Mob

Definition: Mob

Mob

Adjective

1. Characteristic of a mob; disorderly or lawless; "mob rule"; "fanned mounting tension into mobbish terrorizing"; "moblike mentality".

Noun

1. A disorderly crowd of people.

2. A loose affiliation of gangsters in charge of organized criminal activities.

3. An association of criminals; "police tried to break up the gang"; "a pack of thieves".

Verb

1. Press tightly together or cram; "The crowd packed the auditorium".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "mob" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1613. (references)

Census

Literature

Multilingual Slang

Slang

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

MOB

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Mob

Assemblage

Crowd, throng, group; flood, rush, deluge; rabble, mob, press, crush, cohue, horde, body, tribe; crew, gang, knot, squad, band, party; swarm, shoal, school, covey, flock, herd, drove; atajo; bunch, drive, force, mulada; remuda; roundup; array, bevy, galaxy; corps, company, troop, troupe, task force; army, regiment; (combatants); host;crowd, throng, group; flood, rush, deluge; rabble, mob, press, crush, cohue, horde, body, tribe; crew, gang, knot, squad, band, party; swarm, shoal, school, covey, flock, herd, drove; atajo; bunch, drive, force, mulada; remuda; roundup; array, bevy, galaxy; corps, company, troop, troupe, task force; army, regiment; (combatants); host; (multitude); populousness.

Commonalty

Noun: commonalty, democracy; obscurity; low condition, low life, low society, low company; bourgeoisie; mass of the people, mass of society; Brown Jones and Robinson; lower classes, humbler classes, humbler orders; vulgar herd, common herd; rank and file, hoc genus omne; the many, the general,the crowd, the people, the populace, the million, the masses, the mobility, the peasantry; king Mob; proletariat; fruges consumere nati, demos, hoi polloi, great unwashed; man in the street.

Mob; rabble, rabble rout; chaff, rout, horde, canaille; scum of the people, residuum of the people, dregs of the people, dregs of society; foex populi; trash; profanum vulgus, ignobile vulgus; vermin, riffraff, ragtag and bobtail; small fry.

Compulsion

Force; brute force, main force, physical force; the sword, ultima ratio; club law, lynch law, mob law, arguementum baculinum, le droit du plus fort, martial law.

Disapprobation

Decry; cry down, run down, frown down; clamor, hiss, hoot, mob, ostracize, blacklist; draw up a round robin, sign a round robin.

Disrespect

Have in derision; hold in derision; deride, scoff, barrack, sneer, laugh at, ridicule, gibe, mock, jeer, hiss, hoot, taunt, twit, niggle, gleek, gird, flout, fleer; roast, turn into ridicule; burlesque; laugh to scorn; (contempt); smoke; fool; make game of, make a fool of, make an April fool of; play a practical joke; lead one a dance, run the rig upon, have a fling at, scout; mob.

Government

Monarchy; kinghood, kingship; royalty, regality; aristarchy, aristocracy; oligarchy, democracy, theocracy, demagogy; commonwealth; dominion; heteronomy; republic, republicanism; socialism; collectivism; mob law, mobocracy, ochlocracy; vox populi, imperium in imperio; bureaucracy; beadledom, bumbledom; stratocracy; military power, military government, junta; feodality, feudal system, feudalism.

Illegality

Mob law, lynch law, club law, Lydford law, martial law, drumhead law; coup d'etat; le droit du plus fort; argumentum

Thief

Gang, gang of thieves, theft ring; organized crime, mafia, the Sicilian Mafia, the mob, la cosa nostra.

Cut purse, pick purse; pickpocket, light-fingered gentry; sharper; card sharper, skittle sharper; thimblerigger; rook, Greek, blackleg, leg, welsher; defaulter; Autolycus, Jeremy Diddler, Robert Macaire, artful dodger, trickster; swell mob, chevalier d'industrie; shoplifter.

Crosswords: Mob

German (mob).

