10-letter words containing b, o, s, e
- bestowment — to present as a gift; give; confer (usually followed by on or upon): The trophy was bestowed upon the winner.
- beta stock — any of the second rank of active securities on the Stock Exchange, of which there are about 500. Continuous display of prices by market makers is required but not immediate publication of transactions
- betrothals — the act or state of being betrothed; engagement.
- bettermost — best
- billposter — a person who is employed to stick advertising posters to walls, fences, etc
- bio-diesel — Bio-diesel is diesel fuel made from biological or natural sources.
- biocenosis — a community of biologically integrated and interdependent plants and animals
- biochemist — A biochemist is a scientist or student who studies biochemistry.
- biodiverse — containing a wide variety of plant and animal species
- biogenesis — the principle that a living organism must originate from a parent organism similar to itself
- biometrics — that branch of biology which deals with its data statistically and by mathematical analysis
- biopoiesis — the development of living matter from nonliving matter, esp considered as an evolutionary process
- bioprocess — a method or operation of preparing a biological material, especially a product of genetic engineering, for commercial use.
- bioreserve — an area preserving wildlife, landforms, and waterways while providing appropriate public use and enjoyment of a natural environment.
- bioscience — the life sciences collectively
- biospheric — relating to the biosphere
- biosurgery — the use of live sterile maggots to treat patients with infected wounds
- bipetalous — having two petals
- bird louse — any of an order (Mallophaga) of small, wingless insects with biting mouthparts, that live as external parasites on birds
- birostrate — having two beaks or beak-like projections
- birthstone — a precious or semiprecious stone associated with a month or sign of the zodiac and thought to bring luck if worn by a person born in that month or under that sign
- bisphenoid — a tetrahedral form, each edge of which is bisected by the perpendicular bisecting the edge that does not intersect it.
- blackstone — Sir William. 1723–80, English jurist noted particularly for his Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765–69), which had a profound influence on jurisprudence in the US
- blamestorm — (of colleagues in a business, government, etc) to meet in order to apportion blame for an error or failure
- blastocoel — the cavity within a blastula
- blastoderm — the layer of cells that surrounds the blastocoel of a blastula
- blastomere — any of the cells formed by cleavage of a fertilized egg
- blastopore — the opening of the archenteron in the gastrula that develops into the anus of some animals
- blithesome — cheery; merry
- blockhouse — (formerly) a wooden fortification with ports or loopholes for defensive fire, observation, etc
- blogstream — the publication on the internet of content from weblogs rather than from mainstream media sources
- blood test — A blood test is a medical examination of a small amount of your blood.
- bloodiness — the state of being bloody
- bloodstone — a dark-green variety of chalcedony with red spots: used as a gemstone
- blottesque — (of a painting) crudely executed, often characterized by blots and smears
- blue cross — a nonprofit health insurance organization offering hospitalization and medical benefits to subscribers, esp. to groups of employees and their families
- blue goose — a variety of the snow goose that has a bluish-grey body and white head and neck
- blue lotus — either of two Egyptian water lilies of the genus Nymphaea, as N. caerulea (blue lotus) having light blue flowers, or N. lotus (white lotus) having white flowers.
- blues-rock — a blend of rock-'n'-roll and blues.
- blusterous — to roar and be tumultuous, as wind.
- board side — the broad side of a piece of lumber.
- boat shoes — shoes for wearing on board boats, often laced moccasins
- bobbysoxer — an adolescent girl wearing bobbysocks, esp in the 1940s
- bobsledder — a person who bobsleds
- bode's law — an empirical rule relating the distances of the planets from the sun, based on the numerical sequence 0, 3, 6, 12, 24,…. Adding 4 to each number and dividing by 10 gives the sequence 0.4, 0.7, 1, 1.6, 2.8,…, which is a reasonable representation of distances in astronomical units for most planets if the minor planets are counted as a single entity at 2.8
- body louse — See under louse (def 1).
- body press — a hold in which a wrestler places full body weight on a supine opponent in trying to pin the opponent's shoulders to the mat.
- bodyshaper — an undergarment which flattens the stomach, bottom etc
- boehmenism — the mystical doctrines or conceptions of Jakob Böhme.
- boehmenist — a supporter or adherent of Boehmenism.