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11-letter words containing a, m, b, o

  • blasphemous — You can describe someone who shows disrespect for God or a religion as blasphemous. You can also describe what they are saying or doing as blasphemous.
  • bloodstream — Your bloodstream is the blood that flows around your body.
  • bloody mary — A Bloody Mary is a drink made from vodka and tomato juice.
  • blue monday — a Monday regarded as a depressing workday in contrast to the pleasant relaxation of the weekend.
  • boatmanship — boatsmanship.
  • bodhidharma — 6th century ad, Indian Buddhist monk, who taught in China (from 520): considered to be the founder of Zen Buddhism
  • body armour — Body armour is special protective clothing which people such as soldiers and police officers sometimes wear when they are in danger of being attacked with guns or other weapons.
  • body combat — a type of fitness programme in which individuals perform non-contact martial arts moves to music
  • body warmer — a sleeveless type of jerkin, usually quilted, worn as an outer garment for extra warmth
  • bohemianism — unconventional behaviour or appearance, esp of an artist
  • boilermaker — a person who works with metal in heavy industry; plater or welder
  • bokmakierie — a large yellow shrike, Telephorus zeylonus, of southern Africa, known for its melodious song
  • bomb crater — the crater in the ground, pavement, etc, left in the aftermath of an explosion
  • bomb damage — damage to buildings, etc caused by the explosion of a bomb
  • bombardment — A bombardment is a strong and continuous attack of gunfire or bombing.
  • bombay duck — a teleost fish, Harpodon nehereus, that resembles and is related to the lizard fishes: family Harpodontidae. It is eaten dried with curry dishes as a savoury
  • bombilation — a humming or buzzing sound, for example that of a bee
  • bombination — to make a humming or buzzing noise.
  • bonapartism — a political system resembling the rules of the Bonapartes, esp Napoleon I and Napoleon III: centralized government by a military dictator, who enjoys popular support given expression in plebiscites
  • bond market — the market in which bonds are traded
  • bondmanship — the state of being a bondman; serfdom
  • bone marrow — Bone marrow is the soft fatty substance inside human or animal bones.
  • boolean sum — Mathematics. symmetric difference.
  • boomeranger — a young adult who returns to live with parents after a period of living away from home.
  • boring clam — piddock
  • botanomancy — a form of divination in which tree branches or leaves are burnt
  • bottom gear — the lowest gear of a car, lorry, etc
  • bottom heat — heat artificially applied to a container in which plants are grown in order to induce their germination, rooting, or growth.
  • bottom lady — a pimp's most reliable prostitute.
  • bottom land — bottom (def 4).
  • boulder dam — Hoover Dam
  • bounce game — (esp in soccer) a non-competitive game played as part of training
  • bow compass — a compass for drawing, in which the legs are joined by a flexible metal bow-shaped spring rather than a hinge, the angle being adjusted by a screw
  • bram stoker — Bram [bram] /bræm/ (Show IPA), (Abraham Stoker) 1847–1912, British novelist, born in Ireland: creator of Dracula.
  • branchiform — shaped like a gill.
  • bread mould — a black saprotrophic zygomycete fungus, Rhizopus nigricans, occurring on decaying bread and vegetable matter
  • bromic acid — a colourless unstable water-soluble liquid used as an oxidizing agent in the manufacture of dyes and pharmaceuticals. Formula: HBrO3
  • bromouracil — a brominated derivative of uracil with antimetabolite properties
  • broom board — baseboard (def 1).
  • broomballer — a person who plays broomball
  • burgomaster — the chief magistrate of a town in Austria, Belgium, Germany, or the Netherlands; mayor
  • bushelwoman — a woman who alters clothes
  • bust a move — go, leave
  • by means of — If you do something by means of a particular method, instrument, or process, you do it using that method, instrument, or process.
  • by no means — on no account; in no way
  • cabbageworm — any caterpillar that feeds on cabbages, esp that of the cabbage white
  • cable modem — (communications, hardware)   A type of modem that allows people to access the Internet via their cable television service. A cable modem can transfer data at 500 kbps or higher, compared with 28.8 kbps for common telephone line modems, but the actual transfer rates may be lower depending on the number of other simultaneous users on the same cable. Industry pundits often point out that the cable system still does not have the bandwidth or service level in many areas to make this feasible. For example, it has to be capable of two-way communication. See also: DOCSIS.
  • camp robber — Canada jay
  • campbeltown — a seaport on the Kintyre peninsula, in SW Scotland: resort.
  • car bombing — an instance when a bomb which someone has hidden under or in a car explodes
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