9-letter words containing b, c, m
- blackmail — Blackmail is the action of threatening to reveal a secret about someone, unless they do something you tell them to do, such as giving you money.
- blackmore — R(ichard) D(oddridge). 1825–1900, English novelist; author of Lorna Doone (1869)
- bleomycin — a glycopeptide antibiotic drug used in the treatment of cancer and Hodgkin's Disease
- blow-comb — a small, usually handheld electrical appliance combining a comb and blow-dryer, permitting one to style the hair while drying it.
- blue comb — a disease of birds resembling Bright's disease in humans affecting especially domestic fowl, characterized by fever, sunken eyes, and shriveling of the skin of the wattles, shanks, and comb.
- bomb rack — a device for carrying bombs in or under the fuselage of an aircraft.
- bombastic — If you describe someone as bombastic, you are criticizing them for trying to impress other people by saying things that sound impressive but have little meaning.
- bombycoid — relating to moths of the family Bombycidae
- boot camp — In the United States, a boot camp is a camp where people who have just joined the army, navy, or marines are trained.
- bregmatic — of or relating to the bregma
- briticism — a custom, linguistic usage, or other feature peculiar to Britain or its people
- bromantic — noting or pertaining to a bromance: You might call this movie a bromantic comedy.
- bronchium — a medium-sized bronchial tube
- broomcorn — a variety of sorghum, Sorghum vulgare technicum, the long stiff flower stalks of which have been used for making brooms
- buck moth — a saturniid moth, Hemileuca maia, having delicate, grayish wings with a white band.
- bucranium — (in classical architecture) an ornament, especially on a frieze, having the form of the skull of an ox.
- c & b — caught and bowled (by)
- cabbalism — cabala.
- cabinmate — a person with whom one shares a cabin
- cablegram — a message sent by undersea cable
- calembour — a pun
- cambering — a slight arching, upward curve, or convexity, as of the deck of a ship.
- cambiform — resembling a cambium
- cambodian — of or relating to Cambodia or its inhabitants
- cambridge — city in E Mass., across the Charles River from Boston: pop. 101,000
- camelback — a locomotive having its cab situated astride the boiler, halfway along it, rather than at the rear of the boiler
- camembert — Camembert is a type of cheese that comes from Northern France. It is soft and creamy with a white skin.
- candomble — any of a number of similar religious cults in Brazil that combine elements of Roman Catholicism with elements of West African, esp Yoruba, and South American Indian religions
- carambola — a tree, Averrhoa carambola, probably native to Brazil but cultivated in the tropics, esp SE Asia, for its edible fruit
- carambole — to make a carom
- carbamate — a salt or ester of carbamic acid. The salts contain the monovalent ion NH2COO–, and the esters contain the group NH2COO–
- carbamide — urea.
- carbamino — relating to the compound produced when carbon dioxide reacts with an amino group
- carbenium — (organic chemistry, informal) Any carbocation.
- carbonium — a transient, positively charged organic ion, as H3C+, R3+, that has one less electron than the corresponding free radical
- catacombs — an underground burial place, esp the galleries at Rome, consisting of tunnels with vaults or niches leading off them for tombs
- cetuximab — a monoclonal antibody used to treat cancer
- chambered — having a chamber inside it in which the body of an important person was laid to rest
- chamberer — someone who attends to a bed chamber; chambermaid or chamberlain
- chamberys — a city in and the capital of Savoie, in SE France.
- chemisorb — to take up (a substance) by chemisorption
- choriambs — Plural form of choriamb.
- cimbaloms — Plural form of cimbalom.
- claimable — Able to be claimed.
- clambakes — Plural form of clambake.
- clambered — an act or instance of clambering.
- clamberer — A person who clambers.
- climbable — to go up or ascend, especially by using the hands and feet or feet only: to climb up a ladder.
- climbdown — A retreat or withdrawal from an earlier position or opinion; a backdown.
- club moss — any mosslike tracheophyte plant of the phylum Lycopodophyta, having erect or creeping stems covered with tiny overlapping leaves