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12-letter words containing o, b

  • book society — book club.
  • book-keeping — the skill or occupation of maintaining accurate records of business transactions
  • bookcrossing — the practice of deliberately leaving books in places where they will be found and read by other people
  • booking form — a form used to book a holiday, accommodation, etc
  • booklet pane — Philately. any of a number of panes or small pages of postage stamps, stapled together into a booklet for the convenience of users.
  • boolean ring — a nonempty collection of sets having the properties that the union of two sets of the collection is a set in the collection and that the relative complement of each set with respect to any other set is in the collection.
  • boom-or-bust — boom-and-bust.
  • boomer state — Oklahoma
  • boomeranging — a bent or curved piece of tough wood used by the Australian Aborigines as a throwing club, one form of which can be thrown so as to return to the thrower.
  • booster dose — a supplementary injection of a vaccine given to maintain the immunization provided by an earlier dose
  • booster pump — A booster pump is a pump which is used where pressure is low and needs to be increased.
  • booster seat — A booster seat or a booster cushion is a special seat which allows a small child to sit in a higher position, for example at a table or in a car.
  • booster shot — an injection of a vaccine or other antigen some time after the initial series of injections, for maintaining immunity
  • boot topping — the part of a ship's hull that is between the load line and the water line when the ship is not loaded
  • boot-scraper — a contraption consisting of an upright metal shape formerly placed outside some houses to enable people to scrape the mud from their boots before going in
  • bootleg play — a play in which the quarterback pretends to hand the ball to a teammate, hides it by placing it next to his hip, and runs with it.
  • bootlessness — the quality of being useless or ineffective
  • bootylicious — sexually attractive, esp with curvaceous buttocks
  • booze cruise — a day trip to a foreign country, esp from England across the English Channel to France, for the purposes of buying cheap alcohol, cigarettes, etc
  • border guard — a guard stationed on a border between countries
  • border light — a striplight hung upstage of a border, for lighting the stage.
  • border state — a state adjacent to a border
  • border taxes — taxes payable on goods taken across a border
  • born-digital — relating to or noting documents, images, etc., that are created and managed in electronic form: electronic preservation of born-digital content; a born-digital e-book that will not be available in print.
  • borosilicate — a salt of boric and silicic acids
  • borough hall — a building housing the administrative offices of a borough.
  • borscht belt — (sometimes initial capital letters) the hotels of the predominantly Jewish resort area in the Catskill Mountains, many of them offering nightclub or cabaret entertainment.
  • boskop skull — a portion of a human skull found in South Africa, of undetermined relationship and geological age: formerly associated with a hypothetical Boskop race
  • bosom friend — an intimate friend
  • bossier city — city in NW La., on the Red River opposite Shreveport: pop. 56,000
  • bothy ballad — a folk song, esp one from the farming community of NE Scotland
  • botrytis rot — a disease of many plants caused by fungi of the genus Botrytis, characterized by leaf blight, a tan-gray moldlike surface growth, and the rotting of stems and storage organs.
  • botticellian — Sandro [san-droh,, sahn-;; Italian sahn-draw] /ˈsæn droʊ,, ˈsɑn-;; Italian ˈsɑn drɔ/ (Show IPA), (Alessandro di Mariano dei Filipepi) 1444?–1510, Italian painter.
  • bottle glass — glass used for making bottles, consisting of a silicate of sodium, calcium, and aluminium
  • bottle gourd — an Old World cucurbitaceous climbing plant, Lagenaria siceraria, having large hard-shelled gourds as fruits
  • bottle green — a deep green.
  • bottle party — a party to which guests bring drink
  • bottle-green — Something that is bottle-green is dark green in colour.
  • bottled beer — beer in a bottle, rather than from a barrel
  • bottled wine — wine that has been transferred from barrel to bottle
  • bottlewasher — a person or machine that washes bottles.
  • bottom break — a branch coming from the bottom of a plant stem, usually formed by pinching and disbudding.
  • bottom grass — any grass that grows on bottoms or lowlands.
  • bottom house — the open space beneath a house built upon high pillars
  • bottom quark — a type of quark with a mass of c. 4.7 to 5.3 GeV/c2, a negative charge that is 1⁄3 the charge of an electron, zero charm, and zero strangeness
  • bottom round — a cut of beef taken from outside the round, which is below the rump and above the upper leg.
  • bottom yeast — a yeast whose cells, in the manufacture of wine and lager beer, fall to the bottom as a sediment.
  • bottom-liner — a person, as an executive, accountant, or stockholder, who puts the net profits of a business ahead of all other considerations.
  • bottomfeeder — (networking)   An RSS aggregator.
  • bottomlessly — from a bottomless point of view
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