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9-letter words containing o, m, l

  • bloomless — without flowers or blossom
  • bloomsday — an annual celebration in Dublin on 16 June of the life of James Joyce and, in particular, his novel Ulysses, which is entirely set in Dublin on 16 June 1904
  • blossomed — the flower of a plant, especially of one producing an edible fruit.
  • blow mold — a hinged mold for shaping molten glass during blowing.
  • blow-comb — a small, usually handheld electrical appliance combining a comb and blow-dryer, permitting one to style the hair while drying it.
  • blue comb — a disease of birds resembling Bright's disease in humans affecting especially domestic fowl, characterized by fever, sunken eyes, and shriveling of the skin of the wattles, shanks, and comb.
  • blue mold — any of various species of a fungus (genus Penicillium) that produce bluish masses of spores: some species yield penicillin and some are used to ripen certain cheeses
  • 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.
  • bluemouth — a deep water fish, Helicolenus dactylopterus
  • body slam — a wrestling throw in which an opponent is lifted and hurled to the mat, landing on his or her back.
  • body-slam — to lift and throw (someone) to the ground, as in wrestling
  • boilerman — a man who looks after boilers
  • bolometer — a sensitive instrument for measuring radiant energy by the increase in the resistance of an electrical conductor
  • 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
  • bomb belt — a belt carrying explosives which is worn around the waist by a suicide bomber
  • bombilate — to make a buzzing noise
  • bombshell — A bombshell is a sudden piece of bad or unexpected news.
  • bone meal — Bone meal is a substance made from animal bones which is used as a fertilizer.
  • boomingly — in a booming manner
  • boomslang — a large greenish venomous arboreal colubrid snake, Dispholidus typus, of southern Africa
  • botulinum — an anaerobic botulin-secreting bacterium, Clostridium botulinum
  • bowl game — bowl1 (def 8).
  • broadloom — of or designating carpets or carpeting woven on a wide loom to obviate the need for seams
  • bromelain — an enzyme derived from pineapple, used as an anti-inflammatory agent in homeopathy and as a meat tenderizer in the food industry
  • bromeliad — any plant of the tropical American family Bromeliaceae, typically epiphytes with a rosette of fleshy leaves. The family includes the pineapple and Spanish moss
  • bromfieldLouis, 1896–1956, U.S. novelist.
  • brooklime — either of two blue-flowered scrophulariaceous trailing plants, Veronica americana of North America or V. beccabunga of Europe and Asia, growing in moist places
  • broomball — a sport similar to ice hockey, played without skates and with a specially designed broom
  • bumbledom — self-importance in a minor office
  • bumpology — phrenology
  • cacomixle — Alternative spelling of cacomixl.
  • calamanco — a glossy woollen fabric woven with a checked design that shows on one side only
  • calciform — Having the form of calx, chalk or lime.
  • calembour — a pun
  • calimanco — calamanco.
  • calimocho — a cocktail popular in Spanish-speaking countries, consisting of a mixture of cola and red wine
  • calm down — If you calm down, or if someone calms you down, you become less angry, upset, or excited.
  • camarillo — a city in SW California.
  • camel toe — the visual effect created when a woman's trousers cling too tightly to the crotch, emphasizing the shape of the pudenda
  • camel-toe — the outline of a vulva as sometimes seen when a woman is wearing tight pants.
  • camisoles — Plural form of camisole.
  • camouflet — a type of bomb that is used during a siege to collapse an enemy's tunnel
  • campagnol — (archaic) A mouse (Arvicala agrestis) that often does great damage in fields and gardens, by feeding on roots and seeds.
  • campstool — a lightweight folding stool
  • 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
  • cauliform — resembling or similar to a caulis
  • celiotomy — laparotomy (def 2).
  • chameleon — A chameleon is a kind of lizard whose skin changes colour to match the colour of its surroundings.
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