function from the feet
- bimanual — using or requiring both hands
- bimensal — occurring every two months
- binarism — the state of being binary
- binomial — a mathematical expression consisting of two terms, such as 3x + 2y
- binormal — the normal to a curve, lying perpendicular to the osculating plane at a given point on the curve.
- bismanol — a highly ferromagnetic alloy of bismuth and manganese, having a high degree of magnetic force.
- blackmun — Harry Andrew1908-99; associate justice, U.S. Supreme Court (1970-94)
- bluesman — a musician who plays the blues
- blumenau — a city in Santa Catarina state, S Brazil.
- boardman — a member of a board
- boatsman — boatman.
- boehmian — of or relating to Boehmenism.
- bogeyman — A bogeyman is someone whose ideas or actions are disapproved of by some people, and who is described by them as evil or unpleasant in order to make other people afraid.
- bohemian — Bohemian means belonging or relating to Bohemia or its people.
- bonamano — a tip or gratuity
- bonampak — ancient Mayan site in Chiapas, S Mexico: discovered in 1946.
- bondmaid — an unmarried female serf or slave
- bondsman — a person bound by bond to act as surety for another
- bonemeal — the product of dried and ground animal bones, used as a fertilizer or in stock feeds
- bothyman — a person who lives in a bothy
- brahmana — any of a number of sacred treatises added to each of the Vedas
- brahmani — a woman of the Brahman caste
- brahmins — Hinduism. Brahman1 (def 1).
- brakeman — a crew member of a goods or passenger train. His duties include controlling auxiliary braking power and inspecting the train
- 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
- breaming — to clean (a ship's bottom) by applying burning furze, reeds, etc., to soften the pitch and loosen adherent matter.
- brideman — a male attendant of the bridegroom at a wedding
- bridgman — Percy Williams. 1882–1961, US physicist: Nobel prize for physics (1946) for his work on high-pressure physics and thermodynamics
- brinkman — a person who practises brinkmanship
- bromance — A bromance is a close but not sexual relationship between two men.
- brugmann — (Friedrich) Karl [free-drik kahrl;; German free-drikh kahrl] /ˈfri drɪk kɑrl;; German ˈfri drɪx kɑrl/ (Show IPA), 1849–1919, German philologist.
- bultmann — Rudolf Karl. 1884–1976, German theologian, noted for his demythologizing approach to the New Testament
- bunkmate — a person who sleeps in the same quarters as another
- buttyman — a male homosexual