9-letter words containing bo
- attleboro — a city in SE Massachusetts.
- audiobook — a recorded reading of a book recorded on tape, CD, or digital formats
- ayckbourn — Sir Alan. born 1939, English dramatist. His plays include Absurd Person Singular (1973), the trilogy The Norman Conquests (1974), A Chorus of Disapproval (1985), House and Garden (2000), and Private Fears in Public Places (2004)
- baboonery — uncouth or brutish behaviour
- baboonish — resembling a baboon
- baby bond — a sum of money invested shortly after the birth of a child, the returns of which may not be collected until the child reaches adulthood
- baby book — an album for mounting pictures and other memorabilia of a baby and for keeping a record of its growth from infancy.
- baby boom — A baby boom is a period of time when a lot of babies are born in a particular place.
- backboard — In basketball, the backboard is the flat board above each of the baskets.
- backboned — With a strong spine.
- backbones — Plural form of backbone.
- bail bond — a surety bond (money or property) offered or deposited by a defendant or other persons to ensure the defendant's appearance at trial
- bakeboard — a board on which bread dough is rolled and kneaded
- baleboste — a capable, efficient housewife, especially a traditional Jewish one, devoted to maintaining a well-run home.
- bamboozle — To bamboozle someone means to confuse them greatly and often trick them.
- bandboxes — Plural form of bandbox.
- bankbooks — Plural form of bankbook.
- barb bolt — a bolt having barbs for resisting pull.
- barbotine — a type of clay paste used in making decorated pottery
- bareboned — short of resources
- barenboim — Daniel. born 1942, Israeli concert pianist and conductor, born in Argentina
- barnboard — barnwood.
- barr body — a structure found on the inside of the nuclear membrane of female cells that takes a dark stain and indicates by its presence the sex of the individual
- baseboard — A baseboard is a narrow length of wood which goes along the bottom of a wall in a room and makes a border between the walls and the floor.
- bath bomb — a ball of carbonates and scent that is placed in bath water to dissolve and impart supposedly therapeutic properties to the water
- batty boy — a male homosexual
- beatboxer — (music) A performer who imitates the sound of musical instruments, especially percussion, with his or her voice.
- beatboxes — Plural form of beatbox.
- bebopping — Present participle of bebop.
- bed board — a thin, stiff board placed on a bed under the mattress to lend added support for the body
- bell book — a book in which all orders affecting the main engines of a ship are recorded.
- bellibone — a beautiful and good woman
- betsiboka — a river in central Madagascar, flowing NW to the Mozambique Channel. About 200 miles (320 km) long.
- bevin boy — (in Britain during World War II) a young man selected by ballot to work in a coal mine instead of doing conventional military service
- big board — the quotation board in the New York Stock Exchange
- big labor — large labor unions collectively.
- big-boned — having bones that are unusually massive
- billabong — a backwater channel that forms a lagoon or pool
- billboard — A billboard is a very large board on which posters are displayed.
- bitty box — (abuse) (Or "calculator") /bit'ee boks/ A computer sufficiently small, primitive, or incapable as to cause a hacker acute claustrophobia at the thought of developing software on or for it. The term is especially used of small, obsolescent, single-tasking-only personal computers such as the Atari 800, Osborne, Sinclair, VIC-20, TRS-80 or IBM PC, but the term is a general pejorative opposite of "real computer" (see Get a real computer!). See also mess-dos, toaster, toy.
- black box — A black box is an electronic device in an aircraft which records information about its flights. Black boxes are often used to provide evidence about accidents.
- blackbody — a hypothetical body that would be capable of absorbing all the electromagnetic radiation falling on it
- bladebone — the scapula, or shoulder blade.
- blankbook — a book containing blank pages, as a notebook or sketchbook.
- blue book — A blue book is an official government report or register of statistics.
- boa vista — a town in N Brazil, capital of the state of Roraima, on the Rio Branco. Pop: 275 000 (2005 est)
- boanerges — a nickname applied by Jesus to James and John in Mark 3:17
- board out — If someone in your care is boarded out, they are sent to stay with someone else.
- boardlike — resembling a board
- boardroom — The boardroom is a room where the board of a company meets.