5-letter words containing b, o, e
- bonze — a Chinese or Japanese Buddhist priest or monk
- booed — an exclamation of contempt or disapproval: a loud boo from the bleachers.
- boole — George. 1815–64, English mathematician. In Mathematical Analysis of Logic (1847) and An Investigation of the Laws of Thought (1854), he applied mathematical formulae to logic, creating Boolean algebra
- boone — Daniel. 1734–1820, American pioneer, explorer, and guide, esp in Kentucky
- booze — Booze is alcoholic drink.
- bored — If you are bored, you feel tired and impatient because you have lost interest in something or because you have nothing to do.
- borel — rustic, rude
- borer — a machine or hand tool for boring holes
- borne — Borne is the past participle of bear1.
- bosie — a googly
- botel — a waterside hotel with dock space for persons who travel by boat.
- bothe — Walther (Wilhelm Georg Franz) (ˈvaltər). 1891–1957, German physicist, who developed new methods of detecting subatomic particles. He shared the Nobel prize for physics 1954
- botte — a thrust or hit
- bouge — to swell or bulge
- boule — the parliament in modern Greece
- bouse — to raise or haul with a tackle
- bovet — Daniel. 1907–92, Italian pharmacologist, born in Switzerland, noted for his pioneering work on antihistamine drugs. Nobel prize for physiology or medicine 1957
- bowed — Something that is bowed is curved.
- bowel — Your bowels are the tubes in your body through which digested food passes from your stomach to your anus.
- bowen — Elizabeth (Dorothea Cole). 1899–1973, British novelist and short-story writer, born in Ireland. Her novels include The Death of the Heart (1938) and The Heat of the Day (1949)
- bower — A bower is a shady, leafy shelter in a garden or wood.
- bowie — David, real name David Jones. 1947–2016, British rock singer, songwriter, and film actor. His recordings include "Space Oddity" (1969), The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (1972), Young Americans (1975), Heroes (1977), Let's Dance (1983), The Next Day (2013), and Blackstar (2016)
- bowse — to haul with tackle.
- boxed — A boxed set or collection of things is sold in a box.
- boxen — of or relating to the box-tree; made of box-wood
- boxer — A boxer is someone who takes part in the sport of boxing.
- boxes — an evergreen shrub or small tree of the genus Buxus, especially B. sempervirens, having shiny, elliptic, dark-green leaves, used for ornamental borders, hedges, etc., and yielding a hard, durable wood.
- boyce — William. ?1710–79, English composer, noted esp for his church music and symphonies
- boyer — Charles (ʃarl), known as the Great Lover. 1899–1978, French film actor
- boyle — Robert. 1627–91, Irish scientist who helped to dissociate chemistry from alchemy. He established that air has weight and studied the behaviour of gases; author of The Sceptical Chymist (1661)
- boyne — a river in the E Republic of Ireland, rising in the Bog of Allen and flowing northeast to the Irish Sea: William III of England defeated the deposed James II in a battle (Battle of the Boyne) on its banks in 1690, completing the overthrow of the Stuart cause in Ireland. Length: about 112 km (70 miles)
- bozen — German name of Bolzano (def 2).
- broke — Broke is the past tense of break.
- brome — any of a large genus (Bromus) of grasses of the temperate zone, having closed sheaths and spikelets with awns: a few are crop plants but many are weeds
- brose — oatmeal or pease porridge, sometimes with butter or fat added
- buteo — a type of American hawk
- coble — a small single-masted flat-bottomed fishing boat
- combe — coomb
- demob — Someone's demob is their release from the armed forces.
- dobie — (James) Frank, 1888–1964, U.S. folklorist, educator, and author.
- ebola — Also called Ebola fever, Ebola hemorrhagic fever, Ebola virus disease. a usually fatal disease, a type of hemorrhagic fever, caused by the Ebola virus and marked by high fever, severe gastrointestinal distress, and bleeding.
- ebone — A pan-European backbone network service.
- ebons — Plural form of ebon.
- ebony — a hard, heavy, durable wood, most highly prized when black, from various tropical trees of the genus Diospyros, as D. ebenum of southern India and Sri Lanka, used for cabinetwork, ornamental objects, etc.
- ebook — a book in digital form.
- ebor. — Eboracensis
- elbow — The joint between the forearm and the upper arm.
- embog — (transitive) To bog down.
- embow — (obsolete) To bend like a bow; to curve.
- embox — to put in a box