8-letter words containing o, m, b, e
- entombed — Simple past tense and past participle of entomb.
- firebomb — an explosive device with incendiary effects.
- foamable — Capable of being converted into foam.
- foreboom — the boom of a foremast
- forelimb — a front limb of an animal.
- formable — external appearance of a clearly defined area, as distinguished from color or material; configuration: a triangular form.
- gambeson — a quilted garment worn under mail.
- gamboled — to skip about, as in dancing or playing; frolic.
- game boy — a handheld games console, made by the company Nintendo, which was popular in the 1990s
- gemsboks — Plural form of gemsbok.
- hebdomad — the number seven.
- hecatomb — (in ancient Greece and Rome) a public sacrifice of 100 oxen to the gods.
- home box — (jargon, computer) A hacker's personal machine, especially one he or she owns. "Yeah? Well, *my* home box runs a full 4.2BSD, so there!"
- home boy — a person from the same locality as oneself.
- homebird — a person who is reluctant to leave their hometown or their childhood home, or who returns after a period of living away
- homebody — a person who prefers pleasures and activities that center around the home; stay-at-home.
- homeborn — That which is born in a given place, native, indigenous.
- homeboys — Plural form of homeboy.
- homebred — bred or raised at home; native; indigenous; domestic.
- homebrew — beer or other alcoholic beverage made at home.
- homeobox — Any of a class of closely similar sequences that occur in various genes and are involved in regulating embryonic development in a wide range of species.
- hornbeam — any North American shrub or tree belonging to the genus Carpinus, of the birch family, yielding a hard, heavy wood, as C. caroliniana (American hornbeam)
- imbodies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of imbody.
- imbolden — embolden.
- imbosked — Simple past tense and past participle of imbosk.
- imbossed — Simple past tense and past participle of imboss.
- imbowers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of imbower.
- immobile — incapable of moving or being moved.
- incomber — Archaic form of encumber.
- intombed — Simple past tense and past participle of intomb.
- jamboree — a carousal; any noisy merrymaking.
- jeroboam — the first king of the Biblical kingdom of the Hebrews in N Palestine.
- jumboize — (nautical) To lengthen a ship replacing an existing section with a longer section or inserting an additional section.
- keurboom — (South Africa) A species of tree, Virgilia oroboides, noted for it's pretty lilac flowers.
- low beam — an automobile headlight beam providing short-range illumination of a road and intended chiefly for use in driving on the streets of cities, towns, etc.
- mableton — a town in NW Georgia.
- mancozeb — A grayish-yellow pesticide.
- megabook — An extremely large book.
- metablog — (neologism, Internet) a blog about blogs.
- metabola — (in the plural, entomology) Insects that metamorphose.
- metabole — Alternative spelling of metabola.
- metaboly — the ability of some cells, esp protozoans, to alter their shape
- microbes — Plural form of microbe.
- misbegot — Misbegotten; unlawfully or irregularly begotten; of bad origin.
- mob rule — the fact or state of large groups of people acting without the consent of the government, authorities, etc
- mobilise — to assemble or marshal (armed forces, military reserves, or civilian persons of military age) into readiness for active service.
- mobilize — to assemble or marshal (armed forces, military reserves, or civilian persons of military age) into readiness for active service.
- mobisode — a typically brief episode of a television show that is available online and formatted for viewing on a mobile phone or smartphone
- mobsters — Plural form of mobster.
- mockable — to attack or treat with ridicule, contempt, or derision.