15-letter words containing bo
- fair-haired boy — having light-colored hair.
- false hellebore — any of various plants belonging to the genus Veratrum, of the lily family, especially a North American species, V. viride, which has clusters of yellowish-green flowers and is the source of substances used in certain medicines and insecticides.
- fishing harbour — a place where fishing boats are tied up
- flying jib boom — an extension on a jib boom, to which a flying jib is fastened.
- forget about it — don't mention it, you're welcome
- garboard strake — the first strake on each side of a keel.
- gibraltar board — a type of lining board with a cardboard surface and a gypsum core
- go by the board — If something goes by the board, it is rejected or ignored, or is no longer possible.
- golden boy/girl — If you refer to a man as a golden boy or a woman as a golden girl, you mean that they are especially popular and successful.
- government bond — a bond issued by a country's government, in its own currency
- greenbottle fly — any of several metallic-green blowflies, as Phaenicia sericata.
- guaranteed bond — a bond issued by a corporation in which payment of the principal, interest, or both is guaranteed by another corporation.
- gulf of bothnia — an arm of the Baltic Sea, extending north between Sweden and Finland
- harbour station — the part of a port where boats shelter or station
- hard-boiled egg — egg boiled until the yolk is set
- how about that! — isn't that interesting!
- humphrey bogart — Humphrey (DeForest) ("Bogie"or"Bogey") 1899–57, U.S. motion-picture actor.
- hybrid antibody — a synthetic antibody that is able to combine with two different antigens
- hype-carbonated — (of a product or service) overvalued as a result of relentless marketing and PR or intensive media exposure
- hyperbolic sine — one of a group of functions of an angle expressed as a relationship between the distances of a point on a hyperbola to the origin and to the coordinate axes; sinh
- hypercatabolism — an abnormally high metabolic breakdown of a substance or tissue which leads to weight loss and physical deterioration
- hypermetabolism — Biology, Physiology. the sum of the physical and chemical processes in an organism by which its material substance is produced, maintained, and destroyed, and by which energy is made available. Compare anabolism, catabolism.
- in honour bound — under a moral obligation
- in the box seat — in the best position
- in-and-out bond — a stonework or brickwork bond having headers and stretchers alternating vertically.
- incendiary bomb — a bomb that is designed to start fires
- incentive bonus — an extra payment made to an employee to reward good work
- indicator board — a device that shows information, such as the arrival and departure times of trains or planes
- indirect labour — work done in administration and sales rather than in the manufacturing of a product
- innominate bone — either of the two bones forming the sides of the pelvis, each consisting of three consolidated bones, the ilium, ischium, and pubis.
- insubordinately — In an insubordinate manner.
- insubordination — the quality or condition of being insubordinate, or of being disobedient to authority; defiance: The employee was fired for insubordination.
- investment bond — a single-premium life-assurance policy in which a fixed sum is invested in an asset-backed fund
- isolation booth — a soundproof booth located within a television studio, used to prevent the occupant, usually a contestant in a game show, from hearing certain parts of the show.
- jack-in-the-box — a toy consisting of a box from which an enclosed figure springs up when the lid is opened.
- jukebox musical — a musical play or film that is based around a series of well-known popular songs
- keyboard plaque — (jargon) The disgusting buildup of dirt and crud found on computer keyboards. "Are there any other terminals I can use? This one has a bad case of keyboard plaque."
- keyboard skills — ability to input information using a keyboard
- knickerbockered — wearing knickers.
- labor relations — worker-employer relationship
- labor-intensive — requiring or using a large supply of labor, relative to capital.
- labour shortage — a shortage or insufficiency of qualified candidates for employment (in an economy, country, etc)
- langue de boeuf — ox-tongue partisan.
- livery cupboard — a cupboard with pierced doors, formerly used as a storage place for food.
- lower slobbovia — any place considered to be remote, poor, or unenlightened.
- lucrezia borgia — Cesare [che-zah-re] /ˈtʃɛ zɑ rɛ/ (Show IPA), 1476?–1507, Italian cardinal, military leader, and politician.
- magnetic bottle — Physics. a magnetic field so shaped that it can confine a plasma: used in a proposed design for fusion reactors.
- malpighian body — Also called kidney corpuscle, Malpighian body. the structure at the beginning of a vertebrate nephron, consisting of a glomerulus and its surrounding Bowman's capsule.
- manukau harbour — an inlet of the Tasman Sea near Auckland in New Zealand on NW North Island
- marlborough leg — a tapered leg having a square section.