11-letter words containing b, o
- arms akimbo — with hands on hips and elbows projecting outwards
- arsonphobia — Pyrophobia.
- asbestiform — having the look or structure of asbestos
- asciibonics — (chat) (From ASCII and Ebonics) A style of text communication in English which is most common on talk systems such as irc. Its notable characteristics are: Typing all in lowercase (and occasionally all in uppercase). Copious use of abbreviations of the sort "u" for "you" "1" for "one" (and therefore "some1" for "someone", "ne1" for "anyone"), "2" for "to", "r" for "are", etc. A general lack of punctuation, except for strings of question marks and exclamation marks. Common use of the idiom "m or f?", meant to elicit a statement of the listener's gender. Typical extended discourse in ASCIIbonics: "hey wasup ne1 want 2 cyber?" "m or f?" ASCIIbonics is similar to the way B1FF talked, although B1FF used more punctuation (lots more), and used all uppercase, rather than all lowercase. What's more, B1FF was only interested in warez, and so never asked "m or f?". It has been widely observed that some of the purest examples of ASCIIbonics come from non-native speakers of English. The phenomenon of ASCIIbonics predates by several years the use of the word "ASCIIbonics", as the word could only have been coined in or after late 1996, when "Ebonics" was first used in the US media to denote the US English dialects known in the linguistic literature as "Black Vernacular English".
- ashwaubenon — a town in E Wisconsin.
- assiniboine — a river in W Canada, rising in E Saskatchewan and flowing southeast and east to the Red River at Winnipeg. Length: over 860 km (500 miles)
- astral body — Astronomy. a star, planet, comet, or other heavenly body.
- astraphobia — a fear of thunder and lightning
- astroblemes — Plural form of astrobleme.
- astrobotany — the branch of botany that investigates the possibility that plants grow on other planets
- astrophobia — A fear of stars and celestial space.
- at one blow — by or with only one action; all at one time
- atelophobia — The fear of imperfection or not being good enough.
- atheophobia — Fear or hatred of atheism or atheists.
- atomic bomb — An atomic bomb or an atom bomb is a bomb that causes an explosion by a sudden release of energy that results from splitting atoms.
- atrabilious — irritable
- attribution — the act of attributing; ascription.
- automatable — able to be done by machines without human action
- automobiles — Plural form of automobile.
- automobilia — items connected with cars and motoring of interest to the collector
- azotobacter — any bacterium of the family Azotobacteriaceae, important in nitrogen fixation in the soil
- babassu oil — a yellow oil expressed or extracted from babassu nuts, used chiefly in the manufacture of soaps and cosmetics and as a cooking oil.
- babelicious — (of a woman) sexually very attractive.
- baby boomer — A baby boomer is someone who was born during a baby boom, especially during the years after the end of the Second World War.
- baby broker — an adoption service, esp on the internet
- baby lotion — a skin lotion for babies
- baby shower — gift-giving party for unborn baby
- baby-boomer — a person born during a baby boom, especially one born in the U.S. between 1946 and 1965.
- baby-mother — a young mother who has been abandoned by the baby's father just before or after the birth
- babyboomers — Plural form of babyboomer.
- babylonians — of or relating to Babylon or Babylonia.
- bacciferous — bearing berries
- baccivorous — feeding on berries
- bachelordom — the state of being a bachelor; bachelorhood
- bachelorism — bachelorhood
- bacilliform — shaped like a rod
- back anchor — a small anchor for backing a larger one.
- back and to — back-and-forth; to and fro.
- back boiler — a tank or series of pipes at the back of a fireplace for heating water
- back office — the administrative and support staff of a financial institution or other business
- back out of — to withdraw from (an enterprise)
- back-loaded — to defer to a later date, as wages, benefits, or costs: The union agreed to back-load pay raises.
- back-logged — a reserve or accumulation, as of stock, work, or business: a backlog of business orders.
- backcountry — an area far from cities and towns that is thinly populated and largely undeveloped; hinterland
- backcrossed — Simple past tense and past participle of backcross.
- backcrosses — Plural form of backcross.
- backflowing — Flowing backwards.
- backgammons — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of backgammon.
- backgrounds — Plural form of background.
- backing dog — a dog that moves a flock of sheep by jumping on their backs