Can you get a mob together (The Sting; writing credit: David S. Ward)

Reacting swiftly, Mayor Quimby declared Mob Rule (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

Well you didn't. There's only one way to lick a mob, sister, join them (The Miracle Woman; writing credit: Dorothy Howell; John Meehan)

This band of miscreants, this very evening, interfered with a lynch mob in the performance of its duty (O Brother, Where Art Thou?; writing credit: Ethan Coen)

There are a dozen good brood mares in that mob. I'll be back for them and for whatever else is mine (The Man from Snowy River; writing credit: Fred Cullen; John Dixon)

Mob Job (1974)

The Mob Job (1973)

She Mob (1968)

The Mini-Skirt Mob (1968)

Mission Impossible Versus the Mob (1968)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Deadly Alliance: The FBI's Secret Partnership With the Mob (reference)

• Mob Star: The Story of John Gotti (reference)

• Son of the Mob (reference)

• The Family: A Philadelphia Mob Story (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Mafia-History of the Mob in Am (reference)

• Witness to the Mob (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Mob Hits: Music From And A Tribute To The Great Mob Movies (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Mob Rule (Jewel Case) (reference)

• Mob Rule: A Lethal Game of Monopoly (reference)

• Mob Rule: Platinum Edition (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Paint! paint! great God! how can a man paint with a mob like you standing watching him!. Credit: Library of Congress.

After the mob had passed. Credit: Library of Congress.

Seven American officials of the Cananea Copper Company carrying guns on their way to a lumber yard, where George and William Metcalf, Americans, were killed by angry mob during miners' strike, Cananea, Mexico. Credit: Library of Congress.

Billy Middlebrooks tries to dissuade a mob which attempt to haul a Negro motorist from his car, as the latter passed through Clinton, Aug. 31. Credit: Library of Congress.

African American man, rising, after being knocked to the ground by mob at Central High School, Little Rock, Arkansas. Credit: Library of Congress.

James Gallon of Greensboro, Florida, and his son James, Jr., a Navy veteran, telling Earle W. Fisher, Research Assistant, in the Washington Bureau, NAACP, how they barely escaped with their lives after a severe beating with ax handles by a Florida mob, wh. Credit: Library of Congress.

The mob cap. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

The revolutionary purification is such that on a day of deliverance, a 14th of July, or a 10th of August, there is no longer a mob.

There is no stopping to read the riot act, no firing over the heads of the mob, in this case

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Civil Liberties

Pakistan

The mob destroyed the clinic and looted and burned Nawaz's home. (references)

Haiti

Accusations of sorcery, particularly in rural areas, have resulted in mob violence and killings. (references)

Macedonia

The angry mob attacked Skopje stores, burned 10 OSCE and U.N. vehicles, and attacked three foreign embassies. (references)

Economic History

South Africa

Partly as a result, vigilante action and mob justice sometimes occur. (references)

Pakistan

In November 1979, false rumors that the United States had participated in the seizure of the Grand Mosque in Mecca provoked a mob attack on the U.S. embassy in Islamabad. (references)

Libya

Export controls on military equipment and civil aircraft were imposed during the 1970s, and U.S. embassy staff members were withdrawn from Tripoli after a mob attacked and set fire to the embassy in December 1979. The U.S. Government declared Libya a "state sponsor of terrorism" on December 29, 1979. (references)

Human Rights

Ghana

A mob quickly gathered and lynched the policeman. (references)

Uganda

Most mob attacks targeted criminals or alleged witches. (references)

Haiti

At least 18 persons were killed by the ensuing mob violence. (references)

Minorities

East Timor

For example, in March a mob burned the mosque in Baucau. (references)

Togo

The mob reportedly also attacked several Ibo businesses and homes. (references)

Romania

Minority religious groups allege that the Orthodox clergy have provoked isolated mob incidents. (references)

Political Economy

Tanzania

Mob justice remained severe and widespread. (references)

Guatemala

Lynchings and mob violence continued at a slightly higher rate than in 2000. (references)

Congo

There also were many deaths due to interethnic mob violence in areas held by rebel forces. (references)

Women

Indonesia

Mob violence against accused rapists frequently is reported. (references)

Worker Rights

Indonesia

The police managed to stop the mob before they reached the conference room. (references)

Indonesia

On June 13, a mob of about 150 persons connected to the Golkar Party disrupted a ACILS workshop on grievance-handling in Samarinda, East Kalimantan. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "mob": a lawless mob ♦ lynch mob ♦ mob cap ♦ mob law ♦ mob oratory ♦ mob rule ♦ mob violence ♦ swell mob ♦ the mob. Additional references.

