7-letter words containing b, m
- bum rap — a trumped-up or false charge
- bum-out — a person who avoids work and sponges on others; loafer; idler.
- bumbaze — to confuse; bewilder
- bumbler — to bungle or blunder awkwardly; muddle: He somehow bumbled through two years of college.
- bumboat — any small boat used for ferrying supplies or goods for sale to a ship at anchor or at a mooring
- bumelia — a thorny shrub of the genus Bumelia
- bumfuck — a remote or insignificant place
- bummalo — Bombay duck.
- bumming — a person who avoids work and sponges on others; loafer; idler.
- bummock — a submerged mass of ice projecting downwards
- bump up — If you bump up an amount, you increase it suddenly, usually by a lot.
- bumping — to come more or less violently in contact with; collide with; strike: His car bumped a truck.
- bumpkin — If you refer to someone as a bumpkin, you think they are uneducated and stupid because they come from the countryside.
- bumpoff — murder.
- bumster — (of trousers) cut low so as to reveal the top part of the buttocks
- burmese — Burmese means belonging or relating to Burma, or to its people, language, or culture. Burma is now known as Myanmar.
- burnham — Daniel Hudson, 1846–1912, U.S. architect and city planner.
- bushism — any apparently fatuous statement attributed to George W. Bush
- bushman — A Bushman is an aboriginal person from the southwestern part of Africa, especially the Kalahari desert region.
- bushmen — a woodsman.
- by gum! — by God!
- by name — When you mention someone or something by name, or address someone by name, you use their name.
- by-form — a subsidiary or variant form
- by-name — a secondary name; cognomen; surname.
- byreman — a man who works in a byre
- cabimas — a town in NW Venezuela, on the NE shore of Lake Maracaibo. Pop: 284 000 (2005 est)
- cabomba — any of several aquatic plants of the genus Cabomba of the family Cabombaceae, having both submerged and floating leaves
- cacimbo — a heavy mist or drizzle that occurs in the Congo basin area, often accompanied by onshore winds.
- calumba — the root of the Mozambiquan plant Jateorhiza columba, used as an aid to digestion and as a mild tonic
- cambelt — Part of an internal combustion engine that synchronizes the rotation of the crankshaft and the camshaft(s) so that the engine's valves open and close at the proper times during each cylinder's intake and exhaust strokes.
- cambers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of camber.
- cambial — a layer of delicate meristematic tissue between the inner bark or phloem and the wood or xylem, which produces new phloem on the outside and new xylem on the inside in stems, roots, etc., originating all secondary growth in plants and forming the annual rings of wood.
- cambion — Lb mythology The offspring of an incubus and a human.
- cambism — cambistry
- cambist — a dealer or expert in foreign exchange
- cambium — a meristem that increases the girth of stems and roots by producing additional xylem and phloem
- cambrai — a town in NE France: textile industry: scene of a battle in which massed tanks were first used and broke through the German line (November, 1917). Pop: 33 738 (1999)
- cambrel — gambrel.
- cambria — Wales
- cambric — a fine white linen or cotton fabric
- caramba — an exclamation of surprise or amazement
- cembali — Irregular plural form of cembalo.
- cembalo — harpsichord
- chamber — A chamber is a large room, especially one that is used for formal meetings.
- chambly — a city in S Quebec, in E Canada.
- chambre — (of wine) at room temperature
- chumble — To peck at or nibble.
- cimabue — Giovanni (dʒoˈvanni). ?1240–?1302, Italian painter of the Florentine school, who anticipated the movement, led by Giotto, away from the Byzantine tradition in art towards a greater naturalism
- clamber — If you clamber somewhere, you climb there with difficulty, usually using your hands as well as your feet.
- climber — A climber is someone who climbs rocks or mountains as a sport or a hobby.