10-letter words starting with bo
- bottomland — a lowland alluvial area near a river
- bottomless — If you describe a supply of something as bottomless, you mean that it seems so large that it will never run out.
- bottommost — lowest or most fundamental
- bottomness — the number of bottom antiquarks minus the number of bottom quarks in a particle
- bottoms up — Some people say bottoms up to each other just before drinking an alcoholic drink.
- 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
- bovaristic — an exaggerated, especially glamorized, estimate of oneself; conceit.
- bovver boy — a rowdy youth
- bow rudder — (in canoeing) a technique in which a paddler in the bow holds the paddle at an angle from the side of the bow, using it as a rudder to steer.
- bow street — a street in London, England: location of a metropolitan police court.
- bow weight — the poundage required to draw a bow to the full length of the arrow
- bow window — a bay window in the shape of a curve
- bow-legged — outward curvature of the legs causing a separation of the knees when the ankles are close or in contact.
- bowdlerise — to expurgate (a written work) by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable.
- bowdlerism — to expurgate (a written work) by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable.
- bowdlerize — To bowdlerize a book or film means to take parts of it out before publishing it or showing it.
- bowed down — weighed down; troubled
- bowerwoman — a chamber-woman
- bowhunting — the practice of hunting wild animals with bow and arrow
- bowldering — pavement made with small boulders.
- bowler hat — A bowler hat is a round, hard, black hat with a narrow brim which is worn by men, especially British businessmen. Bowler hats are no longer very common.
- bowlingual — a device that allegedly translates a dog’s barks and grunts into a human language
- bowser bag — doggy bag.
- box camera — a simple box-shaped camera having an elementary lens, shutter, and viewfinder
- box canyon — a canyon with vertical or almost vertical walls
- box clever — to behave in a careful and cunning way
- box column — a hollow wooden column, as for a porch, usually having a rectangular cross section.
- box cutter — a knife-like tool with a short retractable blade
- box girder — a girder that is hollow and square or rectangular in shape
- box gutter — a gutter set into the slope of a roof above the cornice.
- box number — A box number is a number used as an address, for example one given by a newspaper for replies to a private advertisement, or one used by an organization for the letters sent to it.
- box office — The box office in a theatre, cinema, or concert hall is the place where the tickets are sold.