5-letter words containing n, o
- boing — to rebound making a noise
- boink — /boynk/ [Usenet: variously ascribed to the TV series "Cheers" "Moonlighting", and "Soap"] 1. To have sex with; compare bounce. (This is mainstream slang.) In Commonwealth hackish the variant "bonk" is more common. 2. After the original Peter Korn "Boinkon" Usenet parties, used for almost any net social gathering, e.g. Miniboink, a small boink held by Nancy Gillett in 1988; Minniboink, a Boinkcon in Minnesota in 1989; Humpdayboinks, Wednesday get-togethers held in the San Francisco Bay Area. Compare @-party. 3. Variant of "bonk"; see bonk/oif.
- bonce — Your bonce is your head.
- bondi — Sir Hermann. 1919–2005, British mathematician and cosmologist, born in Austria; joint originator (with Sir Fred Hoyle and Thomas Gold) of the steady-state theory of the universe
- bonds — Barry (Lamar). born 1964, US baseball player: holder of records for most home runs in a season (73) and a career (762)
- boned — having had the bones removed from it
- 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
- boone — Daniel. 1734–1820, American pioneer, explorer, and guide, esp in Kentucky
- boong — an Aborigine or Black person
- 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.
- 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
- 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
- bosun — The bosun on a ship is the officer whose job it is to look after the ship and its equipment.
- bound — Bound is the past tense and past participle of bind.
- bourn — a destination; goal
- bowen — Elizabeth (Dorothea Cole). 1899–1973, British novelist and short-story writer, born in Ireland. Her novels include The Death of the Heart (1938) and The Heat of the Day (1949)
- boxen — of or relating to the box-tree; made of box-wood
- boyne — a river in the E Republic of Ireland, rising in the Bog of Allen and flowing northeast to the Irish Sea: William III of England defeated the deposed James II in a battle (Battle of the Boyne) on its banks in 1690, completing the overthrow of the Stuart cause in Ireland. Length: about 112 km (70 miles)
- bozen — German name of Bolzano (def 2).
- bronc — bronco
- brond — a piece of burnt or burning wood
- bronx — northernmost borough of New York City, between the Harlem River & Long Island Sound: pop. 1,333,000
- broun — (Matthew) Heywood (Campbell) 1888–1939, U.S. journalist, essayist, and novelist.
- brown — Something that is brown is the colour of earth or of wood.
- bruno — Franklin Roy, known as Frank. born 1961, British heavyweight boxer
- bunco — a swindle, esp one by confidence tricksters
- bunko — bunco
- buron — a public official perceived to be a hindrance to enterprise
- byron — George Gordon, 6th Baron. 1788–1824, British Romantic poet, noted also for his passionate and disastrous love affairs. His major works include Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (1812–18), and Don Juan (1819–24). He spent much of his life abroad and died while fighting for Greek independence
- c'mon — come on
- cajon — a Peruvian wooden box used as a drum and played with the hands
- canoe — A canoe is a small, narrow boat that you move through the water using a stick with a wide end called a paddle.
- canon — A canon is a member of the clergy who is on the staff of a cathedral.
- canso — a cape in Canada, at the NE tip of Nova Scotia
- canto — a main division of a long poem
- capon — A capon is a male chicken that has had its sex organs removed and has been specially fattened up to be eaten.
- caron — an inverted circumflex
- caxon — a wig
- ceno- — common
- cento — a piece of writing, esp a poem, composed of quotations from other authors
- chino — a durable cotton twill cloth