8-letter words containing bo
- bareboat — a boat that can be chartered without crew, provisions, etc
- barebone — a very thin person whose bones show through the skin
- base box — a unit used in the sale of tin plate, equal to the total area of 112 sheets each measuring 14 by 20 inches (35 by 50 cm), or 31,360 square inches (196,000 sq. cm).
- baseborn — born of humble parents
- beachboy — a male lifeguard on a beach
- bebopper — A musician or aficionado of bebop music.
- bebother — To bring trouble upon.
- bed bolt — a bolt on a bed for attaching a side rail to the head or foot.
- bedboard — a piece of wood placed under a mattress to make a bed firmer
- bedbound — Unable to leave one's bed for some reason.
- beerbohm — Sir (Henry) Max(imilian). 1872–1956, English critic, wit, and caricaturist, whose works include Zuleika Dobson (1911), a satire on Oxford undergraduates
- belabour — If you belabour someone or something, you hit them hard and repeatedly.
- best boy — the assistant to the senior electrician or to the key grip in a film crew
- bid bond — a bond that guarantees the fulfilment of an offer or bid if it is accepted
- billbook — a pocketbook record of bills received, paid, etc
- billyboy — a type of river barge
- blue box — a blue plastic container for domestic refuse that is to be collected and recycled
- bluebook — (in Britain) a government publication bound in a stiff blue paper cover: usually the report of a royal commission or a committee
- boadicea — Boudicca
- board up — If you board up a door or window, you fix pieces of wood over it so that it is covered up.
- boardies — a pair of board shorts
- boarding — Boarding is an arrangement by which children live at school during the school term.
- boardman — a member of a board
- boarfish — any of various spiny-finned marine teleost fishes of the genera Capros, Antigonia, etc, related to the dories, having a deep compressed body, a long snout, and large eyes
- boastful — If someone is boastful, they talk too proudly about something that they have done or that they own.
- boasting — to speak with exaggeration and excessive pride, especially about oneself.
- boat bed — a bed of the Empire period having raised ends terminating in outward scrolls.
- boat bug — water boatman.
- boatable — able to be carried by boat
- boatbill — a nocturnal tropical American wading bird, Cochlearius cochlearius, similar to the night herons but with a broad flattened bill: family Ardeidae, order Ciconiiformes
- boathook — a pole with a hook at one end, used aboard a vessel for fending off other vessels or obstacles or for catching a line or mooring buoy
- boatlift — an evacuation or rescue by boat
- boatlike — resembling a boat
- boatload — A boatload of people or things is a lot of people or things that are, or were, in a boat.
- boatneck — a wide, high neckline that follows the curve of the collarbone and ends in points on the shoulder seams.
- boatslip — a docking place for a boat, as between wharves.
- boatsman — boatman.
- boattail — a large species of blackbird, Quiscalus major, found in coastal areas of the southeastern US
- boatyard — A boatyard is a place where boats are built and repaired or kept.
- bob veal — the flesh of an unborn or newborn calf, used for food.
- bob wire — barbed wire.
- boba tea — bubble tea.
- bobbinet — a netted fabric of hexagonal mesh, made on a lace machine
- bobbysox — bobbysocks
- bobfloat — a small buoyant float, usually consisting of a quill stuck through a piece of cork
- bobolink — an American songbird, Dolichonyx oryzivorus, the male of which has a white back and black underparts in the breeding season: family Icteridae (American orioles)
- bobowler — a large moth
- bobruisk — a port in Belarus, on the River Berezina: engineering, timber, tyre manufacturing. Pop: 219 000 (2005 est)
- bobwhite — a brown North American quail, Colinus virginianus, the male of which has white markings on the head: a popular game bird
- bocaccio — a species of rockfish, Sebastes paucispinis, commonly found along the west coast of North America