10-letter words containing bo
- corroboree — a native assembly of sacred, festive, or warlike character
- coursebook — a book studied on an educational course
- cowboy hat — a wide-brimmed hat as worn by cowboys
- crash boat — a small, fast boat used in rescue operations, especially for airplane crashes.
- crazy bone — funny bone
- crossbones — a representation of two thighbones placed across each other, usually under that of a skull, used as a symbol of death or danger
- cuttlebone — the internal calcareous shell of the cuttlefish, used as a mineral supplement to the diet of cage-birds and as a polishing agent
- dartboards — Plural form of dartboard.
- dashboards — Plural form of dashboard.
- debonairly — In a debonair manner.
- debonnaire — courteous, gracious, and having a sophisticated charm: a debonair gentleman.
- debouching — Present participle of debouche.
- decaborane — (inorganic compound) The stable borane B10H14.
- desk-bound — engaged in or involving sedentary work, as at an office desk
- devil book — (publication) "The Design and Implementation of the 4.3BSD Unix Operating System", by Samuel J. Leffler, Marshall Kirk McKusick, Michael J. Karels, and John S. Quarterman (Addison-Wesley Publishers, 1989, ISBN 0-201-06196-1). The standard reference book on the internals of BSD Unix. So called because the cover has a picture depicting a little devil (a visual play on daemon) in sneakers, holding a pitchfork (referring to one of the characteristic features of Unix, the "fork(2)" system call).
- diabolical — If you describe something as diabolical, you are emphasizing that it is very bad, extreme, or unpleasant.
- diabolized — Simple past tense and past participle of diabolize.
- dialog box — A dialog box is a small area containing information or questions that appears on a computer screen when you are performing particular operations.
- dirty bomb — a nuclear warhead designed to produce a great amount of radioactive debris by use of a fusion core, fission trigger, and casing of uranium-238.
- discobolus — A discus thrower.
- disembogue — to discharge contents by pouring forth.
- disembosom — to reveal; divulge.
- disembowel — to remove the bowels or entrails from; eviscerate.
- disselboom — One of the poles supporting a wagon.
- dogsbodies — Plural form of dogsbody.
- doukhobors — Dukhobors
- drainboard — a working surface beside or on a kitchen sink, formed and inclined to drain into the sink.
- dream book — a book, pamphlet, etc., that lists common dreams and purports to interpret them, especially in regard to their meaning for the future.
- dreamboats — Plural form of dreamboat.
- drop elbow — an elbow having lugs for attaching it to a wall or joist.
- duckboards — Plural form of duckboard.
- dutch bond — a brickwork bond in which the vertical joints of the stretchers in any course are in line with the centers of the first stretchers above and below.
- duty-bound — If you say you are duty-bound to do something, you are emphasizing that you feel it is your duty to do it.
- earthbound — headed for the earth: an earthbound meteorite.
- eastbourne — a seaport in East Sussex, in SE England.
- eboulement — a collapse; cave-in.
- elaborates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of elaborate.
- elaborator — One who, or that which, elaborates.
- elbow room — Elbow room is the freedom to do what you want to do or need to do in a particular situation.
- elbow-rest — something designed for resting one's elbow on
- embodiment — A tangible or visible form of an idea, quality, or feeling.
- emboldened — Having been made bold.
- emboldener — a person or thing that emboldens
- emboliform — Plug-shaped.
- embolismal — relating to embolism, being the insertion of one or more days into a calendar
- embolismic — Relating to embolism or intercalation.
- embonpoint — The plump or fleshy part of a person’s body, in particular a woman’s bosom.
- embosoming — Present participle of embosom.
- embossable — Capable of being embossed.
- embossment — The result of embossing; something that has been embossed.