5 Letter Words That Start With BO

board

Noun : A relatively long, wide and thin piece of any material, usually wood or similar, often for use in construction or furniture-making.

Noun : A device (e.g., switchboard) containing electrical switches and other controls and designed to control lights, sound, telephone connections, etc.

Noun : A flat surface with markings for playing a board game.

bound

Adjective : (with infinitive) Obliged (to).

Adjective : (linguistics, of a morpheme) That cannot stand alone as a free word.

Adjective : (mathematics, logic, of a variable) Constrained by a quantifier.

boost

Noun : A push from behind, as to one who is endeavoring to climb.

Noun : Something that helps, or adds power or effectiveness; assistance.

Noun : (physics) A coordinate transformation that changes velocity.

borne

Adjective : carried, supported.

Noun : A surname.

boast

Noun : A brag; ostentatious positive appraisal of oneself.

Noun : Something that one brags about.

Noun : (squash) A shot where the ball is driven off a side wall and then strikes the front wall.

bosom

Noun : (anatomy, somewhat dated) The breast or chest of a human (or sometimes of another animal).

Noun : The seat of one's inner thoughts, feelings, etc.; one's secret feelings; desire.

Noun : The protected interior or inner part of something; the area enclosed as by an embrace.

booty

Noun : (nautical) A form of prize which, when a ship was captured at sea, could be distributed at once.

Noun : Plunder taken from an enemy in time of war, or seized by piracy.

Noun : (figuratively) Something that has been stolen or illegally, mischievously, or greedily obtained from elsewhere.

bored

Adjective : Suffering from boredom; mildly annoyed and restless through having nothing to do.

Adjective : Perforated by a hole or holes.

booth

Noun : A small stall for the display and sale of goods.

Noun : An enclosure just big enough to accommodate one standing person.

Noun : An enclosed table with seats, as in a diner or café.

bough

Noun : A tree-branch, usually a primary one directly attached to the trunk.

Noun : (obsolete, figuratively, poetic) A gallows.

Noun : A surname.

bogus

Adjective : Counterfeit or fake; not genuine.

Adjective : (slang) Undesirable or harmful.

Adjective : (computing, slang) Incorrect, useless, or broken.

bonus

Noun : Something extra that is good; an added benefit.

Noun : An extra sum given as a premium, e.g. to an employee or to a shareholder.

Noun : (video games) An addition to the player's score based on performance, e.g. for time remaining.

bower

Noun : A bedroom or private apartments, especially for a woman in a medieval castle.

Noun : (literary) A dwelling; a picturesque country cottage, especially one that is used as a retreat.

Noun : A shady, leafy shelter or recess in a garden or woods.

bones

Noun : A percussive folk musical instrument played as a pair in one hand, often made from bovine ribs.

Noun : (informal) The act of two fists meeting together in the manner equivalent to a high-five.

Noun : (plural only) The framework or foundation of something.

bolus

Noun : A round mass of something, especially of chewed food in the mouth or alimentary canal.

Noun : A single, large dose of a drug, especially one in that form.

Verb : (transitive) To administer (a drug) in bolus dosing, that is, dosing in (one or more) boluses.

botch

Verb : (transitive) To perform (a task) in an unacceptable or incompetent manner; to make a mess of something

Verb : To do something without skill, without care, or clumsily.

Verb : To repair or mend clumsily.

books

Noun : (accounting) Accounting records.

booze

Noun : (colloquial, uncountable) Any alcoholic beverage. (Especially hard liquor.)

Noun : (colloquial, countable, archaic) A session of drinking alcohol; a drinking party.

Verb : (slang, intransitive) To drink alcohol.

bossy

Adjective : Tending to give orders to others, especially when unwarranted; domineering.

Noun : (US, informal, dated) A cow or calf.

Adjective : Ornamented with bosses; studded.

bogey

Noun : (archaic, often capitalized, usually with definite article) The Devil.

Noun : A ghost, goblin, or other hostile supernatural creature.

Noun : (figuratively) A bugbear: any terrifying thing.

boner

Noun : (vulgar, slang) An erect penis.

Noun : (vulgar, slang, figurative) An often perverse sense of enjoyment from or predilection towards something.

Noun : One who or that which removes bones.

bowel

Noun : (chiefly medicine) A part or division of the intestines, usually the large intestine.

Noun : (in the plural) The entrails or intestines; the internal organs of the stomach.

Noun : (in the plural, figuratively) The (deep) interior of something.

boots

Noun : (Jamaica, slang, plural only) A condom.

Noun : (dated) A servant at a hotel etc. who cleans and blacks the boots and shoes.

