12-letter words containing om
- beach-comber — a person who lives by gathering salable articles of jetsam, refuse, etc., from beaches.
- beachcombers — Plural form of beachcomber.
- beachcombing — The action of a beachcomber.
- beam compass — an instrument for drawing large circles or arcs, consisting of a horizontal beam along which two vertical legs slide
- becomingness — The state or quality of becoming.
- bedroom eyes — sexy eyes
- beehive tomb — a type of subterranean tomb of the Mycenaean civilization consisting of a domed chamber entered by a passage through a hillside.
- bell bottoms — Also, bell-bottomed. (of trousers) wide and flaring at the bottoms of the legs.
- bell-bottoms — Bell-bottoms are trousers that are very wide at the bottom of the leg, near your feet.
- besom pocket — an interior pocket with edging or stitching around the opening.
- bibliomaniac — excessive fondness for acquiring and possessing books.
- bioastronomy — the branch of biology which deals with the study or the discovery of life forms on other planets or in space
- biocomputing — the application of computing to problems in biology, biochemistry, and genetics
- biomagnetics — the study of magnetic fields as a form of therapy
- biomagnetism — animal magnetism.
- biomechanics — the study of the mechanics of the movement of living organisms
- biometrician — a person who is knowledgeable about biometry
- biomolecular — relating to a biomolecule
- black bottom — a dance of the late 1920s that originated in America, involving a sinuous rotation of the hips
- black comedy — a comedy dealing with an unpleasant situation in a pessimistic or macabre manner
- blastomycete — any of a genus (Blastomyces) of yeastlike imperfect fungi that cause diseases in people and animals
- blooming oil — an oil used as a lubricant in fine sandpapering.
- bloomingdale — a town in NE Illinois.
- blossom into — the flower of a plant, especially of one producing an edible fruit.
- bomb factory — a site or building in which terrorists illicitly and secretly create bombs
- bomb shelter — a shelter, usually underground, in which people take refuge from bomb attacks
- bombacaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Bombacaceae, a family of tropical trees, including the kapok tree and baobab, that have very thick stems, often with water-storing tissue
- bombay hills — a row of hills marking the southern boundary of greater Auckland on the North Island, New Zealand
- bombe glacée — a dessert of ice cream lined or filled with custard, cake crumbs, etc
- bomber pilot — the pilot of a bomber
- boom-or-bust — boom-and-bust.
- boomer state — Oklahoma
- boomeranging — a bent or curved piece of tough wood used by the Australian Aborigines as a throwing club, one form of which can be thrown so as to return to the thrower.
- bosom friend — an intimate friend
- bottom break — a branch coming from the bottom of a plant stem, usually formed by pinching and disbudding.
- bottom grass — any grass that grows on bottoms or lowlands.
- bottom house — the open space beneath a house built upon high pillars
- bottom quark — a type of quark with a mass of c. 4.7 to 5.3 GeV/c2, a negative charge that is 1⁄3 the charge of an electron, zero charm, and zero strangeness
- bottom round — a cut of beef taken from outside the round, which is below the rump and above the upper leg.
- bottom yeast — a yeast whose cells, in the manufacture of wine and lager beer, fall to the bottom as a sediment.
- bottom-liner — a person, as an executive, accountant, or stockholder, who puts the net profits of a business ahead of all other considerations.
- bottomfeeder — (networking) An RSS aggregator.
- bottomlessly — from a bottomless point of view
- boyoma falls — a series of seven cataracts in the NE Democratic Republic of Congo, on the upper River Congo: forms an unnavigable stretch of 90 km (56 miles), which falls 60 m (200 ft)
- bromhidrosis — the secretion of foul-smelling sweat.
- bromoacetone — a colorless and highly toxic liquid, CH 2 BrCOCH 3 , used as a lachrymatory compound in tear gas and chemical warfare gas.
- bromomethane — methyl bromide.
- camomile tea — a medicinal beverage made from the fragrant leaves and flowers of any of these plants
- canoe slalom — a competitive event in which a canoeist maneuvers through a slalom course, usually in white water.
- cape comorin — a headland at the southernmost point of India, in Tamil Nadu state