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8-letter words containing b, o, y

  • blow-dry — If you blow-dry your hair, you dry it with a hairdryer, often to give it a particular style.
  • blow-fly — any of numerous dipterous insects of the family Calliphoridae that deposit their eggs or larvae on carrion, excrement, etc., or in wounds of living animals.
  • boatyard — A boatyard is a place where boats are built and repaired or kept.
  • bobbysox — bobbysocks
  • bodanzky — Artur [ahr-too r] /ˈɑr tʊər/ (Show IPA), 1877–1939, Austrian opera director and orchestra conductor: in the U.S. after 1915.
  • bodingly — in a boding manner
  • body art — physical adornments such as tattoos and piercings
  • body bag — A body bag is a specially designed large plastic bag which is used to carry a dead body away, for example when someone has been killed in a battle or an accident.
  • body fat — the amount of fat on a person's body
  • body rub — massage.
  • body-con — a style of skintight clothing that emphasizes the contours of the body
  • bodysuit — A bodysuit is a piece of women's clothing that fits tightly over the top part of the body and fastens between the legs.
  • bodysurf — to engage in the sport of surfing while lying prone on a wave without the use of a surfboard
  • bodywear — close-fitting clothing, as leotards or bodysuits, made of lightweight, usually stretch fabrics and worn for exercising, dancing, or leisure activity.
  • bodywork — The bodywork of a motor vehicle is the outside part of it.
  • boğazköy — a village in central Asia Minor: site of the ancient Hittite capital
  • bogeyism — the recognition of or belief in the existence of ghosts or demons
  • bogeyman — A bogeyman is someone whose ideas or actions are disapproved of by some people, and who is described by them as evil or unpleasant in order to make other people afraid.
  • bogosity — /boh-go's*-tee/ The degree to which something is "bogus" in the hackish sense of "bad". At CMU, bogosity is measured with a bogometer; in a seminar, when a speaker says something bogus, a listener might raise his hand and say "My bogometer just triggered". More extremely, "You just pinned my bogometer" means you just said or did something so outrageously bogus that it is off the scale, pinning the bogometer needle at the highest possible reading (one might also say "You just redlined my bogometer"). The agreed-upon unit of bogosity is the microLenat. Also, the potential field generated by a bogon flux; see quantum bogodynamics. See also bogon flux, bogon filter.
  • bogotify — (jargon)   /boh-go't*-fi:/ To make or become bad. A program that has been changed so many times as to become completely disorganised has become bogotified. If you tighten a nut too hard and strip the threads on the bolt, the bolt has become bogotified. See also bogosity.
  • bok choy — a Chinese plant, Brassica chinensis, that is related to the cabbage and has edible stalks and leaves
  • bomb bay — a part of military aircraft where the bombs are stored
  • bombycid — any moth, including the silkworm moth, of the family Bombycidae, most of which occur in Africa and SE Asia
  • bone dry — If you say that something is bone dry, you are emphasizing that it is very dry indeed.
  • bone-dry — very dry.
  • boneyard — a cemetery; graveyard
  • bonytail — a fish, Gila elegans, found in the Colorado River, having flaring fins and a thin caudal peduncle.
  • boobyish — stupid or silly
  • boobyism — the quality of being boobyish
  • boongary — a tree kangaroo, Dendrolagus lumholtzi, of northeastern Queensland
  • boot boy — a member of a gang of hooligans who usually wear heavy boots
  • boringly — causing or marked by boredom: a boring discussion; to have a boring time.
  • bosseyed — cross-eyed.
  • bot army — a group of computers, infected with malign programs via the internet, that can be controlled remotely to, for example, mount denial-of-service attacks
  • botchery — an instance of botched workmanship
  • bothyman — a person who lives in a bothy
  • botryoid — having the form of a bunch of grapes: botryoidal hematite.
  • botryose — Mineralogy. botryoidal.
  • botrytis — any of a group of fungi of the genus Botrytis, several of which cause plant diseases
  • bottomry — a contract whereby the owner of a ship borrows money to enable the vessel to complete the voyage and pledges the ship as security for the loan
  • boundary — The boundary of an area of land is an imaginary line that separates it from other areas.
  • bovinity — the state of being bovine
  • bowingly — in a curved manner
  • bowyangs — a pair of strings or straps secured round each trouser leg below the knee, worn esp by sheep-shearers and other labourers
  • boxberry — the fruit of the partridgeberry or wintergreen
  • boxology — (graphics)   /bok-sol'*-jee/ ASCII art. This term implies a more restricted domain, that of box-and-arrow drawings. "His report has a lot of boxology in it." Compare macrology.
  • boy band — A boy band is a band consisting of young men who sing pop music and dance. Boy bands are especially popular with teenage girls.
  • boyarism — the rule of the boyars
  • boyd orr — John, 1st Baron Boyd Orr of Brechin Mearns. 1880–1971, Scottish biologist; director general of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization: Nobel peace prize 1949
  • broadway — a thoroughfare in New York City, famous for its theatres: the centre of the commercial theatre in the US
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