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8-letter words containing r, o, m

  • benidorm — a coastal resort town in W Spain, on the Costa Blanca
  • bergamot — a small Asian spiny rutaceous tree, Citrus bergamia, having sour pear-shaped fruit
  • bichrome — having two colours
  • big room — (jargon, humour)   The extremely large room with the blue ceiling and intensely bright light (during the day) or black ceiling with lots of tiny night-lights (during the night) found outside all computer installations. "He can't come to the phone right now, he's somewhere out in the Big Room."
  • big-room — denoting a style of electronic music featuring regular beats and simple melodies, designed to be played in large venues
  • binormal — the normal to a curve, lying perpendicular to the osculating plane at a given point on the curve.
  • biodrama — a drama based on the life of an actual person or persons.
  • biometer — a device for measuring the production of carbon dioxide in functioning tissue
  • biometry — the analysis of biological data using mathematical and statistical methods
  • biomorph — a set of two-dimensional branching biomorphic images that can be used to illustrate evolutionary concepts
  • biramous — divided into two parts, as the appendages of crustaceans
  • bloomers — Bloomers are an old-fashioned kind of women's underwear which consists of wide, loose trousers gathered at the knees.
  • bloomery — a place in which malleable iron is produced directly from iron ore
  • boardman — a member of a board
  • bollworm — any of various moth caterpillars, such as Pectinophora (or Platyedra) gossypiella (pink bollworm), that feed on and destroy cotton bolls
  • bomb run — the part of a bombing mission between the sighting of the target or its identification by electronic instruments and the release of the bombs.
  • bombarde — an alto wind instrument similar to the oboe or medieval shawm, used mainly in Breton traditional music
  • bookmark — A bookmark is a narrow piece of card or leather that you put between the pages of a book so that you can find a particular page easily.
  • bookworm — If you describe someone as a bookworm, you mean they are very fond of reading.
  • boomburb — a large suburb experiencing rapid population growth
  • boresome — boring or uninteresting
  • bornholm — an island in the Baltic Sea, south of Sweden: administratively part of Denmark. Chief town: Rønne. Pop: 43 956 (2003 est). Area: 588 sq km (227 sq miles)
  • bot army — a group of computers, infected with malign programs via the internet, that can be controlled remotely to, for example, mount denial-of-service attacks
  • bothrium — one of two groove-shaped suckers on the scolex of a tapeworm
  • bottomer — a person who makes the seat part of a chair
  • bottomry — a contract whereby the owner of a ship borrows money to enable the vessel to complete the voyage and pledges the ship as security for the loan
  • bovarism — an exaggerated, especially glamorized, estimate of oneself; conceit.
  • box room — a storage room, especially one for trunks, suitcases, etc.
  • boyarism — the rule of the boyars
  • brampton — city in SE Ontario, Canada, near Toronto: pop. 268,000
  • bromance — A bromance is a close but not sexual relationship between two men.
  • bromberg — German name of Bydgoszcz.
  • bromelia — any plant of the family Bromeliaceae of tropical American plants, characterized by a short stem and deeply cleft calyx
  • bromelin — a protein-digesting enzyme (see endopeptidase) found in pineapple and extracted for use in treating joint pain and inflammation, hay fever, and various other conditions
  • bromidic — ordinary; dull
  • brooming — an implement for sweeping, consisting of a brush of straw or stiff strands of synthetic material bound tightly to the end of a long handle.
  • brougham — a four-wheeled horse-drawn closed carriage having a raised open driver's seat in front
  • bunkroom — temporary sleeping quarters, especially for travelers.
  • byronism — of or relating to Lord Byron.
  • cameroon — a republic in West Africa, on the Gulf of Guinea: became a German colony in 1884; divided in 1919 into the Cameroons (administered by Britain) and Cameroun (administered by France); Cameroun and the S part of the Cameroons formed a republic in 1961 (the N part joined Nigeria); became a member of the Commonwealth in 1995. Official languages: French and English. Religions: Christian, Muslim, and animist. Currency: franc. Capital: Yaoundé. Pop: 20 549 221 (2013 est). Area: 475 500 sq km (183 591 sq miles)
  • cameroun — Cameroon
  • camporee — a local meeting or assembly of Scouts
  • camwhore — a person who performs sexual or titillating acts in front of a webcam for the gratification of online customers who reward him or her with money or gifts
  • car bomb — A car bomb is a bomb which is inside a car, van, or truck.
  • car-bomb — a bomb placed in a vehicle and wired to explode when the ignition is started, by remote control, or by a timing device.
  • cardamom — Cardamom is a spice. It comes from the seeds of a plant grown in Asia.
  • cardamon — the aromatic seed capsules of a tropical Asian plant, Elettaria cardamomum, of the ginger family, used as a spice or condiment and in medicine.
  • cardroom — a room for carding wool.
  • caroming — Billiards, Pool. a shot in which the cue ball hits two balls in succession.
  • caschrom — a wooden hand-plough used to till the ground in the northwest of Scotland
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