10-letter words containing bo
- embothrium — any evergreen shrub of the genus Embothrium, esp E. coccineum, native to South America but widely cultivated as an ornamental for its scarlet flowers: family Proteaceae
- embouchure — The way in which a player applies the mouth to the mouthpiece of a brass or wind instrument.
- embowering — Present participle of embower.
- errand boy — boy who carries messages, go-between
- exam board — an organization that sets and corrects exams, especially GCSEs and A levels
- facebooker — A person using the social networking website Facebook.
- faff about — If you say that someone is faffing about or faffing around, you mean that they are doing things in a disorganized way and not achieving very much.
- fall about — If you say that people are falling about, you mean that they are laughing a lot about something.
- fallboards — Plural form of fallboard.
- farborough — an under constable of a township
- fart about — to behave foolishly or aimlessly
- ferryboats — Plural form of ferryboat.
- fiberboard — a building material made of wood or other plant fibers compressed and cemented into rigid sheets.
- fibreboard — (British, Canada) A material made from wood chips or shavings, which are compressed and bonded with resin and formed into stiff sheets, often laminated with melamine, and used in building or making furniture.
- fiddle bow — a bow with which the strings of the violin or a similar instrument are set in vibration.
- fieldboots — knee-length boots
- filing box — a box in which files can be stored
- fingerbone — A bone in the finger.
- fingerbowl — a small bowl filled with water for rinsing the fingers at the table after a meal
- fireboards — Plural form of fireboard.
- firebombed — Simple past tense and past participle of firebomb.
- firebottle — electron tube
- first born — Someone's first born is their first child.
- first-born — first in the order of birth; eldest.
- flakeboard — a form of particle board.
- flamboyant — strikingly bold or brilliant; showy: flamboyant colors.
- flashboard — a board, or one of a series of boards, as on a milldam, used to increase the depth of the impounded water.
- flight box — a tool box containing tools and other equipment and necessaries for a person who flies radio-controlled model planes
- float bowl — Automotive. the bowl-shaped section of a carburetor in which a reserve of fuel is maintained, the fuel level being regulated by a float.
- floatboard — paddle1 (def 6).
- floorboard — any of the boards composing a floor.
- flower box — a box used for growing decorative plants in or around the home, often attached to a window ledge.
- fluoborate — a salt of fluoboric acid.
- fluoboride — (chemistry) Any borofluoride.
- flushboard — Alternative form of flashboard.
- food-borne — transmitted by contaminated food
- footboards — Plural form of footboard.
- foreboding — a prediction; portent.
- fort boise — a fort formerly near Boise, in SW Idaho: an important post on the Oregon Trail.
- foxborough — a town in E Massachusetts.
- framboesia — yaws.
- free-bored — (of a rifle) having a bore that is not rifled within a short distance of the breech, so that a fired cartridge travels about 1/2 inch (1.3 cm) before being engaged by the lands, thus reducing initial high pressures.
- freebooter — a person who goes about in search of plunder; pirate; buccaneer.
- frost boil — frost heave.
- frostbound — (of ground) hardened by frost
- fruit bowl — dish for displaying fruit
- fuck about — to act in a stupid or aimless manner
- full board — accommodation: room and meals
- funny bone — the part of the elbow where the ulnar nerve passes by the internal condyle of the humerus, which when struck causes a peculiar, tingling sensation in the arm and hand; crazy bone.
- funny book — comic book.