English words: boosting to borborygmic

300 English words, part 98 of 142 of the words starting with B, A to Z. 33 have a page of their own.

English words boosting to borborygmic

boosting noun, verb: The act or process by which something is boosted.
boosy noun: Alternative form of boose (“animal's stall”).
boot noun, verb /buːt/: A heavy shoe that covers part of the leg.
boot and rally verb: To vomit as a result of drinking alcohol, and then continue drinking afterwards.
boot-black noun: Alternative spelling of bootblack.
boot block noun: A dedicated block usually at the beginning (first block on first track) of a storage medium that holds special data used to start a system. Some systems use...
boot board noun: The part of the ski boot underneath the liner, typically made of plastic or hard foam.
boot boy noun: A boy who cleans boots and shoes.
boot camp noun: An initial, basic indoctrination, physical fitness training and basic instruction in service-related subjects for new recruits in the armed forces (army,...
boot catcher noun: A person employed at an inn to take off people's boots and clean them.
boot closer noun: One who, or that which, sews the uppers of boots.
boot crimp noun: A frame or device used by bootmakers for drawing and shaping the body of a boot.
boot cut adjective: Alternative spelling of boot cut.
boot cuts noun: Pants/trousers cut as if to allow the legs to fit over boots.
boot disk noun: A computer disk holding a bootstrap loader and an operating system.
boot fair noun: A market fair with sellers operating out of the boots (trunks) of their cars; a market requiring little more than a meet.
boot-grease noun: Any of various greasy preparations designed to be applied externally to leather footwear.
boot-hook noun: Alternative form of boothook
boot jack noun: A firm structure with hole, into which a person steps, in order to more easily remove their foot from a boot.
boot knife noun: A knife, usually with a fixed double-edged blade, that is carried inside a sheath or attached to a boot.
boot lip noun: Alternative form of bootlip.
boot loader noun: A small program that initiates the bootstrap process by loading the operating system proper.
boot loop noun: A faulty condition in which the system repeatedly reboots itself.
boot manager noun: Synonym of boot loader.
boot money noun: Bribes paid to rugby or soccer players.
boot one verb: To make a mistake.
boot out verb: Emphatic synonym of kick out: to remove, to eject, to expel; to dismiss (from a position, job, etc.).
boot room noun: British standard form of mudroom
boot sale noun: Synonym of car boot sale.
boot sector noun: A dedicated sector, usually at the beginning (first sector on first track) of a storage medium, that holds special data used to start a system.
boot-stand noun: an organizational tool designed to store boots upright, preventing them from falling over, wrinkling, or creasing
boot storm noun: The situation where many users attempt to boot their computers at the same time, causing excessive demand on the network.
boot-studder noun: A person employed to repair boots for a football team.
boot time noun: The amount of time required to load the kernel of an operating system, its device drivers, and the initialization of the hardware.
boot-topping noun: The process of cleaning the upper part of a ship's underwater hull and daubing it with a protecting layer of antifouling substance.
boot tree noun: Alternative spelling of boottree.
boot up verb: To start a computer using its bootstrap procedure.
boot upstairs verb: Synonym of kick upstairs.
boot verb noun: Any of various verbs, generally in Romance languages, in which the first and second persons plural are affected differently by some phonological or...
bootability noun: The state or condition of being bootable.
bootable adjective, noun: That can be booted; from which one can boot the system.
bootay noun: Pronunciation spelling of booty.
bootblack noun, verb: A shoeshine boy; a person who shines shoes as an occupation.
bootblacker noun: Synonym of bootblack
bootblacking noun, verb: The practice of shining shoes; shoe-shining.
bootblock noun: A block of storage on disk that holds the code for booting the operating system.
bootboard noun: Alternative form of boot board.
bootboy noun: A male skinhead who wears boots.
bootcamp noun: Alternative form of boot camp.
bootcamper noun: One who attends or has attended a boot camp.
bootcatcher noun: Alternative form of boot catcher.
bootcover noun: A cover for a shoe or boot
bootcut adjective: Alternative spelling of boot cut.
bootcuts noun: Alternative form of boot cuts
bootdisk noun: Alternative form of boot disk.
booted adjective, verb /ˈbuːtɪd/: Wearing a boot or boots.
booted eagle noun: Hieraaetus pennatus, a medium-sized mostly migratory bird of prey with a wide distribution in the Palearctic and southern Asia.
booted warbler noun: Iduna caligata, an Old World warbler in the tree warbler group.
bootee noun /ˈbuːti/: A soft, woolen shoe, usually knitted, for a baby or small pet.
