7-letter words containing bo
- blesbok — an antelope, Damaliscus dorcas (or albifrons), of southern Africa. The coat is a deep reddish-brown with a white blaze between the eyes; the horns are lyre-shaped
- bo juyi — Po Chü-i.
- bo tree — the sacred fig tree ( peepul) of Buddhism: Gautama is believed to have received heavenly inspiration under such a tree
- bo-peep — a game for very young children, in which one hides (esp hiding one's face in one's hands) and reappears suddenly
- 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.
- bobbery — a mixed pack of hunting dogs, often not belonging to any of the hound breeds
- bobbies — a male given name, form of Robert.
- bobbing — a tap; light blow.
- bobbins — matter that is worthless or of inferior quality
- bobbish — cheerful, in good health and mood
- bobbitt — to cut off the penis of
- bobeche — a cup or ring around the socket of a candlestick, intended to catch dripping wax
- bobigny — a department in N France. 91 sq. mi. (236 sq. km). Capital: Bobigny.
- bobotie — a South African dish consisting of curried mincemeat with a topping of beaten egg baked to a crust
- bobsled — A bobsled is the same as a bobsleigh.
- bobstay — a strong stay between a bowsprit and the stem of a vessel for holding down the bowsprit
- bobtail — a docked or diminutive tail
- bockedy — (of a structure, piece of furniture, etc) unsteady
- bodeful — portentous, foreboding, ominous
- bodhran — shallow one-sided drum popular in Irish and Scottish folk music
- bodikin — a small body
- 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
- boeotus — a son of Arne and Poseidon, and ancestor of the Boeotians.
- boerbul — a crossbred mastiff used esp as a watchdog
- boffing — Theater. a box-office hit. a joke or humorous line producing hearty laughter.
- boffola — a particularly funny joke
- bog oak — oak or other wood preserved in peat bogs.
- bog off — go away!
- 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
- boggart — a ghost or poltergeist
- bogging — filthy; covered in dirt and grime
- boggish — like a bog
- boggled — to overwhelm or bewilder, as with the magnitude, complexity, or abnormality of: The speed of light boggles the mind.
- boggler — a person who boggles, or a thing which causes one to boggle
- bogland — an area of wetland, usually extensive
- bogomil — a member of a dualistic sect, flourishing chiefly in Bulgaria in the Middle Ages, that rejected most of the Old Testament and was strongly anticlerical in polity.
- bogwood — bog oak.
- bogyman — boogeyman
- bohemia — a former kingdom of central Europe, surrounded by mountains: independent from the 9th to the 13th century; belonged to the Hapsburgs from 1526 until 1918
- bohrium — a transuranic element artificially produced in minute quantities by bombarding 204Bi atoms with 54Cr nuclei. Symbol: Bh; atomic no: 107