8-letter words containing g, o
- boarding — Boarding is an arrangement by which children live at school during the school term.
- boasting — to speak with exaggeration and excessive pride, especially about oneself.
- boat bug — water boatman.
- bodingly — in a boding manner
- 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.
- bog deal — pine wood found preserved in peat bogs
- bog down — If a plan or process bogs down or if something bogs it down, it is delayed and no progress is made.
- bog hole — a land-surface depression occupied by waterlogged soil and spongy vegetative material that cannot bear the weight of large animals.
- bog moss — peat moss.
- bog roll — a toilet roll; toilet paper
- bog rush — a blackish tufted cyperaceous plant, Schoenus nigricans, growing on boggy ground
- bogalusa — a city in SE Louisiana.
- bogarted — to take an unfair share of (something); keep for oneself instead of sharing: Are you gonna bogart that joint all night?
- 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.
- bogomips — (unit) (From "bogus", "MIPS") The timing unit of the Linux kernel. A BogoMips is an unscientific measurement of processor speed made by the Linux kernel when it boots, to calibrate an internal busy-loop.
- 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.
- bohr bug — (jargon, programming) /bohr buhg/ (From Quantum physics) A repeatable bug; one that manifests reliably under a possibly unknown but well-defined set of conditions. Compare heisenbug. See also mandelbug, schroedinbug.
- boksburg — city in central Gauteng province, South Africa: pop. 120,000
- boltings — (of flour) the coarse particles separated by sifting
- bondager — someone who performs bondservice; a bondman
- bondages — slavery or involuntary servitude; serfdom.
- bongoist — a player of the bongos
- bongrace — a brim or shade on the front of women's bonnets or hats, intended to protect the face from the sun
- boogaloo — a type of dance performed to rock and roll music
- book bag — a bag or satchel used especially by a student for carrying books.
- boongary — a tree kangaroo, Dendrolagus lumholtzi, of northeastern Queensland
- borghese — a noble Italian family whose members were influential in Italian art and politics from the 16th to the 19th century
- borghild — (in the Volsunga Saga) the first wife of Sigmund: she poisons Sinfiotli in revenge for his killing of her brother.
- boringly — causing or marked by boredom: a boring discussion; to have a boring time.
- bostangi — a Turkish imperial guard
- botching — to spoil by poor work; bungle (often followed by up): He botched up the job thoroughly.
- botteghe — the studio of a master artist, in which lesser artists, apprentices, or students learn by participating in the work.
- boughpot — a bouquet of flowers or boughs
- boughten — bought at a store and not homemade
- boulogne — a port in N France, on the English Channel. Pop: 45 036 (2006)
- bouncing — If you say that someone is bouncing with health, you mean that they are very healthy. You can also refer to a bouncing baby.
- bounding — under a legal or moral obligation: He is bound by the terms of the contract.
- bourgeon — burgeon
- bow legs — a condition in which the legs curve outwards like a bow between the ankle and the thigh
- boweling — Anatomy. Usually, bowels. the intestine. a part of the intestine.
- bowgrace — a fender or pad used to protect the bows of a vessel from ice.
- 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
- 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.
- brigalow — any of various acacia trees
- brighton — a coastal resort in S England, in Brighton and Hove unitary authority, East Sussex: patronized by the Prince Regent, who had the Royal Pavilion built (1782); seat of the University of Sussex (1966) and the University of Brighton (1992). Pop: 134 293 (2001)
- bring on — If something brings on an illness, pain, or feeling, especially one that you often suffer from, it causes you to have it.