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9-letter words containing bo

  • body wrap — a beauty treatment in which the body is covered in lotion and wrapped tightly in strips of cloth in order to promote weight loss or improve skin tone
  • body-line — denoting or relating to fast bowling aimed at the batsman's body
  • body-mike — to equip with a body mike: The star was body-miked, but he was still inaudible.
  • body-slam — to lift and throw (someone) to the ground, as in wrestling
  • body-surf — to ride a wave by lying on it without a surfboard
  • bodyboard — a surfboard that is shorter and blunter than the standard board and on which the surfer lies rather than stands
  • bodycheck — obstruction of another player
  • bodyguard — A bodyguard is a person or a group of people employed to protect someone.
  • bodyshell — the external shell of a motor vehicle
  • boerewors — a highly seasoned traditional sausage made from minced or pounded meat
  • bog paper — toilet paper
  • boghazkoy — a village in N central Turkey: site of the ancient Hittite city of Hattusas.
  • bogo-sort — (algorithm, humour)   /boh"goh-sort"/ (Or "stupid-sort") The archetypical perversely awful algorithm (as opposed to bubble sort, which is merely the generic *bad* algorithm). Bogo-sort is equivalent to repeatedly throwing a deck of cards in the air, picking them up at random, and then testing whether they are in order. It serves as a sort of canonical example of awfulness. Looking at a program and seeing a dumb algorithm, one might say "Oh, I see, this program uses bogo-sort." Also known as "monkey sort" after the Infinite Monkey Theorem. Compare brute force, Lasherism.
  • bogometer — (humour)   /boh-gom'-*t-er/ A notional instrument for measuring bogosity. Compare the "wankometer" described in the wank entry.
  • bogorodsk — former name of Noginsk.
  • bogue out — /bohg owt/ To become bogus, suddenly and unexpectedly. "His talk was relatively sane until somebody asked him a trick question; then he bogued out and did nothing but flame afterward." See also bogosity.
  • bohr atom — See under Bohr theory.
  • boieldieu — François Adrien [frahn-swa a-dree-an] /frɑ̃ˈswa a driˈɛ̃/ (Show IPA), 1775–1834, French composer.
  • boil away — When you boil away a liquid, or when it boils away, it is boiled until all of it changes into steam or vapour.
  • boil down — When you boil down a liquid or food, or when it boils down, it is boiled until there is less of it because some of the water in it has changed into steam or vapour.
  • boil over — When a liquid that is being heated boils over, it rises and flows over the edge of the container.
  • boil-over — an unexpected result.
  • boilerman — a man who looks after boilers
  • boilingly — in a boiling manner
  • bojangles — Bill ("Bojangles") 1878–1949, U.S. tap dancer.
  • bokassa i — original name Jean Bedel Bokassa. 1921–96, president of the Central African Republic (1972–76); emperor of the renamed Central African Empire from 1976 until overthrown in 1979
  • bold face — a weight of type characterized by thick heavy lines, as the entry words in this dictionary
  • bold type — a weight of type characterized by thick heavy lines, as the entry words in a dictionary
  • bold-face — type or print that has thick, heavy lines, used for emphasis, headings, etc. This is a sample of boldface.
  • boldfaced — impudent or forward in manner
  • bolection — a stepped moulding covering and projecting beyond the joint between two members having surfaces at different levels
  • boliviano — (until 1963 and from 1987) the standard monetary unit of Bolivia, equal to 100 centavos
  • bollywood — the Indian film industry
  • bolognese — of or relating to Bologna or its inhabitants
  • bolograph — a record made by a bolometer
  • bolometer — a sensitive instrument for measuring radiant energy by the increase in the resistance of an electrical conductor
  • bolshevik — Bolshevik is used to describe the political system and ideas that Lenin and his supporters introduced in Russia after the Russian Revolution of 1917.
  • bolstered — a long, often cylindrical, cushion or pillow for a bed, sofa, etc.
  • bolt boat — a boat suitable for use in rough seas.
  • bolt down — fasten, secure sth
  • bolt hole — a hole in the ground, protected opening in bushes, etc., into which an animal can flee when pursued or frightened.
  • bolt-hole — If you say that someone has a bolt-hole to go to, you mean that there is somewhere that they can go when they want to get away from people that they know.
  • boltzmann — Ludwig (ˈluːtvɪç). 1844–1906, Austrian physicist. He established the principle of the equipartition of energy and developed the kinetic theory of gases with J. C. Maxwell
  • bomb belt — a belt carrying explosives which is worn around the waist by a suicide bomber
  • bomb hoax — a hoax consisting of telling the authorities that a bomb has been planted in a public place when in fact it hasn't
  • bomb rack — a device for carrying bombs in or under the fuselage of an aircraft.
  • bomb site — A bomb site is an empty area where a bomb has destroyed all the buildings.
  • bombarded — to attack or batter with artillery fire.
  • bombarder — a person or thing which bombards
  • bombardon — a brass instrument of the tuba type, similar to a sousaphone
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