10-letter words containing o, s, i
- bloodstain — A bloodstain is a mark on a surface caused by blood.
- board side — the broad side of a piece of lumber.
- body shirt — a close-fitting shirt or blouse having a shape and seams that follow the contours of the body.
- boehmenism — the mystical doctrines or conceptions of Jakob Böhme.
- boehmenist — a supporter or adherent of Boehmenism.
- bog spavin — enlargement of the hock of a horse by accumulation in the joint, usually caused by inflammation or injury, and often resulting in lameness
- boilersuit — a one-piece work garment consisting of overalls and a shirt top usually worn over ordinary clothes to protect them
- bois brule — métis (def 2).
- bois d'arc — Osage orange (def 1).
- bois-brûlé — a mixed-race person of Canadian Indian and White (usually French Canadian) ancestry; Métis
- boisbriand — a town in S Quebec, in E Canada, near Montreal.
- boisterous — Someone who is boisterous is noisy, lively, and full of energy.
- bollandist — any of the editors of the Acta Sanctorum.
- bolsheviks — a member of the more radical majority of the Social Democratic Party, 1903–17, advocating immediate and forceful seizure of power by the proletariat. (after 1918) a member of the Russian Communist Party.
- bolshevism — Bolshevism is the political system and ideas that Lenin and his supporters introduced in Russia after the Russian Revolution of 1917.
- bolshevist — a follower or advocate of the doctrines or methods of the Bolsheviks.
- bolshevize — to bring into line with Communist ideology
- bolstering — a long, often cylindrical, cushion or pillow for a bed, sofa, etc.
- bona fides — Someone's bona fides are their good or sincere intentions.
- bonamiasis — a disease affecting oysters, caused by the parasite Bonamia ostreae
- bonnilasse — a pretty girl
- boosterish — designed to boost business; optimistic
- boosterism — the practice of actively promoting a city, region, etc, and its local businesses
- 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.
- bordelaise — denoting a brown sauce flavoured with red wine and sometimes mushrooms
- boringness — the quality of being boring
- boris bike — any bicycle rented out by London's public bicycle hire scheme
- borrowings — a company's liabilities or indebtedness
- boston ivy — a climbing vine (Parthenocissus tricuspidata) of the grape family, native to Japan and China, having shield-shaped leaves and purple berries: often grown to cover walls
- bostonians — of, relating to, or typical of Boston, Mass., or its residents: a Bostonian childhood; Bostonian reserve.
- bosun bird — tropic bird.
- boswellize — to write an account of in the detailed manner of Boswell.
- boulangism — the doctrines of militarism and reprisals against Germany, advocated, especially in the 1880s, by the French general Boulanger.
- boundaries — something that indicates bounds or limits; a limiting or bounding line.
- bounderish — having the qualities of a bounder
- 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
- bousingken — a drinking house frequented by thieves or other disreputable characters
- bovaristic — an exaggerated, especially glamorized, estimate of oneself; conceit.
- bowdlerise — to expurgate (a written work) by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable.
- bowdlerism — to expurgate (a written work) by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable.
- box social — a fund-raising event at which donated box meals are auctioned
- box spring — A box spring is a frame containing rows of coiled springs that is used to provide support for a mattress. You can also use box springs to refer to the springs themselves.
- brailowsky — Alexander [al-ig-zan-der,, -zahn-;; Russian uh-lyi-ksahn-dr] /ˌæl ɪgˈzæn dər,, -ˈzɑn-;; Russian ʌ lyɪˈksɑn dr/ (Show IPA), 1896–1976, Russian pianist.
- brainstorm — If you have a brainstorm, you suddenly become unable to think clearly.
- bravissimo — very well done! excellent!
- brickworks — a factory or plant where bricks are made
- brier rose — any of various thorny shrubs or other plants, such as the sweetbrier and greenbrier
- brightsome — bright or luminous
- brokership — an agent who buys or sells for a principal on a commission basis without having title to the property.