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9-letter words starting with bo

  • book lung — the respiratory organ of a spider, scorpion, or other arachnid, composed of thin, membranous structures arranged like the leaves of a book.
  • book post — a special system and rate for posting books
  • book rest — a support for an open book, usually holding it at a slight angle.
  • book tile — a flat, cellular roofing tile having two parallel edges one of which is convex and the other concave, so that a number may be fit together edge to edge between rafters, joists, etc.
  • bookcraft — literary skill; authorship.
  • booked up — If a hotel, restaurant, theatre, or transport service is booked up, it has no rooms, tables, or tickets left for a time or date.
  • booklight — a small light that can be clipped onto a book for reading by
  • booklouse — any small insect of the order Psocoptera, esp Trogium pulsatorium (common booklouse), a wingless species that feeds on bookbinding paste, etc
  • booklover — a person who enjoys reading books.
  • bookmaker — A bookmaker is a person whose job is to take your money when you bet and to pay you money if you win.
  • bookmarks — a ribbon or other marker placed between the pages of a book to mark a place.
  • bookpaper — the paper used in printing books, especially when of superior quality.
  • bookplate — A bookplate is a piece of decorated paper which is stuck in the front of a book and on which the owner's name is printed or written.
  • bookshelf — A bookshelf is a shelf on which you keep books.
  • bookstack — Usually, bookstacks. stack (def 4).
  • bookstall — A bookstall is a long table from which books and magazines are sold, for example at a conference or in a street market.
  • bookstand — a cradle for holding an open book so that it may be read comfortably
  • bookstore — A bookstore is a shop where books are sold.
  • boom baby — a person born in the years of the baby boom
  • boom shot — a shot taken by a camera on a boom.
  • boom time — a period in which there is a surge of prosperity for a person, place, or industry
  • boom town — A boom town is a town which has rapidly become very rich and full of people, usually because industry or business has developed there.
  • boom-bust — relating to a supposed cycle in which periods of prosperity and growth alternate with periods of recession
  • boomerang — A boomerang is a curved piece of wood which comes back to you if you throw it in the correct way. Boomerangs were first used by the people who were living in Australia when Europeans arrived there.
  • boomingly — in a booming manner
  • boomslang — a large greenish venomous arboreal colubrid snake, Dispholidus typus, of southern Africa
  • boondocks — If you say that someone lives in the boondocks, you mean that they live a long way from any large cities.
  • boot camp — In the United States, a boot camp is a camp where people who have just joined the army, navy, or marines are trained.
  • boot disk — (operating system)   The magnetic disk (usually a hard disk) from which an operating system kernel is loaded (or "bootstrapped"). This second phase in system start-up is performed by a simple bootstrap loader program held in ROM, possibly configured by data stored in some form of writable non-volatile storage. Some operating systems, notably SunOS and Solaris, can be configured to boot from a network rather than from disk. Such a system can thus run as a diskless workstation.
  • boot hill — a cemetery of a frontier settlement, especially one in which gunfighters were buried.
  • boot hook — one of a pair of L -shaped metal hooks fixed to a handle, for drawing on a boot by inserting it through a bootstrap.
  • boot tree — a shoetree for a boot, often having supports to stretch the leg of the boot
  • boot-tops — the area between the water lines of a ship when fully loaded and when unloaded.
  • bootblack — a person whose work is shining shoes and boots
  • boothroyd — Betty. Baroness. born 1929, British politician; speaker of the House of Commons (1992–2000)
  • bootmaker — a person who makes boots and shoes for a living
  • bootstrap — If you bootstrap an organization or an activity, you set it up or achieve it alone, using very few resources.
  • booze bus — a mobile police unit used to conduct drug and alcohol tests on drivers
  • booze hag — a girl or woman who drinks to excess
  • boozed-up — intoxicated; drunk
  • bop stack — A BOP stack is one of two or more units which control well pressure, and contain the wellhead and blowout preventers.
  • bora bora — an island in the S Pacific, in French Polynesia, in the Society Islands: one of the Leeward Islands. Area: 39 sq km (15 sq miles)
  • bordelais — a wine-growing region in SW France, in Gironde.
  • border on — If you talk about a characteristic or situation bordering on something, usually something that you consider bad, you mean that it is almost that thing.
  • bordereau — a memorandum or invoice prepared for a company by an underwriter, containing a list of reinsured risks
  • bordering — the part or edge of a surface or area that forms its outer boundary.
  • borescope — a long narrow optical device used to inspect the interior of a tight space
  • boresight — to verify the alignment of the sights and bore of (a firearm).
  • borgesian — of Jorge Luis Borges or his works
  • borghetto — (in Italy) a settlement outside a city's walls
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