These are the meanings of the letters IMBUYO when you unscramble them.
- Buoy (n.)
A float; esp. a floating object moored to the bottom, to mark a channel or to point out the position of something beneath the water, as an anchor, shoal, rock, etc.
- Buoy (v. i.)
To float; to rise like a buoy.
- Buoy (v. t.)
To fix buoys to; to mark by a buoy or by buoys; as, to buoy an anchor; to buoy or buoy off a channel.
- Buoy (v. t.)
To keep from sinking in a fluid, as in water or air; to keep afloat; -- with up.
- Buoy (v. t.)
To support or sustain; to preserve from sinking into ruin or despondency.
- Umbo (n.)
A boss, or rounded elevation, or a corresponding depression, in a palate, disk, or membrane; as, the umbo in the integument of the larvae of echinoderms or in the tympanic membrane of the ear.
- Umbo (n.)
One of the lateral prominence just above the hinge of a bivalve shell.
- Umbo (n.)
The boss of a shield, at or near the middle, and usually projecting, sometimes in a sharp spike.