10-letter words containing bo
- scum-board — a board or strip of material partly immersed in flowing water to hold back scum.
- seaborgium — a superheavy, synthetic, radioactive element with a very short half-life. Symbol: Sg; atomic number: 106.
- seborrheic — an excessive and abnormal discharge from the sebaceous glands.
- seborrhoea — an excessive and abnormal discharge from the sebaceous glands.
- sentry box — a small structure for sheltering a sentry from bad weather.
- sex symbol — a celebrity who is held to possess abundant sex appeal.
- shadow box — a shallow, rectangular frame fronted with a glass panel, used to show and at the same time protect items on display, as paintings, coins, or jewelry.
- shadow-box — a shallow, rectangular frame fronted with a glass panel, used to show and at the same time protect items on display, as paintings, coins, or jewelry.
- shellbound — encased in, or confined to, a shell
- shibboleth — a peculiarity of pronunciation, behavior, mode of dress, etc., that distinguishes a particular class or set of persons.
- ship's boy — a male attendant, as a cabin boy, steward, etc., employed to wait on a ship's passengers or officers.
- shortboard — a type of surfboard that is shorter than standard
- showboater — a boat, especially a paddle-wheel steamer, used as a traveling theater.
- sideboards — a piece of furniture, as in a dining room, often with shelves, drawers, etc., for holding articles of table service.
- signal box — a railway signal tower.
- skateboard — a device for riding upon, usually while standing, consisting of a short, oblong piece of wood, plastic, or aluminum mounted on large roller-skate wheels, used on smooth surfaces and requiring better balance of the rider than the ordinary roller skate does.
- sketchbook — Also, sketchpad. a book or pad of drawing paper for sketches.
- sluice-box — an artificial channel for conducting water, often fitted with a gate (sluice gate) at the upper end for regulating the flow.
- small-bore — of, noting, or relating to a .22-caliber firearm.
- smart bomb — a steerable air-to-surface bomb that is guided to its target by television or a laser beam.
- smoke bomb — a bomb that produces a continuous discharge of smoke rather than an explosion, used to mark a target for aerial attack, indicate wind direction, produce a smoke screen, etc.
- smokeboard — a board situated above a fireplace to prevent the emission of smoke into a room
- smoothbore — (of firearms) having a bore that is smooth; not rifled.
- snail bore — drill1 (def 5).
- snobocracy — a social class of snobs
- snow board — a board serving as a snow guard.
- soft-bound — (of a book) having a thin cardboard, paper, or plastic cover
- sonic boom — a loud noise caused by the shock wave generated by an aircraft moving at supersonic speed.
- soundboard — sounding board.
- sourcebook — a book which contains sources of information on a particular subject
- southbound — traveling southward.
- spaceborne — moving in orbit around the earth: a spaceborne surveillance system.
- spellbound — bound by or as if by a spell; enchanted, entranced, or fascinated: a spellbound audience.
- spunbonded — being or designating a material or fiber produced by spun-bonding.
- squawk box — the speaker of a public-address system or an intercom system; loudspeaker.
- squeezebox — a concertina or accordion.
- stable boy — A stable boy is a young man who works in a stable looking after the horses.
- stake boat — an anchored boat to which barges or other boats are temporarily moored.
- stake body — an open truck body having a platform with sockets at the edge into which upright stakes may be placed to form a fence around a load.
- statesboro — a town in E Georgia.
- sternboard — a backward motion of a boat
- stink bomb — a small glass globe, used by practical jokers: it releases a liquid with an offensive smell when broken
- stock book — a permanent record of the capital stock of a corporation, listing the names and addresses of the stockholders, the number of the shares owned, the serial numbers of their stock certificates, etc.
- stoneborer — an animal that can bore through rocks, esp certain types of bivalve molluscs that bore into limestone
- storm boat — assault boat.
- stormbound — confined, detained, or isolated by storms: a stormbound ship; a stormbound village.
- storyboard — a panel or panels on which a sequence of sketches depict the significant changes of action and scene in a planned film, as for a movie, television show, or advertisement.
- stove bolt — a small bolt, similar to a machine screw but with a coarser thread.
- strabotomy — the operation of cutting one or more of the muscles of the eye to correct strabismus.
- strasbourg — a department in NE France. 1848 sq. mi. (4785 sq. km). Capital: Strasbourg.