5-letter words containing b, s
- blush — When you blush, your face becomes redder than usual because you are ashamed or embarrassed.
- bmasf — Basic Module Algebra Specification Language? "Design of a Specification Language by Abstract Syntax Engineering", J.C.M. Baeten et al, in LNCS 490, pp.363-394.
- bmews — Ballistic Missile Early Warning System.
- boast — If someone boasts about something that they have done or that they own, they talk about it very proudly, in a way that other people may find irritating or offensive.
- boers — a South African of Dutch extraction.
- bogus — If you describe something as bogus, you mean that it is not genuine.
- boise — a city in SW Idaho: the state capital. Pop: 190 117 (2003 est)
- bolas — bola (def 1).
- boles — any of a variety of soft, unctuous clays of various colors, used as pigments.
- bolts — a movable bar or rod that when slid into a socket fastens a door, gate, etc.
- bolus — a small round soft mass, esp of chewed food
- bonds — Barry (Lamar). born 1964, US baseball player: holder of records for most home runs in a season (73) and a career (762)
- bones — the human skeleton or body
- bonus — A bonus is an extra amount of money that is added to someone's pay, usually because they have worked very hard.
- boobs — a female breast.
- books — a record of the transactions of a business or society
- bools — the game of bowls or marbles
- boors — a churlish, rude, or unmannerly person.
- boost — If one thing boosts another, it causes it to increase, improve, or be more successful.
- boots — (formerly) a shoeblack who cleans the guests' shoes in a hotel
- boras — a city in SW Sweden, chiefly producing textiles. Pop: 98 831 (2004 est)
- boris — a masculine name
- bosch — Carl. 1874–1940, German chemist, who adapted the Haber process to produce ammonia for industrial use. He shared the Nobel prize for chemistry 1931
- bosie — a googly
- bosky — containing or consisting of bushes or thickets
- bosom — A woman's breasts are sometimes referred to as her bosom or her bosoms.
- boson — any of a group of elementary particles, such as a photon or pion, that has zero or integral spin and obeys the rules of Bose-Einstein statistics
- bossy — If you describe someone as bossy, you mean that they enjoy telling people what to do.
- bosun — The bosun on a ship is the officer whose job it is to look after the ship and its equipment.
- bouse — to raise or haul with a tackle
- bousy — drunken; boozy
- bouts — a contest or trial of strength, as of boxing.
- bowls — a game played on a bowling green in which a small bowl (the jack) is pitched from a mark and two opponents or opposing teams take turns to roll biased wooden bowls towards it, the object being to finish as near the jack as possible
- bowse — to haul with tackle.
- 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.
- boysy — suited to or typical of boys or young men
- braes — an upland area
- brash — If you describe someone or their behaviour as brash, you disapprove of them because you think that they are too confident and aggressive.
- brass — Brass is a yellow-coloured metal made from copper and zinc. It is used especially for making ornaments and musical instruments.
- braws — fine apparel
- brest — a port in NW France, in Brittany: chief naval station of the country, planned by Richelieu in 1631 and fortified by Vauban. Pop: 148 316 (2006)
- brics — Brazil, Russia, India, and China: seen collectively as the most important emerging economies with large potential markets
- brise — an area of untilled land
- brisk — A brisk activity or action is done quickly and in an energetic way.
- bros' — a brother.
- bros. — Bros. is an abbreviation for brothers. It is usually used as part of the name of a company.
- brose — oatmeal or pease porridge, sometimes with butter or fat added
- brosy — coated with brose
- brusa — Bursa.
- brush — A brush is an object which has a large number of bristles or hairs fixed to it. You use brushes for painting, for cleaning things, and for tidying your hair.