booteed adjective: Wearing bootees.
booter noun /ˈbuːtɚ/: A program or process that boots.
booterie noun: Alternative form of bootery (“boot shop”).
bootery noun /ˈbuːtəɹi/: A shop selling boots.
bootflash noun: A flash memory used at bootstrap time for a device, commonly containing a bootloader and simple configuration information.
bootful noun: As much as a boot will hold.
bootgirl noun: A female skinhead who wears boots.
booth noun /buːð/: A small stall for the display and sale of goods.
booth babe noun: A female model hired to represent a product and interact with consumers at a trade fair or similar event.
boothaling noun: foraging for booty; plundering
Bootham proper noun: A small neighbourhood and named street in the city of York, North Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE6052).
Boothbay proper noun: A town in Lincoln County, Maine, United States.
Boothby proper noun: A surname.
Boothe proper noun: A surname.
bootheel noun: The heel of a boot.
boother noun: A performer who operates from a booth.
boothette noun: A small booth.
Boothia proper noun: A peninsula in Nunavut, Canada.
Boothian adjective: Of or relating to a tangential coordinate system invented by James Booth.
boothie noun: Alternative form of bothy.
boothite noun: A monoclinic-prismatic blue mineral containing cobalt, copper, hydrogen, magnesium, manganese, oxygen, sulfur, and zinc.
boothless adjective: Without a booth.
boothlike adjective: Resembling or characteristic of a booth.
boothman noun: One who mans a booth, such as at a fair or (historically) a Thing.
boothmate noun: One who shares the same booth.
bootholder noun: A framework on which a boot can be placed to dry or be stretched.
boothook noun: A hook with a handle, used for pulling on boots.
boothose noun: An item of clothing worn over the stockings, in fashion in the 17th century.
Boothroyd proper noun: A village in the Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE235215).
boothy noun: Alternative form of bothy.
Bootid noun: A meteor of a meteor shower appearing to originate from Boötes.
bootie noun: Alternative spelling of bootee.
bootie call noun: Alternative spelling of booty call.
bootied adjective, verb: Having a booty or backside (of a specified kind).
bootiful adjective /ˈbʉːtəfəl/: Pronunciation spelling of beautiful, representing East Anglia English.
bootikin noun /ˈbuːtɪkɪn/: A small boot or gaiter.
bootilicious adjective: Alternative spelling of bootylicious.
booting noun, verb: A kicking, as with a booted foot.
bootjack noun, verb: A V-shaped, or forked, device for pulling off boots.
bootkin noun: Alternative form of bootikin (“torture device”).
bootkit noun: A rootkit which works by replacing the boot loader and patching the kernel before it starts executing.
bootlace noun /ˈbutˌleɪs/: A long lace for fastening boots.
bootlace fungus noun: Synonym of honey fungus
bootlace tie noun: Synonym of bolo tie.
bootlace weed noun: Synonym of sea-laces (“the seaweed Chorda filum”).
bootlace worm noun: Lineus longissimus, a proboscis worm with highly toxic mucus; it is one of the longest animals known.
bootlaced adjective: Fastened with bootlaces.
bootlast noun: Synonym of last (“tool for preserving the shape of a shoe”).
bootle noun: Alternative spelling of boodle.
bootleg adjective, noun, verb /ˈbutˌlɛɡ/: To engage in bootlegging.
bootleg ground noun: A type of false ground (earth) in electrical circuits, created by wiring the grounding circuit (green wire, bare copper wire) to the neutral circuit (cold...
bootlegger noun /ˈbuːtlɛɡə(ɹ)/: One who is illegally a producer and/or trader of goods, especially of alcohol.
bootlegger reverse noun: An automobile driving maneuver where the driver puts the vehicle in a controlled skid in order to quickly reverse the vehicle's bearing to the opposite...
bootleggery adjective, noun /ˈbuːtˌlɛɡəɹi/: The crime of bootlegging.
bootlegging noun, verb: The activity of making, transporting and/or selling illegal alcoholic liquor.
bootless adjective: Without boots.
bootlessly adverb: In a bootless manner.
bootlessness noun: The quality of being unavailing or unprofitable.
bootlickery noun: Synonym of bootlicking (“obsequious or servile behavior”).
bootlicking noun, verb: Obsequious or servile behavior.
bootlid noun: Synonym of trunklid.
bootlike adjective: Resembling or characteristic of a boot (footwear).
bootlip noun: The lip at the top end of the shaft of a boot.
bootload noun: As much as the boot of a car can hold; a trunkload.
bootloader noun: Alternative spelling of boot loader.
bootloop noun: Alternative form of boot loop.
bootmaker noun: A maker of boots; a cobbler.
bootmaking noun: The making of boots.
bootman noun: A male bootmaker.
bootneck noun: A member of the Royal Marines.
