7-letter words containing i, b, m
- bevomit — to vomit over
- bilimbi — a fruit-bearing tree growing in India and Sri Lanka
- billman — a person armed with a bill or billhook
- bimetal — an object or material made from sheets of two types of metal
- bimodal — characterized by two modes
- bimorph — an assembly of two piezoelectric crystals cemented together so that an applied voltage causes one to expand and the other to contract, converting electrical signals into mechanical energy. Conversely, bending can generate a voltage: used in loudspeakers, gramophone pick-ups, etc
- bimotor — an airplane or other vehicle that has two engines.
- bingham — George Caleb1811-79; U.S. painter
- biofilm — a thin layer of living organisms
- bioherm — a mound of material laid down by sedentary marine organisms, esp a coral reef
- biomass — the total number of living organisms in a given area, expressed in terms of living or dry weight per unit area
- bionomy — the branch of science concerned with the laws of life
- biprism — a prism having a highly obtuse angle to facilitate beam splitting
- birdman — a man concerned with birds, such as a fowler or ornithologist
- bismuth — a brittle pinkish-white crystalline metallic element having low thermal and electrical conductivity, which expands on cooling. It is widely used in alloys, esp low-melting alloys in fire safety devices; its compounds are used in medicines. Symbol: Bi; atomic no: 83; atomic wt: 208.98037; valency: 3 or 5; relative density: 9.747; melting pt: 271.4°C; boiling pt: 1564±5°C
- bite me — expressing contempt
- bitumed — covered with bitumen
- bitumen — Bitumen is a black sticky substance which is obtained from tar or petrol and is used in making roads.
- blaming — to hold responsible; find fault with; censure: I don't blame you for leaving him.
- blemish — A blemish is a small mark on something that spoils its appearance.
- bliksem — an exclamation expressive of surprise, shock, displeasure, etc
- bogomil — a member of a dualistic sect, flourishing chiefly in Bulgaria in the Middle Ages, that rejected most of the Old Testament and was strongly anticlerical in polity.
- bohemia — a former kingdom of central Europe, surrounded by mountains: independent from the 9th to the 13th century; belonged to the Hapsburgs from 1526 until 1918
- bohrium — a transuranic element artificially produced in minute quantities by bombarding 204Bi atoms with 54Cr nuclei. Symbol: Bh; atomic no: 107
- bombing — a concerted and persistent use of bombs against a target
- bon ami — a good friend.
- bonamia — a parasite (Bonamia ostreae) which causes the disease bonamiasis in oysters
- booming — perceived as too loud
- boomkin — a short boom projecting from the deck of a ship, used to secure the main-brace blocks or to extend the lower edge of the foresail
- bossism — the domination or the system of domination of political organizations by bosses
- brahmin — A Brahmin is a Hindu of the highest social rank.
- brigham — a male given name.
- brimful — Someone who is brimful of an emotion or quality feels or seems full of it. An object or place that is brimful of something is full of it.
- briming — the phosphorescence of seawater
- brimmed — the upper edge of anything hollow; rim; brink: the brim of a cup.
- brimmer — a vessel, such as a glass or bowl, filled to the brim
- britcom — a comedy, especially a television series, made in the United Kingdom.
- bromide — Bromide is a drug which used to be given to people to calm their nerves when they were worried or upset.
- bromine — a pungent dark red volatile liquid element of the halogen series that occurs in natural brine and is used in the production of chemicals, esp ethylene dibromide. Symbol: Br; atomic no: 35; atomic wt: 79.904; valency: 1, 3, 5, or 7; relative density 3.12; density (gas): 7.59 kg/m3; melting pt: –7.2°C; boiling pt: 58.78°C
- bromism — poisoning caused by the excessive intake of bromine or compounds containing bromine
- bromize — to treat with bromine
- bromoil — an offset reproduction produced by the bromoil process.
- brummie — Brummie means belonging to or coming from Birmingham in England.
- brutism — the characteristic actions of a brute
- bruxism — the habit of grinding the teeth, esp unconsciously
- bulimia — Bulimia or bulimia nervosa is an illness in which a person has a very great fear of becoming fat, and so they make themselves vomit after eating.
- bulimic — If someone is bulimic, they are suffering from bulimia.
- bulimus — any of a genus of terrestrial molluscs with elongated spiral shells, commonly found in tropical America
- bumelia — a thorny shrub of the genus Bumelia
- bumming — a person who avoids work and sponges on others; loafer; idler.