9-letter words containing b, e, m, o
- bleomycin — a glycopeptide antibiotic drug used in the treatment of cancer and Hodgkin's Disease
- bloomless — without flowers or blossom
- blossomed — the flower of a plant, especially of one producing an edible fruit.
- 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.
- blue mold — any of various species of a fungus (genus Penicillium) that produce bluish masses of spores: some species yield penicillin and some are used to ripen certain cheeses
- blue moon — If you say that something happens once in a blue moon, you are emphasizing that it does not happen very often at all.
- bluemouth — a deep water fish, Helicolenus dactylopterus
- bodements — a foreboding or omen; presentiment.
- bodenheim — Maxwell, 1892–1954, U.S. poet and novelist.
- body mike — a microphone attached to the body
- body-mike — to equip with a body mike: The star was body-miked, but he was still inaudible.
- bogometer — (humour) /boh-gom'-*t-er/ A notional instrument for measuring bogosity. Compare the "wankometer" described in the wank entry.
- boilerman — a man who looks after boilers
- bolometer — a sensitive instrument for measuring radiant energy by the increase in the resistance of an electrical conductor
- bomb belt — a belt carrying explosives which is worn around the waist by a suicide bomber
- bomb site — A bomb site is an empty area where a bomb has destroyed all the buildings.
- bombarded — to attack or batter with artillery fire.
- bombarder — a person or thing which bombards
- bombasine — bombazine.
- bombaster — a person who stuffs or pads
- bombazeen — a twill fabric constructed of a silk or rayon warp and worsted filling, often dyed black for mourning wear.
- bombazine — a twilled fabric, esp one with a silk warp and worsted weft, formerly worn dyed black for mourning
- bombilate — to make a buzzing noise
- bombinate — to make a buzzing noise
- bombshell — A bombshell is a sudden piece of bad or unexpected news.
- bone meal — Bone meal is a substance made from animal bones which is used as a fertilizer.
- boogerman — South Midland and Southern U.S. bogeyman.
- boogeyman — a frightening imaginary being, often one used as a threat in disciplining children
- boogieman — bogeyman.
- bookmaker — A bookmaker is a person whose job is to take your money when you bet and to pay you money if you win.
- boom time — a period in which there is a surge of prosperity for a person, place, or industry
- boomerang — A boomerang is a curved piece of wood which comes back to you if you throw it in the correct way. Boomerangs were first used by the people who were living in Australia when Europeans arrived there.
- bootmaker — a person who makes boots and shoes for a living
- botmaster — (chat) The owner of a bot.
- bowl game — bowl1 (def 8).
- box frame — Architecture. a monolithic reinforced-concrete structure having walls and floors in the form of slabs.
- breadroom — a room or compartment where bread is kept, esp on a ship
- breakroom — a room in a workplace that is set aside for employees to use during a break from work, as to relax, socialize, or eat.
- bremerton — a city in W Washington, on Puget Sound: navy yard.
- brimstone — Brimstone is the same as sulphur.
- bromelain — an enzyme derived from pineapple, used as an anti-inflammatory agent in homeopathy and as a meat tenderizer in the food industry
- bromeliad — any plant of the tropical American family Bromeliaceae, typically epiphytes with a rosette of fleshy leaves. The family includes the pineapple and Spanish moss
- bromeosin — eosin (def 1).
- bromfield — Louis, 1896–1956, U.S. novelist.
- brominate — to treat or react with bromine
- broodmare — mare for breeding
- brooklime — either of two blue-flowered scrophulariaceous trailing plants, Veronica americana of North America or V. beccabunga of Europe and Asia, growing in moist places
- broomrape — any orobanchaceous plant of the genus Orobanche: brownish small-flowered leafless parasites on the roots of other plants, esp on legumes
- bumbledom — self-importance in a minor office
- byrewoman — a woman who works in a byre