5-letter words containing l, o
- bohol — an island of the central Philippines. Chief town: Tagbilaran. Pop: 1 139 130 (2000). Area: about 3900 sq km (1500 sq miles)
- bolar — of or relating to clay
- bolas — bola (def 1).
- boldo — a Chilean evergreen tree, Peumus boldus, cultivated in California for its aromatic foliage.
- boles — any of a variety of soft, unctuous clays of various colors, used as pigments.
- bolix — to do (something) badly; bungle (often followed by up): His interference bollixed up the whole deal.
- 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
- boole — George. 1815–64, English mathematician. In Mathematical Analysis of Logic (1847) and An Investigation of the Laws of Thought (1854), he applied mathematical formulae to logic, creating Boolean algebra
- bools — the game of bowls or marbles
- boral — the powdered mixture of boron carbide and aluminium
- borel — rustic, rude
- botel — a waterside hotel with dock space for persons who travel by boat.
- boule — the parliament in modern Greece
- boult — Sir Adrian (Cedric). 1889–1983, English conductor
- bowel — Your bowels are the tubes in your body through which digested food passes from your stomach to your anus.
- 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
- boyla — an Aboriginal Australian magician or medicine-man
- boyle — Robert. 1627–91, Irish scientist who helped to dissociate chemistry from alchemy. He established that air has weight and studied the behaviour of gases; author of The Sceptical Chymist (1661)
- broil — When you broil food, you cook it using very strong heat directly above or below it.
- brool — a low roaring sound, a deep murmur
- bulow — Prince Bernhard von (ˈbɛrnhart fɔn). 1849–1929, chancellor of Germany (1900–09)
- carol — Carols are Christian religious songs that are sung at Christmas.
- cello — A cello is a musical instrument with four strings that looks like a large violin. You play the cello with a bow while sitting down and holding it upright between your legs.
- celom — coelom
- ceorl — a freeman of the lowest class in Anglo-Saxon England
- chloe — a feminine name
- choil — An unsharpened section of a knife blade in front of the guard on the blade.
- chola — the conventional attire of Sikhs consisting of a long, loose shirt
- chole — A spicy Indian chickpea curry.
- choli — a short-sleeved bodice, as worn by Indian women
- cholo — a person who is descended from both European and Native American parents
- choly — (informal) cholecystitis.
- chulo — a dandified or effeminate man.
- claro — a mild light-coloured cigar
- cleon — died 422 bc, Athenian demagogue and military leader
- cloak — A cloak is a long, loose, sleeveless piece of clothing which people used to wear over their other clothes when they went out.
- cloam — made of clay or earthenware
- clock — A clock is an instrument, for example in a room or on the outside of a building, that shows what time of day it is.
- clods — Plural form of clod.
- cloff — the cleft of a tree
- clogs — Plural form of clog.
- cloke — Archaic spelling of cloak.
- clomb — climb
- clomp — to walk heavily or noisily; clump
- clone — If someone or something is a clone of another person or thing, they are so similar to this person or thing that they seem to be exactly the same as them.
- clong — (obsolete) Past participle of cling.
- clonk — to make a loud dull thud
- cloop — the sound made when a cork is drawn from a bottle
- cloot — a hoof