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10-letter words containing bo

  • bamboozled — to deceive or get the better of (someone) by trickery, flattery, or the like; humbug; hoodwink (often followed by into): They bamboozled us into joining the club. Synonyms: gyp, dupe, trick, cheat, swindle, defraud, flimflam, hoax, gull, rook; delude, mislead, fool.
  • bamboozler — to deceive or get the better of (someone) by trickery, flattery, or the like; humbug; hoodwink (often followed by into): They bamboozled us into joining the club. Synonyms: gyp, dupe, trick, cheat, swindle, defraud, flimflam, hoax, gull, rook; delude, mislead, fool.
  • bamboozles — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bamboozle.
  • bar harbor — resort town on Mount Desert Island, Me.: pop. 4,800
  • bare bones — The bare bones of something are its most basic parts or details.
  • bargeboard — a board, often decorated with carved ornaments, placed along the gable end of a roof
  • barrow boy — A barrow boy is a man or boy who sells fruit or other goods from a barrow in the street.
  • barrow-boy — a man or boy who sells wares from a barrow; costermonger.
  • basal body — a cylindrical organelle, within the cytoplasm of flagellated and ciliated cells, that contains microtubules and forms the base of a flagellum or cilium: identical in internal structure to a centriole.
  • baseboards — Plural form of baseboard.
  • beat about — to hunt or look through or around
  • beatboxing — a form of hip-hop music in which the voice is used to simulate percussion instruments
  • bellyboard — a small surfboard, usually 3–4 feet (0.9–1.2 meters) long, for riding waves on one's belly, sometimes used in conjunction with swim fins.
  • beribboned — adorned with ribbons
  • bimble box — type of dense Australian tree
  • black body — a hypothetical body that would be capable of absorbing all the electromagnetic radiation falling on it
  • black book — a book containing the names of people to be punished, blacklisted, etc
  • blackboard — A blackboard is a dark-coloured board that you can write on with chalk. Blackboards are often used by teachers in the classroom.
  • blockboard — a type of plywood in which soft wood strips are bonded together and sandwiched between two layers of veneer
  • bluebonnet — a broad, flat cap of blue woolen cloth, formerly worn in Scotland
  • bluebottle — A bluebottle is a large fly with a shiny dark-blue body.
  • board foot — a unit of board measure: the cubic content of a piece of wood one foot square and one inch thick
  • board game — A board game is a game such as chess or backgammon, which people play by moving small objects around on a board.
  • board rule — a measuring device for estimating the number of board feet in a quantity of wood
  • board side — the broad side of a piece of lumber.
  • boarded-up — with windows and doors covered with boards for security
  • boastfully — given to or characterized by boasting.
  • boat drill — practice in launching the lifeboats and taking off the passengers and crew of a ship
  • boat patch — an oval patch for plywood, terminating in a point at each end.
  • boat shoes — shoes for wearing on board boats, often laced moccasins
  • boat train — A boat train is a train that takes you to or from a port.
  • boatwright — a craftsman who builds wooden boats.
  • bobble hat — A bobble hat is a woollen hat with a bobble on it.
  • bobblehead — a collectable doll with a bobbing oversized head representing a celebrity or a cartoon character
  • bobby calf — an unweaned calf culled for slaughter
  • bobbysocks — ankle-length socks worn by teenage girls, esp in the US in the 1940s
  • bobbysoxer — an adolescent girl wearing bobbysocks, esp in the 1940s
  • bobsledder — a person who bobsleds
  • boca raton — city in SE Fla., near Fort Lauderdale: pop. 75,000
  • boccherini — Luigi (luˈidʒi). 1743–1805, Italian composer and cellist
  • bocconcini — small bite-sized pieces of mozzarella cheese
  • bode's law — an empirical rule relating the distances of the planets from the sun, based on the numerical sequence 0, 3, 6, 12, 24,…. Adding 4 to each number and dividing by 10 gives the sequence 0.4, 0.7, 1, 1.6, 2.8,…, which is a reasonable representation of distances in astronomical units for most planets if the minor planets are counted as a single entity at 2.8
  • bodhi tree — the sacred peepul at Buddh Gaya under which Gautama Siddhartha attained enlightenment and became the Buddha
  • body armor — Body armor is special protective clothing that people such as soldiers and police officers sometimes wear when they are in danger of being attacked with guns or other weapons.
  • body check — the fair block of an opponent who has the puck by bumping with the body, shoulder to hip, from the front or side
  • body clock — Your body clock is the internal biological mechanism which causes your body to automatically behave in particular ways at particular times of the day.
  • body count — the number of people killed
  • body fluid — any of various types of fluid found in the body of a human or animal, as blood or urine.
  • body forth — to give shape or form to
  • body image — an individual's concept of his or her own body
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