Noun : (UK, naval, slang) The ship in a fleet having the most junior captain.

boyle

Noun : A surname from Irish.

Noun : Robert Boyle, Irish natural philosopher.

Noun : A place name:

booby

Noun : A stupid person.

Noun : Any of various large tropical seabirds from the genera Sula and Papasula in the gannet family Sulidae, traditionally considered to be stupid.

Noun : In the game of croquet, a ball that has not passed through the first wicket.

bongo

Noun : A striped bovine mammal found in Africa, Tragelaphus eurycerus.

Noun : Either of a pair of small drums of Cuban origin, played by beating with the hands.

Verb : To play the bongo drums.

bonny

Noun : (mining) A round and compact bed of ore, or a distinct bed, not communicating with a vein.

Noun : A female given name from English.

Noun : A surname.

bohea

Noun : A black tea from China.

Noun : Alternative form of bohea (“a black tea from China”) [A black tea from China.]

bosun

Noun : Alternative form of boatswain (“warrant or petty officer on board a naval ship”) [The officer (or warrant officer) in charge of sails, rigging, anchors, cables etc. and all work on deck of a sailing ship.]

boxer

Noun : A participant in a boxing match; a fighter who boxes.

Noun : A breed of stocky, medium-sized, short-haired dog with a square-jawed muzzle.

Noun : A type of internal combustion engine in which cylinders are arranged in two banks on either side of a single crankshaft.

bombe

Noun : A dessert made from ice cream frozen in a (generally spherical or hemispherical) mold.

Noun : (chiefly in German cooking, otherwise rare) A small, roughly hemispherical, chocolate-covered confection. (Compare truffle.)

Noun : (computing) An electromechanical device used in early cryptanalysis.

boron

Noun : The chemical element (symbol B) with an atomic number of 5, which is a metalloid found in its pure form as a dark amorphous powder.

Noun : A single atom of this element.

Noun : A surname.

bowie

Noun : A surname.

Noun : An unincorporated community in Arizona

Noun : A city in Maryland

bonds

Noun : imprisonment, captivity

Noun : the condition of goods in a bonded warehouse until duty is paid

bogie

Noun : (Northern England) A low, hand-operated truck, generally with four wheels, used for transporting objects or for riding on as a toy; a trolley.

Noun : (by extension, rail transport, also attributively) One of two sets of wheels under a locomotive or railcar; also, a structure with axles and wheels under a locomotive, railcar, or semi which provides support and reduces vibration for the vehicle.

Noun : (aviation, by extension) A set of wheels attached to one of an aircraft's landing gear, or the structure connecting the wheels in one such set.

borer

Noun : A tool used for drilling.

Noun : (MLE, slang) A knife fit for a stabbing.

Noun : A person who bores or drills; a person employed to drill bore holes.

boson

Noun : (physics) A particle with totally symmetric composite quantum states, which exempts them from the Pauli exclusion principle, and that hence obeys Bose-Einstein statistics. They have integer spin. Among them are many elementary particles, and some (gauge bosons) are known to carry the fundamental forces. Compare fermion.

Noun : (obsolete) A boatswain.

bocce

Noun : (sports, uncountable) A game, similar to bowls or pétanque, played on a long, narrow, dirt-covered court

Noun : (sports, countable) One of the eight balls that the player throws in a game of bocce.

boney

Noun : A surname.

Noun : (slang) Napoleon Bonaparte.

Adjective : Alternative spelling of bony [resembling, having the appearance or consistence of, or relating to bone; osseous.]

botox

Noun : A toxic compound (generic name botulinum toxin type A) produced by the bacterium Clostridium botulinum, that causes the paralysis of muscles, used in cosmetic surgery to conceal wrinkles and for muscle spasm relief and headache prevention.

Verb : (transitive, intransitive) To inject Botox.

Noun : Alternative letter-case form of Botox [A toxic compound (generic name botulinum toxin type A) produced by the bacterium Clostridium botulinum, that causes the paralysis of muscles, used in cosmetic surgery to conceal wrinkles and for muscle spasm relief and headache prevention.]

bobby

Noun : (Britain, Ireland, Australia, slang) A police officer.

Noun : (Britain, Ireland, Australia, slang) A railway signaller.

Noun : (Scotland, slang) A penis.

borax

Noun : A white or gray/grey crystalline salt, with a slight alkaline taste, used as a flux, in soldering metals, making enamels, fixing colors/colours on porcelain, and as a soap, etc.

