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11-letter words containing bo

  • bamboozling — Present participle of bamboozle.
  • banana boat — a refrigerated ship used for transporting bananas
  • bandy about — If someone's name or something such as an idea is bandied about or is bandied around, that person or that thing is discussed by many people in a casual way.
  • bargeboards — Plural form of bargeboard.
  • barrel bolt — a rod-shaped bolt for fastening a door or the like, attached to one side of the door at the edge and sliding into a socket on the frame of the opening.
  • basic cobol — (language)   A subset of COBOL from COBOL-60 standards.
  • be about to — If you are about to do something, you are going to do it very soon. If something is about to happen, it will happen very soon.
  • bearer bond — a bond payable to the person in possession
  • beaverboard — a stiff light board of compressed wood fibre, used esp to surface partitions
  • beer bottle — a bottle for beer
  • bell-bottom — designating trousers or slacks that are flared beginning at the knee or mid-calf
  • benderboard — pliable, lightweight board used for making concrete patios, in gardens, and as woven fencing: often 4 to 6 inches (10 to 15 cm) wide and 1/4 to 1/2 inch (0.6 to 1.2 cm) thick and made from California redwood.
  • bicarbonate — a salt of carbonic acid containing the ion HCO3–; an acid carbonate
  • bilge board — a board lowered from the bilge of a sailing vessel to serve as a keel.
  • blanket bog — a very acid peat bog, low in nutrients, extending widely over a flat terrain, found in cold wet climates
  • blue ribbon — A blue ribbon is the same as a blue riband.
  • blue-ribbon — of superior quality or prominence; first-rate; specially selected: a blue-ribbon committee of fund-raisers.
  • board check — a body check in which the opponent is thrown against the wooden wall enclosing the rink. Compare check1 (def 37).
  • boat anchor — 1. Like doorstop but more severe; implies that the offending hardware is irreversibly dead or useless. "That was a working motherboard once. One lightning strike later, instant boat anchor!" 2. A person who just takes up space. 3. Obsolete but still working hardware, especially when used of an old S100-bus hobbyist system; originally a term of annoyance, but became more and more affectionate as the hardware became more and more obsolete.
  • boat people — Boat people are people who escape from their country in small boats to travel to another country in the hope that they will be able to live there.
  • boat-shaped — shaped like a boat
  • boatbuilder — A boatbuilder is a person or company that makes boats.
  • boatmanship — boatsmanship.
  • bobbin lace — lace made with bobbins rather than with needle and thread (needlepoint lace); pillow lace
  • bobby socks — Bobby socks or bobbysox are short socks worn by girls or women.
  • bobby-soxer — esp. in the 1940s, a girl in her early teens, esp. one who conformed to adolescent fads
  • bobsledding — a sled having two pairs of runners, a brake, and a steering wheel or other mechanism that enables the front rider to direct the sled down a steeply banked run or chute.
  • bodaciously — in a bodacious manner
  • bodgo gegen — a former Buddhist leader of the Mongols.
  • bodhidharma — 6th century ad, Indian Buddhist monk, who taught in China (from 520): considered to be the founder of Zen Buddhism
  • bodhisattva — (in Mahayana Buddhism) a divine being worthy of nirvana who remains on the human plane to help men to salvation
  • body armour — Body armour is special protective clothing which people such as soldiers and police officers sometimes wear when they are in danger of being attacked with guns or other weapons.
  • body cavity — the internal cavity of any multicellular animal that contains the digestive tract, heart, kidneys, etc. In vertebrates it develops from the coelom
  • body colour — a painting technique using opaque watercolour paint in which the pigments are bound with glue and the lighter tones contain white
  • body combat — a type of fitness programme in which individuals perform non-contact martial arts moves to music
  • body double — a person who substitutes for a star for the filming of a scene that involves shots of the body rather than the face
  • body fluids — fluids in the body such as blood, semen, and saliva
  • body horror — a horror film genre in which the main feature is the graphically depicted destruction or degeneration of a human body or bodies
  • body lotion — skin lotion for use on the body
  • body packer — a smuggler of illegal drugs, especially one who swallows bags containing them.
  • body rhythm — biorhythm.
  • body search — If a person is body searched, someone such as a police officer searches them while they remain clothed. Compare strip-search.
  • body shield — a small bulletproof shield attached to the arm for fending off projectiles, especially in a riot situation.
  • body swerve — (esp in football games) the act or an instance of swerving past an opponent
  • body warmer — a sleeveless type of jerkin, usually quilted, worn as an outer garment for extra warmth
  • body-packer — a person who smuggles illicit drugs in balloons, condoms, or similar plastic bags which have either been swallowed or inserted in the rectum or vagina
  • body-search — to search all parts of the body of: Police ordered the suspects to strip and then body-searched them for hidden caches of narcotics.
  • bodybuilder — A bodybuilder is a person who does special exercises regularly in order to make his or her muscles grow bigger.
  • boeremusiek — a variety of light music associated with the culture of the Afrikaners
  • bogged down — If you get bogged down in something, it prevents you from making progress or getting something done.
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