9-letter words containing u, m, b, s
- dyushambe — a former name of Dushanbe.
- embrasure — (architecture, military) Any of the indentations between the merlons of a battlement.
- encumbers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of encumber.
- fist bump — a gesture of greeting, friendship, triumph, etc., in which two people make a fist and bump each other's knuckles.
- fumblings — Plural form of fumbling.
- gambrinus — a mythical Flemish king, the reputed inventor of beer.
- goosebump — The bumps on a person's skin, at the base of body hair, which may involuntarily develop when a person is cold or experiences strong emotions.
- humblesse — humbleness, humility, or abasement
- humpbacks — Plural form of humpback.
- in ambush — If someone is lying in ambush, they are hiding and waiting for someone, usually to attack them.
- istambuli — a native or inhabitant of Istanbul.
- jambuster — (Canada, Manitoba and northwestern Ontario) A doughnut filled with jam.
- labourism — Support for the labour movement, the development of a collective organization of working people to campaign for better working conditions and treatment.
- 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.
- lambrusco — a semisweet, lightly effervescent red wine from Italy.
- lampbrush — (rare) A form of brush, containing loops of material, used for dusting light fittings.
- lumbricus — a member of a genus of worms of the same name, the most common of which is the common earth worm, Lumbricus terrestris
- marabouts — Plural form of marabout.
- marshbuck — an antelope of the central African swamplands, Strepsiceros spekei, with spreading hoofs adapted to boggy ground; an important vector of the tsetse fly
- megabucks — one million dollars.
- merseburg — a city in E Germany, on the Saale River, in Saxony-Anhalt: residence of the dukes of Saxe-Merseburg (1656–1738); chemical industry. Pop: 35 358 (2003 est)
- minibuses — Plural form of minibus.
- mint bush — an aromatic shrub of the genus Prostanthera with a mintlike odour: family Lamiaceae (labiates): native to Australia
- misbutton — (transitive) To button wrongly.
- misdoubts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of misdoubt.
- mislabour — to labour wrongly
- misnumber — a numeral or group of numerals.
- molybdous — of or containing molybdenum, especially in its lower valences.
- mossbauer — Rudolf L [roo-dawlf] /ˈru dɔlf/ (Show IPA), 1929–2011, German physicist: Nobel prize 1961.
- mousebird — coly.
- mouthbows — Plural form of mouthbow.
- mumblings — Plural form of mumbling.
- music box — a box or case containing an apparatus for producing music mechanically, as by means of a comblike steel plate with tuned teeth sounded by small pegs or pins in the surface of a revolving cylinder or disk.
- numberous — Obsolete form of numerous.
- numbskull — a dull-witted or stupid person; dolt.
- ombudsman — a government official who hears and investigates complaints by private citizens against other officials or government agencies.
- ombudsmen — Plural form of ombudsman.
- omnibuses — Plural form of omnibus.
- plumbeous — resembling or containing lead; leaden.
- plumbless — incapable of being sounded
- plumbness — a small mass of lead or other heavy material, as that suspended by a line and used to measure the depth of water or to ascertain a vertical line. Compare plumb line.
- quilombos — Plural form of quilombo.
- reimburse — to make repayment to for expense or loss incurred: The insurance company reimbursed him for his losses in the fire.
- schomburg — Arthur Alfonso, 1874–1938, U.S. scholar and collector of books on black literature and history, born in Puerto Rico.
- scumboard — a board or strip of material partly immersed in flowing water to hold back scum.
- semiurban — of, relating to, or designating a city or town.
- simarouba — any tropical American tree belonging to the genus Simaruba, of the quassia family, having pinnate leaves, a fleshy fruit, and a root whose bark contains an appetite stimulant.
- slumbered — to sleep, especially lightly; doze; drowse.
- smogbound — surrounded by smog.
- smokebush — a plant, Cotinus coggygria, with purple leaves and small flowers that turn grey-white before they fall