Beginning with "mob": mob-cap, mob-capped, mob-caps, mob-handed, mob-noise, mob-raped, mob-situation.

Ending with "mob": de-mob, rent-a-mob.

Albanian

mblidhem (assemble, bank, build up, collect, contract, convene, cringe, crowd, crowd together, curl, draw, duck, forgather, huddle, mass, meet, pile up, reunite, roll by, roll up, shrink), turmë (bevy, concourse, confluence, crew, crowd, drove, flock, herd, horde, huddle, jam, press, rabble, rat race, rout, ruck, throng), turma (multitude, rabble), populli i thjeshtë, grumbullohem (aggregate, amalgamate, be amassed, be gathered, be mustered, build up, crowd, crowd round, crowd together, overcrowd, pile up, throng, unite), grumbull (abatis, aggregation, amassment, bank, batch, bevy, bunch, clamp, clump, cluster, collection, congeries, crowd, group, heap, jumble, mass, mountain, pile, pile up, stack, stamp mill), bandë keqbërësish. (various references)

Arabic 

‏غوغاء, ‏حشد (assemblage, assemble, boodle, cloud, college, concentrate, concourse, confluence, crew, crowd, gather, gathering, horde, host, huddle, legion, loads of, lots of, mobilize, multitude, oodles, pack, pile up, press, rabble, recall, regiment, throng), ‏تجمهر (assemble, congregate, crowding, grouping, mill, swarm, throng), ‏جماهير (masses, multitude, populace), ‏الغوغاء, ‏الرعاع (cattle, populace, ragtag and bobtail, riffraff). (various references)

Bulgarian 

стадо (bunch, flock, herd, horde, pack, pride, troop), сган (canaille, riffraff, vermin), сбирщина (congeries, olio, omnium gatherum, ragbag, rout), тълпя се (collect, crowd, crowd together, flock, herd, horde together, swarm, throng, troop, whirl), тълпа (cloud, concourse, cram, crowd, crush, drove, herd, host, huddle, multitude, press, rabble, resort, rout, ruck, shoal, squash, throng, train, troop), трупам се (conglomerate, crowd round, flock, flood, mass, throng, troop), шайка (crew, gang, horde, tribe), обграждам и акламирам, нахвърлям се върху (make for, oppugn, pelt, round on, sail into, set at, sweep, tuck into, turn on, turn upon), нападам (assault, attack, do over, engage, fall on, fall upon, infest, insult, lunge, oppugn, pitch into, rabble, sail into, set about, set on, set upon, shape up, strike, strongarm, turn on, turn upon, walk into, zap), на тълпата, банда (band, bandwagon, crew, gang, pack, push, ring, set), простолюдие (rabble, ruck), паплач (rabble, riffraff, vermin). (various references)

Chinese 

烏合之眾 , 暴民. (various references)

Czech

zástup (crowd, file, multitude, throng), srocovat se, lùza (rabble, riffraff, tag-rag), hromadnì napadnout, dotírat (pester, tilt), dav (concourse, crowd, horde, populace, rabble, swarm, throng), chátra (rabble, riffraff). (various references)

Danish

forstaerket vindue (PSA MOB window). (various references)

Dutch

ramen volgens de PSA method of building (PSA MOB window). (various references)

Farsi 

غوغا (Affray, Clamor, Din, Fray, Hubbub, Jangle, Melee, Pandemonium, Peal, Rave, Riot, Rumpus, Scrimmage, Scuffle, Tumult, Turmoil, Uproar), جمعیت (Army, Bike, Company, Crowd, Flock, Gang, Group, Habitancy, Heap, Herd, Party, People, Population, Press, Society, Throng), انبوه مردم (Crowd), ازدحام کردن (Crowd, Flock, Huddle, Overcrowd, Press, Scrouge, Swarm, Throng). (various references)

Finnish

roskaväki (rabble, riff-raff). (various references)

French

masse, se masser, populace, foule, cohue, bande, assaillir. (various references)

German

Pöbel (hoi polloi, populace, rabble, riffraff), Meute (pack, pack of hounds). (various references)