Noun : (chemistry) The sodium salt of boric acid, Na₂B₄O₇, either anhydrous or with 5 or 10 molecules of water of crystallization; sodium tetraborate.

Noun : (sometimes attributive) Cheap or tawdry furniture or other works of industrial design.

bogan

Noun : (Australia, New Zealand, slang, derogatory stereotype) An unsophisticated person from a working class background.

Noun : (New Zealand, slang, derogatory) An Anglo-Celtic member of a lower socioeconomic group, stereotypically classified as wearing black jumpers or black concert T-shirts.

Noun : (New Zealand, slang, derogatory) A petrolhead.

bonce

Noun : (UK, Ireland, New Zealand, slang) The human head.

Noun : (dated) The kind of marble used in the game of bonce about.

boule

Noun : One of the bowls used in the French game of boules.

Noun : A single-crystal ingot produced by synthetic means.

Noun : A round loaf of bread.

bodhi

Noun : (Buddhism) The state of enlightenment that finally ends the cycle of death and rebirth and leads to nirvana.

Noun : A male given name from Sanskrit.

bourn

Noun : A surname.

Noun : A village in South Cambridgeshire district, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TL3256).

Noun : Alternative form of bourne (“small stream or brook”) [(countable, archaic) A boundary; a limit.]

boone

Noun : A surname.

Noun : A number of places in the United States:

Noun : A statutory town in Pueblo County, Colorado.

boise

Noun : A river in Idaho; flowing 102 miles from the confluence of the North and Middle forks in the Sawtooth Range into the Snake near Parma.

Noun : The capital and largest city of Idaho, United States, and the county seat of Ada County; probably named for the river.

Noun : A ghost town in Texas.

bowed

Adjective : Having a bow (rod for playing stringed instruments).

Adjective : (in combination) Equipped with a bow (weapon).

boxes

Noun : Senses relating to a three-dimensional object or space.

Noun : A cuboid space; a cuboid container, often with a hinged lid.

Noun : A cuboid container and its contents; as much as fills such a container.

boggy

Adjective : Having the qualities of a bog; i.e. dank, squishy, muddy, and full of water and rotting vegetation.

boobs

Noun : "Boobs" is a fantasy short story by Suzy McKee Charnas.

Noun : a Canadian animated short film, directed by Marie Valade and released in 2021.

bogue

Noun : A species of seabream fish native to the eastern Atlantic, Boops boops.

Noun : (especially Southern US, Midland US) A bayou or waterway.

Verb : (nautical) To fall off from the wind; to edge away to leeward.

boist

Noun : (obsolete) A box.

bokeh

Noun : (photography) A subjective aesthetic quality of out-of-focus areas of an image projected by a camera lens.

botty

Noun : (childish, slang, UK) bottom

Noun : (informal, rare, computing) A term of address for a bot (automated software process).

Adjective : (informal, rare, computing) Resembling a bot (automated software process); botlike.

bosch

Noun : a small lunar impact crater near the North Pole of the Moon.

Noun : an American police procedural streaming television series produced by Amazon Studios and Fabrik Entertainment starring Titus Welliver as Los Angeles Police detective Harry Bosch.

Noun : a West Frisian island in the Wadden Sea.

bowls

Noun : A precision sport where the goal is to roll biased balls (weighted on one side, and called bowls) closer to a smaller white ball (the jack or kitty) than one's opponent is able to do.

Noun : A ball used in the game of bowls

boned

Adjective : (in combination) Having some specific type of bone.

Adjective : (art) Of computer-generated animations: based on models with simulated bones or joints.

Adjective : (slang) Beset with unfortunate circumstances that seem difficult or impossible to overcome; in imminent danger.

bodge

Verb : (Britain, Ireland) To do a clumsy or inelegant job, usually as a temporary repair; mend, patch up, repair.

Verb : To work green wood using traditional country methods; to perform the craft of a bodger.

Noun : A clumsy or inelegant job, usually a temporary repair; a patch, a repair.

bothy

Noun : (Scotland, Ireland, Northumbria) A small cottage, especially one for communal use in remote areas by labourers or farmhands, or as a mountain shelter.

bogle

Noun : A goblin; a frightful spectre or phantom; a bogy or bugbear.

Noun : (dialectal, dated) A scarecrow.

Noun : (dance) A Jamaican dance move that involves raising and lowering the arms while moving the body in a waving motion.

bonum

bolts

Noun : (mnemonic) Acronym used to remember the essential features of a map: Border, orientation (north arrow), legend, title, scale.

bouse

Verb : (nautical) To haul or hoist (something) with a tackle.

