9-letter words containing m, o, b
- bumptious — If you say that someone is bumptious, you are criticizing them because they are very pleased with themselves and their opinions.
- bursiform — shaped like a pouch or sac
- bushwoman — a woman who lives in the bush
- buzz bomb — a robot bomb, esp. as used against England by Germany in WWII
- byrewoman — a woman who works in a byre
- calembour — a pun
- cambiform — resembling a cambium
- cambodian — of or relating to Cambodia or its inhabitants
- candomble — any of a number of similar religious cults in Brazil that combine elements of Roman Catholicism with elements of West African, esp Yoruba, and South American Indian religions
- carambola — a tree, Averrhoa carambola, probably native to Brazil but cultivated in the tropics, esp SE Asia, for its edible fruit
- carambole — to make a carom
- carbamino — relating to the compound produced when carbon dioxide reacts with an amino group
- carbonium — a transient, positively charged organic ion, as H3C+, R3+, that has one less electron than the corresponding free radical
- catacombs — an underground burial place, esp the galleries at Rome, consisting of tunnels with vaults or niches leading off them for tombs
- chemisorb — to take up (a substance) by chemisorption
- choriambs — Plural form of choriamb.
- cimbaloms — Plural form of cimbalom.
- climbdown — A retreat or withdrawal from an earlier position or opinion; a backdown.
- club moss — any mosslike tracheophyte plant of the phylum Lycopodophyta, having erect or creeping stems covered with tiny overlapping leaves
- clubrooms — Plural form of clubroom.
- clubwoman — a woman who is an enthusiastic member of a club or clubs
- clubwomen — Plural form of clubwoman.
- co-member — a fellow member of a particular group or organization
- cob money — crude silver coins issued in the Spanish colonies of the New World from about 1600 until 1820
- cobalamin — vitamin B12
- cobriform — cobra-like
- cockscomb — the comb of a domestic cock
- coenobium — a monastery or convent
- colobomas — Plural form of coloboma.
- colombard — a white grape grown in France, California, and Australia, used for making wine
- colombian — Colombian means belonging or relating to Colombia or its people or culture.
- columbary — a dovecote
- columbate — any salt of columbic acid
- columbian — of or relating to the United States
- columbine — any plant of the ranunculaceous genus Aquilegia, having purple, blue, yellow, or red flowers with five spurred petals
- columbite — a black mineral consisting of a niobium oxide of iron and manganese in orthorhombic crystalline form: occurs in coarse granite, often with tantalite, and is an ore of niobium. Formula: (Fe, Mn)(Nb)2O6
- columbium — niobium
- columbous — niobous.
- comb back — a Windsor chair back in which the vertical spindles are surmounted by a broad, carved crest rail resembling a comb.
- comb-over — a hairstyle in which long strands of hair from the side of the head are swept over the scalp to cover a bald patch
- combatant — A combatant is a person, group, or country that takes part in the fighting in a war.
- combaters — Plural form of combater.
- combating — to fight or contend against; oppose vigorously: to combat crime.
- combative — A person who is combative is aggressive and eager to fight or argue.
- combatted — to fight or contend against; oppose vigorously: to combat crime.
- combinate — combined
- combining — the process or an act of combining two or more things
- comboloio — A Muslim rosary consisting of ninety-nine beads.
- combovers — Plural form of combover.
- combretum — any tree or shrub belonging to the genus Combretum, native mainly to tropical and subtropical Africa and producing attractive flowers