Greek 

όχλοσ (canaille, commonalty, crowd, hoi polloi, rabble, riffraff), όχλος, σπείρα (annulus, coil, gang, spiral, volute, whorl), συρφετόσ (raff, riffraff), συνωστίζομαι (be crushed, be jammed, be pressed, crowd, huddle, jam, scrimmage, swarm), συμμορία (gang, ring), μαφία (mafia), προσβάλλω (affect, afflict, affront, assail, assault, attack, blackguard, encroach, insult, offend, outrage, shock, slight), ομαδικόσ (collective, common, team). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"תק�"ל (congregate, crowd, gather, mass, swarm, throng, troop), ערב רב (horde, rabble, riffraff), עם (community, crowd, folk, nation, people, populace), אספסוף (hoi polloi, rabble, ragtag, riffraff, trash), �"מון (a great deal, a great many, a world of, crowd, herd, hoi polloi, legion, loads of, many, mass, multitude, oodle, plenty, swarm, throng). (various references)

Hungarian

tömeg (accumulation, body, bulk, cloud, clump, concourse, concrete, confluence, conglomerate, crowd, crush, drove, gross, heap, hoi polloi, host, mass, multiplicity, multitude, pack, pile, quantity, quantum, regiment, shoal, swarm, throng), népség, csõcselék (canaille, hoi polloi, populace, rabble, raff, ragtag, riff raff, varmint). (various references)

Indonesian

mengganggu (annoyance, annoying, chicane, disturb, harry, irritate, molest, offend, vex, vexatious), mengejar (give chase to, overtake, pursue), rakyat jelata (rabble), kerumunan (throng). (various references)

Italian

massa (body, bulk, crowd, earth, ground, heap, lump, mass, multitude, pack, paste, welter), marmaglia (canaille, cattle, rabble, riffraff), teppa (hooligans), popolo (commonalty, Commons, crowd, folk, nation, people, populace), plebe (plebs), plebaglia (rabble), gentaglia (rabble, ragtag, riffraff), folla (accumulation, crowd, crush, drove, heap, host, huddle, mass, multitude, pile, rabble, throng), calca (congestion, crowd, crush, huddle, jam, rabble, squash, squeeze, throng), assalire (assail, assault, attack, beset, raid, rankle, set about, set upon, storm, violate). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

烏合の衆 (disorderly crowd), 群集　 (crowd, multitude, social group, throng), 群集 (crowd, group, multitude, throng), 群衆 (crowd, group, multitude, throng), モザイク卵 (greenish gray, mock-up, modem, modern, modern art, modern ballet, modern craft, modern dance, modern jazz, modern life, modern living, modernism, modernist, modernity, modernize, modernology, modification, modified American plan, modify, modiste, modular, modularization, modulation, module, modulo, mop, mosaic egg, Moscow, mosque, mosquito-weight, moss green, motel, motif, motivation, motivation research, motto, Mozambique, sexy), 有象無象 (rabble, riffraff, the masses). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

モッブ , ぐ�"しゅう (crowd, group, multitude, throng), うぞうむぞう (rabble, riffraff, the masses), う�"うのしゅう (disorderly crowd). (various references)

Korean 

군중 (Crowd, Multitude). (various references)

Manx

riftanyn (rabble, riff-raff), mob beg (canaille), chionnal (assembly, congregation, crowd, jam, multitude, turn out, turn out of people). (various references)

Pig Latin

obmay.(various references)

Portuguese

maltratar (abuse, bully, fib, ill-treat, ill-use, maltreat, manhandle, maul, mishandle, mistreat, misuse), máfia (mafia), tratar mal, rodear (begird, cant, circle, circumvent, detour, embay, embosom, encircle, enclose, environ, girdle, go around, inclose, lock in, outflank, outfox, rim, ring, ring up, shut in, surround, wreathe), reunir-se em grupo, ralé (dregs, lees, ragtag, riffraff), populacho, plebe (commonalty, hoi polloi, people, plebs, rabble), gentalha (offscourings, people, populace, rabble, ragtag), canalha (blackguard, canaille, heavy, mean-spirited, miscreant, rabble, riffraff, rogue, rotter, scam artist, scoundrel, villain), atacar (assail, assault, attack, bayonet, charge, come upon, emote, hammer, invade, lunge, mug, oppugn, prey, rocket, run at, strike, strike out). (various references)

