5-letter words starting with bo
- boner — a blunder
- bones — the human skeleton or body
- bongo — A bongo is a small drum that you play with your hands.
- bonne — a housemaid or female servant
- bonny — Someone or something that is bonny is attractive and nice to look at.
- bonpa — a member of the Bön sect.
- bonus — A bonus is an extra amount of money that is added to someone's pay, usually because they have worked very hard.
- bonze — a Chinese or Japanese Buddhist priest or monk
- boobs — a female breast.
- booby — an ignorant or foolish person
- boody — to sulk
- booed — an exclamation of contempt or disapproval: a loud boo from the bleachers.
- boofy — muscular and strong but stupid
- books — a record of the transactions of a business or society
- booky — bookish
- boole — George. 1815–64, English mathematician. In Mathematical Analysis of Logic (1847) and An Investigation of the Laws of Thought (1854), he applied mathematical formulae to logic, creating Boolean algebra
- bools — the game of bowls or marbles
- boomy — characterized by an exaggerated or excessive bass sound
- boone — Daniel. 1734–1820, American pioneer, explorer, and guide, esp in Kentucky
- boong — an Aborigine or Black person
- boors — a churlish, rude, or unmannerly person.
- boost — If one thing boosts another, it causes it to increase, improve, or be more successful.
- booth — A booth is a small area separated from a larger public area by screens or thin walls where, for example, people can make a telephone call or vote in private.
- bootp — The Bootstrap Protocol. A protocol described in RFCs 951 and 1084 and used for booting diskless workstations. See also Reverse Address Resolution Protocol.
- boots — (formerly) a shoeblack who cleans the guests' shoes in a hotel
- booty — Booty is a collection of valuable things stolen from a place, especially by soldiers after a battle.
- booze — Booze is alcoholic drink.
- boozy — A boozy person is someone who drinks a lot of alcohol.
- borah — William Edgar, 1865–1940, U.S. senator from Idaho 1906–40.
- borak — rubbish; nonsense
- boral — the powdered mixture of boron carbide and aluminium
- boras — a city in SW Sweden, chiefly producing textiles. Pop: 98 831 (2004 est)
- borax — Borax is a white powder used, for example, in the making of glass and as a cleaning chemical.
- bored — If you are bored, you feel tired and impatient because you have lost interest in something or because you have nothing to do.
- borel — rustic, rude
- borer — a machine or hand tool for boring holes
- boric — of or containing boron
- boris — a masculine name
- borne — Borne is the past participle of bear1.
- borno — a state of NE Nigeria, on Lake Chad. Capital: Maiduguri. Pop: 4 151 193 (2006). Area: 70 898 sq km (27 374 sq miles)
- bornu — a former sultanate in Africa, SW of Lake Chad: now largely a province in Nigeria.
- boro- — boron
- boron — a very hard almost colourless crystalline metalloid element that in impure form exists as a brown amorphous powder. It occurs principally in borax and is used in hardening steel. The naturally occurring isotope boron-10 is used in nuclear control rods and neutron detection instruments. Symbol: B; atomic no: 5; atomic wt: 10.81; valency: 3; relative density: 2.34 (crystalline), 2.37 (amorphous); melting pt: 2092°C; boiling pt: 4002°C
- borty — low-quality diamond, in granular aggregate or small fragments, valuable only in crushed or powdered form, especially for industrial use as an abrasive.
- bortz — low-quality diamond, in granular aggregate or small fragments, valuable only in crushed or powdered form, especially for industrial use as an abrasive.
- bosch — Carl. 1874–1940, German chemist, who adapted the Haber process to produce ammonia for industrial use. He shared the Nobel prize for chemistry 1931
- bosie — a googly
- bosky — containing or consisting of bushes or thickets
- bosom — A woman's breasts are sometimes referred to as her bosom or her bosoms.
- boson — any of a group of elementary particles, such as a photon or pion, that has zero or integral spin and obeys the rules of Bose-Einstein statistics