10-letter words containing a, b, m, o
- bombardier — the member of a bomber aircrew responsible for aiming and releasing the bombs
- bombarding — to attack or batter with artillery fire.
- bon marche — a bargain.
- bonamiasis — a disease affecting oysters, caused by the parasite Bonamia ostreae
- bondswoman — a woman who is bound or who by bond becomes surety for another.
- bonne amie — a good female friend.
- bonus army — a group of 12,000 World War I veterans who massed in Washington, D.C., the summer of 1932 to induce Congress to appropriate moneys for the payment of bonus certificates granted in 1924.
- bony bream — an Australian freshwater clupeid fish, Fluvialosa richardsonii
- book match — a match in or from a matchbook.
- bookmaking — Bookmaking is the activity of taking people's money when they bet and paying them money if they win.
- bookmarked — a ribbon or other marker placed between the pages of a book to mark a place.
- bootmaking — the activity of making boots and shoes
- boskop man — the undated cranial remains of a possible Homo sapiens found in the Transvaal of South Africa.
- bottomland — a lowland alluvial area near a river
- boulangism — the doctrines of militarism and reprisals against Germany, advocated, especially in the 1880s, by the French general Boulanger.
- bowerwoman — a chamber-woman
- box camera — a simple box-shaped camera having an elementary lens, shutter, and viewfinder
- brachydome — a dome whose face is parallel to the brachydiagonal axis in a crystal
- brahmaloka — the highest part of Kamaloka, where refined souls exist in blissful contemplation of Brahma.
- brainstorm — If you have a brainstorm, you suddenly become unable to think clearly.
- bravissimo — very well done! excellent!
- bread mold — any of an order (Mucorales, esp. Rhizopus nigricans) of fungi often found on decaying vegetable matter or bread
- broad jump — an exercise and athletic contest in which competitors try to jump the farthest distance possible from a standing start from a fixed board or mark
- broad-jump — long-jump.
- brogrammer — a male computer programmer who is characterized as a bro: Brogrammers challenge the geek/nerd stereotype.
- bromegrass — any of various grasses of the genus Bromus, having small flower spikes in loose drooping clusters. Some species are used for hay
- brood mare — a mare kept for breeding purposes
- brook farm — an experimental communist community established by writers and scholars in West Roxbury, Massachusetts, from 1841 to 1847
- broomstaff — a broomstick
- bum around — If you bum around, you go from place to place without any particular destination, either for enjoyment or because you have nothing else to do.
- bump along — advance unevenly
- burma road — the route extending from Lashio in Burma (now Myanmar) to Chongqing in China, which was used by the Allies during World War II to supply military equipment to Chiang Kai-shek's forces in China
- button man — soldier (sense 2) soldier (sense 2b)
- campobello — an island in the Bay of Fundy, off the coast of SE Canada: part of New Brunswick province. Pop: 1195 (2001). Area: about 52 sq km (20 sq miles)
- car bomber — someone who hides a bomb under or in a car
- carambolas — Plural form of carambola.
- carom ball — the ball struck by the cue ball in rebounding off the object ball. Compare object ball (def 1).
- catabolism — a metabolic process in which complex molecules are broken down into simple ones with the release of energy; destructive metabolism
- chamberpot — a vessel for urine, used in bedrooms
- chimborazo — an extinct volcano in central Ecuador, in the Andes: the highest peak in Ecuador. Height: 6267 m (20 561 ft)
- choliambic — relating to or in the form of choliambs
- choliambus — a line of iambic meter with a spondee or trochee replacing the last foot.
- choriambus — choriamb.
- cibachrome — the old name for the Ilfochrome photographic printing process
- cloth beam — a roller, located at the front of a loom, on which woven material is wound after it leaves the breast beam.
- cochabamba — a city in central Bolivia. Pop: 561 000 (2005 est)
- coimbatore — an industrial city in SW India, in W Tamil Nadu. Pop: 923 085 (2001)
- collembola — Any of many minute wingless arthropods of subclass Collembola; a springtail.
- columbaria — Irregular plural form of columbarium.
- combat car — a small armoured car