Romanian

mulţime (accumulation, army, array, body, boodle, cloud, cluster, concourse, crowd, dozen, drove, fifty, flock, forest, generality, heap, herd, hive, host, huddle, lashing, manifold, mass, multitude, muster, number, Peck, pile, plenty, populace, press, quantity, rabble, ream, shoal, sight, squash, stack, swarm, throng), se strânge (bank up, close, collect, convolve, cuddle, curl up, draw, flock, furl, herd, jam, join, mass, nuzzle, pack, pile up, snuggle, squash, squeeze, straiten), se aduna (collect, concentrate, congregate, flock, forgather, gather, join, mass, meet, rally, troop together), se îmbulzi (beat a path, crowd, overcrowd, pack, press, throng), gloatã (band, boodle, crowd, drove, flock, heap, herd, multitude, populace, press, rabble, riff raff, squash, the many, troop), bandã în jurul, adunãturã (amalgam, congeries, crowd, gathering, group, hash, heap, hodge-podge, hotchpotch, mishmash, swarm, troop). (various references)

Russian 

сборище (coven), чернь (canaille, the vulgar herd), толпа (bike, boodle, crowd, drove, posse, rabble, swarm, throng, troop), толпиться (crowd, herd, overcrowd, squash, throng), шайка (banditti, gang), набиваться в/ банда, мафия (mafia). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

rulja (doggery, drove, herd, populace, rabble), okupiti se (crowd round, get together), nasrnuti (attack, fall on, set on, swoop, turn on), jato (bevy, cluster, flock, herd, swarm), gomila (accumulation, agglomerate, aggregate, batch, concourse, congeries, crowd, flock, heap, huddle, pile, pileup, plump, stack, swarm, throng), banda (gang). (various references)

Spanish

multitud (army, crowd, drove, herd, horde, host, multitude, shoal, swarm, throng), muchedumbre (crowd, horde, host, mass, press, swarm, throng), turba (peat, turf), peña (boulder, clique, rock, social), pandilla (band, clique, coterie, crew, gang, ring, set, team), grupo (are, band, bank, batch, bevy, block, bracket, bunch, camp, clump, cluster, collection, coterie, Covey, crowd, delegacy, delegation, gang, group, heap, herd, huddle, knot, lot, outfit, pack, panel, parcel, party, posse, pride, raft, range, set, square decametre, team, tie, troop, troupe, unit), gentío (crowd, throng), chusma (rabble, rag-tag, riff raff, vermin), canalla (blackguard, cad, cur, heel, hound, outsider, rabble, rat, riff raff, scab, scalawag, scallawag, scallywag, scapegrace, scoundrel, skunk, stinker, swine, you cad), atropellar (be run down, collide, knock down, knock over, outrage, push around, run, run down, run over, walk over), atacar en masa, acosar (annoy, beset, besiege, bombard, chase, chevy, chivvy, harass, Harry, hound, hunt, persecute, pester, press, rush). (various references)

Swedish

slödder (riffraff, trash), pack (rabble, riffraff, trash, vermin), pöbel (populace, rabble), mobb. (various references)

Thai

แก๊งมาเฟีย, ก่อการจลาจล (riot), รุมล้อม (besiege). (various references)

Turkish

topluca saldırmak, toplanmak (accumulate, agglomerate, assemble, band together, build, bunch, club, club together, cluster, collect, combine, congregate, convene, crowd, drift, flock, forgather, gather, get together, group, herd, horde, keep together, meet, meet in council, muster, rally, reunite, roll up, shoal, sit, sit on, swarm, swarm to a place, throng, troop, troop together, troop up, turn out), kalabalık (army, assemblage, cohort, concourse, congested, congestion, cram, crop, crowd, crowded, crush, drove, flock, gaggle, gathering, hive, horde, host, huddle, legion, multitude, multitudinous, populous, press, regiment, rush hour, shoal, spate, squash, throng, thronged, wilderness), izdiham (concourse, confluence, conflux, congestion, cram, crowd, jam, multitude, press, squeeze, stampede, throng), halk tabakası (Commons), ayak takımı (demos, flotsam, flotsam and jetsam, lowlife, populace, the great unwashed), çete (band, bunch, gang, push, ring). (various references)

Turkmen 

ьяюmeleс (crowd, throng). (various references)

