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

  • bombay hills — a row of hills marking the southern boundary of greater Auckland on the North Island, New Zealand
  • bombe glacée — a dessert of ice cream lined or filled with custard, cake crumbs, etc
  • book matches — safety matches made of paper and fastened into a small cardboard folder
  • boomer state — Oklahoma
  • boomeranging — a bent or curved piece of tough wood used by the Australian Aborigines as a throwing club, one form of which can be thrown so as to return to the thrower.
  • bottom break — a branch coming from the bottom of a plant stem, usually formed by pinching and disbudding.
  • bottom grass — any grass that grows on bottoms or lowlands.
  • bottom quark — a type of quark with a mass of c. 4.7 to 5.3 GeV/c2, a negative charge that is 1⁄3 the charge of an electron, zero charm, and zero strangeness
  • bottom yeast — a yeast whose cells, in the manufacture of wine and lager beer, fall to the bottom as a sediment.
  • box magazine — a rectangular cartridge holder in a submachine or light machine gun.
  • boxgrove man — a type of primitive man, probably Homo heidelbergensis, and probably dating from the Middle Palaeolithic period some 500 000 years ago; remains were found at Boxgrove in West Sussex in 1993 and 1995
  • boxing match — a competition between two boxers
  • boyoma falls — a series of seven cataracts in the NE Democratic Republic of Congo, on the upper River Congo: forms an unnavigable stretch of 90 km (56 miles), which falls 60 m (200 ft)
  • brain tumour — a tumour that is situated in the brain
  • brainstormer — a person who brainstorms
  • broad jumper — a participant in the long jump.
  • broad-minded — If you describe someone as broad-minded, you approve of them because they are willing to accept types of behaviour which other people consider immoral.
  • bromoacetone — a colorless and highly toxic liquid, CH 2 BrCOCH 3 , used as a lachrymatory compound in tear gas and chemical warfare gas.
  • bromomethane — methyl bromide.
  • bronchospasm — an abnormal contraction of the bronchi resulting in restriction of the airway
  • bronze medal — A bronze medal is a medal made of bronze or bronze-coloured metal that is given as a prize to the person who comes third in a competition, especially a sports contest.
  • bud mutation — a variation produced by a genetic alteration in the bud such that the seeds produced by the resulting growth perpetuate the change in succeeding generations.
  • bur marigold — any plant of the genus Bidens that has yellow flowers and pointed fruits that cling to fur and clothing: family Asteraceae (composites)
  • burial mound — a barrow
  • burnt almond — a sweet consisting of an almond enclosed in burnt sugar
  • cabbage moth — a common brownish noctuid moth, Mamestra brassicae, the larva of which is destructive of cabbages and other plants
  • camp bastion — a large British military base in Helmand province, Afghanistan, built in 2006
  • camphor ball — mothball
  • chamber tomb — a prehistoric tomb with a chamber inside it in which the body of an important person was laid to rest
  • chimneyboard — a partition or a cover to shut off a fireplace
  • chlorambucil — an alkylating drug derived from nitrogen mustard, administered orally in the treatment of leukaemia and other malignant diseases. Formula: C14H19Cl2NO2
  • chromophobia — Lb biology The quality of being resistant to staining.
  • cinnamon bun — a honey bun flavored with cinnamon and often containing raisins.
  • circumboreal — of or having to do with plants and animals inhabiting boreal regions of North America and Eurasia
  • clavicembalo — a harpsichord.
  • close combat — the act of fighting at close quarters
  • cobalt bloom — erythrite (def 1)
  • cobaltammine — any of the various complex derivatives of cobalt containing one or more molecules of ammonia bonded to the cobalt.
  • collembolans — Plural form of collembolan.
  • columbus day — Oct 12, a legal holiday in most states of the US: the date of Columbus' landing in the West Indies (Caribbean) in 1492
  • combat knife — a large knife for military use
  • combat pants — trousers: military style
  • combat-ready — ready for combat
  • comber board — (in weaving) a wooden frame pierced with a series of small holes through which the harness cords are threaded, used to regulate the cords and determine the texture and width of a repeat in a fabric.
  • combinations — a one-piece woollen undergarment with long sleeves and legs
  • come back to — If you come back to a topic or point, you talk about it again later.
  • comfortables — Plural form of comfortable.
  • commemorable — worthy of being commemorated
  • commiserable — worthy of commiseration; pitiable
  • common zebra — Equus burchelli, the most common type of zebra
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