10-letter words containing bo
- iceboating — the sport of using an iceboat
- ill-boding — foreboding evil; inauspicious; unlucky: ill-boding stars.
- imageboard — A type of Internet forum that revolves around the posting of images with minimal associated text.
- in my book — In my book means 'in my opinion' or 'according to my beliefs'.
- inbornness — The quality or state of being inborn.
- ink bottle — a bottle containing ink
- ionic bond — the electrostatic bond between two ions formed through the transfer of one or more electrons.
- irish boat — a small fishing boat used in the Boston area in the late 19th century, derived from an Irish model and having a cutter rig.
- isoborneol — (organic compound) The exo-isomer of borneol.
- jaborandis — Plural form of jaborandi.
- jaboticaba — an evergreen tree, Myrciaria cauliflora, of the Myrtle family, native to southern Brazil, bearing on the trunk small clusters of edible, grapelike fruit.
- jabotinsky — Vladimir, 1880–1940, Russian Zionist leader in Palestine.
- jackbooted — wearing jackboots.
- jockey box — a glove compartment, especially in a truck.
- john cabot — John (Giovanni Caboto) c1450–98? Italian navigator in the service of England: discoverer of North American mainland 1497.
- jolly boat — a light boat carried at the stern of a sailing vessel.
- jollyboats — Plural form of jollyboat.
- jugal bone — (in humans) cheekbone (def 1).
- jumbo loan — a loan that exceeds the standard maximum amount offered by a financial institution
- jumbo pack — a very large pack. Used mainly in advertising and in the names of products
- jumbo-boom — a very large person, animal, or thing.
- jumbotrons — Plural form of jumbotron.
- junk bonds — any corporate bond with a low rating and a high yield, often involving high risk.
- just about — more or less
- jute board — a strong, bendable cardboard made from rags and sulfite, used chiefly in the manufacture of shipping cartons.
- katabolism — Alternative form of catabolism.
- keep books — to keep a record of business transactions
- keyboarded — Simple past tense and past participle of keyboard.
- keyboarder — One who keyboards; a typist.
- kick about — to strike with the foot or feet: to kick the ball; to kick someone in the shins.
- kickboards — Plural form of kickboard.
- kickboxing — a form of boxing in which the gloved combatants may also kick with bare feet.
- knockabout — Nautical. any of various fore-and-aft-rigged sailing vessels having a single jib bent to a stay from the stemhead, no bowsprit being used: usually rigged as a sloop.
- labor camp — Also called slave labor camp. a penal colony where inmates are forced to work.
- laboratory — a building, part of a building, or other place equipped to conduct scientific experiments, tests, investigations, etc., or to manufacture chemicals, medicines, or the like.
- laborforce — Alternative form of labor force.
- labour day — a holiday in honor of labor, celebrated on May 1 in Britain and some parts of the Commonwealth, but on the first Monday in September in Canada, on the fourth Monday in October in New Zealand, and with varying dates in the different states of Australia.
- labour law — those areas of law which appertain to the relationship between employers and employees and between employers and trade unions
- labourious — Lb nonstandard Alternative form of from=UK.
- laboursome — (obsolete) Hard-working.
- laminboard — A compound wood board consisting of thin strips of softwood placed side by side and sandwiched between veneer panels, often of hardwood, considered to be of higher quality than blockboard.
- lar gibbon — white-handed gibbon.
- lay aboard — (formerly) to move alongside a warship to board it
- le bourget — a suburb of Paris: former airport, landing site for Charles A. Lindbergh, May 1927.
- lear board — (on a sloping roof) a board laid next to the gutter to receive the turned-up edge of the metal lining.
- letter box — Also, letter box. Chiefly British. a public or private mailbox.
- letterbomb — (messaging) 1. An e-mail message containing live data intended to do nefarious things to the recipient's computer or terminal. It is possible, for example, to send letterbombs that will lock up some specific kinds of terminals when they are viewed, so thoroughly that the user must turn the terminal off to unwedge it. Under Unix, a letterbomb can also try to get part of its contents interpreted as a shell command. The results of this could range from silly to tragic. See also Trojan horse; compare nastygram, talk bomb. 2. Loosely, a mailbomb.
- lewis bolt — an anchor bolt having a conical base around which concrete or lead is poured to hold it.
- lightboard — switchboard (def 2).
- linerboard — a type of paperboard used especially for containers, as corrugated boxes.