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10-letter words containing b, u, o

  • bombed-out — A bombed-out building has been damaged or destroyed by a bomb.
  • bone up on — If you bone up on a subject, you try to find out about it or remind yourself of what you have already learned about it.
  • bongo drum — small hand drum
  • bonkbuster — a novel characterized by graphic descriptions of the heroine's frequent sexual encounters
  • bonne nuit — good night
  • bonus army — a group of 12,000 World War I veterans who massed in Washington, D.C., the summer of 1932 to induce Congress to appropriate moneys for the payment of bonus certificates granted in 1924.
  • bonus baby — an athlete who is paid a substantial bonus to sign his or her first professional contract.
  • bonus ball — (in the National Lottery draw) a ball randomly selected after the first six balls, containing a number which influences the amount of prize money paid
  • bonus pack — anything sold with a product and marketed as a useful and free extra
  • book group — A book group is a group of people who meet regularly to discuss books that they have read.
  • book louse — any of various small, usually wingless, insects (order Psocoptera) that infest and destroy old books
  • book lungs — primitive lungs of many arachnids, consisting of pagelike layers of tissue over which air circulates for respiration
  • book value — In business, the book value of an asset is the value it is given in the account books of the company that owns it.
  • boot virus — An MS-DOS virus that infects the boot record program on hard disks and floppy disks or the master boot record on hard disks. The virus gets loaded into memory before MS-DOS and takes control of the computer, infecting any floppy disks subsequently accessed. An infected boot disk may stop the computer starting up at all.
  • booty bump — a method of administering the recreational drug methamphetamine, in which the drug is mixed with water then injected into the rectum with a needleless syringe
  • boozehound — a person who drinks excessive amounts of alcohol regularly
  • bordereaux — a detailed memorandum, especially one in which documents are listed.
  • borgerhout — a town in N Belgium, near Antwerp. Pop: 40 142 (2002 est)
  • bosun bird — tropic bird.
  • bottle out — If you bottle out, you lose your courage at the last moment and do not do something you intended to do.
  • bottom out — If a trend such as a fall in prices bottoms out, it stops getting worse or decreasing, and remains at a particular level or amount.
  • bottoms up — Some people say bottoms up to each other just before drinking an alcoholic drink.
  • boucicault — Dion (ˈdaɪɒn), real name Dionysius Lardner Boursiquot. 1822–90, Irish dramatist and actor. His plays include London Assurance (1841), The Octoroon (1859), and The Shaughran (1874)
  • bouguereau — Adolphe William [a-dawlf veel-yam] /aˈdɔlf vilˈyam/ (Show IPA), 1825–1905, French painter.
  • bouillotte — a French card game similar to poker
  • boulangism — the doctrines of militarism and reprisals against Germany, advocated, especially in the 1880s, by the French general Boulanger.
  • bouldering — rock climbing on large boulders or small outcrops either as practice or as a sport in its own right
  • boullework — elaborate inlaid work of woods, metals, tortoiseshell, ivory, etc.
  • bounceable — to spring back from a surface in a lively manner: The ball bounced off the wall.
  • bounceback — the act or an instance of bouncing back, recovering, or recuperating: Fall sales have experienced a tremendous bounceback.
  • bouncedown — an occasion of restarting play by the umpire bouncing the ball
  • bouncingly — in a bouncing manner
  • bound form — a linguistic form that never occurs by itself but always as part of some larger construction, as -ed in seated. Compare free form (def 2).
  • boundaries — something that indicates bounds or limits; a limiting or bounding line.
  • bounderish — having the qualities of a bounder
  • bounty bag — a set of free samples, such as nappies and creams, given to mothers leaving hospital with a new baby
  • bouquetier — a small container for holding flowers in a bouquet or nosegay.
  • bourbonism — support for the rule of the Bourbons, the European royal line that ruled in France, Spain, and Naples and Sicily at various times in the late 16th to early 20th centuries
  • bourgeoise — a female bourgeois
  • bournonite — a sulfide of lead, antimony, and copper, PbCuSbS 3 , occurring in gray to black crystals or granular masses.
  • bousingken — a drinking house frequented by thieves or other disreputable characters
  • bow rudder — (in canoeing) a technique in which a paddler in the bow holds the paddle at an angle from the side of the bow, using it as a rudder to steer.
  • bowhunting — the practice of hunting wild animals with bow and arrow
  • bowlingual — a device that allegedly translates a dog’s barks and grunts into a human language
  • box column — a hollow wooden column, as for a porch, usually having a rectangular cross section.
  • box cutter — a knife-like tool with a short retractable blade
  • box gutter — a gutter set into the slope of a roof above the cornice.
  • box number — A box number is a number used as an address, for example one given by a newspaper for replies to a private advertisement, or one used by an organization for the letters sent to it.
  • box supper — a social gathering, as at a church, at which box lunches donated by women are auctioned off to raise funds
  • box turtle — any of several North American terrapins (genus Terrapene) with a hinged shell that can be completely closed: usually found on land
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