10-letter words containing n, u, m, b
- marabuntas — Plural form of marabunta.
- melburnian — 2nd Viscount, William Lamb.
- melon-bulb — a large, bulbous turning, sometimes with surface carving, found especially on the legs and posts of Elizabethan and Jacobean furniture.
- membranous — consisting of, of the nature of, or resembling membrane.
- mensurable — measurable.
- minibudget — a group of economic measures proposed between full annual budgets
- misbuttons — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of misbutton.
- molybdenum — a silver-white metallic element, used as an alloy with iron in making hard, high-speed cutting tools. Symbol: Mo; atomic weight: 95.94; atomic number: 42; specific gravity: 10.2.
- mons pubis — a rounded prominence of fatty tissue over the pubic symphysis, covered with hair after puberty.
- moon buggy — a vehicle used by astronauts for surface exploration on the Moon
- moribundly — In a moribund way.
- mossbunker — the menhaden.
- mount bona — a mountain in S Alaska, in the Wrangell Mountains. Height: 5005 m (16 420 ft)
- mount nebo — a mountain in Jordan, northeast of the Dead Sea: the highest point of a ridge known as Pisgah, from which Moses viewed the Promised Land just before his death (Deuteronomy 34:1). Height: 802 m (2631 ft)
- mountebank — A person who deceives others, especially in order to trick them out of their money; a charlatan.
- muhlenberg — Frederick Augustus Conrad, 1750–1801, U.S. clergyman and statesman: first Speaker of the House 1789–91, 1793–95.
- mumblement — the act of mumbling
- muni bonds — Muni bonds are bonds issued by local municipal governments on which the interest is often tax-free.
- muttonbird — any of several long-winged seabirds, often used as food, especially Puffinus tenuirostris (short-tailed shearwater) of Australia and Puffinus griseus (sooty shearwater) which breeds in the Southern Hemisphere and winters in the Northern Hemisphere.
- number off — to call out or cause to call out one's number or place in a sequence, esp in a rank of soldiers
- number one — oneself, especially one's own well-being or interests: to look out for number one.
- number ten — Number Ten is often used to refer to 10 Downing Street, London, which is the official home of the British Prime Minister.
- number two — someone or something that is second in rank, order, or importance.
- numberable — a numeral or group of numerals.
- numberless — innumerable; countless; myriad.
- numbfishes — Plural form of numbfish.
- numbskulls — Plural form of numbskull.
- omnibusses — (dated) Plural form of omnibus.
- on the bum — a person who avoids work and sponges on others; loafer; idler.
- outnumbers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outnumber.
- pernambuco — a state in NE Brazil. 38,000 sq. mi. (98,420 sq. km). Capital: Recife.
- plumb line — a cord with a lead bob attached to one end, used to determine perpendicularity, the depth of water, etc. Compare plumb (def 1).
- pre-number — a numeral or group of numerals.
- procumbent — lying on the face; prone; prostrate.
- recumbency — lying down; reclining; leaning.
- rhumb line — a curve on the surface of a sphere that cuts all meridians at the same angle. It is the path taken by a vessel or aircraft that maintains a constant compass direction.
- rumbullion — a drink of rum
- scrubwoman — a woman hired to clean a place; charwoman.
- semi-bantu — a group of languages of W Africa, mainly SE Nigeria and Cameroon, that were not traditionally classed as Bantu but that show certain essential Bantu characteristics. They are now classed with Bantu in the Benue-Congo branch of the Niger-Congo family
- slumbering — to sleep, especially lightly; doze; drowse.
- somnambule — a person who sleepwalks
- stormbound — confined, detained, or isolated by storms: a stormbound ship; a stormbound village.
- sub-number — a numeral or group of numerals.
- subcompany — subsidiary company.
- subduement — the act or process of subduing
- subeconomy — an economy within another economy
- subelement — a component or constituent of a whole or one of the parts into which a whole may be resolved by analysis: Bricks and mortar are elements of every masonry wall.
- subintimal — the innermost membrane or lining of some organ or part, especially that of an artery, vein, or lymphatic.
- subkingdom — a category of related phyla within a kingdom.
- subliminal — existing or operating below the threshold of consciousness; being or employing stimuli insufficiently intense to produce a discrete sensation but often being or designed to be intense enough to influence the mental processes or the behavior of the individual: a subliminal stimulus; subliminal advertising.