11-letter words starting with bo
- board check — a body check in which the opponent is thrown against the wooden wall enclosing the rink. Compare check1 (def 37).
- boat anchor — 1. Like doorstop but more severe; implies that the offending hardware is irreversibly dead or useless. "That was a working motherboard once. One lightning strike later, instant boat anchor!" 2. A person who just takes up space. 3. Obsolete but still working hardware, especially when used of an old S100-bus hobbyist system; originally a term of annoyance, but became more and more affectionate as the hardware became more and more obsolete.
- boat people — Boat people are people who escape from their country in small boats to travel to another country in the hope that they will be able to live there.
- boat-shaped — shaped like a boat
- boatbuilder — A boatbuilder is a person or company that makes boats.
- boatmanship — boatsmanship.
- bobbin lace — lace made with bobbins rather than with needle and thread (needlepoint lace); pillow lace
- bobby socks — Bobby socks or bobbysox are short socks worn by girls or women.
- bobby-soxer — esp. in the 1940s, a girl in her early teens, esp. one who conformed to adolescent fads
- bobsledding — a sled having two pairs of runners, a brake, and a steering wheel or other mechanism that enables the front rider to direct the sled down a steeply banked run or chute.
- bodaciously — in a bodacious manner
- bodgo gegen — a former Buddhist leader of the Mongols.
- bodhidharma — 6th century ad, Indian Buddhist monk, who taught in China (from 520): considered to be the founder of Zen Buddhism
- bodhisattva — (in Mahayana Buddhism) a divine being worthy of nirvana who remains on the human plane to help men to salvation
- body armour — Body armour is special protective clothing which people such as soldiers and police officers sometimes wear when they are in danger of being attacked with guns or other weapons.
- body cavity — the internal cavity of any multicellular animal that contains the digestive tract, heart, kidneys, etc. In vertebrates it develops from the coelom
- body colour — a painting technique using opaque watercolour paint in which the pigments are bound with glue and the lighter tones contain white
- body combat — a type of fitness programme in which individuals perform non-contact martial arts moves to music
- body double — a person who substitutes for a star for the filming of a scene that involves shots of the body rather than the face
- body fluids — fluids in the body such as blood, semen, and saliva
- body horror — a horror film genre in which the main feature is the graphically depicted destruction or degeneration of a human body or bodies
- body lotion — skin lotion for use on the body
- body packer — a smuggler of illegal drugs, especially one who swallows bags containing them.
- body rhythm — biorhythm.
- body search — If a person is body searched, someone such as a police officer searches them while they remain clothed. Compare strip-search.
- body shield — a small bulletproof shield attached to the arm for fending off projectiles, especially in a riot situation.
- body swerve — (esp in football games) the act or an instance of swerving past an opponent
- body warmer — a sleeveless type of jerkin, usually quilted, worn as an outer garment for extra warmth
- body-packer — a person who smuggles illicit drugs in balloons, condoms, or similar plastic bags which have either been swallowed or inserted in the rectum or vagina
- body-search — to search all parts of the body of: Police ordered the suspects to strip and then body-searched them for hidden caches of narcotics.
- bodybuilder — A bodybuilder is a person who does special exercises regularly in order to make his or her muscles grow bigger.
- boeremusiek — a variety of light music associated with the culture of the Afrikaners
- bogged down — If you get bogged down in something, it prevents you from making progress or getting something done.
- bogtrotting — the act of roaming over boggy areas, or living in boggy areas
- bohemianism — unconventional behaviour or appearance, esp of an artist
- bohr theory — a theory of atomic structure that explains the spectrum of hydrogen atoms. It assumes that the electron orbiting around the nucleus can exist only in certain energy states, a jump from one state to another being accompanied by the emission or absorption of a quantum of radiation
- boil-in-bag — of or being a prepared, often frozen, food sealed and sold in a plastic bag that is immersed in boiling water until the contents are cooked or heated for serving.
- boiler room — any room in a building (often in the basement) that contains a boiler for central heating, etc
- boiler suit — A boiler suit consists of a single piece of clothing that combines trousers and a jacket. You wear it over your clothes in order to protect them from dirt while you are working.
- boilermaker — a person who works with metal in heavy industry; plater or welder
- boilerplate — A boilerplate is a basic written contract that can be used to make many different kinds of contracts.
- bois-le-duc — French name of 's Hertogenbosch.
- bok globule — a dense spherical cloud of gas and dust in interstellar space that absorbs light from stars.
- bokhara rug — a Turkoman rug having a tan or red background and decorated with varied octagon patterns.
- bokmakierie — a large yellow shrike, Telephorus zeylonus, of southern Africa, known for its melodious song
- boldhearted — courageous or daring; intrepid.
- bolingbroke — the surname of Henry IV of England
- bolingbrook — a city in NE Illinois.
- boll weevil — a greyish weevil, Anthonomus grandis, of the southern US and Mexico, whose larvae live in and destroy cotton bolls
- bolt cutter — a tool for cutting bolts, wire, etc, typically with very long handles and short blades, with compound hinges
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