10-letter words containing bo
- pilot boat — a boat carrying pilots to or from large ships.
- piss about — to behave in a casual or silly way
- pocketbook — a woman's purse or handbag.
- polar body — one of the minute cells arising from the unequal meiotic divisions of the ovum at or near the time of fertilization.
- poster boy — a person who appears on a poster
- powder boy — powder monkey (def 1).
- prattlebox — a person who prattles, a chatterbox
- pressboard — a kind of millboard or pasteboard.
- pressboxer — a sportswriter or sportscaster.
- pretty boy — if you describe a man as a pretty boy, you are suggesting he is not very manly and too interested in his appearance
- prompt box — a booth where someone sits to remind (an actor, singer, etc) of lines forgotten during a performance
- promptbook — a copy of the script of a play, containing cues and notes, used by the prompter, stage manager, etc.
- pull about — to handle roughly
- punch bowl — a large bowl from which punch, lemonade, etc., is served, usually with a ladle.
- punch-bowl — a large bowl from which punch, lemonade, etc., is served, usually with a ladle.
- punchboard — a small board containing holes filled with slips of paper printed with concealed numbers that are punched out by a player in an attempt to win a prize.
- push about — to bully; keep telling (a person) what to do in a bossy manner
- puzzle box — an enclosure, used in experiments in animal learning, from which an animal must escape or in which it must manipulate various devices.
- pyroborate — borax1 .
- rackabones — 'a rack of bones', a metaphor for a person or animal that is very thin or emaciated
- raised bog — a bog of convex shape produced by growth of sphagnum and other bog plants in acid conditions and the subsequent build up of acid peat
- ramboesque — looking or behaving like, or characteristic of, Rambo, a fictional film character noted for his mindless brutality
- red ribbon — a badge, banner, rosette, or the like made of red-colored ribbon or other material and used to signify the achievement of second place, as in a contest.
- rekeyboard — to enter (information) again on a keyboard or other similar device
- rhomboidal — shaped almost like a diamond or rhomboid
- rhomboides — a rhomboid
- ribbonfish — any of several marine fishes of the families Trachipteridae, Regalicidae, and Lophotidae, having a long, compressed, ribbonlike body.
- ribbonwood — a small evergreen malvaceous tree, Hoheria populnea, of New Zealand. Its wood is used in furniture making and the tough bark for making cord
- riboflavin — a vitamin B complex factor appearing as an orange-yellow, crystalline compound, C 1 7 H 2 0 N 4 O 6 , derived from ribose, essential for growth, found in milk, fresh meat, eggs, leafy vegetables, etc., or made synthetically, and used in enriching flour, in vitamin preparations, and in treating facial lesions.
- rightabout — the position assumed by turning about to the right so as to face in the opposite direction.
- rigid body — A rigid body is a body that does not deform or vibrate.
- rise above — to get up from a lying, sitting, or kneeling posture; assume an upright position: She rose and walked over to greet me. With great effort he rose to his knees.
- roborating — strengthening or invigorating
- robot bomb — a rocket-propelled, gyroscopically steered bomb equipped with wings and control surfaces, usually launched from the ground.
- roboticist — a specialist in robots or robotics.
- rock borer — any of various sea creatures that bore into rock, such as some sea urchins, sponges, annelid worms, barnacles, isopods, and molluscs
- rock-bound — hemmed in, enclosed, or covered by rocks; rocky: the rock-bound coast of Maine.
- root borer — any insect or insect larva that bores into the roots of plants
- roundabout — circuitous or indirect, as a road, journey, method, statement or person.
- rouseabout — an unskilled labourer in a shearing shed
- roustabout — a wharf laborer or deck hand, as on the Mississippi River.
- sag harbor — a resort town on E Long Island in SE New York.
- sailboater — a person who sails a boat
- salad bowl — a large bowl in which a salad, especially a tossed salad, is served.
- sauce boat — a low, boat-shaped container for serving sauce or gravy, typically having a handle at one end and a long, wide lip at the other end.
- scaleboard — a very thin board, as for the back of a picture.
- schoolbook — a book for study in schools.
- scoreboard — a large, usually rectangular board in a ballpark, sports arena, or the like, that shows the score of a contest and often other relevant facts and figures, as the count of balls and strikes on a baseball batter.
- scottsboro — a town in NE Alabama.
- scrubboard — washboard (defs 1, 2).