6-letter words starting with bo
- bonzer — excellent; very good
- boobed — a stupid person; fool; dunce.
- boodie — a burrowing rat kangaroo, Bettongia lesueur, found on islands off Western Australia
- boodle — money or valuables, esp when stolen, counterfeit, or used as a bribe
- booger — A booger is a piece of dried mucus that comes from inside your nose.
- boogie — When you boogie, you dance to fast pop music.
- boohoo — to sob or pretend to sob noisily
- booing — the action or an instance of booing
- boojie — relating to or characteristic of a person who aspires to the upper middle class or a fancy lifestyle: He spends too much on bougie stuff he can’t afford.
- boojum — a geometric pattern found on the surface of helium-3
- booker — a person who hires performers or performance companies
- bookie — A bookie is the same as a bookmaker.
- booksy — inclined to be bookish or literary
- boomed — to sail at full speed.
- boomer — a large male kangaroo
- boomie — a person who was an adolescent in the 1960s.
- booner — a young working-class person from Canberra
- boonga — a Pacific Islander
- booted — wearing boots
- bootee — Bootees are short woollen socks that babies wear instead of shoes.
- bootes — a constellation in the N hemisphere lying near Ursa Major and containing the first magnitude star Arcturus
- bootie — a Royal Marine
- bootle — a port in NW England, in Sefton unitary authority, Merseyside; on the River Mersey adjoining Liverpool. Pop: 59 123 (2001)
- boozed — If someone is boozed or boozed up, they are drunk.
- boozer — A boozer is a pub.
- bopper — a musician who specializes in bop.
- borage — a European boraginaceous plant, Borago officinalis, with star-shaped blue flowers. The young leaves have a cucumber-like flavour and are sometimes used in salads or as seasoning
- borane — any compound of boron and hydrogen, used in the synthesis of other boron compounds and as high-energy fuels
- borate — a salt or ester of boric acid. Salts of boric acid consist of BO3 and BO4 units linked together
- bordar — a smallholder of low social rank who held a cottage in return for menial work
- bordel — a bordello
- borden — ˈLizzie (Andrew) (ˈlɪzi ) ; lizˈē) 1860-1927; U.S. woman accused and acquitted in a sensational trial (1893) of murdering her father & stepmother (1892)
- border — The border between two countries or regions is the dividing line between them. Sometimes the border also refers to the land close to this line.
- bordet — Jules (Jean Baptiste Vincent) (ʒyl). 1870–1961, Belgian bacteriologist and immunologist, who discovered complement. Nobel prize for physiology or medicine 1919
- boreal — of or relating to the north or the north wind
- boreas — the god personifying the north wind
- boreen — a country lane or narrow road
- borger — a city in N Texas.
- borges — Jorge Luis (ˈxorxe lwis). 1899–1986, Argentinian poet, short-story writer, and literary scholar. The short stories collected in Ficciones (1944) he described as "games with infinity"
- borgia — Cesare (ˈtʃezare), son of Rodrigo Borgia (Pope Alexander VI). 1475–1507, Italian cardinal, politician, and military leader; model for Machiavelli's The Prince
- boride — a compound in which boron is the most electronegative element, esp a compound of boron and a metal
- boring — Someone or something boring is so dull and uninteresting that they make people tired and impatient.
- borked — to attack (a candidate or public figure) systematically, especially in the media.
- borman — Frank, born 1928, U.S. astronaut.
- borneo — an island in the W Pacific, between the Sulu and Java Seas, part of the Malay Archipelago: divided into Kalimantan (Indonesian Borneo), the Malaysian states of Sarawak and Sabah, and the sultanate of Brunei; mountainous and densely forested. Area: about 750 000 sq km (290 000 sq miles)
- borrel — ignorant or unlearned
- borrow — If you borrow something that belongs to someone else, you take it or use it for a period of time, usually with their permission.
- borsch — any of various eastern European soups made with beets, cabbage, potatoes, or other vegetables and served hot or chilled, often with sour cream.
- borsic — a strong light composite material of boron fibre and silicon carbide used in aviation
- borzoi — a tall graceful fast-moving breed of dog with a long silky coat, originally used in Russia for hunting wolves