Bootnik noun: A fan of the ReBoot CGI-animated television series.
Booton proper noun: A village and civil parish in the Broadland district, Norfolk, England (OS grid ref TG109228).
bootprint noun: The impression left by a boot while walking
bootROM noun: A read-only memory used for the initial boot process of a computer or device.
boots adverb, noun, verb /buːts/: A condom.
boots and all adverb: Without reserve, with no holds barred; totally, completely.
boots on the ground noun: The ground forces actually fighting in a war or conflict, rather than troops not engaged or other military action such as air strikes.
boots theory noun: An economic theory holding that poverty leads to increased long-term expenses, as poor people generally cannot afford well-made goods with high durability,...
bootscan noun: An antivirus scan that takes place before the operating system has loaded.
bootscanning noun: An instance of running a bootscan.
bootscraper noun: An instrument for scraping mud, etc. from the boots.
bootsector noun: Alternative form of boot sector.
bootsole noun: sole of a boot
bootspace noun: The amount of storage space in the boot or trunk of a motor vehicle.
bootsplash noun: A splash screen displayed at bootup.
bootstep noun: A footstep taken while wearing boots.
bootstrap noun, verb /ˈbuːtˌstɹæp/: A loop (leather or other material) sewn at the side or top rear of a boot to help in pulling the boot on.
bootstrap aggregating noun: A machine learning ensemble meta-algorithm designed to improve the stability and accuracy of machine learning algorithms used in statistical classification...
bootstrap aggregation noun: Synonym of bootstrap aggregating.
bootstrap model noun: Any of a class of theories that use very general consistency criteria to determine the form of a quantum theory from some assumptions on the spectrum of...
bootstrap paradox noun: A time travel paradox in which the consequences of an event in the future travel back in time and cause an event in the past or present, which in turn is...
bootstrappable adjective: Capable of being bootstrapped.
bootstrapper noun: Someone engaged in bootstrapping, or self-improvement.
bootstrapping noun, verb: The process by which something is bootstrapped.
bootstrappy adjective: Hard-working, self-reliant, and enterprising.
bootstring noun: bootlace
bootstripe noun: A stripe of paint or tape between the topsides and bottom of a vessel.
bootsy adjective /ˈbutsi/: Bad, not good; (by extension) ugly or crazy.
Boott's rattlesnake root noun: Synonym of white rattlesnake root.
boottopping noun: Alternative form of boot-topping.
boottree noun: A device, shaped like a divided leg with a wedge, used to stretch the leg of a boot.
bootup noun: The process of booting up.
bootwear noun: Boots (as a category of clothing).
booty adjective, noun, verb /ˈbuːti/: A form of prize which, when a ship was captured at sea, could be distributed at once.
booty bandit noun: A male prison inmate who preys on other male inmates for sex.
booty bass noun: Synonym of Miami bass.
booty bump noun: The act of taking methamphetamine by squirting it into the rectum.
booty call noun, verb: A telephone call made to request a sexual encounter.
booty cheek noun: Synonym of butt cheek.
booty juice noun, verb: A sedative, usually haloperidol, used in psychiatric hospitals and administered through intramuscular injection.
booty shorts noun /ˈbuɾi ʃoɹts/: Shorts worn as outerwear which are designed to barely cover the buttocks or sometimes even expose parts of the buttocks.
bootyful adjective: Alternative form of bootiful.
bootyless adjective: Not having any booty.
bootylicious adjective /ˌbuː.tiˈlɪ.ʃəs/: Voluptuously attractive, especially of a woman's buttocks.
bootyliciousness noun /ˌbuː.tiˈlɪ.ʃəs.nəs/: The quality of being voluptuously attractive.
boowomp interjection: Used to indicate sadness or disappointment.
booya interjection, noun: Alternative form of booyah.
booyah interjection, noun /ˈbuːˌjɑː/: Expressing excitement and anticipation.
booyaka interjection: alternative shortened form of booyakasha.
booyakasha interjection: Used to express triumph, normally if trying to appear "gangsta".
Booysen proper noun: A surname.
