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10-letter words containing b, l, o, m

  • bloomfield — Leonard. 1887–1949, US linguist, influential for his strictly scientific and descriptive approach to comparative linguistics; author of Language (1933)
  • bloomsburg — a city in E central Pennsylvania.
  • bloomsbury — a district of central London in the borough of Camden: contains the British Museum, part of the University of London, and many publishers' offices
  • blue mould — any fungus of the genus Penicillium that forms a bluish mass on decaying food, leather, etc
  • bog myrtle — sweet gale.
  • böhm flute — a type of flute in which the holes are covered with keys; the standard type of modern flute
  • bohmerwald — German name of Bohemian Forest.
  • bolshevism — Bolshevism is the political system and ideas that Lenin and his supporters introduced in Russia after the Russian Revolution of 1917.
  • bomb blast — the impact caused by a bomb
  • bomb lance — a harpoon fitted with an explosive head.
  • bookmobile — a vehicle providing lending library facilities
  • bottle imp — Cartesian diver.
  • bottomhole — The bottomhole is the lowest or deepest part of a well.
  • bottomland — a lowland alluvial area near a river
  • bottomless — If you describe a supply of something as bottomless, you mean that it seems so large that it will never run out.
  • boulangism — the doctrines of militarism and reprisals against Germany, advocated, especially in the 1880s, by the French general Boulanger.
  • bowdlerism — to expurgate (a written work) by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable.
  • box column — a hollow wooden column, as for a porch, usually having a rectangular cross section.
  • brahmaloka — the highest part of Kamaloka, where refined souls exist in blissful contemplation of Brahma.
  • bread mold — any of an order (Mucorales, esp. Rhizopus nigricans) of fungi often found on decaying vegetable matter or bread
  • broomfield — a city in N central Colorado.
  • bull moose — a member of the Progressive Party led by Theodore Roosevelt in the presidential campaign of 1912
  • bullionism — a person who advocates a system in which currency is directly convertible to gold or silver.
  • bumblefoot — a swelling, sometimes purulent, of the ball of the foot in fowl.
  • bump along — advance unevenly
  • bunglesome — characterized by bungling
  • buttonmold — a small disk of wood, metal, etc., which is covered as with cloth or leather to form a button
  • campobello — an island in the Bay of Fundy, off the coast of SE Canada: part of New Brunswick province. Pop: 1195 (2001). Area: about 52 sq km (20 sq miles)
  • carambolas — Plural form of carambola.
  • carom ball — the ball struck by the cue ball in rebounding off the object ball. Compare object ball (def 1).
  • catabolism — a metabolic process in which complex molecules are broken down into simple ones with the release of energy; destructive metabolism
  • choliambic — relating to or in the form of choliambs
  • choliambus — a line of iambic meter with a spondee or trochee replacing the last foot.
  • climb down — If you climb down in an argument or dispute, you admit that you are wrong, or change your intentions or demands.
  • climb-down — a retreat, as from an indefensible opinion or position.
  • cloth beam — a roller, located at the front of a loom, on which woven material is wound after it leaves the breast beam.
  • cockwomble — (UK,slang,derogatory) A foolish or obnoxious person.
  • collembola — Any of many minute wingless arthropods of subclass Collembola; a springtail.
  • columbaria — Irregular plural form of columbarium.
  • columbines — Plural form of columbine.
  • comb jelly — ctenophore
  • combatable — to fight or contend against; oppose vigorously: to combat crime.
  • combinable — capable of combining or being combined.
  • combinedly — made by combining; joined; united, as in a chemical compound.
  • comestible — food
  • commonable — (of land) held in common
  • commutable — (of a punishment) capable of being reduced in severity
  • comparable — Something that is comparable to something else is roughly similar, for example in amount or importance.
  • comparably — capable of being compared; having features in common with something else to permit or suggest comparison: He considered the Roman and British empires to be comparable.
  • compatable — Misspelling of compatible.
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