Anagrams of: GUMBOLIMBO

• an explosive device fused to explode under specific conditions

• strong sealed vessel for measuring heat of combustion

• an event that fails badly or is totally ineffectual

• throw bombs at or attack with bombs

• fail to get a passing grade

• any of various fine-grained silty soils that become waxy and very sticky mud when saturated with water

• tall coarse annual of Old World tropics widely cultivated in southern United States and West Indies for its long mucilaginous green pods used as basis for soups and stews; sometimes placed in genus Hibiscus

• long mucilaginous green pods; may be simmered or sauteed but used especially in soups and stews

• a soup or stew thickened with okra pods

• the organic process of bearing flowers

• reproductive organ of angiosperm plants especially one having showy or colorful parts

• the best time of youth

• a rosy color (especially in the cheeks) taken as a sign of good health

• the period of greatest prosperity or productivity

• a powdery deposit on a surface

• produce or yield flowers

• the state of being disregarded or forgotten

• an imaginary place for lost or neglected things

• (theology) in Roman Catholicism, the place of unbaptized but innocent or righteous souls (such as infants and virtuous individuals)

• A device for punishment. See bilboes.

• A kind of sword with well-tempered and flexible blade, originally produced in Bilbao.

• a deep prolonged loud noise

• a state of economic prosperity

• a sudden happening that brings good fortune (as a sudden opportunity to make money)

• a pole carrying an overhead microphone projected over a film or tv set

• any of various more-or-less horizontal spars or poles used to extend the foot of a sail or for handling cargo or in mooring

• make a resonant sound, like artillery

• hit with great force

• be the case that thunder is being heard

• make a deep hollow sound

• grow vigorously

• a modified bud consisting of a thickened globular underground stem serving as a reproductive structure

• electric lamp consisting of a transparent or translucent glass housing containing a wire filament (usually tungsten) that emits light when heated by electricity

• a rounded part of a cylindrical instrument (usually at one end)

• anything with a round shape resembling a teardrop

• lower or hindmost part of the brain; continuous with spinal cord; (`bulb' is an old term for medulla oblongata)

• a rounded dilation or expansion in a canal or vessel or organ

• one of the jointed appendages of an animal used for locomotion or grasping: arm; leg; wing; flipper

• any of the main branches arising from the trunk or a bough of a tree

• (astronomy) the circumferential edge of the apparent disc of the sun or the moon or a planet

• either of the two halves of a bow from handle to tip

• the graduated arc that is attached to an instrument for measuring angles

• any projection that is thought to resemble a human arm