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 : A breast, one of a woman's breasts

bound

Adjective : Ready to start or go (to); moving in the direction (of).

Adjective : (with infinitive) Obliged (to).

Adjective : Confined or restricted to a certain place.

boost

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

Verb : (transitive, by extension) To help or encourage (something) to increase or improve; to assist in overcoming obstacles.

Verb : (transitive) To lift or push from behind (one who is endeavoring to climb); to push up.

bower

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

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.

boast

Verb : (intransitive) To brag; to talk loudly in praise of oneself.

Verb : (transitive) (used with "about" or "of") To speak of with pride, vanity, or exultation, with a view to self-commendation; to extol.

Noun : A brag; ostentatious positive appraisal of oneself.

bogus

Adjective : Counterfeit or fake; not genuine.

Adjective : Based on false or misleading information or unjustified assumptions.

Adjective : (slang) Undesirable or harmful.

booty

Noun : (slang) The buttocks.

Noun : (vulgar, slang, uncountable) A person considered as a sexual partner or sex object.

Noun : (vulgar, slang) Sexual intercourse.

bogey

Noun : (golf) A score of one over par on a hole.

Noun : (golf) The notional opponent of a golfer playing alone.

Noun : (military, aviation) An unidentified aircraft, especially as observed as a spot on a radar screen and suspected to be hostile.

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.

Noun : (colloquial, uncountable, sometimes specifically) Any hard liquor.

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

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

Noun : An action, job, or task that has been performed very badly; a ruined, defective, or clumsy piece of work.

booby

Noun : (colloquial or childish) A breast.

Adjective : (informal, of clothing or a person) Displaying breasts prominently.

Adjective : (informal) Having large breasts.

bonny

Noun : A female given name from English.

Noun : A surname.

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

bowed

Adjective : Bent or curved.

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

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

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 committee that manages the business of an organization, e.g., a board of directors.

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

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

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

booth

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

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

Noun : An enclosed seating area consisting of a table next to a wall set between two high-backed benches, as in a diner or café.

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

Noun : A tedious person, who bores others; a bore.

boozy

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

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

Adjective : (of a person) Intoxicated by 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 bolide or fireball (type of meteor)

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 : (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.

Noun : (aviation, military, slang) An unidentified aircraft, especially as observed as a spot on a radar screen and suspected to be hostile.

bossy

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

Adjective : Ornamented with bosses; studded.

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

boner

Noun : (vulgar, slang) An erect penis.

Noun : (dated slang, especially baseball) A blunder; a silly mistake.

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

boule

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

Noun : A round loaf of bread.

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

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.

Noun : (informal) Sexual intercourse.

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

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

Verb : (intransitive) To play the bongo drums.

Verb : (transitive) To hit something rhythmically with the hands.

boned

Adjective : (of meat or fish) Having had the bones removed before cooking.

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

Adjective : (of a garment such as a corset or basque) Fitted with bones.

botox

Verb : (transitive, intransitive) To inject 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.

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.

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

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

bonze

Noun : A Buddhist monk or priest in East Asia.

bouse

Noun : (obsolete) to drink, especially alcoholic drink

Noun : (obsolete) a carouse; a booze

Verb : (obsolete) To drink immoderately; to carouse; to booze.

bonne

Noun : A French nursemaid.

boney

Noun : (slang) Napoleon Bonaparte.

Noun : A surname.

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

Noun : A surname from French.

Noun : Obsolete form of borough. [(obsolete) A fortified town.]

bocal

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

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.

booly

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

Noun : (obsolete, Ireland) An enclosed shelter in the pasture land, usually in the mountainous parts, for the shelter of cattle or their herders.

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.

Verb : (transitive) To treat with borax.

bobby

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

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

Noun : A calf that is slaughtered in its first month, usually because it has no mother or because it is undersized or otherwise defective.

bones

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

Noun : (informal) Synonym of fist bump.

Noun : A pair of dice for gambling.

bosun

Noun : Alternative form of boatswain (“warrant or petty officer on board a naval ship”). [A person aboard ship who is in charge of various maritime affairs.]

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 : A city in Prince George's County, Maryland.

Noun : A place in the United States:

bogle

Noun : (UK, especially Scotland) A goblin, imp, bogeyman, bugbear or similar a frightful being or phantom.

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

Noun : (dialectal, dated) A scarecrow.

boyle

Noun : Robert Boyle, Irish natural philosopher.

Noun : A surname from Irish.

Noun : A place name:

boyer

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

Noun : A surname from French.

Noun : A commune in Loire department, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France.

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 : The Mande language of these people.

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

bow to

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

boosy

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

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

bodie

Noun : A ghost town in Mono County, California, United States.

Noun : (uncountable) A placename:

Noun : A male given name transferred from the surname.

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 census-designated place in Kern County, California, United States.

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

Noun : imprisonment, captivity

Noun : A surname.

bourn

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

Noun : A surname.

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

boise

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

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 : A neighborhood of Portland, Oregon; named for American judge Reuben P. Boise.

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

Noun : A coastal town and locality in the Whitsunday Region, Queensland, Australia.

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

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.

Adjective : That booms.

bosie

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

bouge

Verb : To swell out.

Verb : To bilge.

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

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, by extension, figurative) To appear or arrive unexpectedly.

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

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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