10-letter words containing bou
- aboundance — (obsolete) abundance.
- about time — If you say it is about time that something was done, you are saying in an emphatic way that it should happen or be done now, and really should have happened or been done sooner.
- about-face — An about-face is a complete change of attitude or opinion.
- about-ship — to manoeuvre a vessel onto a new tack
- about-turn — An about-turn is the same as an about-face.
- arse about — to play the fool; act stupidly, esp in an irritating manner
- beat about — to hunt or look through or around
- boucicault — Dion (ˈdaɪɒn), real name Dionysius Lardner Boursiquot. 1822–90, Irish dramatist and actor. His plays include London Assurance (1841), The Octoroon (1859), and The Shaughran (1874)
- bouguereau — Adolphe William [a-dawlf veel-yam] /aˈdɔlf vilˈyam/ (Show IPA), 1825–1905, French painter.
- bouillotte — a French card game similar to poker
- boulangism — the doctrines of militarism and reprisals against Germany, advocated, especially in the 1880s, by the French general Boulanger.
- bouldering — rock climbing on large boulders or small outcrops either as practice or as a sport in its own right
- boullework — elaborate inlaid work of woods, metals, tortoiseshell, ivory, etc.
- bounceable — to spring back from a surface in a lively manner: The ball bounced off the wall.
- bounceback — the act or an instance of bouncing back, recovering, or recuperating: Fall sales have experienced a tremendous bounceback.
- bouncedown — an occasion of restarting play by the umpire bouncing the ball
- bouncingly — in a bouncing manner
- bound form — a linguistic form that never occurs by itself but always as part of some larger construction, as -ed in seated. Compare free form (def 2).
- boundaries — something that indicates bounds or limits; a limiting or bounding line.
- bounderish — having the qualities of a bounder
- bounty bag — a set of free samples, such as nappies and creams, given to mothers leaving hospital with a new baby
- bouquetier — a small container for holding flowers in a bouquet or nosegay.
- bourbonism — support for the rule of the Bourbons, the European royal line that ruled in France, Spain, and Naples and Sicily at various times in the late 16th to early 20th centuries
- bourgeoise — a female bourgeois
- bournonite — a sulfide of lead, antimony, and copper, PbCuSbS 3 , occurring in gray to black crystals or granular masses.
- bousingken — a drinking house frequented by thieves or other disreputable characters
- brassbound — inflexibly entrenched
- buzz about — to scurry about
- cast about — to make a mental or visual search
- chairbound — unable to walk; dependent on a wheelchair for mobility
- clothbound — (of a book) bound in stiff boards covered in cloth
- come about — When you say how or when something came about, you say how or when it happened.
- debouching — Present participle of debouche.
- desk-bound — engaged in or involving sedentary work, as at an office desk
- duty-bound — If you say you are duty-bound to do something, you are emphasizing that you feel it is your duty to do it.
- earthbound — headed for the earth: an earthbound meteorite.
- eastbourne — a seaport in East Sussex, in SE England.
- eboulement — a collapse; cave-in.
- embouchure — The way in which a player applies the mouth to the mouthpiece of a brass or wind instrument.
- faff about — If you say that someone is faffing about or faffing around, you mean that they are doing things in a disorganized way and not achieving very much.
- fall about — If you say that people are falling about, you mean that they are laughing a lot about something.
- fart about — to behave foolishly or aimlessly
- frostbound — (of ground) hardened by frost
- fuck about — to act in a stupid or aimless manner
- half-bound — bound in half binding.
- hand-bound — (of books) bound by hand.
- hang about — to fasten or attach (a thing) so that it is supported only from above or at a point near its own top; suspend.
- harbourage — (British, nautical) A place for refuge for a vessel.
- harbourful — the amount that a harbour can hold
- harbouring — a part of a body of water along the shore deep enough for anchoring a ship and so situated with respect to coastal features, whether natural or artificial, as to provide protection from winds, waves, and currents.
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