11-letter words containing a, m, b, o
- automobilia — items connected with cars and motoring of interest to the collector
- baby boomer — A baby boomer is someone who was born during a baby boom, especially during the years after the end of the Second World War.
- baby-boomer — a person born during a baby boom, especially one born in the U.S. between 1946 and 1965.
- baby-mother — a young mother who has been abandoned by the baby's father just before or after the birth
- babyboomers — Plural form of babyboomer.
- bachelordom — the state of being a bachelor; bachelorhood
- bachelorism — bachelorhood
- bacilliform — shaped like a rod
- backgammons — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of backgammon.
- bad homburg — a city in W central Germany on the S slope of the Taunus Mountains, near Frankfurt.
- badmouthing — Slang. to speak critically and often disloyally of; disparage: Why do you bad-mouth your family so much?
- balletomane — a person enthusiastic about the ballet
- balmorality — an idealization of Scottish traditions and culture
- bambocciata — a genre painting of usually small size produced in Rome in the 17th century.
- bamboo ware — a cane-colored Wedgwood stoneware of c1770 imitating bamboo.
- bamboozling — Present participle of bamboozle.
- ban ki-moon — born 1944, South Korean international civil servant; secretary-general of the United Nations from 2007
- bantam work — Coromandel work.
- barnstormed — Simple past tense and past participle of barnstorm.
- barnstormer — to conduct a campaign or speaking tour in rural areas by making brief stops in many small towns.
- bartholomew — one of the twelve apostles (Matthew 10:3). Feast day: Aug 24 or June 11
- bartolommeo — Fra. original name Baccio della Porta. 1472–1517, Italian painter of the Florentine school, noted for his austere religious works
- base memory — (hardware, jargon) The lowest 640 kilobytes of memory in an IBM PC-compatible computer running MS-DOS. Other PC operating systems can usually compensate and "ignore" the fact that there is a 640K limit to base memory. This was put in place because the original CPU - the Intel 8088 - could only access one megabyte of memory, and IBM wanted to reserve the upper 384KB for device drivers. The high memory area (HMA) lies above 640KB and can be accessed on MS-DOS computers that have an A20 handler.
- bathometers — Plural form of bathometer.
- be made one — (of a man and a woman) to become married
- be meant to — If you say that something is meant to happen, you mean that it is expected to happen or that it ought to happen.
- be to blame — to be at fault or culpable
- beachcomber — A beachcomber is someone who spends their time wandering along beaches looking for things they can use.
- beam weapon — a laser-beam or particle-beam weapon.
- bedroom tax — a reduction in housing benefit for occupants of council housing who have more rooms than they are deemed to require
- beef tomato — a very large fleshy variety of tomato
- behaviorism — Behaviorism is the belief held by some psychologists that the only valid method of studying the psychology of people or animals is to observe how they behave.
- biblioclasm — a person who mutilates or destroys books.
- bibliomancy — prediction of the future by interpreting a passage chosen at random from a book, esp the Bible
- bibliomania — extreme fondness for books
- bikram yoga — a form of yoga in which traditional exercises are performed at high temperature and humidity
- bimolecular — (of a chemical complex, collision, etc) having or involving two molecules
- binary form — a structure consisting of two sections, each being played twice
- biochemical — Biochemical changes, reactions, and mechanisms relate to the chemical processes that happen in living things.
- bioclimatic — concerning the relations between climate and living organisms
- biodynamics — the branch of biology that deals with the energy production and activities of organisms
- biomaterial — a synthetic material used in prostheses or the replacement of natural body tissues
- biometrical — pertaining to biometry
- bitmap font — a font format in which letters and symbols are stored as a pattern of dots
- black humor — a form of humor that regards human suffering as absurd rather than pitiable, or that considers human existence as ironic and pointless but somehow comic.
- black molly — a jet-black molly, a color form especially of Poecilia latipinna or P. sphenops, popular as an aquarium fish.
- black money — that part of a nation's income that relates to its black economy
- black vomit — vomit containing blood, often a manifestation of disease, such as yellow fever
- bladderworm — cysticercus
- blameworthy — deserving disapproval or censure