9-letter words containing m, b, o
- embryonal — Embryonic.
- embryonic — Of or relating to an embryo.
- embryotic — Embryonic.
- entamoeba — any parasitic amoeba of the genus Entamoeba (or Endamoeba), esp E. histolytica, which lives in the intestines of humans and causes amoebic dysentery
- entombing — Present participle of entomb.
- epilobium — a plant from the genus Epilobium, such as willow-herb
- excambion — an exchange, esp of land
- fibriform — of the form of a fiber or fibers.
- fine-comb — to use a fine-tooth comb on.
- firebombs — Plural form of firebomb.
- flash mob — a group of people mobilized by social media to meet in a public place for the purpose of doing an unusual or entertaining activity of short duration: The flash mob brought wide smiles to the faces of commuters waiting for their train.
- fold limb — either of the sides of a geological fold
- forelimbs — Plural form of forelimb.
- fork bomb — (programming) A particular species of wabbit that can be written in one line of C: main() {for(;;)fork();} or shell: $0 & $0 & on any Unix system, or occasionally created by an egregious coding bug. A fork bomb process "explodes" by recursively spawning copies of itself using the Unix system call "fork(2)". Eventually it eats all the process table entries and effectively wedges the system. Fortunately, fork bombs are relatively easy to spot and kill, so creating one deliberately seldom accomplishes more than to bring the just wrath of the gods down upon the perpetrator. See also logic bomb.
- formboard — a board or slab serving as a form for poured concrete.
- framboise — raspberry.
- gambadoes — Gamashes; spatterdashes.
- gamboling — (US) present participle of gambol.
- gambolled — to skip about, as in dancing or playing; frolic.
- gameboard — A portable surface on which a game is played, and which is marked for play of that game.
- globalism — the attitude or policy of placing the interests of the entire world above those of individual nations.
- goosebump — The bumps on a person's skin, at the base of body hair, which may involuntarily develop when a person is cold or experiences strong emotions.
- hebdomads — Plural form of hebdomad.
- hecatombs — Plural form of hecatomb.
- hemoblast — hematoblast.
- high moby — /hi:' mohb'ee/ The high half of a 512K PDP-10's physical address space; the other half was of course the low moby. This usage has been generalised in a way that has outlasted the PDP-10; for example, at the 1990 Washington D.C. Area Science Fiction Conclave (Disclave), when a miscommunication resulted in two separate wakes being held in commemoration of the shutdown of MIT's last ITS machines, the one on the upper floor was dubbed the "high moby" and the other the "low moby". All parties involved grokked this instantly. See moby.
- hobohemia — A community of hoboes.
- holy lamb — paschal lamb (def 4).
- home base — Baseball. home plate.
- home-brew — beer or other alcoholic beverage made at home.
- homebirth — Childbirth taking place at home, rather than in a hospital.
- homebound — confined to one's home, especially because of illness.
- homebuilt — Constructed at home, rather than being obtained from a manufacturer etc.
- homebuyer — a person who buys or expects to buy a house.
- homophobe — a person who fears or hates homosexuals and homosexuality.
- honeycomb — a structure of rows of hexagonal wax cells, formed by bees in their hive for the storage of honey, pollen, and their eggs.
- hornbeams — Plural form of hornbeam.
- hybridoma — a hybrid cell made in the laboratory by fusing a normal cell with a cancer cell, usually a myeloma or lymphoma, in order to combine desired features of each, as the ability of the cancer cell to multiply rapidly with the ability of the normal cell to dictate the production of a specific antibody.
- hydrobomb — an aerial torpedo equipped with a rocket engine that propels it after the torpedo has entered the water.
- hymn book — Also called hymnbook [him-boo k] /ˈhɪmˌbʊk/ (Show IPA). a book of hymns for use in a religious service.
- hymnbooks — Plural form of hymnbook.
- imbosking — Present participle of imbosk.
- imbroglio — a misunderstanding, disagreement, etc., of a complicated or bitter nature, as between persons or nations.
- immovable — incapable of being moved; fixed; stationary.
- immovably — incapable of being moved; fixed; stationary.
- imposable — to lay on or set as something to be borne, endured, obeyed, fulfilled, paid, etc.: to impose taxes.
- impotable — (rare) Not drinkable.
- improbity — lack of honesty or moral scruples.
- intombing — Present participle of intomb.
- jamborees — Plural form of jamboree.