8-letter words containing u, m, b
- monobuoy — a floating platform anchored offshore in deep water and equipped with pipelines leading to storage tanks onshore, to which large, deep-draft tankers moor to load or unload.
- moorburn — the practice of burning off old growth on a heather moor to encourage new growth for grazing
- moribund — in a dying state; near death.
- motorbus — a passenger bus powered by a motor.
- mouthbow — Musical bow.
- mowburnt — (of hay, straw, etc) damaged by overheating in a mow
- muck bar — a rough bar of wrought iron, rolled from blooms of iron extracted from a puddling furnace.
- mud bath — skin treatment: soaking in mud
- mud crab — a large edible crab, Scylla serrata, of Australian mangrove regions
- mudbanks — Plural form of mudbank.
- mudbaths — Plural form of mudbath.
- mudbrick — A brick made from mud or clay mixed with straw and dried in the sun rather than being fired.
- muhlbach — Luise [loo-ee-zuh] /luˈi zə/ (Show IPA), (Klara Müller Mundt) 1814–73, German novelist.
- mulberry — the edible, berrylike collective fruit of any tree of the genus Morus.
- mumblage — /muhm'bl*j/ The topic of one's mumbling (see mumble). "All that mumblage" is used like "all that stuff" when it is not quite clear how the subject of discussion works, or like "all that crap" when "mumble" is being used as an implicit replacement for pejoratives.
- mumbling — to speak in a low indistinct manner, almost to an unintelligible extent; mutter.
- murdabad — down with; death to: used as part of a slogan in India, Pakistan, etc
- musk bag — the musk-secreting gland of a male musk deer.
- muteable — Capable of being muted.
- nebulium — a hypothetical element once thought to be present in emission nebulae because of certain unidentified spectral lines, now known to be forbidden transitions of oxygen and nitrogen ions.
- nembutal — pentobarbital sodium
- nembutsu — meditation on the name of Amida.
- nimbuses — Plural form of nimbus.
- nobelium — a transuranic element in the actinium series. Symbol: No; atomic number: 102.
- northumb — Northumberland
- nubiform — cloud-like
- numbered — Simple past tense and past participle of number.
- numberer — One who numbers.
- numbfish — an electric ray, so called from its power of numbing its prey by means of electric shocks.
- numbness — deprived of physical sensation or the ability to move: fingers numb with cold.
- numbnuts — a stupid or despicable person
- oblongum — (geometry, archaic) A prolate spheroid; a figure described by the revolution of an ellipse about its greater axis.
- olibanum — frankincense.
- outbloom — to bloom more than or better than
- outclimb — to surpass or outdo in climbing; climb higher or better than: As a child, I could outclimb any kid on the block.
- penumbra — Astronomy. the partial or imperfect shadow outside the complete shadow of an opaque body, as a planet, where the light from the source of illumination is only partly cut off. Compare umbra (def 3a). the grayish marginal portion of a sunspot. Compare umbra (def 3b).
- plumb in — When someone plumbs in a device such as a washing machine, toilet, or bath, they connect it to the water and waste pipes in a building.
- plumbago — graphite.
- plumbate — a compound formed from lead oxide
- plumbery — a plumber's workshop.
- plumbing — 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.
- plumbism — lead poisoning (def 1b).
- plumbite — a substance containing lead oxide
- plumbous — containing bivalent lead.
- pump box — a chamber of a pump in which a piston operates.
- quilombo — (historical, in Brazil) A remote, inland settlement originally settled by fugitive slaves (or others).
- radium b — an isotope of lead, formed by decay of radium A, that gives rise to radium C, which is an isotope of bismuth, from which radium D, radium E, and radium F, or polonium 210, are derived.
- rambutan — the bright-red oval fruit of a Malayan, sapindaceous tree, Nephelium lappaceum, covered with soft spines, or hairs, and having a subacid taste.
- renumber — a numeral or group of numerals.
- resubmit — to give over or yield to the power or authority of another (often used reflexively).