5-letter words containing bo
- bouts — a contest or trial of strength, as of boxing.
- bovet — Daniel. 1907–92, Italian pharmacologist, born in Switzerland, noted for his pioneering work on antihistamine drugs. Nobel prize for physiology or medicine 1957
- bovid — of, relating to, or belonging to the Bovidae, a family of ruminant artiodactyl hollow-horned mammals including sheep, goats, cattle, antelopes, and buffalo
- bowat — a small lamp or lantern
- bowed — Something that is bowed is curved.
- bowel — Your bowels are the tubes in your body through which digested food passes from your stomach to your anus.
- 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)
- bower — A bower is a shady, leafy shelter in a garden or wood.
- bowie — David, real name David Jones. 1947–2016, British rock singer, songwriter, and film actor. His recordings include "Space Oddity" (1969), The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (1972), Young Americans (1975), Heroes (1977), Let's Dance (1983), The Next Day (2013), and Blackstar (2016)
- bowls — a game played on a bowling green in which a small bowl (the jack) is pitched from a mark and two opponents or opposing teams take turns to roll biased wooden bowls towards it, the object being to finish as near the jack as possible
- bowse — to haul with tackle.
- boxed — A boxed set or collection of things is sold in a box.
- boxen — of or relating to the box-tree; made of box-wood
- boxer — A boxer is someone who takes part in the sport of boxing.
- boxes — an evergreen shrub or small tree of the genus Buxus, especially B. sempervirens, having shiny, elliptic, dark-green leaves, used for ornamental borders, hedges, etc., and yielding a hard, durable wood.
- boxty — a potato pancake
- boyar — a member of an old order of Russian nobility, ranking immediately below the princes: abolished by Peter the Great
- boyau — a minor connecting trench often built in a zigzag pattern
- boyce — William. ?1710–79, English composer, noted esp for his church music and symphonies
- boyer — Charles (ʃarl), known as the Great Lover. 1899–1978, French film actor
- boyla — an Aboriginal Australian magician or medicine-man
- boyle — Robert. 1627–91, Irish scientist who helped to dissociate chemistry from alchemy. He established that air has weight and studied the behaviour of gases; author of The Sceptical Chymist (1661)
- 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)
- boysy — suited to or typical of boys or young men
- bozen — German name of Bolzano (def 2).
- bumbo — a drink with gin or rum, nutmeg, lemon juice, etc
- cabob — kebab
- caboc — a Scottish cheese made with double cream and rolled in toasted oatmeal
- cabot — John Italian name Giovanni Caboto. 1450–98, Italian explorer, who landed in North America in 1497, under patent from Henry VII of England, and explored the coast from Nova Scotia to Newfoundland
- carbo — carbohydrate
- cobol — a high-level computer programming language designed for general commercial use
- cobot — a computer-controlled robotic apparatus that assists a human worker, as on an assembly line, by guiding or redirecting motions initiated by the worker who provides the motive power.
- combo — A combo is a small group of musicians who play jazz, dance, or popular music.
- dambo — A kind of seasonal shallow wetland in parts of Africa.
- dibol — Digital Interactive Business Oriented Language. DEC, 1970. Fortran syntax with BCD arithmetic. Versions for PDP-8 and RT-11. ANSI X3.165-1988.
- dimbo — an unintelligent person
- dubbo — a city in E Australia.
- dubos — René Jules [ruh-ney joolz;; French ruh-ney zhyl] /rəˈneɪ dʒulz;; French rəˈneɪ ʒül/ (Show IPA), 1901–82, U.S. bacteriologist, born in France: early advocate of ecological concern.
- dumbo — a stupid person: a class full of dumbos.
- ebola — Also called Ebola fever, Ebola hemorrhagic fever, Ebola virus disease. a usually fatal disease, a type of hemorrhagic fever, caused by the Ebola virus and marked by high fever, severe gastrointestinal distress, and bleeding.
- ebone — A pan-European backbone network service.
- ebons — Plural form of ebon.
- ebony — a hard, heavy, durable wood, most highly prized when black, from various tropical trees of the genus Diospyros, as D. ebenum of southern India and Sri Lanka, used for cabinetwork, ornamental objects, etc.
- ebook — a book in digital form.
- ebor. — Eboracensis
- elbow — The joint between the forearm and the upper arm.
- embog — (transitive) To bog down.
- embow — (obsolete) To bend like a bow; to curve.
- embox — to put in a box
- gabon — Official name Gabonese Republic. a republic in W equatorial Africa: formerly a part of French Equatorial Africa; member of the French Community. 102,290 sq. mi. (264,931 sq. km). Capital: Libreville.