8-letter words containing b, i, o, m
- lipscomb — William Nunn [nuhn] /nʌn/ (Show IPA), Jr. 1919–2011, U.S. chemist: Nobel Prize 1976.
- lobbyism — a person who tries to influence legislation on behalf of a special interest; a member of a lobby.
- lombardi — Vince(nt Thomas) 1913–70, U.S. football coach.
- mailboat — a boat for transporting mail.
- mailbomb — Alternative form of mail bomb.
- mainboom — the spar for the mainsail
- manitoba — a province in central Canada. 246,512 sq. mi. (638,466 sq. km). Abbreviation: Man. Capital: Winnipeg.
- microbar — a centimeter-gram-second unit of pressure, equal to one millionth of a bar; one dyne per square centimeter.
- microbat — Any of the small bats in the suborder Microchiroptera.
- microbes — Plural form of microbe.
- microbic — a microorganism, especially a pathogenic bacterium.
- microbot — A small mobile robot equipped with a microcontroller.
- microbus — minibus.
- miniboss — (video games) A minor or incidental boss in a video game.
- misbegot — Misbegotten; unlawfully or irregularly begotten; of bad origin.
- misdoubt — doubt or suspicion.
- mixblood — A person of mixed racial heritage.
- mobilise — to assemble or marshal (armed forces, military reserves, or civilian persons of military age) into readiness for active service.
- mobility — the quality of being mobile.
- mobilize — to assemble or marshal (armed forces, military reserves, or civilian persons of military age) into readiness for active service.
- mobisode — a typically brief episode of a television show that is available online and formatted for viewing on a mobile phone or smartphone
- mode bit — A flag, usually in hardware, that selects between two (usually quite different) modes of operation. The connotations are different from flag bit in that mode bits are mainly written during a boot or set-up phase, are seldom explicitly read, and seldom change over the lifetime of an ordinary program. The classic example was the EBCDIC-vs.-ASCII bit (#12) of the Program Status Word of the IBM 360. Another was the bit on a PDP-12 that controlled whether it ran the PDP-8 or the LINC instruction set.
- molybdic — of or containing molybdenum, especially in the trivalent or hexavalent states, as molybdic acid, H 2 MoO 4 .
- moorbird — moorfowl.
- morbidly — suggesting an unhealthy mental state or attitude; unwholesomely gloomy, sensitive, extreme, etc.: a morbid interest in death.
- morbific — causing disease.
- morbihan — a department in W France. 2738 sq. mi. (7090 sq. km). Capital: Vannes.
- morbilli — measles (def 1).
- moribund — in a dying state; near death.
- nabobism — any very wealthy, influential, or powerful person.
- nobelium — a transuranic element in the actinium series. Symbol: No; atomic number: 102.
- nubiform — cloud-like
- obeahism — the custom of or faith in the form of witchcraft known as obeah
- olibanum — frankincense.
- outclimb — to surpass or outdo in climbing; climb higher or better than: As a child, I could outclimb any kid on the block.
- overbrim — To flow over the brim; to overflow.
- quilombo — (historical, in Brazil) A remote, inland settlement originally settled by fugitive slaves (or others).
- rhomboid — an oblique-angled parallelogram with only the opposite sides equal.
- ribosome — a tiny, somewhat mitten-shaped organelle occurring in great numbers in the cell cytoplasm either freely, in small clusters, or attached to the outer surfaces of endoplasmic reticula, and functioning as the site of protein manufacture.
- ribozyme — a segment of RNA that can act as a catalyst.
- ringwomb — a complication at lambing resulting from failure of the cervix to open
- riobamba — a city in central Ecuador in the Andes, near the Chimborazo volcano.
- robotism — a machine that resembles a human and does mechanical, routine tasks on command.
- rom bios — Basic Input/Output System
- scombrid — any fish of the family Scombridae, comprising the mackerels and tunas.
- semibold — denoting a weight of typeface between medium and bold face
- semihobo — a person looking almost like a hobo
- snobbism — condescending, patronizing, or socially exclusive; snobbish.
- subimago — the first winged stage of the mayfly, with dull opaque wings, known to anglers as a dun, before it metamorphoses into the shiny gauzy imago or spinner
- sybotism — the keeping of swine