7-letter words containing a, b, o
- becloak — to dress (someone) in a cloak
- bedload — (geology) Sediment that is carried along the bottom of a river or stream, rather than in the current.
- beefalo — a cross between a domestic cow and a buffalo, technically one that is three-eighths buffalo and five-eighths cow, intended for beef production
- begonia — A begonia is a garden plant which has large brightly coloured leaves.
- begorra — an emphatic exclamation, regarded as a characteristic utterance of Irish people
- begroan — to groan at or about
- belabor — If you say that someone belabors the point, you mean that they keep on talking about it, perhaps in an annoying or boring way.
- belasco — David1853-1931; U.S. theatrical producer, playwright, & actor
- bellona — the Roman goddess of war
- beograd — Belgrade
- bergamo — a walled city in N Italy, in Lombardy. Pop: 113 143 (2001)
- bhoodan — (in India) a socioagricultural movement, started by Vinoba Bhave in 1951, in which village landowners are persuaded to give land to the landless.
- bifocal — having two different focuses
- bimodal — characterized by two modes
- biobank — any large store of human biological samples for research into the genetic and environmental causes of disease
- biodata — information regarding an individual's education and work history, esp in the context of a selection process
- biofact — an item of biological information
- biomass — the total number of living organisms in a given area, expressed in terms of living or dry weight per unit area
- bioplay — a play based on the life of a famous person, esp one giving a popular treatment
- biovars — a group of microorganisms, usually bacteria, that have identical genetic but different biochemical or physiological characters.
- bipolar — suffering from bipolar manic-depressive disorder
- bitonal — consisting of black and white tones
- bivouac — A bivouac is a temporary camp made by soldiers or mountain climbers.
- bizarro — bizarre
- bizonal — of or relating to two administrative zones
- blasto- — (in biology) indicating an embryo or bud or the process of budding
- blaubok — a large blue-haired antelope, Hippotragus leucophaeus, of southern Africa: extinct since 1800
- blawort — the plant Campanula rotundifolia
- blaydon — an industrial town in NE England, in Gateshead unitary authority, Tyne and Wear. Pop: 14 648 (2001)
- bloated — If someone's body or a part of their body is bloated, it is much larger than normal, usually because it has a lot of liquid or gas inside it.
- bloater — a herring, or sometimes a mackerel, that has been salted in brine, smoked, and cured
- blokart — a single-seat three-wheeled vehicle with a sail, built to be propelled over land by the wind
- boabdil — original name Abu-Abdullah, called El Chico, ruled as Mohammed XI. died ?1538, last Moorish king of Granada (1482–83; 1486–92)
- boarded — a piece of wood sawed thin, and of considerable length and breadth compared with the thickness.
- boarder — A boarder is a pupil who lives at school during the term.
- boarish — coarse, cruel, or sensual
- boasted — to speak with exaggeration and excessive pride, especially about oneself.
- boaster — a chisel for boasting stone.
- boatage — the act of hauling by boat.
- boatful — an amount or number that could be carried by a boat
- boating — Boating is travelling on a lake or river in a small boat for pleasure.
- boatman — A boatman is a man who is paid by people to take them across an area of water in a small boat, or a man who hires boats out to them for a short time.
- bobstay — a strong stay between a bowsprit and the stem of a vessel for holding down the bowsprit
- bobtail — a docked or diminutive tail
- bodhran — shallow one-sided drum popular in Irish and Scottish folk music
- boeotia — a region of ancient Greece, northwest of Athens. It consisted of ten city-states, which formed the Boeotian League, led by Thebes: at its height in the 4th century bc
- boffola — a particularly funny joke
- bog oak — oak or other wood preserved in peat bogs.
- bogarde — Sir Dirk, real name Derek Jules Gaspard Ulric Niven van den Bogaerde. 1920–99, British film actor and writer: his films include The Servant (1963) and Death in Venice (1970). His writings include the autobiographical A Postillion Struck by Lightning (1977) and the novel A Period of Adjustment (1994)
- bogbean — buckbean