12-letter words containing b, o, m, e, d
- embroiderers — Plural form of embroiderer.
- embroideries — Plural form of embroidery.
- embroidering — Present participle of embroider.
- endomembrane — (biology) All the membraneous components inside a eukaryotic cell, including the nuclear envelope, endoplastic reticulum, and Golgi apparatus.
- endosymbiont — (ecology) An organism that lives within the body or cells of another organism.
- fibroadenoma — a benign tumor originating from glandular tissue, as in the female breast.
- flemish bond — a brickwork bond having alternate stretchers and headers in each course, each header being centered above and below a stretcher.
- forebodement — The act of foreboding.
- hall bedroom — a small bedroom off a corridor, esp. a small bedroom formed by partitioning off the end of an upstairs corridor
- hebdomadally — taking place, coming together, or published once every seven days; weekly: hebdomadal meetings; hebdomadal groups; hebdomadal journals.
- homebuilders — Plural form of homebuilder.
- homebuilding — the designing or constructing of houses.
- hydrobromate — (chemistry) hydrobromide.
- hydrobromide — a salt formed by the direct union of hydrobromic acid and an organic base, especially an alkaloid, usually more soluble than the base.
- impardonable — (obsolete) unpardonable.
- imponderable — not ponderable; that cannot be precisely determined, measured, or evaluated.
- informidable — (obsolete) Not formidable; not to be feared or dreaded.
- loose-limbed — having supple arms and legs: a loose-limbed athlete.
- male bonding — the process by which two or more men or boys become emotionally attached to each another
- mantelboards — Plural form of mantelboard.
- mastoid bone — a large, bony prominence on the base of the skull behind the ear, containing air spaces that connect with the middle ear cavity.
- medicine box — a small box used to hold medicines
- messageboard — Alternative spelling of message board.
- middlebrowed — midway between highbrow and lowbrow
- middy blouse — any of various loose blouses with a sailor collar, often extending below the waistline to terminate in a broad band or fold, as worn by sailors, women, or children.
- molybdenosis — a disease of ruminants, especially cattle, caused by dietary intake of excessive molybdenum with resultant copper deficiency, characterized by persistent diarrhea and, especially around the eyes, a fading of coat pigment.
- monkey bread — the gourdlike fruit of the baobab, eaten by monkeys.
- motherboards — Plural form of motherboard.
- mountebanked — Simple past tense and past participle of mountebank.
- mouthbreeder — any of several fishes of the genera Tilapia and Haplochromis, that hatch and care for their young in the mouth.
- mouthbrooder — A freshwater cichlid fish that protects its eggs (and in some cases its young) by carrying them in its mouth.
- much obliged — expressions used when one wants to indicate that one is very grateful for something
- muscle-bound — having enlarged and inelastic muscles, as from excessive exercise.
- muttonbirder — a person who hunts muttonbirds
- noble-minded — characterized by morally admirable thought or motives; righteous; worthy.
- obcompressed — compressed or flattened in a way opposite to the usual, as back to front instead of side to side.
- oboe d'amore — a type of oboe pitched a minor third lower than the oboe itself. It is used chiefly in the performance of baroque music
- oboe d'amour — an oboe with a bulb-shaped bell that is pitched a minor third below the range of the conventional oboe and was much used in music of the Baroque period.
- ombudsperson — ombudsman (def 2).
- one-man band — A one-man band is a street entertainer who wears and plays a lot of different instruments at the same time.
- order number — a number associated with a purchase or merchandise order
- ormond beach — a town in NE Florida.
- paedobaptism — the baptism of infants
- payment bond — See under contract bond.
- platform bed — a bed, originating in Scandinavia in the 1930s, consisting of a simple shallow box for holding a mattress situated on a slightly recessed pedestal.
- premium bond — In Britain, premium bonds are numbered tickets that are sold by the government. Each month, a computer selects several numbers, and the people whose tickets have those numbers win money.
- re-embroider — to embroider again
- redoublement — the act of redoubling
- rhombohedral — a solid bounded by six rhombic planes.
- rhombohedron — a solid bounded by six rhombic planes.