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10-letter words containing bo

  • bookkeeper — A bookkeeper is a person whose job is to keep an accurate record of the money that is spent and received by a business or other organization.
  • bookmaking — Bookmaking is the activity of taking people's money when they bet and paying them money if they win.
  • bookmarked — a ribbon or other marker placed between the pages of a book to mark a place.
  • bookmobile — a vehicle providing lending library facilities
  • bookreader — DEC's CD-ROM-based on-line documentation browser.
  • bookseller — A bookseller is a person who sells books.
  • bookviewer — A hypertext documentation system from Oracle based on Oracle Toolkit. It allows the user to create private links and bookmarks, and to make multimedia annotations.
  • boondocker — combat boot.
  • boondoggle — People sometimes refer to an official organization or activity as a boondoggle when they think it wastes a lot of time and money and does not achieve much.
  • boosterish — designed to boost business; optimistic
  • boosterism — the practice of actively promoting a city, region, etc, and its local businesses
  • boot block — (operating system)   A program on a hard disk, floppy disk or other media, which is loaded when the computer is turned on or rebooted and which controls the next phase of loading the actual operating system. The loading and execution of the boot block is usually controlled by firmware in ROM or PROM. It may be at some fixed location possibly or may be pointed to by the master boot record.
  • boot money — unofficial bonuses in the form of illegal cash payments made by a professional sports club to its players
  • boot virus — An MS-DOS virus that infects the boot record program on hard disks and floppy disks or the master boot record on hard disks. The virus gets loaded into memory before MS-DOS and takes control of the computer, infecting any floppy disks subsequently accessed. An infected boot disk may stop the computer starting up at all.
  • boot-faced — wearing a stern, disapproving expression
  • booth-babe — an attractive woman hired to draw attendees of commercial exhibitions into promotional booths
  • bootlegged — made, sold, or transported unlawfully.
  • bootlegger — alcoholic liquor unlawfully made, sold, or transported, without registration or payment of taxes.
  • bootlicker — to seek the favor or goodwill of in a servile, degraded way; toady to.
  • bootloader — a bootstrap loader
  • bootmaking — the activity of making boots and shoes
  • booty bump — a method of administering the recreational drug methamphetamine, in which the drug is mixed with water then injected into the rectum with a needleless syringe
  • booty call — a meeting arranged for the purpose of having sex
  • boozehound — a person who drinks excessive amounts of alcohol regularly
  • borah peak — a mountain in central Idaho, in the Lost River Range: highest peak in Idaho. 12,662 feet (3861 meters).
  • borax bead — a bead of fused borax, used in chemical analysis for the identification of certain metal oxides.
  • borborygmi — a rumbling or gurgling sound caused by the movement of gas in the intestines.
  • bordelaise — denoting a brown sauce flavoured with red wine and sometimes mushrooms
  • border tax — a tax system for imports and exports, especially one that compensates for internal taxes in Common Market countries by levying fees or paying rebates.
  • bordereaux — a detailed memorandum, especially one in which documents are listed.
  • borderland — The borderland between two things is an area which contains features from both of these things so that it is not possible to say that it belongs to one or the other.
  • borderless — without a band or margin around or along the edge
  • borderline — The borderline between two different or opposite things is the division between them.
  • bordraging — an attack or raid on a border region
  • borer bomb — a device that emits pesticide fumes
  • borgerhout — a town in N Belgium, near Antwerp. Pop: 40 142 (2002 est)
  • boric acid — a white soluble weakly acid crystalline solid used in the manufacture of heat-resistant glass and porcelain enamels, as a fireproofing material, and as a mild antiseptic. Formula: H3BO3
  • boring bar — Metalworking. a bar holding a tool for boring a cylinder or the like.
  • boringness — the quality of being boring
  • boris bike — any bicycle rented out by London's public bicycle hire scheme
  • born-again — A born-again Christian is a person who has become an evangelical Christian as a result of a religious experience.
  • borrow pit — an excavation dug to provide fill to make up ground elsewhere
  • borrow-pit — a pit from which construction material, as sand or gravel, is taken for use as fill at another location.
  • borrowable — to take or obtain with the promise to return the same or an equivalent: Our neighbor borrowed my lawn mower.
  • borrowings — a company's liabilities or indebtedness
  • boskop man — the undated cranial remains of a possible Homo sapiens found in the Transvaal of South Africa.
  • boss cocky — a boss or person in power
  • boss-tweed — William Marcy [mahr-see] /ˈmɑr si/ (Show IPA), ("Boss Tweed") 1823–78, U.S. politician.
  • bossa nova — a dance similar to the samba, originating in Brazil
  • bossyboots — a bossy or domineering person
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