11-letter words starting with bo
- boomeranger — a young adult who returns to live with parents after a period of living away from home.
- boondoggler — a product of simple manual skill, as a plaited leather cord for the neck or a knife sheath, made typically by a camper or a scout.
- boorishness — of or like a boor; unmannered; crude; insensitive.
- boost phase — the portion of the flight of a ballistic missile or spacecraft during which the booster and sustainer engines operate to bring it near or to peak velocity.
- boost-start — jump-start.
- boot polish — a resistant polish specially formulated to protect boots of various kinds
- boot-licker — to seek the favor or goodwill of in a servile, degraded way; toady to.
- bootlegging — alcoholic liquor unlawfully made, sold, or transported, without registration or payment of taxes.
- bootlicking — to seek the favor or goodwill of in a servile, degraded way; toady to.
- boottopping — the area between the water lines of a ship when fully loaded and when unloaded.
- borborygmus — rumbling of the stomach
- bordelaises — a brown sauce flavored with red wine and shallots and garnished with poached marrow and parsley.
- border line — boundary line; frontier.
- border raid — an incursion by attackers into a neighbouring country
- bored stiff — very bored
- boric oxide — a colorless crystalline compound, B 2 O 3 , used in metallurgy and chemical analysis.
- boring clam — piddock
- boring mill — a large vertical lathe having a rotating table on which work is secured. Tools are held on a fixed post and the work is rotated around it
- borohydride — any compound, such as sodium borohydride, which contains the radical BH4
- borstal boy — (formerly) a boy sent to borstal
- bosom buddy — close friend
- boss around — order about
- boss screen — a screen image within a computer game that can be activated instantly, designed to hide the evidence of game-playing, esp at work
- bossnapping — kidnapping a company executive as part of industrial action
- boston bull — Boston terrier
- boston crab — a wrestling hold in which a wrestler seizes both or one of his opponent's legs, turns him face downwards, and exerts pressure over his back
- boston fern — a cultivated fern (Nephrolepis exaltata var. bostoniensis) with odd-pinnate leaves, used as a house plant
- botanically — Also, botanic. of, pertaining to, made from, or containing plants: botanical survey; botanical drugs.
- botanomancy — a form of divination in which tree branches or leaves are burnt
- botany wool — a fine wool from the merino sheep
- botheration — bother
- bottle baby — an infant fed by bottle from birth, as distinguished from one who is breast-fed.
- bottle bank — A bottle bank is a large container into which people can put empty bottles so that the glass can be used again.
- bottle bill — a legislative bill that requires the charging of a refundable deposit on certain beverage bottles and cans, to encourage the return of these containers for recycling while at the same time reducing littering.
- bottle club — a so-called club in which patrons, nominally members, are served liquor from bottles purportedly belonging to them, without regard to liquor control laws
- bottle fern — a fern, Cystopteris fragilis, of rocky, wooded areas throughout North America, having grayish-green fronds and brittle stalks.
- bottle rack — a rack for bottles, such as bottles of wine
- bottle shop — A bottle shop is a shop which sells wine, beer, and other alcoholic drinks.
- bottle tree — any of several Australian sterculiaceous trees of the genus Sterculia (or Brachychiton) that have a bottle-shaped swollen trunk
- bottle-feed — If you bottle-feed a baby, you give it milk or a liquid like milk in a bottle rather than the baby sucking milk from its mother's breasts.
- bottle-jack — a large jack used for heavy lifts
- bottlebrush — a cylindrical brush on a thin shaft, used for cleaning bottles
- bottled gas — butane or propane gas liquefied under pressure in portable containers and used in camping stoves, blowtorches, etc
- bottom bolt — a bolt at the bottom of a door or the like, sliding into a socket in the floor or sill and equipped with a device for keeping it raised when the door is not fastened.
- bottom fish — any fish that feeds or lives near the bottom of a body of water, as a flounder or catfish
- bottom gear — the lowest gear of a car, lorry, etc
- bottom heat — heat artificially applied to a container in which plants are grown in order to induce their germination, rooting, or growth.
- bottom lady — a pimp's most reliable prostitute.
- bottom land — bottom (def 4).
- bottom line — The bottom line in a decision or situation is the most important factor that you have to consider.