11-letter words containing b, i, o, m
- oil embargo — a prohibition of the trade of petroleum from one country to another
- omnibearing — the magnetic bearing of an omnirange station.
- optimizable — Capable of being optimized.
- pedobaptism — the baptism of infants.
- phlebotomic — of or noting phlebotomy.
- plumb joint — (in sheet metal work) a soldered lap joint.
- popmobility — a form of exercise that combines aerobics in a continuous dance routine, performed to pop music
- possibilism — the theory in geography that human behaviour, and therefore culture, is not merely determined by the environment but by human agency, as a theory it is directly opposed to determinism
- premorbidly — pertaining to diseased parts: morbid anatomy.
- probabilism — Philosophy. the doctrine, introduced by the Skeptics, that certainty is impossible and that probability suffices to govern faith and practice.
- problematic — of the nature of a problem; doubtful; uncertain; questionable.
- prothrombin — a plasma protein involved in blood coagulation that on activation by factors in the plasma is converted to thrombin.
- public room — a lounge or other room that is open to all, especially in a hotel or on a ship.
- pyrobitumen — any of the dark, solid hydrocarbons including peat, coal, and bituminous shale.
- rambouillet — one of a breed of hardy sheep, developed from the Merino, yielding good mutton and a fine grade of wool.
- recombinant — of or resulting from new combinations of genetic material: recombinant cells.
- reform bill — any of the bills passed by Parliament (1832, 1867, 1884) providing for an increase in the number of voters in elections for the House of Commons, especially the bill of 1832 by which many rotten boroughs were disfranchised.
- rhomboideus — either of two back muscles that function to move the scapula.
- ribbon worm — any of various slender, unsegmented marine worms of the phylum Nemertea, being able to contract and stretch to an extreme extent.
- robing room — a room in a palace, court, legislature, etc, where official robes of office are put on
- roman blind — a window blind consisting of a length of material which, when drawn up, gathers into horizontal folds from the bottom
- roman brick — a long, thin face brick, usually yellow-brown and having a length about eight times its thickness.
- rumbustious — rambunctious.
- saltimbanco — a charlatan or fake
- saltimbocca — veal and ham wrapped together and sautéed in butter, often seasoned with sage.
- skatemobile — a scooterlike vehicle built of boxes, boards, or the like, and mounted on skate wheels.
- smoking ban — the prohibition of smoking cigarettes, etc in public places
- snowmobiler — a person who drives a snowmobile
- strombolian — relating to or denoting a type of volcanic eruption characterized by repeated fountaining or jetting of fluid lava into the air
- sub-optimal — being below an optimal level or standard.
- subacromial — the outward end of the spine of the scapula or shoulder blade.
- subdominant — Music. the fourth tone of a diatonic scale, next below the dominant.
- subeconomic — pertaining to the production, distribution, and use of income, wealth, and commodities.
- subharmonic — an oscillation that has a frequency which is an integral submultiple of the frequency of a related oscillation.
- sublimation — Psychology. the diversion of the energy of a sexual or other biological impulse from its immediate goal to one of a more acceptable social, moral, or aesthetic nature or use.
- submunition — a weapon forming part of a larger warhead and released from it at a target
- suboptimize — to use in a way that is less than optimal
- subsumption — an act of subsuming.
- symbolistic — a person who uses symbols or symbolism.
- symbolizing — to be a symbol of; stand for or represent in the manner of a symbol.
- taurobolium — the sacrifice of a bull, followed by the baptism of neophytes in the blood, as practiced in the ancient rites of Mithras or Cybele.
- tempolabile — changing irregularly with time
- theobromine — a white, crystalline, water-insoluble, poisonous powder, C 7 H 8 N 4 O 2 , an isomer of theophylline and lower homologue of caffeine, occurring in tea and obtained from the cacao bean: used chiefly as a diuretic, myocardial stimulant, and vasodilator.
- thermobaric — (of an explosive device or explosion) detonated by means of an explosive substance reacting spontaneously with air
- thingamabob — thingamajig.
- thingumabob — thingamajig.
- thumb piano — any of various African boxlike musical instruments, such as the kalimba or mbira, having tuned strips of metal or wood that vibrate when played with the thumbs.
- timber wolf — the gray wolf, Canis lupus, sometimes designated as the subspecies C. lupus occidentalis: formerly common in northern North America but now greatly reduced in number and rare in the conterminous U.S.
- timbromania — a mania or passion for stamp-collecting
- timbrophily — the love of stamps; stamp collecting