Booz proper noun: A surname from German.
booza noun: Syrian and Lebanese ice cream
boozaphone noun: Synonym of ugly stick (“a musical instrument”).
booze noun, verb /buːz/: Any alcoholic beverage.
booze artist noun: One who drinks habitually; a drunkard.
booze baron noun: A prominent owner of a large-scale alcohol supply enterprise.
booze bus noun: A police vehicle used for administering blood-alcohol tests (to drivers), generally a mid-size bus converted or fitted out for the purpose.
booze can noun: A nightclub or bar, especially one which operates illegally or is otherwise disreputable.
booze cruise noun, verb: A brief trip from Britain to France or Belgium in order to buy alcohol (or tobacco) in bulk quantities without paying excise duty.
booze cruiser noun: One who goes on a booze cruise.
booze cruising noun: drunk driving
booze fighter noun: A habitual drunkard.
booze up noun, verb: A session of heavy drinking.
boozebag noun: A drunkard.
boozefest noun: An event where a great deal of alcohol is consumed.
boozehound noun: alcoholic, drunkard
boozeless adjective: Without alcohol.
boozelessness noun: Absence of alcoholic drink.
boozer noun /ˈbuː.zə(ɹ)/: One who drinks alcohol habitually; a drunkard.
boozeroo noun: A session of alcohol drinking.
boozey adjective: Alternative form of boozy.
boozily adverb /ˈbuːzɪli/: In a boozy way.
booziness noun: The state or condition of being boozy.
boozing noun, verb: The act of drinking alcohol heavily.
boozing ken noun: A pub; a public house; a tavern.
Boozman proper noun /ˈbuːzmən/: A surname.
boozorium noun: A bar or a place where alcohol is sold.
boozy adjective /ˈbuːzi/: Intoxicated by alcohol.
bop noun, verb /bɒp/: A very light smack, blow or punch.
bop around verb: To wander; to move aimlessly.
bop it up verb: To party for a long time; to have a good time.
bop the bishop verb: To masturbate (male).
bopeep noun, verb: Alternative form of bo-peep.
bopes interjection: Synonym of bo pian (“no choice; there’s no other way”).
BoPET noun: A polyester film made from stretched polyethylene terephthalate (PET); mylar
Bophuthatswana proper noun: A former bantustan in the northwestern region of South Africa.
Bophuthatswanan adjective, noun: Of or relating to Bophuthatswana.
bopindolol noun: A beta blocker that acts as a prodrug for pindolol.
bopkes noun: Alternative form of bupkis.
BoPo noun: Abbreviation of body positivity.
Bopp proper noun: A surname.
bopper noun /ˈbɒpəɹ/: A person who dances the bop.
bopping noun, verb: The act of something being bopped or hit.
boppish adjective: In the bop style
boppishly adverb: In a boppish manner.
boppishness noun: The quality of being boppish.
boppist noun: Synonym of bopper (“musician in the bop genre”).
boppy adjective /ˈbɒpi/: Characteristic of bop or bebop.
BOPUS phrase: Acronym of buy online, pick up in store.
bopyrid noun: Any member of the family Bopyridae of isopods.
bopyroid noun: Any isopod of the superfamily Bopyroidea
BOQ noun: Initialism of bachelors' officers' quarters.
Boquet proper noun: A surname from French.
Boquete proper noun: A district of Chiriquí province, western Panama; in full, Boquete District.
bor noun: man (not used for children).
bora noun, prefix: An initiation ceremony for males among the Aboriginal people of New South Wales.
bora ground noun: A sacred patch of land where a bora is carried out.
bora saul noun: A variety of glutinous rice found in Assam, India.
borabenzene noun: A heteroaromatic compound in which a carbon atom of a benzene ring has been replaced by one of boron
borable adjective: Alternative form of boreable.
Boracay proper noun /boˈɾa.kaɪ̯/: An island of Western Visayas, Visayas, Philippines, off the northwest tip of Panay island
borachio noun /bɒˈɹæt͡ʃəʊ/: A drunkard.
boracic adjective /bɔˈɹæsɪk/: Relating to, or impregnated with borax.
boracic acid noun: An acid obtained by dissolving borax, and also found in certain mineral springs.
boracic lint noun: A former surgical dressing made from lint soaked in a solution of boric acid and glycerine
boraciferous adjective: Yielding or containing borax.
boracite noun: A mixed chloride and borate of magnesium that occurs as a white to green crystalline evaporite, with the chemical formula Mg₃B₇O₁₃Cl.
boracium noun: An old name for the chemical element boron.
boracous adjective: Only used in boracous acid.
boracous acid noun: The base of boracic acid, partially saturated with oxygen.
borafluorene noun: A heteroaromatic compound in which a carbon atom of a fluorene has been replaced by one of boron
borafullerene noun: Any heterofullerene in which one or more carbon atoms has been replaced by boron
borage noun /ˈbɒɹ.ɪd͡ʒ/: Borago officinalis, a Mediterranean plant with rough, cucumber-flavored leaves and stems, used in salads and cooked.
boragewort noun: Any plant of the borage family (Boraginaceae).
boraginaceous adjective: Of, relating to, or resembling the Boraginaceae, a plant family which includes the borage, heliotrope, beggar's lice, and many other pestiferous plants.
boragineous adjective: Relating to the borage tribe; boraginaceous.
