9-letter words starting with bo
- bowerbird — any of various songbirds of the family Ptilonorhynchidae, of Australia and New Guinea. The males build bower-like display grounds in the breeding season to attract the females
- bowhunter — a person who hunts with a bow
- bowl game — bowl1 (def 8).
- bowl over — To bowl someone over means to push into them and make them fall to the ground.
- bowlegged — having bowlegs
- bowstring — the string of an archer's bow, usually consisting of three strands of hemp
- box elder — a medium-sized fast-growing widely cultivated North American maple, Acer negundo, which has compound leaves with lobed leaflets
- box frame — Architecture. a monolithic reinforced-concrete structure having walls and floors in the form of slabs.
- box lunch — A box lunch is food, for example sandwiches, which you take to work, to school, or on a trip and eat as your lunch.
- box pleat — a flat double pleat made by folding under the fabric on either side of it
- box score — In baseball and basketball, a box score is a printed table of statistics showing how each player performed in a game.
- box stall — a small stall with four walls for holding a horse
- box stoop — a high stoop reached by a flight or flights of steps alongside the building front.
- box store — a retail store that sells a limited assortment of basic grocery items, often, as at a warehouse, displayed in their original cartons in order to lower costs and prices.
- box-fresh — unused or unspoiled; straight from the packaging
- boxed out — a container, case, or receptacle, usually rectangular, of wood, metal, cardboard, etc., and often with a lid or removable cover.
- boxercise — a system of sustained exercises combining boxing movements with aerobic activities
- boxholder — a person who has rented or subscribed for a box, as at a theatrical performance, sporting event, or the like.
- boxkeeper — an attendant responsible for theatre boxes
- boxwallah — an itinerant pedlar or salesman in India
- boy racer — British journalists sometimes refer to young men who drive very fast, especially in expensive and powerful cars, as boy racers.
- boy scout — The Boy Scouts is an organization for boys which teaches them discipline and practical skills.
- boycotter — a person who boycotts
- boyfriend — Someone's boyfriend is a man or boy with whom they are having a romantic or sexual relationship.
- boyshorts — women's underpants which resemble close-fitting shorts, sitting below the waist and stretching to the tops of the legs