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11-letter words containing b, o, m

  • dromophobia — an irrational fear of crossing roads
  • drummer boy — a young boy who in earlier times played a drum in the army and on the battlefield
  • dumbed down — (jargon)   Simplified, with a strong connotation of *over*simplified. Often, a marketroid will insist that the interfaces and documentation of software be dumbed down after the designer has burned untold gallons of midnight oil making it smart. This creates friction. See user-friendly.
  • dumbfounded — to make speechless with amazement; astonish.
  • dummy block — a freely moving cylinder for transmitting the pressure of a ram to a piece being extruded.
  • echo boomer — a member of Generation Y, born in the 1980s or 1990s; a Millennial.
  • embarcadero — (rare) A quay; a wharf.
  • embarcation — Alternative form of embarkation.
  • embarkation — The act of embarking.
  • emberrorist — a person or organization that reveals potentially embarrassing information, esp as a political weapon
  • emblazoning — Present participle of to emblazon.
  • emblem book — a book of allegorical pictures containing a moral lesson, with an explanatory motto or verses
  • embodiments — Plural form of embodiment.
  • emboîtement — the theory, no longer believed, that an egg encases the germs of all future descendants that might develop from that egg, each germ being encased within another germ
  • emboldening — Present participle of embolden.
  • embolectomy — Surgical removal of an embolus.
  • embonpoints — Plural form of embonpoint.
  • embouchures — Plural form of embouchure.
  • embowelment — a disembowelment
  • embowerment — the act of embowering
  • embrocating — Present participle of embrocate.
  • embrocation — A liquid used for rubbing on the body to relieve pain from sprains and strains.
  • embroidered — Decorate (cloth) by sewing patterns on it with thread.
  • embroiderer — A person who embroiders.
  • embroilment — The condition of being embroiled in something; an imbroglio or entanglement.
  • embryectomy — the surgical removal of an embryo
  • embryoblast — A mass of cells at the embryonic pole of the blastocyst, that develops to form the embryo.
  • embryologic — Embryological.
  • embryonated — Containing an embryo.
  • embryopathy — (pathology) Any developmental disorder of an embryo.
  • embryophyte — any of a subkingdom of plants, Embryophyta, that encompasses most land plants, such as trees, flowers and mosses
  • emery board — abrasive tool for shaping fingernails
  • emetophobia — Fear of vomiting.
  • emetophobic — Pertaining to, or afflicted with, emetophobia, a morbid fear of vomiting.
  • emotionable — (rare, of a person or group or of their behavior or faculties) Particularly expressive of or affected by emotion.
  • ennoblement — (uncountable) The state of being noble.
  • fibrocement — (formerly) cement combined with asbestos fibre, used esp in sheets for building
  • fimbriation — fimbriate or fringed condition.
  • firebombing — Present participle of firebomb.
  • flamboyance — strikingly bold or brilliant; showy: flamboyant colors.
  • flamboyancy — strikingly bold or brilliant; showy: flamboyant colors.
  • flamboyante — an alternative name for the flame tree, Poinciana regia
  • flamboyants — Plural form of flamboyant.
  • flying bomb — robot bomb.
  • foam rubber — a light, spongy rubber, used for mattresses, cushions, etc.
  • foam-backed — having a backing made of foam rubber
  • formability — the capacity of a material, as sheet steel, to be readily bent, stamped, shaped, etc.
  • from a to b — People talk about getting from A to B when they are referring generally to journeys they need to make, without saying where the journeys will take them.
  • from abroad — from a foreign land or lands
  • fusion bomb — hydrogen bomb.
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