11-letter words containing bo
- bonus share — a share from stock given by a company to existing shareholders
- bonus stock — shares of stock, usually common, given by a corporation as a bonus with the purchase of another class of security
- bony spavin — enlargement of the hock of a horse by a bony growth, usually caused by inflammation or injury, and often resulting in lameness
- booby hatch — a hoodlike covering for a hatchway on a ship
- booby prize — The booby prize is a prize given as a joke to the person who comes last in a competition.
- boojum tree — a tree, Idria columnaris, native to Baja California, having spreading spiny branches, deciduous leaves, and yellow flowers.
- book jacket — a removable paper cover used to protect a bound book
- book review — a description and analysis of a new book
- book rights — the legal right to make use of the text of a printed book
- book titles — (publication) There is a tradition in hackerdom of informally tagging important textbooks and standards documents with the dominant colour of their covers or with some other conspicuous feature of the cover. Many of these are described in this dictionary under their own entries. See Aluminum Book, Blue Book, Cinderella Book, Devil Book, Dragon Book, Green Book, Orange Book, Pink-Shirt Book, Purple Book, Red Book, Silver Book, White Book, Wizard Book, Yellow Book, bible, rainbow series.
- book-ending — a support placed at the end of a row of books to hold them upright, usually used in pairs.
- bookbindery — a place in which books are bound
- bookbinding — Bookbinding is the work of fastening books together and putting covers on them.
- booking fee — a fee that some theatre and agencies charge the customer for booking through them
- bookkeeping — Bookkeeping is the job or activity of keeping an accurate record of the money that is spent and received by a business or other organization.
- bookselling — the activity of selling books
- boolean sum — Mathematics. symmetric difference.
- boomeranger — a young adult who returns to live with parents after a period of living away from home.
- boondoggler — a product of simple manual skill, as a plaited leather cord for the neck or a knife sheath, made typically by a camper or a scout.
- boorishness — of or like a boor; unmannered; crude; insensitive.
- boost phase — the portion of the flight of a ballistic missile or spacecraft during which the booster and sustainer engines operate to bring it near or to peak velocity.
- boost-start — jump-start.
- boot polish — a resistant polish specially formulated to protect boots of various kinds
- boot-licker — to seek the favor or goodwill of in a servile, degraded way; toady to.
- bootlegging — alcoholic liquor unlawfully made, sold, or transported, without registration or payment of taxes.
- bootlicking — to seek the favor or goodwill of in a servile, degraded way; toady to.
- boottopping — the area between the water lines of a ship when fully loaded and when unloaded.
- borborygmus — rumbling of the stomach
- bordelaises — a brown sauce flavored with red wine and shallots and garnished with poached marrow and parsley.
- border line — boundary line; frontier.
- border raid — an incursion by attackers into a neighbouring country
- bored stiff — very bored
- boric oxide — a colorless crystalline compound, B 2 O 3 , used in metallurgy and chemical analysis.
- boring clam — piddock
- boring mill — a large vertical lathe having a rotating table on which work is secured. Tools are held on a fixed post and the work is rotated around it
- borohydride — any compound, such as sodium borohydride, which contains the radical BH4
- borstal boy — (formerly) a boy sent to borstal
- bosom buddy — close friend
- boss around — order about
- boss screen — a screen image within a computer game that can be activated instantly, designed to hide the evidence of game-playing, esp at work
- bossnapping — kidnapping a company executive as part of industrial action
- boston bull — Boston terrier
- boston crab — a wrestling hold in which a wrestler seizes both or one of his opponent's legs, turns him face downwards, and exerts pressure over his back
- boston fern — a cultivated fern (Nephrolepis exaltata var. bostoniensis) with odd-pinnate leaves, used as a house plant
- botanically — Also, botanic. of, pertaining to, made from, or containing plants: botanical survey; botanical drugs.
- botanomancy — a form of divination in which tree branches or leaves are burnt
- botany wool — a fine wool from the merino sheep
- botheration — bother
- bottle baby — an infant fed by bottle from birth, as distinguished from one who is breast-fed.
- bottle bank — A bottle bank is a large container into which people can put empty bottles so that the glass can be used again.