5-letter words starting with bo
- bossy — If you describe someone as bossy, you mean that they enjoy telling people what to do.
- bosun — The bosun on a ship is the officer whose job it is to look after the ship and its equipment.
- botch — If you botch something that you are doing, you do it badly or clumsily.
- botel — a waterside hotel with dock space for persons who travel by boat.
- botha — Louis. 1862–1919, South African statesman and general; first prime minister of the Union of South Africa (1910–19)
- bothe — Walther (Wilhelm Georg Franz) (ˈvaltər). 1891–1957, German physicist, who developed new methods of detecting subatomic particles. He shared the Nobel prize for physics 1954
- bothy — a cottage or hut
- botox — Botox is a substance that is injected into the face in order to make the skin look smoother.
- botte — a thrust or hit
- botty — the buttocks
- bouar — a city in the W Central African Republic.
- bouge — to swell or bulge
- bough — A bough is a large branch of a tree.
- boule — the parliament in modern Greece
- boult — Sir Adrian (Cedric). 1889–1983, English conductor
- bound — Bound is the past tense and past participle of bind.
- bourd — a jest or joke
- bourg — a French market town, esp one beside a castle
- bourn — a destination; goal
- bouse — to raise or haul with a tackle
- bousy — drunken; boozy
- 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).