8-letter words containing b, r, o, m
- homebrew — beer or other alcoholic beverage made at home.
- hornbeam — any North American shrub or tree belonging to the genus Carpinus, of the birch family, yielding a hard, heavy wood, as C. caroliniana (American hornbeam)
- imbowers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of imbower.
- incomber — Archaic form of encumber.
- jamboree — a carousal; any noisy merrymaking.
- jeroboam — the first king of the Biblical kingdom of the Hebrews in N Palestine.
- keurboom — (South Africa) A species of tree, Virgilia oroboides, noted for it's pretty lilac flowers.
- kir moab — ancient name of Kerak.
- laborism — a political theory favoring the dominance of labor in the economic and political life of a country.
- limbourg — a medieval duchy in W Europe: now divided into a province in the SE Netherlands (Limburg) and a province in NE Belgium (Limbourg)
- lobworms — Plural form of lobworm.
- lombardi — Vince(nt Thomas) 1913–70, U.S. football coach.
- lombardo — Guy (Albert) 1902–77, U.S. bandleader, born in Canada.
- lombardy — a region and former kingdom in N Italy. 9190 sq. mi. (23,800 sq. km).
- lombroso — Cesare [che-zah-re] /ˈtʃɛ zɑˌrɛ/ (Show IPA), 1836–1909, Italian physician and criminologist.
- marabous — Plural form of marabou.
- marabout — Islam. a hermit or holy man, especially in N Africa, often wielding political power and credited with supernatural powers. the tomb or shrine of such a man.
- marlboro — a city in E Massachusetts.
- microbar — a centimeter-gram-second unit of pressure, equal to one millionth of a bar; one dyne per square centimeter.
- microbat — Any of the small bats in the suborder Microchiroptera.
- microbes — Plural form of microbe.
- microbic — a microorganism, especially a pathogenic bacterium.
- microbot — A small mobile robot equipped with a microcontroller.
- microbus — minibus.
- mob rule — the fact or state of large groups of people acting without the consent of the government, authorities, etc
- mobocrat — One who favours a form of government in which the unintelligent populace rules without restraint.
- mobsters — Plural form of mobster.
- monobrow — a pair of eyebrows that appear to be connected because of some extra hair growing in the space between them: He had very bushy eyebrows, almost a unibrow.
- moorbird — moorfowl.
- moorburn — the practice of burning off old growth on a heather moor to encourage new growth for grazing
- mopboard — baseboard (def 1).
- morbidly — suggesting an unhealthy mental state or attitude; unwholesomely gloomy, sensitive, extreme, etc.: a morbid interest in death.
- morbific — causing disease.
- morbihan — a department in W France. 2738 sq. mi. (7090 sq. km). Capital: Vannes.
- morbilli — measles (def 1).
- moribund — in a dying state; near death.
- mortbell — a bell rung for a funeral
- motorbus — a passenger bus powered by a motor.
- mowburnt — (of hay, straw, etc) damaged by overheating in a mow
- northumb — Northumberland
- november — the eleventh month of the year, containing 30 days.
- nubiform — cloud-like
- obtemper — to comply (with)
- overbrim — To flow over the brim; to overflow.
- pembroke — a borough in Dyfed, in SW Wales: birthplace of King Henry VII.
- rebeldom — a region or territory controlled by rebels.
- rehoboam — the successor of Solomon and the first king of Judah, reigned 922?–915? b.c. I Kings 11:43.
- rhomboid — an oblique-angled parallelogram with only the opposite sides equal.
- ribosome — a tiny, somewhat mitten-shaped organelle occurring in great numbers in the cell cytoplasm either freely, in small clusters, or attached to the outer surfaces of endoplasmic reticula, and functioning as the site of protein manufacture.
- ribozyme — a segment of RNA that can act as a catalyst.