9-letter words starting with bo
- boris iii — 1894–1943, king of Bulgaria 1918–43.
- born-free — (in South Africa) a person who was born or grew up after the end of the Apartheid era
- borromini — Francesco, original name Francesco Castelli. 1599–1667, Italian baroque architect, working in Rome: his buildings include the churches of San Carlo (1641) and Sant' Ivo (1660)
- borrowing — Borrowing is the activity of borrowing money.
- bosanquet — Bernard, 1848–1923, English philosopher and writer.
- bosberaad — a meeting in an isolated venue to break a political deadlock
- boschvark — a bush pig of S Africa
- boskiness — the quality of being bosky
- boskopoid — of, relating to, or characteristic of Boskop man or the culture or habitat of Boskop man.
- boss-eyed — having a squint
- bossiness — given to ordering people about; overly authoritative; domineering.
- bostonian — a person from Boston
- botanical — Botanical books, research, and activities relate to the scientific study of plants.
- botanizer — a person who botanizes
- botchedly — in a botched or clumsy manner
- bothering — to give trouble to; annoy; pester; worry: His baby sister bothered him for candy.
- botmaster — (chat) The owner of a bot.
- bottle it — If you say that someone has bottled it, you mean that they have lost their courage at the last moment and have not done something they intended to do.
- bottle up — If you bottle up strong feelings, you do not express them or show them, especially when this makes you tense or angry.
- bottleful — the amount a bottle will hold
- bottom-up — from the lowest level of a hierarchy or process to the top
- bottoming — the lowest level of foundation material for a road or other structure
- botulinal — of or relating to the bacterium Clostridium botulinum
- botulinum — an anaerobic botulin-secreting bacterium, Clostridium botulinum
- botulinus — an anaerobic bacterium, Clostridium botulinum, whose toxins (botulins) cause botulism: family Bacillaceae
- botvinnik — Mikhail Moiseivich (mixaˈil məiˈsjejɪvitʃ). 1911–95, Soviet chess player; world champion (1948–57, 1958–60, 1961–63)
- boughless — (of trees) having no boughs
- boulanger — Georges (ʒɔrʒ). 1837–91, French general and minister of war (1886–87). Accused of attempting a coup d'état, he fled to Belgium, where he committed suicide
- boulderer — a rock climber
- boulevard — A boulevard is a wide street in a city, usually with trees along each side.
- bound for — going or intending to go; on the way to; destined (usually followed by for): The train is bound for Denver.
- boundable — able to be bound or limited
- boundedly — having bounds or limits.
- boundless — If you describe something as boundless, you mean that there seems to be no end or limit to it.
- boundness — the quality of being bound or obligated
- bounteous — giving freely; generous
- bountiful — A bountiful supply or amount of something pleasant is a large one.
- bountyhed — the quality of being bounteous
- bourasque — a tempest
- bourgeois — If you describe people, their way of life, or their attitudes as bourgeois, you disapprove of them because you consider them typical of conventional middle-class people.
- bourgogne — Burgundy2
- bourguiba — Habib ben Ali (hæˈbɪb bɛn ˈɑːlɪ). 1903–2000, Tunisian statesman: president of Tunisia (1957–87); a moderate and an advocate of gradual social change. He was deposed in a coup and kept under house arrest for the rest of his life
- boutiquey — having the characteristics of a boutique
- bouvardia — a genus of flowering herbs and shrubs of the family Rubiaceae, native to tropical parts of Central America
- bow bells — the bells of St Mary-le-Bow in Cheapside, London: it is said that a true Cockney is born within earshot of these bells
- bow doors — the doors in the bow of a ferry, which open for vehicles to drive on and off
- bow front — swell front.
- bow shock — the shock front along which the solar wind encounters a planet's magnetic field.
- bow-front — having a front with a convex curve
- bowelless — ruthless, merciless