12-letter words containing bou
- amuse-bouche — an appetizer before a meal
- around about — Around about means approximately.
- baby-bouncer — a seat on springs suspended from a door frame, etc, in which a baby may be placed for exercise
- bonne bouche — a tasty titbit or morsel
- boucherville — a town in S Quebec, in E Canada, near Montreal, on the St. Lawrence.
- boudin blanc — a boiled sausage made with light-colored meat, as veal or chicken, and without blood
- bougainville — an island in the W Pacific, in Papua New Guinea: the largest of the Solomon Islands: unilaterally declared independence in 1990; occupied by government troops in 1992, and granted autonomy in 2001. Chief town: Kieta. Area: 10 049 sq km (3880 sq miles)
- bouillon cup — a small, bowl-shaped vessel, with two handles, in which bouillon is served.
- boulangerite — a bluish lead-gray mineral, lead antimony sulfide, Pb 5 Sb 4 S 11 , a minor ore of lead.
- boulder clay — an unstratified glacial deposit consisting of fine clay, boulders, and pebbles
- bouleuterion — a council chamber in ancient Greece.
- boulevardier — (originally in Paris) a fashionable man, esp one who frequents public places
- bounce flash — a flash lamp designed to produce a bounced flash.
- bounce light — Also, bounce lighting. light that is bounced off a reflective surface onto the subject in order to achieve a softer lighting effect.
- bouncing bet — a perennial soapwort (Saponaria officinalis) with clusters of pinkish flowers
- bound charge — any electric charge that is bound to an atom or molecule (opposed to free charge).
- bounden duty — duty one has a moral obligation to perform
- bourbon rose — a hybrid rose, Rosa borboniana, having dark, carmine-colored flowers, cultivated in many horticultural varieties.
- bourgeoisify — to convert to a bourgeois attitude or appearance
- bourke-white — Margaret. 1906–71, US photographer, a pioneer of modern photojournalism: noted esp for her coverage of World War II
- bourne shell — (sh, Shellish). The original command-line interpreter shell and script language for Unix written by S.R. Bourne of Bell Laboratories in 1978. sh has been superseded for interactive use by the Berkeley C shell, csh but still widely used for writing shell scripts. There were even earlier shells, see glob. [Details?]
- bournonville — Auguste [French oh-gyst] /French oʊˈgüst/ (Show IPA), 1805–79, Danish ballet dancer and choreographer.
- bucket about — (esp of a boat in a storm) to toss or shake violently
- bugger about — If someone buggers about or buggers around, they waste time doing unnecessary things.
- charlesbourg — city in S Quebec, Canada: pop. 71,000
- child labour — the full-time employment of children below a minimum age laid down by statute
- cuir-bouilli — a type of leather hardened by soaking in wax, used for armour before the 14th century
- day labourer — an unskilled worker hired and paid by the day
- embourgeoise — to make bourgeois
- fardel-bound — (of ruminants) having the food impacted in the third compartment of the stomach; costive; constipated.
- glyndebourne — an estate in SE England, in East Sussex: site of a famous annual festival of opera founded in 1934 by John Christie
- go walkabout — to wander through the bush
- golden bough — a branch of mistletoe, sacred to Proserpina, that served Aeneas as a pass to the underworld.
- harbour dues — the fees or charges paid for using a harbour
- harbour seal — a common earless seal, Phoca vitulina, that is greyish-black with paler markings: found off the coasts of North America, N Europe, and NE Asia
- honour-bound — morally obliged
- k/t boundary — Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary: the time zone comprising the end of the Cretaceous and the beginning of the Tertiary periods
- labour costs — the charges incurred when employing labour; the wages, etc, paid to workers, esp those employed to do physical work
- labour force — The labour force consists of all the people who are able to work in a country or area, or all the people who work for a particular company.
- labour pains — the pains felt during the contractions of childbirth
- labour party — a political party in Great Britain, formed in 1900 from various socialist and labor groups and taking its present name in 1906.
- labouriously — Alternative form of laboriously.
- laboursaving — reducing (human) effort, hard work, or labour
- leatherbound — Bound in leather.
- luxembourger — a native or inhabitant of Luxembourg.
- muscle-bound — having enlarged and inelastic muscles, as from excessive exercise.
- neighbouring — (British, Canada) Situated or living nearby or adjacent to.
- ombrophobous — (of plants) not able to tolerate wet conditions
- opera bouffe — a comic opera, especially of farcical character.
- probouleutic — relating to the Athenian council, which discussed matters before submitting them to the general assembly
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