8-letter words containing b, o, m
- cash mob — a group of people coordinated to meet and spend money at a local, independent business at a particular time
- catacomb — Catacombs are ancient underground passages and rooms, especially under a city, where people used to be buried.
- chambord — a village in N central France: site of a famous Renaissance chateau
- chimbote — a port in N central Peru: contains Peru's first steelworks (1958), using hydroelectric power from the Santa River. Pop: 328 000 (2005 est)
- choliamb — an imperfect iambic metre, with a spondee as the last foot
- choriamb — a metrical foot used in classical verse consisting of four syllables, two short ones between two long ones (– ◡ ◡ –)
- ciborium — a goblet-shaped lidded vessel used to hold consecrated wafers in Holy Communion
- cimbalom — a type of dulcimer, esp of Hungary
- clubmoss — Alternative spelling of club moss.
- clubroom — a room used by a club for meetings, activities, socializing, etc
- coembody — to embody jointly
- coloboma — a structural defect of the eye, esp in the choroid, retina, or iris
- colombes — an industrial and residential suburb of NW Paris. Pop: 83 220 (2006)
- colombia — a republic in NW South America: inhabited by Chibchas and other Indians before Spanish colonization in the 16th century; independence won by Bolívar in 1819; became the Republic of Colombia in 1886; violence and unrest have been endemic since the 1970s. It consists chiefly of a hot swampy coastal plain, separated by ranges of the Andes from the pampas and the equatorial forests of the Amazon basin in the east. Language: Spanish. Religion: Roman Catholic majority. Currency: peso. Capital: Bogotá. Pop: 45 745 783 (2013 est). Area: 1 138 908 sq km (439 735 sq miles)
- columbia — a river in NW North America, rising in the Rocky Mountains and flowing through British Columbia, then west to the Pacific. Length: about 1930 km (1200 miles)
- columbic — niobic.
- columbus — a city in central Ohio: the state capital. Pop: 728 432 (2003 est)
- comb out — to remove (tangles or knots) from (the hair) with a comb
- comb-out — a thorough combing or brushing of the hair.
- combahee — a river in S South Carolina, flowing SE to the Atlantic Ocean. 40 miles (64 km) long.
- combated — to fight or contend against; oppose vigorously: to combat crime.
- combater — One who combats.
- combined — A combined effort or attack is made by two or more groups of people at the same time.
- combiner — Any of various electronic devices that combine signals, in particular.
- combines — Plural form of combine.
- combings — the loose hair, wool, etc, removed by combing, esp that of animals
- combless — without a comb
- comblike — resembling a comb
- combover — Hair that is combed over a bald spot in an attempt to cover it.
- combwise — in the manner of a comb
- comeback — If someone such as an entertainer or sports personality makes a comeback, they return to their profession or sport after a period away.
- comorbid — (of an illness or condition) happening at the same time as another illness or condition
- coulombs — Plural form of coulomb.
- coxcombs — Plural form of coxcomb.
- cubiform — having the shape of a cube
- cumbrous — cumbersome
- cymbalom — cimbalom
- damboard — a draughtboard
- damp box — a box that is lined with moist material for keeping clay in a plastic state.
- demibold — Semibold.
- demobbed — When soldiers are demobbed, they are released from the armed forces.
- disbosom — to reveal; confess.
- divebomb — (of an aircraft) To bomb whilst in a steep dive.
- doberman — Doberman pinscher.
- doorjamb — either of the two sidepieces of a doorframe.
- dumbshow — Gestures used to convey a meaning or message without speech; mime.
- ebionism — the teaching upheld by the Ebionites that said that Jesus was a mortal human being, that Christians should adhere to Jewish law and that absence of wealth was a preferred religious quality
- eboracum — ancient name of York, England.
- emblazon — Conspicuously inscribe or display (a design) on something.
- embodied — Be an expression of or give a tangible or visible form to (an idea, quality, or feeling).