5 Letter Words That Start With BO

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.

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.

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.

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.

bogus

Adjective : Counterfeit or fake; not genuine.

Adjective : (slang) Undesirable or harmful.

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

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.

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.

boggy

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

booze

Noun : (colloquial, uncountable) Any alcoholic beverage (especially beer or hard liquor).

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

Verb : (slang, intransitive) To drink alcohol.

borne

Adjective : carried, supported.

Noun : A surname.

bough

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

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

Noun : A surname.

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.

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.

bonny

Noun : A female given name from English.

Noun : A surname.

Noun : An unincorporated community in Morgan County, Kentucky, United States.

bowed

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

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

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

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.

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.

bosky

Adjective : Having abundant bushes, shrubs or trees.

Adjective : Caused by trees or shrubs.

Adjective : Bushy, bristling.

boffo

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

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

booth

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

Noun : (dated) A temporary shelter, often in the form of a tent, shed, or canopied structure.

Noun : A boxlike room or enclosure just big enough to accommodate one standing person, such as a phone booth or polling booth.

bored

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

Adjective : Perforated by a hole or holes.

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.

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.

boong

Noun : (Australia, slang, offensive, ethnic slur) An Australian Aboriginal person.

Noun : (Australia, slang, dated) A native of New Guinea or Malaysia.

bolis

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

bovid

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

bolts

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

boink

Verb : (ambitransitive, informal) To have sexual intercourse (with); to bonk.

Verb : (transitive, informal) To hit or strike.

Noun : (computing, slang) A real-world social gathering of computer users.

bozon

Noun : (humorous) A notional particle of stupidity.

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.

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 : (intransitive) To play the bongo drums.

boned

Adjective : (in combination) Having a (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.

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.]

bodge

Verb : (UK, 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.

bonze

Noun : A Buddhist monk or priest in East Asia.

bouse

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

Noun : (obsolete) to drink, especially alcoholic drink

Noun : (obsolete) a carouse; a booze

bonne

Noun : A French nursemaid.

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.]

bothy

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

bourg

Noun : A surname from French.

Noun : A topographical surname from Anglo-Norman for someone who lived in a fortified place.

Noun : Obsolete form of burgh. [(Sussex) a small mound, often used in reference to tumuli (mostly restricted to place names).]

bocal

Noun : A curved, tapered metal tube which connects the reed of several double reed woodwind instruments (such as the cor anglais, bassoon, and contrabassoon) to the rest of the instrument.

Noun : A cylindrical glass vessel with a short wide neck.

booly

Noun : (obsolete) A company of Irish herdsmen, or a single herdsman, wandering from place to place with flocks and herds, and living on their milk, like the Tartars.

Noun : (obsolete) A place in the mountain pastures enclosed for the shelter of cattle or their keepers.

bonza

Noun : A reddish apple originating in Australia.

Noun : A surname

Adjective : Alternative spelling of bonzer [(Australia, New Zealand, informal) Remarkable; wonderful; excellent; terrific.]

boser

Noun : A surname.

bolin

Noun : A surname.

Noun : Alternative form of bowline (“type of knot”) [(nautical) A rope fastened near the middle of the leech or perpendicular edge of the square sails.]

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.

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 : (inorganic 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.

bobby

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

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

Noun : (Scotland, slang) A penis.

bones

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

Noun : A pair of dice for gambling.

Noun : (informal) Synonym of fist bump.

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.]

boche

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

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

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.

bowie

Noun : A surname.

Noun : An unincorporated community in Arizona.

Noun : A city in Maryland.

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.

boyle

Noun : A surname from Irish.

Noun : Robert Boyle, Irish natural philosopher.

Noun : A place name:

boyer

Noun : A Flemish sloop with a castle at each end.

Noun : A surname from French.

Noun : A place name:

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.

bogan

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

Noun : (New Zealand, slang, derogatory, ethnic slur) 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.

bomba

Noun : (music) A form of traditional drumming, and an associated form of dance, from Puerto Rico.

Noun : A surname.

bornu

Noun : (historical) An independent kingdom (1380-1893), descended from the Kanem–Bornu Empire (700-1380), that covered much of modern Chad and parts of Libya, Niger, Nigeria, and Cameroon

bokeh

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

bozos

Noun : (slang) A stupid, foolish, or ridiculous person, especially a man.

Noun : A member of a West African ethnic group located predominantly along the Niger River in Mali, famous for their fishing

Noun : The Mande language of these people.

bow to

Verb : To subserviently adhere to (a tradition, etc.).

boosy

Noun : Alternative form of boose (“animal's stall”) [(dialect) A stall for an animal (usually a cow).]

Adjective : Archaic form of boozy. [(of a person) Intoxicated by alcohol.]

bodie

Noun : A surname transferred from the nickname.

Noun : A male given name transferred from the surname.

Noun : (uncountable) A placename:

booch

Noun : (colloquial) Kombucha.

Noun : (New York City, slang) Cocaine.

booke

Noun : Archaic spelling of book. [A collection of sheets of paper bound together to hinge at one edge, containing printed or written material, pictures, etc.]

bokor

Noun : Alternative form of bocor [(voodoo) A voodoo practitioner who deals with malefic as well as beneficial effects; a sorcerer.]

bodye

Noun : Obsolete spelling of body. [Physical frame.]

bojan

Noun : (Serbian Cyrillic and Macedonian: Бојан; Ukrainian, Russian and Bulgarian Cyrillic: Боян, transcribed Boyan) a Slavic given name, derived from the Slavic noun boj "battle."

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.

books

Noun : (accounting) Accounting records.

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

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.

bonds

Noun : imprisonment, captivity

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

bourn

Noun : A surname.

Noun : A village and civil parish 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.]

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.

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.

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

boone

Noun : A surname.

Noun : A number of places in the United States:

Noun : A statutory town in Pueblo County, Colorado.

bolar

Adjective : (dated) Of, relating to, or similar to, bole or clay; clayey.

Noun : A surname.

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.

bolas

Noun : A throwing weapon made of weights on the ends of interconnected cords, designed to capture animals by entangling their legs.

Noun : A sticky thread whirled around by certain spiders to catch prey.

bowen

Noun : A surname from Welsh [in turn originating as a patronymic].

Noun : A male given name transferred from the surname.

Noun : A town and district in the General Alvear Department, Mendoza, Argentina.

bocca

Noun : The round hole in the furnace of a glassworks through which the fused glass is taken out.

boomy

Adjective : Characterized by heavy bass sounds.

Adjective : Of or pertaining to a financial boom, resources boom, baby boom, etc.

bosie

Noun : (cricket, obsolete) Alternative form of bosey [(cricket, obsolete) A googly.]

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.

booed

Noun : A derisive shout made to indicate disapproval.

Verb : (intransitive) To shout extended boos derisively.

Verb : (transitive) To shout extended boos at, as a form of disapproval or derision.

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.

bondi

Noun : A suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

Noun : A surname.

boris

Noun : A male given name from the Slavic languages.

Noun : (slang) A person of Russian descent.

bob up

Verb : (intransitive) To rise to the surface; to ascend to the surface and remain floating there.

Verb : (intransitive, by extension, figurative) To appear or arrive unexpectedly.

bolti

Noun : Alternative form of bolty [A Nile tilapia, an edible fish of the Nile, of species Oreochromis niloticus (formerly Chromis nilotica).]

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