10-letter words starting with bo
- boniface i — Saint, died a.d. 422, pope 418–422.
- boniface v — died a.d. 625, pope 619–625.
- bonkbuster — a novel characterized by graphic descriptions of the heroine's frequent sexual encounters
- bonne amie — a good female friend.
- bonne nuit — good night
- bonnet top — a top to a secretary, highboy, etc., following in outline a broken pediment on the front.
- bonnethead — a hammerhead shark, Sphyrna tiburo, found in shallow waters from Brazil to Massachusetts, having a spade-shaped head.
- bonnetiere — a tall, narrow wardrobe of the 18th century, found especially in Normandy and Brittany.
- bonneville — Lake, a prehistoric lake in Utah, E Nevada, and S Idaho: Great Salt Lake is its remnant. 350 miles (564 km) long.
- bonnilasse — a pretty girl
- bonus army — a group of 12,000 World War I veterans who massed in Washington, D.C., the summer of 1932 to induce Congress to appropriate moneys for the payment of bonus certificates granted in 1924.
- bonus baby — an athlete who is paid a substantial bonus to sign his or her first professional contract.
- bonus ball — (in the National Lottery draw) a ball randomly selected after the first six balls, containing a number which influences the amount of prize money paid
- bonus pack — anything sold with a product and marketed as a useful and free extra
- bony bream — an Australian freshwater clupeid fish, Fluvialosa richardsonii
- boob happy — suffering from the mental strain caused by the difficulties of prison life
- booby-trap — A booby-trap is something such as a bomb which is hidden or disguised and which causes death or injury when it is touched.
- book cover — the cover of a book
- book group — A book group is a group of people who meet regularly to discuss books that they have read.
- book louse — any of various small, usually wingless, insects (order Psocoptera) that infest and destroy old books
- book lover — a person who enjoys reading and reads more than the average person
- book lungs — primitive lungs of many arachnids, consisting of pagelike layers of tissue over which air circulates for respiration
- book match — a match in or from a matchbook.
- book price — the value of a car as defined by the manufacturers or other accredited organization
- book share — a share of a mutual fund credited to the account of a shareholder without the physical issuance of a certificate evidencing ownership.
- book token — a gift token to be exchanged for books
- book value — In business, the book value of an asset is the value it is given in the account books of the company that owns it.
- book-ended — a support placed at the end of a row of books to hold them upright, usually used in pairs.
- bookbinder — A bookbinder is a person whose job is fastening books together and putting covers on them.
- bookkeeper — A bookkeeper is a person whose job is to keep an accurate record of the money that is spent and received by a business or other organization.
- bookmaking — Bookmaking is the activity of taking people's money when they bet and paying them money if they win.
- bookmarked — a ribbon or other marker placed between the pages of a book to mark a place.
- bookmobile — a vehicle providing lending library facilities
- bookreader — DEC's CD-ROM-based on-line documentation browser.
- bookseller — A bookseller is a person who sells books.
- bookviewer — A hypertext documentation system from Oracle based on Oracle Toolkit. It allows the user to create private links and bookmarks, and to make multimedia annotations.
- boondocker — combat boot.
- boondoggle — People sometimes refer to an official organization or activity as a boondoggle when they think it wastes a lot of time and money and does not achieve much.
- boosterish — designed to boost business; optimistic
- boosterism — the practice of actively promoting a city, region, etc, and its local businesses
- boot block — (operating system) A program on a hard disk, floppy disk or other media, which is loaded when the computer is turned on or rebooted and which controls the next phase of loading the actual operating system. The loading and execution of the boot block is usually controlled by firmware in ROM or PROM. It may be at some fixed location possibly or may be pointed to by the master boot record.
- boot money — unofficial bonuses in the form of illegal cash payments made by a professional sports club to its players
- boot virus — An MS-DOS virus that infects the boot record program on hard disks and floppy disks or the master boot record on hard disks. The virus gets loaded into memory before MS-DOS and takes control of the computer, infecting any floppy disks subsequently accessed. An infected boot disk may stop the computer starting up at all.
- boot-faced — wearing a stern, disapproving expression
- booth-babe — an attractive woman hired to draw attendees of commercial exhibitions into promotional booths
- bootlegged — made, sold, or transported unlawfully.
- bootlegger — alcoholic liquor unlawfully made, sold, or transported, without registration or payment of taxes.
- bootlicker — to seek the favor or goodwill of in a servile, degraded way; toady to.
- bootloader — a bootstrap loader
- bootmaking — the activity of making boots and shoes