Ukrainian

чернь (patina), товпитися (besiege, cluster, crowd, jostle, overcrowd, pile), оточувати (bank, beleaguer, beset, besiege, box, circle, compass, cordon, embosom, embrace, encircle, enclose, encompass, enlace, environ, gird, girdle, girth, hang about, hem about, hem in, inclose, palisade, ring, skirt, surround, zone), натовп (bike, confluence, conflux, crowd, drove, flock, huddle, multitude, press, rabble, throng). (various references)

Vietnamese 

thường dân đám đông hỗn tạp bọn du thủ du thực, quần chúng (demos, many, populace), đám đông dân chúng. (various references)

Welsh

gwerinos (rabble), ciwed (crew, rabble). (various references)

circumsedebant, mobile vulgus, multitudine, multitudinem, multitudines, multitudini, multitudinis, multitudo, occursantibus, turba, turbae, turbam, turbarum, turbas, turbis, vulgi, vulgo, vulgum, vulgus. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "mob": mobbed, mobber, mobbers, mobbing, mobbish, mobcap, mobcaps, mobile, mobiles, mobilise, mobilised, mobilises, mobilising, mobilities, mobility, mobilization, mobilizations, mobilize, mobilized, mobilizes, mobilizing, mobled, mobocracies, mobocracy, mobocrat, mobocratic, mobocrats, mobs, mobster, mobsters. (additional references)

Words ending with "mob": demob. (additional references)

Words containing "mob": airmobile, amobarbital, amobarbitals, automobile, automobiled, automobiles, automobiling, automobilist, automobilists, automobilities, automobility, bloodmobile, bloodmobiles, bookmobile, bookmobiles, countermobilization, countermobilizations, demobbed, demobbing, demobilization, demobilizations, demobilize, demobilized, demobilizes, demobilizing, demobs, elasmobranch, elasmobranchs, hypermobilities, hypermobility, immobile, immobilism, immobilisms, immobilities, immobility, immobilization, immobilizations, immobilize, immobilized, immobilizer, immobilizers, immobilizes, immobilizing, nonmobile, pimpmobile, pimpmobiles, remobilization, remobilizations, remobilize, remobilized, remobilizes. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Mob" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: amob, kob, mab, Mabb, Mabp, Magb, M'ba, mbd, mbe, mbo, Mbombo, mco, mdb, Mdo, meb, Medbh, memb, mgb, mib, miba, mlb, mmb, mno, mobe, mobi, mobo, mobu, moby, moc, moeb, mof, Mog, moh, moi, moj, mok, momb, moog, mooj, moq, Morby, Mosby, mou, mov, moy, moz, mrb, Mrbi, mtb, mub, muq, muv, mvo, Mvouba, myob, nbo, Nobq, Nobu, noob, ombi, ombu, omv, umo, ymo, zmo. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: bo, mo, om.

+1 letter: ambo, bomb, boom, comb, mobs, tomb, umbo, womb.

+2 letters: abmho, abohm, aboma, ambos, besom, bimbo, biome, bloom, bombe, bombs, booms, boomy, bosom, brome, bromo, broom, buxom, clomb, combe, combo, combs, coomb, demob, embow, gombo, gumbo, jumbo, limbo, mambo, omber, ombre, rhomb, sambo, tombs, umbos, wombs, womby, zombi.

+3 letters: abloom, abmhos, abohms, abomas, akimbo, amoeba, aplomb, bamboo, bayamo, become, bemoan, bemock, besoms, beworm, biform, bimbos, biomes, blooms, bloomy, bombax, bombed, bomber, bombes, bombyx, boomed, boomer, bosoms, bosomy, bottom, bowman, bowmen, bromal, bromes, bromic, bromid, bromin, bromos, brooms, broomy, combat, combed, comber, combes, combos, coombe, coombs, corymb, crambo, demobs, embody, emboli, emboly, embosk, emboss, embows, embryo, entomb, enwomb, gambol, gombos, gumbos, hombre, imbody, intomb, jumbos, limbos, mambos, mobbed, mobber, mobcap, mobile, mobled, morbid, obiism, ombers, ombres, recomb, rhombi, rhombs, sambos, somber, sombre, symbol, tombac, tombak, tombal, tombed, tomboy, wombat, wombed, zombie, zombis.