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10-letter words containing bo

  • gambolling — to skip about, as in dancing or playing; frolic.
  • geobotanic — phytogeography.
  • goggle-box — a television set.
  • golden boy — a man or boy who is especially popular and successful
  • golgi body — an organelle, consisting of layers of flattened sacs, that takes up and processes secretory and synthetic products from the endoplasmic reticulum and then either releases the finished products into various parts of the cell cytoplasm or secretes them to the outside of the cell.
  • googlebomb — an effort to move a website to the top of search-engine results for a particular word or phrase, by creating a large number of links that contain this search text.
  • grade book — a book in which a student's grades are recorded
  • gravy boat — a small dish, often boat-shaped, for serving gravy or sauce.
  • green book — 1. Informal name for one of the four standard references on PostScript. The other three official guides are known as the Blue Book, the Red Book, and the White Book. 2.   (publication)   Informal name for one of the three standard references on SmallTalk. Also associated with blue and red books. 3. The "X/Open Compatibility Guide", which defines an international standard Unix environment that is a proper superset of POSIX/SVID. It also includes descriptions of a standard utility toolkit, systems administrations features, and the like. This grimoire is taken with particular seriousness in Europe. See Purple Book. 4. The IEEE 1003.1 POSIX Operating Systems Interface standard has been dubbed "The Ugly Green Book". 5. Any of the 1992 standards issued by the ITU-T's tenth plenary assembly. These include, among other things, the dreadful X.400 electronic mail standard and the Group 1 through 4 fax standards. 6. Green Book CD-ROM. See also book titles.
  • greenboard — a green chalkboard or blackboard.
  • greensboro — a city in N North Carolina.
  • guest book — (web)   The electronic equivalent of the physical notebooks found in some small hotels, in which visitors can write their names, comments and suggestions for the benefit of the proprietors and future visitors or purely for posterity. The electronic version is a form on a website into which users can enter similar details for display on the site.
  • guideboard — a large board or sign, usually mounted on a post, giving directions to travelers.
  • guidebooks — Plural form of guidebook.
  • hack board — Falconry. a board or platform at which hawks being flown at hack are fed.
  • half board — demi-pension (def 1).
  • half-board — demi-pension (def 1).
  • half-bound — bound in half binding.
  • halocarbon — any of a class of compounds containing carbon, one or more halogens, and sometimes hydrogen.
  • hand-bound — (of books) bound by hand.
  • hang about — to fasten or attach (a thing) so that it is supported only from above or at a point near its own top; suspend.
  • harborless — Alternative spelling of harbourless.
  • harborside — bordering a harbor.
  • harbourage — (British, nautical) A place for refuge for a vessel.
  • harbourful — the amount that a harbour can hold
  • harbouring — a part of a body of water along the shore deep enough for anchoring a ship and so situated with respect to coastal features, whether natural or artificial, as to provide protection from winds, waves, and currents.
  • hard labor — compulsory labor imposed upon criminals in addition to imprisonment, generally not exceeding ordinary labor in severity or amount.
  • hard-bound — hardcover
  • hardboiled — Alternative spelling of hard-boiled.
  • hatch boat — a small fishing vessel having covered wells for holding the catch.
  • headboards — Plural form of headboard.
  • hellebores — Plural form of hellebore.
  • helleborin — a colorless, crystalline, water-insoluble, poisonous solid, C 28 H 36 O 6 , obtained from the rhizome and root of certain hellebores, and used in medicine chiefly as a purgative.
  • hereabouts — about this place; in this neighborhood.
  • high board — a diving board three meters above the water.
  • hit bottom — the lowest or deepest part of anything, as distinguished from the top: the bottom of a hill; the bottom of a page. Synonyms: base, foot, pedestal.
  • hobohemian — Of, or pertaining to, a hobohemia.
  • homebodies — Plural form of homebody.
  • homeoboxes — Plural form of homeobox.
  • horseboxes — Plural form of horsebox.
  • houseboats — Plural form of houseboat.
  • housebound — restricted to the house, as by bad weather or illness.
  • hoverboard — (science fiction) A levitating board that can be ridden in the manner of a surfboard or skateboard.
  • hucklebone — hipbone.
  • human body — the physical structure and material substance of a human being, consisting of many billions of cells as well as components outside of the cells: The average adult human body is 50–65% water.
  • hunt board — English Furniture. a semicircular drinking table, often having a groove serving as a guide for coasters and a well for unopened bottles.
  • hyoid bone — the horseshoe-shaped bone that lies at the base of the tongue and above the thyroid cartilage or a corresponding bone or group of bones in other vertebrates
  • hyperbolas — Plural form of hyperbola.
  • hyperboles — Plural form of hyperbole.
  • hyperbolic — having the nature of hyperbole; exaggerated.
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