7-letter words containing o, s
- barstow — a city in S California.
- baryons — Plural form of baryon.
- basoche — a guild of medieval Parisian lawyers, granted the privilege of performing religious plays and known for abusing this privilege by performing comic plays instead
- basotho — a member of the subgroup of the Sotho people who chiefly inhabit Lesotho
- bassano — Jacopo [yah-kaw-paw] /ˈyɑ kɔ pɔ/ (Show IPA), (Giacomo da Ponte) 1510–92, Italian painter.
- bassoon — A bassoon is a large musical instrument of the woodwind family that is shaped like a tube and played by blowing into a curved metal pipe.
- bastion — If a system or organization is described as a bastion of a particular way of life, it is seen as being important and effective in defending that way of life. Bastion can be used both when you think that this way of life should be ended and when you think it should be defended.
- bastrop — a city in N Louisiana.
- batboys — Plural form of batboy.
- bateson — William, 1861–1926, English biologist and geneticist.
- bausond — (of animals) dappled with white spots on a black or bay background; esp having a white patch on the face
- bazooms — a woman's breasts
- bc soil — a soil that contains the B and C horizons only
- beacons — a city in SE New York.
- beckons — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of beckon.
- becomes — to come, change, or grow to be (as specified): He became tired.
- beddoes — Thomas Lovell. 1803–49, British poet, noted for his macabre imagery, esp in Death's Jest-Book (1850)
- bedpost — A bedpost is one of the four vertical supports at the corners of a bed with an old-fashioned wooden or iron frame.
- bedsock — A sock worn in bed, to keep the feet warm.
- bedsore — Bedsores are sore places on a person's skin, caused by having to lie in bed for a long time without changing position.
- belasco — David1853-1931; U.S. theatrical producer, playwright, & actor
- bellows — an instrument consisting of an air chamber with flexible sides or end, a means of compressing it, an inlet valve, and a constricted outlet that is used to create a stream of air, as for producing a draught for a fire or for sounding organ pipes
- benison — a blessing, esp a spoken one
- benthos — the animals and plants living at the bottom of a sea or lake
- beprose — to reduce to prose
- bergson — Henri Louis (ɑ̃ri lwi). 1859–1941, French philosopher, who sought to bridge the gap between metaphysics and science. His main works are Memory and Matter (1896, trans. 1911) and Creative Evolution (1907, trans. 1911): Nobel prize for literature 1927
- bescour — to scour thoroughly
- beshout — to shout at or about
- besmoke — to blacken, or fumigate, with smoke
- bespoke — A bespoke craftsman such as a tailor makes and sells things that are specially made for the customer who ordered them.
- besport — to amuse (oneself)
- bespout — to utter (something) pretentiously
- bestorm — to assault
- bestows — to present as a gift; give; confer (usually followed by on or upon): The trophy was bestowed upon the winner.
- bestrow — bestrew.
- bifrost — the rainbow bridge of the gods from their realm Asgard to earth
- bilboes — a long iron bar with two sliding shackles, formerly used to confine the ankles of a prisoner
- bilious — If someone describes the appearance of something as bilious, they mean that they think it looks unpleasant and rather disgusting.
- biomass — the total number of living organisms in a given area, expressed in terms of living or dry weight per unit area
- bionics — the study of certain biological functions, esp those relating to the brain, that are applicable to the development of electronic equipment, such as computer hardware, designed to operate in a similar manner
- biopsic — relating to the examination of living body tissue
- biovars — a group of microorganisms, usually bacteria, that have identical genetic but different biochemical or physiological characters.
- bistort — a Eurasian polygonaceous plant, Polygonum bistorta, having leaf stipules fused to form a tube around the stem and a spike of small pink flowers
- bivious — with a choice of two different ways
- blasto- — (in biology) indicating an embryo or bud or the process of budding
- blesbok — an antelope, Damaliscus dorcas (or albifrons), of southern Africa. The coat is a deep reddish-brown with a white blaze between the eyes; the horns are lyre-shaped
- blossom — Blossom is the flowers that appear on a tree before the fruit.
- blouson — a short jacket or top having the shape of a blouse
- boarish — coarse, cruel, or sensual
- boasted — to speak with exaggeration and excessive pride, especially about oneself.