10-letter words containing bo
- new labour — a rebranding of the British Labour Party and its policies undertaken by Tony Blair and his supporters in the run-up to the 1997 general election in Great Britain and maintained during the Labour Party's period of government under Blair's premiership. Never an official title, it denotes the more right-wing/social democratic trend in Labour thinking and policy intended to make the party electable after its electoral catastrophes of the 1980s
- night bolt — night latch.
- nonbonding — neither helping nor impeding atom bonding
- northbound — going toward the north: northbound traffic.
- nose about — the part of the face or facial region in humans and certain animals that contains the nostrils and the organs of smell and functions as the usual passageway for air in respiration: in humans it is a prominence in the center of the face formed of bone and cartilage, serving also to modify or modulate the voice.
- nouadhibou — a seaport in SW Mauritania.
- oak harbor — a town in NW Washington.
- office boy — a person, traditionally a boy, employed in an office to run errands, do odd jobs, etc.
- old-boyism — support of or participation in an old-boy network.
- on the bot — wanting to scrounge
- onboarding — (business) The process of bringing a new employee on board, incorporating training and orientation.
- orange box — a container made from strips of wood, traditionally used for transporting fruit
- order book — written log of orders placed
- orgone box — a cabinetlike device constructed of layers of wood and other materials, as tin, claimed by its inventor, Wilhelm Reich, to restore orgone energy to persons sitting in it, thereby aiding in the cure of impotence, cancer, the common cold, etc.
- orthoboric — (chemistry) boric (especially when compared with other oxyacid species of boron).
- outrebound — to exceed in rebounding
- overabound — (intransitive) To be too abundant or plentiful.
- overboldly — in too bold a manner; incautiously
- overbooked — Simple past tense and past participle of overbook.
- overborrow — to borrow too much money
- overbought — marked by prices considered unjustifiably high because of extensive buying: The stock market is overbought now. Compare oversold.
- overbounds — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overbound.
- overlabour — excessive toil
- oxbow lake — a U -shaped piece of wood placed under and around the neck of an ox with its upper ends in the bar of the yoke.
- oxbow-lake — a U -shaped piece of wood placed under and around the neck of an ox with its upper ends in the bar of the yoke.
- paddle box — a structure enclosing a paddle wheel.
- paddleboat — a boat propelled by a paddle wheel.
- paint bomb — a device containing paint which explodes on impact
- panelboard — a compact pressboard for use in constructing sides of cabinets, paneling for walls, and in other nonstructural applications.
- panic bolt — a bar that spans an emergency exit door on its interior and opens the latch when pressure is applied.
- paperboard — a thick, stiff cardboard composed of layers of paper or paper pulp compressed together.
- paperbound — a book bound in a flexible paper cover, often a lower-priced edition of a hardcover book.
- parabolize — to form as a parabola or paraboloid.
- paraboloid — a surface that can be put into a position such that its sections parallel to at least one coordinate plane are parabolas.
- paramaribo — a republic on the NE coast of South America: formerly a territory of the Netherlands; gained independence 1975. 60,230 sq. mi. (155,995 sq. km). Capital: Paramaribo.
- party boat — a boat that takes paying passengers for a day or several hours of fishing, as in coastal waters or a bay, and usually rents fishing tackle and sells or provides bait.
- pasteboard — a stiff, firm board made of sheets of paper pasted or layers of paper pulp pressed together.
- patchboard — a device with a large number of sockets into which electrical plugs can be inserted to form many different temporary circuits: used in telephone exchanges, computer systems, etc
- pedal boat — a recreational water vehicle, consisting of two pontoons with a transverse seat and propelled by a pedal-operated paddle wheel.
- pencil box — a shallow covered box, usually of pasteboard, for holding pencils and crayons: used by children as an item of school equipment.
- pepper-box — a small box with perforations in the top, for sprinkling pepper.
- phlebogram — venogram.
- phlebolite — a small mass or solid deposit of calcium that forms in a vein
- phlebolith — valueless rock or mineral matter occurring in a vein; gangue.
- phlebology — the study of the anatomy, physiology, and diseases of veins.
- phlebotome — a cutting instrument used for phlebotomy.
- phlebotomy — the act or practice of opening a vein for letting or drawing blood as a therapeutic or diagnostic measure; venesection; bleeding.
- phone book — telephone book.
- picketboat — a boat which keeps guard
- pillar box — a pillarlike box in which letters are deposited for collection by mail carriers; mailbox.