12-letter words starting with bo
- bonded goods — goods which have been deposited in a bonded warehouse
- bonding wire — A bonding wire is a wire connecting two pieces of equipment, often for hazard prevention.
- bone density — the degree of compactness of bone
- boniface iii — pope a.d. 607.
- boniface vii — antipope a.d. 974, 984–985.
- boning knife — a small kitchen knife having a narrow blade for boning meat or fish.
- bonne bouche — a tasty titbit or morsel
- bonne chance — good luck
- bonnet glass — monteith (def 2).
- bonnet rouge — a red cap worn by ardent supporters of the French Revolution
- bonnet-glass — a large punch bowl, usually of silver, having a notched rim for suspending punch cups.
- bonnyclabber — clotted or curdled milk
- bonus number — (in the National Lottery) a number announced after the normal six numbers which influences the amount of prize money paid
- bonus scheme — a scheme in a company or other organization according to which employees receive a bonus if they meet specified targets
- boobytrapped — to set with or as if with a booby trap; attach a booby trap to or in.
- booch method — (programming) A widely used object-oriented analysis and object-oriented design method.
- boogie board — a small, flexible plastic surfboard, ridden lying down.
- book burning — the destruction of writings of which the subject, the view of the author, or the like is considered politically or socially objectionable: used as a means of censorship or oppression.
- book matches — safety matches made of paper and fastened into a small cardboard folder
- book of odes — a collection of 305 poems compiled in the 6th century b.c. by Confucius.
- book signing — a prearranged and publicized event at which an author signs copies of their latest book, often with individual dedications to purchasers
- book society — book club.
- book-keeping — the skill or occupation of maintaining accurate records of business transactions
- bookcrossing — the practice of deliberately leaving books in places where they will be found and read by other people
- booking form — a form used to book a holiday, accommodation, etc
- booklet pane — Philately. any of a number of panes or small pages of postage stamps, stapled together into a booklet for the convenience of users.
- boolean ring — a nonempty collection of sets having the properties that the union of two sets of the collection is a set in the collection and that the relative complement of each set with respect to any other set is in the collection.
- boom-or-bust — boom-and-bust.
- boomer state — Oklahoma
- boomeranging — a bent or curved piece of tough wood used by the Australian Aborigines as a throwing club, one form of which can be thrown so as to return to the thrower.
- booster dose — a supplementary injection of a vaccine given to maintain the immunization provided by an earlier dose
- booster pump — A booster pump is a pump which is used where pressure is low and needs to be increased.
- booster seat — A booster seat or a booster cushion is a special seat which allows a small child to sit in a higher position, for example at a table or in a car.
- booster shot — an injection of a vaccine or other antigen some time after the initial series of injections, for maintaining immunity
- boot topping — the part of a ship's hull that is between the load line and the water line when the ship is not loaded
- boot-scraper — a contraption consisting of an upright metal shape formerly placed outside some houses to enable people to scrape the mud from their boots before going in
- bootleg play — a play in which the quarterback pretends to hand the ball to a teammate, hides it by placing it next to his hip, and runs with it.
- bootlessness — the quality of being useless or ineffective
- bootylicious — sexually attractive, esp with curvaceous buttocks
- booze cruise — a day trip to a foreign country, esp from England across the English Channel to France, for the purposes of buying cheap alcohol, cigarettes, etc
- border guard — a guard stationed on a border between countries
- border light — a striplight hung upstage of a border, for lighting the stage.
- border state — a state adjacent to a border
- border taxes — taxes payable on goods taken across a border
- born-digital — relating to or noting documents, images, etc., that are created and managed in electronic form: electronic preservation of born-digital content; a born-digital e-book that will not be available in print.
- borosilicate — a salt of boric and silicic acids
- borough hall — a building housing the administrative offices of a borough.
- borscht belt — (sometimes initial capital letters) the hotels of the predominantly Jewish resort area in the Catskill Mountains, many of them offering nightclub or cabaret entertainment.
- boskop skull — a portion of a human skull found in South Africa, of undetermined relationship and geological age: formerly associated with a hypothetical Boskop race
- bosom friend — an intimate friend