9-letter words containing b, o, m
- bonhomous — exhibiting bonhomie
- boogerman — South Midland and Southern U.S. bogeyman.
- boogeyman — a frightening imaginary being, often one used as a threat in disciplining children
- boogieman — bogeyman.
- bookmaker — A bookmaker is a person whose job is to take your money when you bet and to pay you money if you win.
- bookmarks — a ribbon or other marker placed between the pages of a book to mark a place.
- boom baby — a person born in the years of the baby boom
- boom shot — a shot taken by a camera on a boom.
- boom time — a period in which there is a surge of prosperity for a person, place, or industry
- boom town — A boom town is a town which has rapidly become very rich and full of people, usually because industry or business has developed there.
- boom-bust — relating to a supposed cycle in which periods of prosperity and growth alternate with periods of recession
- boomerang — A boomerang is a curved piece of wood which comes back to you if you throw it in the correct way. Boomerangs were first used by the people who were living in Australia when Europeans arrived there.
- boomingly — in a booming manner
- boomslang — a large greenish venomous arboreal colubrid snake, Dispholidus typus, of southern Africa
- boot camp — In the United States, a boot camp is a camp where people who have just joined the army, navy, or marines are trained.
- bootmaker — a person who makes boots and shoes for a living
- borromini — Francesco, original name Francesco Castelli. 1599–1667, Italian baroque architect, working in Rome: his buildings include the churches of San Carlo (1641) and Sant' Ivo (1660)
- botmaster — (chat) The owner of a bot.
- bottom-up — from the lowest level of a hierarchy or process to the top
- bottoming — the lowest level of foundation material for a road or other structure
- botulinum — an anaerobic botulin-secreting bacterium, Clostridium botulinum
- bowl game — bowl1 (def 8).
- box frame — Architecture. a monolithic reinforced-concrete structure having walls and floors in the form of slabs.
- brainworm — a microscopic, parasitic roundworm that infests the brain of large hoofed animals, as deer.
- breadroom — a room or compartment where bread is kept, esp on a ship
- breakroom — a room in a workplace that is set aside for employees to use during a break from work, as to relax, socialize, or eat.
- bremerton — a city in W Washington, on Puget Sound: navy yard.
- brimstone — Brimstone is the same as sulphur.
- brimstony — of, relating to or resembling brimstone; sulphurous
- broadbrim — a broad-brimmed hat, esp one worn by the Quakers in the 17th century
- broadloom — of or designating carpets or carpeting woven on a wide loom to obviate the need for seams
- broadmoor — an institution in Berkshire, England, for housing and treating mentally ill criminals
- bromantic — noting or pertaining to a bromance: You might call this movie a bromantic comedy.
- bromatium — any of the swollen hyphal tips of certain fungi, on which ants can feed.
- bromelain — an enzyme derived from pineapple, used as an anti-inflammatory agent in homeopathy and as a meat tenderizer in the food industry
- bromeliad — any plant of the tropical American family Bromeliaceae, typically epiphytes with a rosette of fleshy leaves. The family includes the pineapple and Spanish moss
- bromeosin — eosin (def 1).
- bromfield — Louis, 1896–1956, U.S. novelist.
- brominate — to treat or react with bromine
- bromoform — a heavy colourless liquid substance with a sweetish taste and an odour resembling that of chloroform. Formula: CHBr3
- bronchium — a medium-sized bronchial tube
- broodmare — mare for breeding
- brooklime — either of two blue-flowered scrophulariaceous trailing plants, Veronica americana of North America or V. beccabunga of Europe and Asia, growing in moist places
- broomball — a sport similar to ice hockey, played without skates and with a specially designed broom
- broomcorn — a variety of sorghum, Sorghum vulgare technicum, the long stiff flower stalks of which have been used for making brooms
- broomrape — any orobanchaceous plant of the genus Orobanche: brownish small-flowered leafless parasites on the roots of other plants, esp on legumes
- buck moth — a saturniid moth, Hemileuca maia, having delicate, grayish wings with a white band.
- bumbledom — self-importance in a minor office
- bump into — If you bump into someone you know, you meet them unexpectedly.
- bumpology — phrenology