9-letter words containing b, i, m, o
- blimp out — to become greatly overweight
- blindworm — a legless lizard (Anguis fragilis) of the Old World; slowworm: it has very small eyes and a snakelike body that is usually brownish
- 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.
- boilerman — a man who looks after boilers
- bomb site — A bomb site is an empty area where a bomb has destroyed all the buildings.
- bombasine — bombazine.
- 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.
- 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
- bombsight — a mechanical or electronic device in an aircraft for aiming bombs
- bombycoid — relating to moths of the family Bombycidae
- boogieman — bogeyman.
- boom time — a period in which there is a surge of prosperity for a person, place, or industry
- boomingly — in a booming manner
- borromini — Francesco, original name Francesco Castelli. 1599–1667, Italian baroque architect, working in Rome: his buildings include the churches of San Carlo (1641) and Sant' Ivo (1660)
- bottoming — the lowest level of foundation material for a road or other structure
- botulinum — an anaerobic botulin-secreting bacterium, Clostridium botulinum
- brainworm — a microscopic, parasitic roundworm that infests the brain of large hoofed animals, as deer.
- brimstone — Brimstone is the same as sulphur.
- brimstony — of, relating to or resembling brimstone; sulphurous
- broadbrim — a broad-brimmed hat, esp one worn by the Quakers in the 17th century
- bromantic — noting or pertaining to a bromance: You might call this movie a bromantic comedy.
- bromatium — any of the swollen hyphal tips of certain fungi, on which ants can feed.
- 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
- bronchium — a medium-sized bronchial tube
- 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
- bump into — If you bump into someone you know, you meet them unexpectedly.
- bumptious — If you say that someone is bumptious, you are criticizing them because they are very pleased with themselves and their opinions.
- bursiform — shaped like a pouch or sac
- cambiform — resembling a cambium
- cambodian — of or relating to Cambodia or its inhabitants
- carbamino — relating to the compound produced when carbon dioxide reacts with an amino group
- carbonium — a transient, positively charged organic ion, as H3C+, R3+, that has one less electron than the corresponding free radical
- chemisorb — to take up (a substance) by chemisorption
- choriambs — Plural form of choriamb.
- cimbaloms — Plural form of cimbalom.
- climbdown — A retreat or withdrawal from an earlier position or opinion; a backdown.
- cobalamin — vitamin B12
- cobriform — cobra-like
- coenobium — a monastery or convent
- colombian — Colombian means belonging or relating to Colombia or its people or culture.
- columbian — of or relating to the United States
- columbine — any plant of the ranunculaceous genus Aquilegia, having purple, blue, yellow, or red flowers with five spurred petals