14-letter words containing bo
- cribbage board — a board, with pegs and holes, used for scoring at cribbage
- croquembouches — Plural form of croquembouche.
- crossbolt lock — a lock controlling two bolts moving in opposite directions, as to the top and bottom of a doorframe.
- daughterboards — Plural form of daughterboard.
- debenture bond — a corporate bond unsecured by any mortgage, dependent on the credit of the issuer.
- decarboxylases — Plural form of decarboxylase.
- diabolicalness — The state or quality of being diabolical.
- discombobulate — to confuse or disconcert; upset; frustrate: The speaker was completely discombobulated by the hecklers.
- disembowelling — (chiefly, British) present participle of disembowel.
- disembowelment — to remove the bowels or entrails from; eviscerate.
- drafting board — drawing board.
- draining board — The draining board is the place on a sink unit where things such as cups, plates, and cutlery are put to drain after they have been washed.
- draughts board — A draughts board is a square board for playing draughts, with 64 equal-sized, black and white squares.
- drop an f-bomb — to use the word fuck in a situation where it will cause great offence
- dropper bottle — A dropper bottle is a container from which medicine is administered using a device that lets the medicine out in drops.
- dutch cupboard — a buffet with open upper shelves.
- ethnobotanical — Of or pertaining to ethnobotany.
- ethnobotanists — Plural form of ethnobotanist.
- exchequer bond — a type of short-term government bond
- expansion bolt — a bolt that expands on tightening, enabling it to be secured into an unthreaded hole
- feeding bottle — infant's feeding receptacle
- fiduciary bond — a bond filed by a fiduciary administering an estate as surety.
- fighter-bomber — an aircraft that combines the functions of a fighter and a bomber.
- finnbogadottir — Vigdís [Icelandic vig-dees] /Icelandic vɪgˈdis/ (Show IPA), born 1930, Icelandic political leader: president 1980–96.
- fluoboric acid — a clear, colorless liquid, HBF 4 , that ionizes abundantly in solution, used chiefly in the synthesis of fluoborates.
- fraise du bois — a wild strawberry.
- freeboard deck — (on a cargo vessel) the uppermost deck officially considered to be watertight: used as the level from which the Plimsoll marks are measured.
- garboard plank — the bottommost plank of a vessel's hull
- garbologically — From the perspective of garbology.
- get the bounce — to dismiss or be dismissed from a job
- golfer's elbow — a painful inflammation of the muscles on the inside of the forearm caused by exertion in playing golf
- google bombing — an effort to move a website to the top of search-engine results for a particular word or phrase, by creating a large number of links that contain this search text.
- google-bombing — an effort to move a website to the top of search-engine results for a particular word or phrase, by creating a large number of links that contain this search text.
- governing body — board, regulatory authority
- harbour master — an official in charge of a harbour
- have bought it — to be killed
- hemimetabolism — incomplete metamorphosis.
- hemimetabolous — incomplete metamorphosis.
- hit the bottle — a portable container for holding liquids, characteristically having a neck and mouth and made of glass or plastic.
- holometabolism — The complete metamorphosis of an insect.
- holometabolous — undergoing complete metamorphosis.
- homeward bound — going home
- hospital board — the group of people responsible for the safe and efficient running of a hospital
- how about that — delight, surprise
- hyperbolically — having the nature of hyperbole; exaggerated.
- hypermetabolic — of, relating to, or affected by metabolism.
- hypometabolism — The physiological state of having an decreased rate of metabolic activity.
- inboard brakes — Inboard brakes are brakes located close to the center of the vehicle rather than at the wheel hub.
- inclusion body — a particle that takes a characteristic stain, found in a virus-infected cell.
- indirect labor — labor performed, as by maintenance and clerical workers, that is not considered in computing costs per unit of production.