12-letter words containing i, b, m
- blue swimmer — an edible bluish Australian swimming crab, Portunus pelagicus
- boatsmanship — seamanship as applied to boats, especially rowboats and motorboats.
- body fascism — intolerance of those whose bodies do not conform to a particular view of what is desirable
- boilermaking — metal-working in heavy industry; plating or welding
- bolshevikism — the doctrines, methods, or procedure of the Bolsheviks.
- bombay hills — a row of hills marking the southern boundary of greater Auckland on the North Island, New Zealand
- bomber pilot — the pilot of a bomber
- booking form — a form used to book a holiday, accommodation, etc
- boomeranging — a bent or curved piece of tough wood used by the Australian Aborigines as a throwing club, one form of which can be thrown so as to return to the thrower.
- bosom friend — an intimate friend
- bottom-liner — a person, as an executive, accountant, or stockholder, who puts the net profits of a business ahead of all other considerations.
- box magazine — a rectangular cartridge holder in a submachine or light machine gun.
- boxing match — a competition between two boxers
- brain damage — If someone suffers brain damage, their brain is damaged by an illness or injury so that they cannot function normally.
- brain tumour — a tumour that is situated in the brain
- brainstormer — a person who brainstorms
- brigham city — a city in N Utah.
- brine shrimp — any of a genus (Artemia) of small fairy shrimp found in salt lakes and marshes and used as living, frozen, or dried food in aquariums
- brinkmanship — Brinkmanship is a method of behaviour, especially in politics, in which you deliberately get into dangerous situations which could result in disaster but which could also bring success.
- bristlemouth — any of several small, deep-sea fishes of the family Gonostomatidae, having numerous sharp, slender teeth covering the jaws.
- british warm — an army officer's short thick overcoat
- broad-minded — If you describe someone as broad-minded, you approve of them because they are willing to accept types of behaviour which other people consider immoral.
- bromhidrosis — the secretion of foul-smelling sweat.
- bud mutation — a variation produced by a genetic alteration in the bud such that the seeds produced by the resulting growth perpetuate the change in succeeding generations.
- bull mastiff — a large powerful breed of dog with a short usually fawn or brindle coat, developed by crossing the bulldog with the mastiff
- bumping race — (esp at Oxford and Cambridge) a race in which rowing eights start an equal distance one behind the other and each tries to bump the boat in front
- bur marigold — any plant of the genus Bidens that has yellow flowers and pointed fruits that cling to fur and clothing: family Asteraceae (composites)
- burial mound — a barrow
- by my certie — assuredly
- cabinetmaker — A cabinetmaker is a person who makes high-quality wooden furniture.
- camber piece — a centering for a flat arch, slightly crowned to allow for settling of the arch.
- camp bastion — a large British military base in Helmand province, Afghanistan, built in 2006
- chamberlains — Plural form of chamberlain.
- chambermaids — Plural form of chambermaid.
- chimneyboard — a partition or a cover to shut off a fireplace
- chlorambucil — an alkylating drug derived from nitrogen mustard, administered orally in the treatment of leukaemia and other malignant diseases. Formula: C14H19Cl2NO2
- chromophobia — Lb biology The quality of being resistant to staining.
- cinnamon bun — a honey bun flavored with cinnamon and often containing raisins.
- circumbinary — (astronomy) Of, pertaining to, or having an orbit around a binary star.
- circumboreal — of or having to do with plants and animals inhabiting boreal regions of North America and Eurasia
- circumscribe — If someone's power or freedom is circumscribed, it is limited or restricted.
- clavicembalo — a harpsichord.
- clean-limbed — having well-proportioned limbs
- climbingfish — climbing perch.
- cobaltammine — any of the various complex derivatives of cobalt containing one or more molecules of ammonia bonded to the cobalt.
- combat knife — a large knife for military use
- combinations — a one-piece woollen undergarment with long sleeves and legs
- combustibles — Plural form of combustible.
- commiserable — worthy of commiseration; pitiable
- communicable — A communicable disease is one that can be passed on to other people.