7-letter words containing i, b, m
- bumping — to come more or less violently in contact with; collide with; strike: His car bumped a truck.
- bumpkin — If you refer to someone as a bumpkin, you think they are uneducated and stupid because they come from the countryside.
- bushism — any apparently fatuous statement attributed to George W. Bush
- cabimas — a town in NW Venezuela, on the NE shore of Lake Maracaibo. Pop: 284 000 (2005 est)
- cacimbo — a heavy mist or drizzle that occurs in the Congo basin area, often accompanied by onshore winds.
- cambial — a layer of delicate meristematic tissue between the inner bark or phloem and the wood or xylem, which produces new phloem on the outside and new xylem on the inside in stems, roots, etc., originating all secondary growth in plants and forming the annual rings of wood.
- cambion — Lb mythology The offspring of an incubus and a human.
- cambism — cambistry
- cambist — a dealer or expert in foreign exchange
- cambium — a meristem that increases the girth of stems and roots by producing additional xylem and phloem
- cambrai — a town in NE France: textile industry: scene of a battle in which massed tanks were first used and broke through the German line (November, 1917). Pop: 33 738 (1999)
- cambria — Wales
- cambric — a fine white linen or cotton fabric
- cembali — Irregular plural form of cembalo.
- cimabue — Giovanni (dʒoˈvanni). ?1240–?1302, Italian painter of the Florentine school, who anticipated the movement, led by Giotto, away from the Byzantine tradition in art towards a greater naturalism
- climber — A climber is someone who climbs rocks or mountains as a sport or a hobby.
- coimbra — a city in central Portugal: capital of Portugal from 1190 to 1260; seat of the country's oldest university. Pop: 148 474 (2001)
- combine — If you combine two or more things or if they combine, they exist together.
- combing — a toothed strip of plastic, hard rubber, bone, wood, or metal, used for arranging the hair, untangling it, or holding it in place.
- cumbias — Plural form of cumbia.
- cumbria — (since 1974) a county of NW England comprising the former counties of Westmorland and Cumberland together with N Lancashire: includes the Lake District mountain area and surrounding coastal lowlands with the Pennine uplands in the extreme east. Administrative centre: Carlisle. Pop: 489 800 (2003 est). Area: 6810 sq km (2629 sq miles)
- dibromo — (organic chemistry, especially in combination) Two bromo groups in a molecule.
- dicamba — a white crystalline solid used as a weedkiller
- dimbulb — a stupid person; dimwit.
- dislimb — To remove a limb from, to dismember, to pull off arms or legs.
- dubnium — a superheavy, synthetic, radioactive element with a very short half-life. Symbol: Db; atomic number: 105.
- dumbing — Present participle of dumb.
- dumpbin — a free-standing unit in a bookshop in which the books of a particular publisher are displayed
- embolic — (pathology) Of or relating to an embolus or an embolism.
- embraid — to braid or interweave
- embrios — Plural form of embrio.
- embroil — Involve (someone) deeply in an argument, conflict, or difficult situation.
- epiblem — the outermost cell layer of a root; epidermis
- fem lib — women's liberation.
- fibroma — a tumor consisting essentially of fibrous tissue.
- fimbria — Often, fimbriae. Botany, Zoology. a fringe or fringed border.
- gabbaim — a minor official of a synagogue, having limited ceremonial or administrative functions.
- gambian — a river in W Africa, flowing W to the Atlantic. 500 miles (800 km) long.
- gambier — an astringent extract obtained from the leaves and young shoots of a tropical Asian shrub, Uncaria gambir, of the madder family, used in medicine, dyeing, tanning, etc.
- gambist — a person who plays the viola da gamba
- gambits — Plural form of gambit.
- gimbals — Sometimes, gimbal. a contrivance, consisting of a ring or base on an axis, that permits an object, as a ship's compass, mounted in or on it to tilt freely in any direction, in effect suspending the object so that it will remain horizontal even when its support is tipped.
- gimblet — a small tool for boring holes, consisting of a shaft with a pointed screw at one end and a handle perpendicular to the shaft at the other.
- grimsby — a seaport in Humberside county, in E England at the mouth of the Humber estuary.
- gumboil — a small abscess on the gum, originating in an abscess in the pulp of a tooth.
- hobbism — the doctrines of, or those attributed to, Hobbes, especially the doctrine of absolute submission to a royal sovereign in order to avoid the anarchic disorder resulting from the uncontrolled competition of individual interests.
- hoboism — The lifestyle or practices of hobos; vagrancy.
- humbird — (obsolete) A hummingbird.
- iambics — Plural form of iambic.
- iambist — a person who writes iambs