9-letter words containing b, o
- asbomania — the perceived indiscriminate and excessive use by the authorities of anti-social behaviour orders in dealing with people causing a nuisance to their fellow citizens
- ascorbate — a salt of ascorbic acid
- ash blond — a very light blond colour
- ash-blond — pale, grayish blond: ash-blond hair.
- ashburton — 1st Baron, Baring, Alexander.
- astrolabe — an instrument used by early astronomers to measure the altitude of stars and planets and also as a navigational aid. It consists of a graduated circular disc with a movable sighting device
- at bottom — You use at bottom to emphasize that you are stating what you think is the real nature of something or the real truth about a situation.
- atom bomb — atomic bomb
- atom-bomb — to bomb (a target) with an atomic bomb.
- attleboro — a city in SE Massachusetts.
- audiobook — a recorded reading of a book recorded on tape, CD, or digital formats
- aurobindo — Sri (Sri Aurobindo Ghose) 1872–1950, Indian scholar and spiritual leader.
- autobahns — Plural form of autobahn.
- autophoby — the reluctance to refer to oneself or be egotistical
- avicebron — (Solomon ben Judah ibn-Gabirol) 1021?–58, Jewish poet and philosopher in Spain.
- avoidable — Something that is avoidable can be prevented from happening.
- avoidably — In a manner so as to be avoidable.
- ayckbourn — Sir Alan. born 1939, English dramatist. His plays include Absurd Person Singular (1973), the trilogy The Norman Conquests (1974), A Chorus of Disapproval (1985), House and Garden (2000), and Private Fears in Public Places (2004)
- b complex — vitamin B (complex)
- b horizon — the layer of a soil profile immediately below the A horizon, containing deposits of leached material
- b-s meson — a neutral meson with a mass 10,507 times that of the electron and a mean lifetime of approximately 1.6 X 10 -12 seconds.
- b-toolkit — (tool, programming, product) A set of software tools designed to support a rigorous or formal development of software systems using the B-Method. The Toolkit also provides a development environment automating the management of all associated files, ensuring that the entire development, including code and documentation, is always in a consistent state. The Toolkit includes: a specification, design and code configuration management system, including integrity and dependency management and source file editing facilities; a set of software specification and design analysis tools, which includes syntax checkers, type checkers and a specification animator; a set of verification tools, which includes a proof-obligation generator and automatic and interactive provers; a set of coding tools, which includes a translator, linker, rapid prototyping facilities and a reusable specification/code module library; a documentation tool for automatically producing fully cross-referenced and indexed type-set documents from source files; a re-making tool for automatically re-checking and re-generating specifications, designs, code and documentation after modifications to source files. A normal licence costs 25,000 pounds, academic 6,250 pounds.
- baal kore — an official in the synagogue, as a cantor, who reads the weekly portion of the Torah.
- babacoote — a species of large lemur, Lichanotus brevicaudatus, native to Madagascar
- babashoff — Shirley, born 1957, U.S. swimmer.
- babington — Anthony 1561–86, English conspirator, executed for organizing an unsuccessful plot (1586) to assassinate Elizabeth I and place Mary, Queen of Scots, on the English throne
- baboonery — uncouth or brutish behaviour
- baboonish — resembling a baboon
- baby bond — a sum of money invested shortly after the birth of a child, the returns of which may not be collected until the child reaches adulthood
- baby book — an album for mounting pictures and other memorabilia of a baby and for keeping a record of its growth from infancy.
- baby boom — A baby boom is a period of time when a lot of babies are born in a particular place.
- baby doll — a doll that looks like a baby
- baby food — food, as vegetables, fruits, or meat, puréed or minced for easy ingestion by infants.
- baby spot — a small spotlight, usually 250–400 watts, used to highlight a specific section of a stage setting or acting area.
- babyhouse — A place for children's dolls and dolls' furniture.
- babylonia — the southern kingdom of ancient Mesopotamia: a great empire from about 2200–538 bc, when it was conquered by the Persians
- babyproof — made safe for babies to come into contact with
- bacciform — shaped like a berry
- bachelors — Plural form of bachelor.
- bachelour — Obsolete form of bachelor.
- back copy — A back copy of a magazine or newspaper is the same as a back issue.
- back door — a door at the rear or side of a building
- back down — If you back down, you withdraw a claim, demand, or commitment that you made earlier, because other people are strongly opposed to it.
- back four — the defensive players in many modern team formations: usually two fullbacks and two centre backs
- back road — A back road is a small country road with very little traffic.
- back room — a place where research or planning is done, esp secret research in wartime
- back-door — secret; furtive; illicit; indirect.
- back-load — to defer to a later date, as wages, benefits, or costs: The union agreed to back-load pay raises.
- backblock — (Australia, New Zealand, usually, in the plural) A residential area remote from major cities and lacking conveniences common in urban areas.
- backboard — In basketball, the backboard is the flat board above each of the baskets.