6-letter words containing bo
- boomie — a person who was an adolescent in the 1960s.
- booner — a young working-class person from Canberra
- boonga — a Pacific Islander
- booted — wearing boots
- bootee — Bootees are short woollen socks that babies wear instead of shoes.
- bootes — a constellation in the N hemisphere lying near Ursa Major and containing the first magnitude star Arcturus
- bootie — a Royal Marine
- bootle — a port in NW England, in Sefton unitary authority, Merseyside; on the River Mersey adjoining Liverpool. Pop: 59 123 (2001)
- boozed — If someone is boozed or boozed up, they are drunk.
- boozer — A boozer is a pub.
- bopper — a musician who specializes in bop.
- borage — a European boraginaceous plant, Borago officinalis, with star-shaped blue flowers. The young leaves have a cucumber-like flavour and are sometimes used in salads or as seasoning
- borane — any compound of boron and hydrogen, used in the synthesis of other boron compounds and as high-energy fuels
- borate — a salt or ester of boric acid. Salts of boric acid consist of BO3 and BO4 units linked together
- bordar — a smallholder of low social rank who held a cottage in return for menial work
- bordel — a bordello
- borden — ˈLizzie (Andrew) (ˈlɪzi ) ; lizˈē) 1860-1927; U.S. woman accused and acquitted in a sensational trial (1893) of murdering her father & stepmother (1892)
- border — The border between two countries or regions is the dividing line between them. Sometimes the border also refers to the land close to this line.
- bordet — Jules (Jean Baptiste Vincent) (ʒyl). 1870–1961, Belgian bacteriologist and immunologist, who discovered complement. Nobel prize for physiology or medicine 1919
- boreal — of or relating to the north or the north wind
- boreas — the god personifying the north wind
- boreen — a country lane or narrow road
- borger — a city in N Texas.
- borges — Jorge Luis (ˈxorxe lwis). 1899–1986, Argentinian poet, short-story writer, and literary scholar. The short stories collected in Ficciones (1944) he described as "games with infinity"
- borgia — Cesare (ˈtʃezare), son of Rodrigo Borgia (Pope Alexander VI). 1475–1507, Italian cardinal, politician, and military leader; model for Machiavelli's The Prince
- boride — a compound in which boron is the most electronegative element, esp a compound of boron and a metal
- boring — Someone or something boring is so dull and uninteresting that they make people tired and impatient.
- borked — to attack (a candidate or public figure) systematically, especially in the media.
- borman — Frank, born 1928, U.S. astronaut.
- borneo — an island in the W Pacific, between the Sulu and Java Seas, part of the Malay Archipelago: divided into Kalimantan (Indonesian Borneo), the Malaysian states of Sarawak and Sabah, and the sultanate of Brunei; mountainous and densely forested. Area: about 750 000 sq km (290 000 sq miles)
- borrel — ignorant or unlearned
- borrow — If you borrow something that belongs to someone else, you take it or use it for a period of time, usually with their permission.
- borsch — any of various eastern European soups made with beets, cabbage, potatoes, or other vegetables and served hot or chilled, often with sour cream.
- borsic — a strong light composite material of boron fibre and silicon carbide used in aviation
- borzoi — a tall graceful fast-moving breed of dog with a long silky coat, originally used in Russia for hunting wolves
- bosker — excellent, good
- bosket — a clump of small trees or bushes; thicket
- boskop — a prehistoric race of the late Pleistocene period in sub-Saharan Africa
- bosman — Herman Charles. (1905–1951), South African short-story writer and journalist; his experiences in prison are recounted in the semi-autobiographical Cold Stone Jug (1949)
- bosnia — a region of central Bosnia-Herzegovina: belonged to Turkey (1463–1878), to Austria-Hungary (1879–1918), then to Yugoslavia (1918–91)
- bosomy — (of a woman) having large breasts
- bosque — a clump or grove of trees
- boss's — a familiar name for a calf or cow.
- bossed — Botany, Zoology. a protuberance or roundish excrescence on the body or on some organ of an animal or plant.
- bosses — a familiar name for a calf or cow.
- bosset — either of the rudimentary antlers found in young deer
- boston — a card game for four, played with two packs
- botany — Botany is the scientific study of plants.
- botchy — clumsily done or made
- botfly — any of various stout-bodied hairy dipterous flies of the families Oestridae and Gasterophilidae, the larvae of which are parasites of humans, sheep, and horses