Noun : (obsolete) drink, especially alcoholic drink

Noun : (obsolete) a carouse; a booze

bosky

Adjective : Having abundant bushes, shrubs or trees.

Adjective : Caused by trees or shrubs.

Adjective : Bushy, bristling.

boats

Noun : A craft used for transportation of goods, fishing, racing, recreational cruising, or military use on or in the water, propelled by oars or outboard motor or inboard motor or by wind.

Noun : (poker slang) A full house.

Noun : A vehicle, utensil, or dish somewhat resembling a boat in shape.

bosco

Noun : A surname.

Noun : A male given name.

bouts

Noun : A period of something, especially one painful or unpleasant.

Noun : (boxing) A boxing match.

Noun : (fencing) An assault (a fencing encounter) at which the score is kept.

boing

Noun : The sound made by an elastic object (such as a spring) when bouncing; the sound of a bounce.

Noun : (fandom slang, chiefly in the context of anime and comics) large breasts

Verb : (transitive) To make a boing sound or bouncing motion.

boole

Noun : An English surname

bombs

Noun : An explosive device used or intended as a weapon, (especially) one dropped from an aircraft.

Noun : (dated, often with the) The atomic bomb.

Noun : (figurative) Events or conditions that have a speedy destructive effect.

boche

Noun : (dated, slang, ethnic slur) A German.

Noun : Alternative letter-case form of Boche. [(dated, slang, ethnic slur) A German.]

bonne

Noun : A French nursemaid.

boree

Noun : (Australia) Any of various species of wattle tree (genus Acacia), especially Acacia pendula and Acacia glaucescens.

Noun : A person who is bored by another; the victim of a bore.

Noun : Obsolete form of bourrée. [A baroque dance of French origin, common in Auvergne and Biscay in Spain in the 17th century.]

boyne

Noun : A river in Ireland.

Noun : A surname from Irish.

bovid

Noun : An animal of the family Bovidae (such as the antelope, gazelle, goat, and sheep).

bonze

Noun : A Buddhist monk or priest in East Asia.

boris

Noun : A male given name from the Slavic languages.

Noun : (slang) A person of Russian descent.

boffo

Adjective : (chiefly US, slang) Outstanding; very good or successful.

Noun : (chiefly in the world of entertainment) A great success; a hit.

bouge

Noun : (now historical) The right to rations at court, granted to the king's household, attendants etc.

Verb : To swell out.

Verb : To bilge.

bonet

Noun : A surname.

boyar

Noun : (historical) A member of a rank of aristocracy (second only to princes) in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Serbia and Romania.

Noun : A surname.

boles

Noun : A surname.

Noun : An unincorporated community in Scott County, Arkansas, United States.

Noun : An unincorporated community in Modoc County, California.

boite

Noun : a nightclu

boeuf

Noun : meat from an adult domestic bovin

bomer

Noun : A surname.

boart

Noun : Alternative spelling of bort [Poor-quality diamond, used for industrial cutting or abrasion; a poorly crystallized diamond.]

boman

Noun : A surname.

boyce

Noun : An English habitational surname from Old French for someone living near the woods.

Noun : A male given name transferred from the surname.

Noun : A town in Rapides Parish, Louisiana, United States.

boxed

Adjective : Packed into a box or boxes.

Adjective : In bridge and other card games if the cards in a pack are reversed face-up and face-down then the pack is said to be boxed.

bolis

Noun : (archaic) A meteor or brilliant shooting star, followed by a train of light or sparks; especially one which explodes.

boozy

Adjective : (of a person) Intoxicated by alcohol.

Adjective : (of a person) Inclined to consume a significant amount of alcohol.

Adjective : (of an event) Involving a large consumption of alcohol.

boral

Noun : aluminium borotartrate, an astringent and antiseptic.

bowse

Verb : (archaic) To drink excessively and socially; to carouse.

Noun : A carouse; a drinking bout; a booze.

Verb : (nautical) To haul or hoist (something) with a tackle.

boden

Noun : An English surname common in Shropshire and the West Midlands area of central England.

Noun : A town and municipality of Norrbotten County, in northern Sweden

bonga

Noun : a town, woreda and capital of the South West Ethiopia Peoples' Region in Ethiopia.

Noun : José Adelino Barceló de Carvalho (born 5 September 1942 in Kipiri, Angola), better known as Bonga, is a folk and semba singer and songwriter from Angola.

Noun : a surname and a given name.

bores

Noun : A surname from Czech.

bocci

Noun : Alternative form of bocce [(sports, uncountable) A game, similar to bowls or pétanque, played on a long, narrow, dirt-covered court]

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