10-letter words containing s, o
- bonus army — a group of 12,000 World War I veterans who massed in Washington, D.C., the summer of 1932 to induce Congress to appropriate moneys for the payment of bonus certificates granted in 1924.
- bonus baby — an athlete who is paid a substantial bonus to sign his or her first professional contract.
- bonus ball — (in the National Lottery draw) a ball randomly selected after the first six balls, containing a number which influences the amount of prize money paid
- bonus pack — anything sold with a product and marketed as a useful and free extra
- book louse — any of various small, usually wingless, insects (order Psocoptera) that infest and destroy old books
- book lungs — primitive lungs of many arachnids, consisting of pagelike layers of tissue over which air circulates for respiration
- book share — a share of a mutual fund credited to the account of a shareholder without the physical issuance of a certificate evidencing ownership.
- bookseller — A bookseller is a person who sells books.
- 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
- borderless — without a band or margin around or along the edge
- 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
- boskop man — the undated cranial remains of a possible Homo sapiens found in the Transvaal of South Africa.
- boss cocky — a boss or person in power
- boss-tweed — William Marcy [mahr-see] /ˈmɑr si/ (Show IPA), ("Boss Tweed") 1823–78, U.S. politician.
- bossa nova — a dance similar to the samba, originating in Brazil
- bossyboots — a bossy or domineering person
- boston bag — a two-handled bag for carrying books, papers, etc.
- 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.
- bothersome — Someone or something that is bothersome is annoying or irritating.
- bottlenose — a kind of whale or dolphin
- bottomless — If you describe a supply of something as bottomless, you mean that it seems so large that it will never run out.
- bottommost — lowest or most fundamental
- bottomness — the number of bottom antiquarks minus the number of bottom quarks in a particle
- bottoms up — Some people say bottoms up to each other just before drinking an alcoholic drink.
- 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.
- bow street — a street in London, England: location of a metropolitan police court.
- 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.
- bowser bag — doggy bag.
- 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.
- box staple — a socket for holding the end of a lock bolt when the door is closed.
- box supper — a social gathering, as at a church, at which box lunches donated by women are auctioned off to raise funds
- boy scouts — the worldwide movement founded by Lord Baden-Powell in 1908, now called the Scout Association in the UK and the Boys Scouts of America in the USA, which pursues a programme of activities for boys with the aim of developing character and responsibility
- 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.