9-letter words containing m, o, n
- blindworm — a legless lizard (Anguis fragilis) of the Old World; slowworm: it has very small eyes and a snakelike body that is usually brownish
- blue moon — If you say that something happens once in a blue moon, you are emphasizing that it does not happen very often at all.
- bodements — a foreboding or omen; presentiment.
- bodenheim — Maxwell, 1892–1954, U.S. poet and novelist.
- boilerman — a man who looks after boilers
- boltzmann — Ludwig (ˈluːtvɪç). 1844–1906, Austrian physicist. He established the principle of the equipartition of energy and developed the kinetic theory of gases with J. C. Maxwell
- bombardon — a brass instrument of the tuba type, similar to a sousaphone
- bombasine — bombazine.
- bombazeen — a twill fabric constructed of a silk or rayon warp and worsted filling, often dyed black for mourning wear.
- bombazine — a twilled fabric, esp one with a silk warp and worsted weft, formerly worn dyed black for mourning
- bombinate — to make a buzzing noise
- bondwoman — a female serf or slave
- bone meal — Bone meal is a substance made from animal bones which is used as a fertilizer.
- bonhomous — exhibiting bonhomie
- boogerman — South Midland and Southern U.S. bogeyman.
- boogeyman — a frightening imaginary being, often one used as a threat in disciplining children
- boogieman — bogeyman.
- boom town — A boom town is a town which has rapidly become very rich and full of people, usually because industry or business has developed there.
- boomerang — A boomerang is a curved piece of wood which comes back to you if you throw it in the correct way. Boomerangs were first used by the people who were living in Australia when Europeans arrived there.
- boomingly — in a booming manner
- boomslang — a large greenish venomous arboreal colubrid snake, Dispholidus typus, of southern Africa
- borromini — Francesco, original name Francesco Castelli. 1599–1667, Italian baroque architect, working in Rome: his buildings include the churches of San Carlo (1641) and Sant' Ivo (1660)
- bottoming — the lowest level of foundation material for a road or other structure
- botulinum — an anaerobic botulin-secreting bacterium, Clostridium botulinum
- brainworm — a microscopic, parasitic roundworm that infests the brain of large hoofed animals, as deer.
- bremerton — a city in W Washington, on Puget Sound: navy yard.
- brimstone — Brimstone is the same as sulphur.
- brimstony — of, relating to or resembling brimstone; sulphurous
- bromantic — noting or pertaining to a bromance: You might call this movie a bromantic comedy.
- bromelain — an enzyme derived from pineapple, used as an anti-inflammatory agent in homeopathy and as a meat tenderizer in the food industry
- bromeosin — eosin (def 1).
- brominate — to treat or react with bromine
- bronchium — a medium-sized bronchial tube
- broomcorn — a variety of sorghum, Sorghum vulgare technicum, the long stiff flower stalks of which have been used for making brooms
- bump into — If you bump into someone you know, you meet them unexpectedly.
- bushwoman — a woman who lives in the bush
- byrewoman — a woman who works in a byre
- cacodemon — an evil spirit or devil
- cairngorm — a smoky yellow, grey, or brown variety of quartz, used as a gemstone
- calamanco — a glossy woollen fabric woven with a checked design that shows on one side only
- calimanco — calamanco.
- calm down — If you calm down, or if someone calms you down, you become less angry, upset, or excited.
- cambodian — of or relating to Cambodia or its inhabitants
- cameroons — former region in W Africa consisting of two trust territories, French Cameroons (in 1960 forming the republic of Cameroon ) and British Cameroons (in 1961 divided between Cameroon and Nigeria)
- camp oven — a metal pot or box with a heavy lid, used for baking over an open fire
- campagnol — (archaic) A mouse (Arvicala agrestis) that often does great damage in fields and gardens, by feeding on roots and seeds.
- campesino — a Latin American rural peasant
- campodean — a campodeid.
- 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
- cape-nome — a seaport in W Alaska.