Borah noun: Alternative form of Bohra.
borak noun: A cosmetic face powder or paste to protect the face from the sun, traditionally used by the Sama-Bajau people of the Philippines, Malaysia, and Indonesia.
boral noun: aluminium borotartrate, an astringent and antiseptic.
boralf noun: A type of alfisol that has a frigid temperature regime, but not a xeric moisture regime
boralfic adjective: Relating to boralfs.
boralsilite noun: A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing aluminum, boron, oxygen, and silicon.
borametz noun /ˈbɒɹəmɛts/: Alternative spelling of barometz.
boramez noun: Alternative form of barometz.
Boran noun: A member of the Borani
Borana noun: Alternative form of Boorana.
boranamine noun: Any of several compounds containing a boron to nitrogen bond
borane noun /ˈbɔːɹeɪn/: Any binary compound of boron and hydrogen.
borani noun: A traditional Iranian dish of yoghurt mixed with a cooked vegetable, most commonly spinach.
boranyl noun: Any univalent radical derived from a borane (with the radical on the boron atom).
boranylidene noun: Any molecular species of general formula RB:; the boron analogue of carbenes.
borapyridine noun: A heteroaromatic compound in which a carbon atom of a pyridine ring has been replaced by one of boron
borassoid adjective: Belonging or relating to the palms of the subfamily Borassoideae, now considered to be the tribe Borasseae.
boratabenzene noun: An aromatic heterocyclic anion that has five carbon atoms, a boron atom and two delocalised double bonds
borate noun: The oxyanion BO₃³⁻ or any of several more complex derivatives.
borate bomber noun: An air tanker equipped with borate-based retardants.
borated adjective: Having been treated with borate
Boratesque adjective: Relating to or characteristic of the 2006 mockumentary comedy film Borat, or its protagonist Borat Sagdiyev, a fictitious Kazakh journalist (played by Sacha...
boratian adjective: Containing pentavalent borate BO₄⁵⁻ anions.
borating noun: treatment or reaction with a borate
boration noun: treatment or reaction with a borate or other boron compound
borato noun: A thin fabric.
boratoan adjective: Containing trivalent borate BO₃³⁻ anions.
boratrane noun: Any atrane having boron as the heteroatom
boratto noun: Alternative form of borato (“thin fabric”).
borax noun, verb /ˈbɔː.ɹæks/: A white or gray/grey crystalline salt, found in nature as a mineral, with a slight alkaline taste, used as a flux, in soldering metals, making enamels,...
borax bead test noun: in qualitative inorganic analysis, a test for the presence of certain metallic elements by observing the colours given to a bead of borax in a loop of...
boraxweed noun: The perennial herb Nitrophila occidentalis, western niterwort
borazine noun: A cyclic hydride of boron and nitrogen made by the reaction of diborane and ammonia; it is isoelectronic with benzene.
borazocine noun: An unsaturated heterocycle that has no carbon atoms, four nitrogen and four boron atoms and four double bonds
borazole noun: borazine (a six-membered ring of alternating NH and BH) or a compound derived from it.
Borazon noun: A very hard abrasive made from boron nitride granules.
Borbon proper noun: A surname.
borborbor noun: A traditional dance performed by the Ewe people of Ghana.
Borborian noun: A Borborite.
borborid noun: Any fly of the family Borboridae (now Sphaeroceridae).
borborigmus noun /bɔːbəˈɹɪɡməs/: A rumbling sound made by the movement of gas in the intestines.
Borborite noun: A member of an ancient libertine Gnostic sect, said to be descended from the Nicolaitans.
borborygm noun /ˌbɔːbəˈɹɪɡm̩/: A gurgling or rumbling noise produced by gas in the bowels.
borborygmic adjective: Of, pertaining to, or resembling borborygmus; rumbling.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0): each word's first meaning. A word with a page of its own links to it; for the rest, this line is PlainSpell's entry. Total under B: 42,566 words, in 142 parts.