10-letter words containing b, m, o
- burma road — the route extending from Lashio in Burma (now Myanmar) to Chongqing in China, which was used by the Allies during World War II to supply military equipment to Chiang Kai-shek's forces in China
- bush broom — an evergreen St.-John's-wort, Hypericum prolificum, common from New York to Iowa and southward, having yellow flowers in terminal clusters.
- button man — soldier (sense 2) soldier (sense 2b)
- 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)
- car bomber — someone who hides a bomb under or in a car
- 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
- chamberpot — a vessel for urine, used in bedrooms
- chimborazo — an extinct volcano in central Ecuador, in the Andes: the highest peak in Ecuador. Height: 6267 m (20 561 ft)
- choliambic — relating to or in the form of choliambs
- choliambus — a line of iambic meter with a spondee or trochee replacing the last foot.
- choriambus — choriamb.
- cibachrome — the old name for the Ilfochrome photographic printing process
- 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.
- cochabamba — a city in central Bolivia. Pop: 561 000 (2005 est)
- cockscombs — Plural form of cockscomb.
- cockwomble — (UK,slang,derogatory) A foolish or obnoxious person.
- coimbatore — an industrial city in SW India, in W Tamil Nadu. Pop: 923 085 (2001)
- 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
- combat car — a small armoured car
- combatable — to fight or contend against; oppose vigorously: to combat crime.
- combatants — a nation engaged in active fighting with enemy forces.
- combatting — to fight or contend against; oppose vigorously: to combat crime.
- combinable — capable of combining or being combined.
- combinator — (computer science) A lambda expression which has no free variables in it.
- combinedly — made by combining; joined; united, as in a chemical compound.
- comburgess — (formerly) a fellow citizen or freeman of a borough
- combusting — Present participle of combust.
- combustion — Combustion is the act of burning something or the process of burning.
- combustive — the act or process of burning.
- combustors — Plural form of combustor.
- come about — When you say how or when something came about, you say how or when it happened.
- comebacker — (baseball) A pop fly that falls behind home plate, typically caught by the catcher for an out.
- comestible — food
- comic book — A comic book is a magazine that contains stories told in pictures.
- comm badge — a small combined radio transmitter and receiver, carried around by one person, esp military personnel, in the form of a badge worn on the chest
- 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.
- compatible — If things, for example systems, ideas, and beliefs, are compatible, they work well together or can exist together successfully.
- compatibly — capable of existing or living together in harmony: the most compatible married couple I know.