6-letter words containing b, o
- belove — to love
- belovo — a city in the S Russian Federation in Asia.
- belton — a town in W Missouri.
- bemoan — If you bemoan something, you express sorrow or dissatisfaction about it.
- bemock — to mock
- bemoil — to soil with mud
- benbow — John. 1653–1702, English admiral, noted esp for his heroic death during the War of the Spanish Succession
- benoit — Pierre [pyer] /pyɛr/ (Show IPA), (or Peter) Léonard Léopold [ley-aw-nar ley-aw-pawld] /leɪ ɔˈnar leɪ ɔˈpɔld/ (Show IPA), 1834–1901, Belgian composer.
- benoni — a city in NE South Africa: gold mines. Pop: 94 341 (2001)
- benson — E(dward) F(rederic). 1867–1940, British writer, noted esp for a series of comic novels featuring the characters Mapp and Lucia
- benton — Thomas Hart. 1889–1975, US painter of rural life; a leader of the American Regionalist painters in the 1930s
- benzo- — indicating a benzene ring fused to another ring in a polycyclic compound
- benzol — a crude form of benzene, containing toluene, xylene, and other hydrocarbons, obtained from coal tar or coal gas and used as a fuel
- bercow — John (Simon). born 1963, British Conservative politician; speaker of the House of Commons from 2009
- beshow — a sablefish.
- besnow — to whiten
- besoin — need
- besort — the type of company that is befitting
- bespot — to mark with spots or blemishes
- bestow — To bestow something on someone means to give or present it to them.
- betoil — to worry
- betony — a Eurasian plant, Stachys (or Betonica) officinalis, with a spike of reddish-purple flowers, formerly used in medicine and dyeing: family Lamiaceae (labiates)
- betook — simple past tense of betake.
- betoss — to toss about
- bettor — a person who bets
- beworm — to fill or infest with worms
- beyond — If something is beyond a place or barrier, it is on the other side of it.
- bezoar — a hard mass, such as a stone or hairball, in the stomach and intestines of animals, esp ruminants, and man: formerly thought to be an antidote to poisons
- bhisho — a town in S South Africa, on the Buffalo River adjacent to King Williams Town; the capital of Eastern Cape, it was formerly the capital of the Ciskei Bantu homeland: it is the centre of a sheep and cattle ranching area with various industries
- bhopal — a city in central India, the capital of Madhya Pradesh state and of the former state of Bhopal: site of a poisonous gas leak from a US-owned factory, which killed over 7000 people in 1984 and was implicated in a further 15 000 deaths afterwards. Pop: 1 433 875 (2001)
- bhutto — Benazir (ˈbɛnəzɪə). (1953–2007), Pakistani stateswoman; prime minister of Pakistan (1988–90; 1993–96); deposed and subsequently defeated in elections in 1997; assassinated during the 2007 election campaign
- bianco — Mon·te [mawn-te] /ˈmɔn tɛ/ (Show IPA). Italian name of Mont Blanc.
- bicmos — (hardware) A manufacturing process for semiconductor devices that combines bipolar and CMOS to give the best balance between available output current and power consumption.
- bicone — an object shaped like two cones with their bases together.
- bicorn — having two horns or hornlike parts
- bicron — a billionth part of a metre
- bifold — foldable in two places
- biform — having or combining the characteristics of two forms, as a centaur
- big on — enthusiastic about
- bigloo — (language) A Scheme interpreter, compiler and run-time system by Manuel Serrano <[email protected]> which aims to deliver small, fast stand-alone applications. It supports modules and optimisation. Bigloo's features enable Scheme programs to be used where C or C++ might usually be required. The Bigloo compiler produces ANSI C which is compiled into stand-alone executables, JVM bytecode, or .NET bytecode. Hence Bigloo enables Scheme programs to interwork with C, Java and C# programs. Bigloo conforms to the IEEE Scheme standard with some extensions for regular expression handling. It runs on Sun, Sony News, SGI, Linux, HP-UX and is easy to port to any Unix system.
- bijoux — a jewel.
- bilbao — a port in N Spain, on the Bay of Biscay: the largest city in the Basque Provinces: famous since medieval times for the production of iron and steel goods: modern buildings include the Guggenheim Art Museum (1997). Pop: 353 567 (2003 est)
- billon — an alloy consisting of gold or silver and a base metal, usually copper, used esp for coinage
- billow — When something made of cloth billows, it swells out and moves slowly in the wind.
- biloxi — a member of a North American Indian people that lived in the lower Mississippi Valley
- biniou — a small high-pitched Breton bagpipe
- binocs — binoculars
- binyon — (Robert) Laurence. 1869–1943, British poet and art historian, best known for his elegiac war poems "For the Fallen" (1914) and "The Burning of the Leaves" (1944)
- biodot — a temperature-sensitive device stuck to the skin in order to monitor stress
- biofog — a fog, resembling steam fog, produced by the contact of very cold air with the warmth and moisture issuing from animal or human bodies.