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12-letter words containing b, o, m

  • back molding — a molding, as a backband, applied to interior window and door trim to conceal the edge of the wall surface.
  • backcourtman — any of the players stationed in the backcourt; a guard
  • backroom boy — You can refer to a man as a backroom boy when he does important work in an organization and has good ideas but is not seen or known about by the public.
  • backswordman — a person who uses a backsword.
  • backwoodsman — Backwoodsmen are people, especially politicians, who like the old ways of doing things, or who are involved in an organization at a local level.
  • backwoodsmen — Plural form of backwoodsman.
  • bagworm moth — any moth of the family Psychidae
  • balladmonger — (formerly) a seller of ballads, esp on broadsheets
  • balletomanes — Plural form of balletomane.
  • balletomania — passionate enthusiasm for ballet
  • ballottement — a technique of feeling for a movable object in the body, esp confirmation of pregnancy by feeling the rebound of the fetus following a quick digital tap on the wall of the uterus
  • balsamaceous — any of various fragrant exudations from certain trees, especially trees of the genus Commiphora, as balm-of-Gilead. Compare balm (def 1).
  • banquet room — A banquet room is a room in a hotel where large formal meals for many people can be held.
  • barium oxide — a white or yellowish-white poisonous heavy powder used esp as a dehydrating agent. Formula: BaO
  • barnstormers — Plural form of barnstormer.
  • barnstorming — A barnstorming performance is full of energy and very exciting to watch.
  • barodynamics — the branch of mechanics concerned with heavy structures
  • barometrical — (archaic) Relating to, or observed with, a barometer, barometric.
  • barquisimeto — a city in NW Venezuela. Pop: 1 009 000 (2005 est)
  • barrack room — a room inside a military barracks, esp one in which soldiers sleep
  • bathmophobia — The fear of stairs and slopes.
  • bathochromic — denoting or relating to a shift to a longer wavelength in the absorption spectrum of a compound
  • be in embryo — Something that is in embryo is at a very early stage of its development.
  • beach-comber — a person who lives by gathering salable articles of jetsam, refuse, etc., from beaches.
  • beachcombers — Plural form of beachcomber.
  • beachcombing — The action of a beachcomber.
  • bead molding — bead (def 12).
  • beam compass — an instrument for drawing large circles or arcs, consisting of a horizontal beam along which two vertical legs slide
  • beaumontague — a cement-like substance used to fill in and hide cracks and holes in woodwork and metalwork
  • becomingness — The state or quality of becoming.
  • bed moulding — a moulding in an entablature between the corona and the frieze
  • bedroom eyes — sexy eyes
  • beehive tomb — a type of subterranean tomb of the Mycenaean civilization consisting of a domed chamber entered by a passage through a hillside.
  • behaviourism — Behaviourism is the belief held by some psychologists that the only valid method of studying the psychology of people or animals is to observe how they behave.
  • bell bottoms — Also, bell-bottomed. (of trousers) wide and flaring at the bottoms of the legs.
  • bell-bottoms — Bell-bottoms are trousers that are very wide at the bottom of the leg, near your feet.
  • besom pocket — an interior pocket with edging or stitching around the opening.
  • bibliomaniac — excessive fondness for acquiring and possessing books.
  • bimorph cell — a piezoelectric transducer consisting of two crystals cemented together, used in microphones, headphones, loudspeakers, etc. to convert vibrations into a voltage output or to convert a signal voltage into vibrations that can produce audible sounds
  • bio-organism — a dangerous fast-proliferating organism that could be used as the basis of a biological weapon
  • bioastronomy — the branch of biology which deals with the study or the discovery of life forms on other planets or in space
  • biochemistry — Biochemistry is the study of the chemical processes that happen in living things.
  • biocomputing — the application of computing to problems in biology, biochemistry, and genetics
  • biomagnetics — the study of magnetic fields as a form of therapy
  • biomagnetism — animal magnetism.
  • biomechanics — the study of the mechanics of the movement of living organisms
  • biometrician — a person who is knowledgeable about biometry
  • biomolecular — relating to a biomolecule
  • biorhythmics — the study of biorhythms
  • biotelemetry — the monitoring of biological functions in humans or animals by means of a miniature transmitter that sends data to a distant point to be read by electronic instruments
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