| bosc | (noun) greenish-yellow pear | - |
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| bosh | (noun) pretentious or silly talk or writing | Synonyms: baloney, bilgewater, boloney, drool, humbug, taradiddle, tarradiddle, tommyrot, tosh, twaddle |
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| bosie | (noun) a cricket ball bowled as if to break one way that actually breaks in the opposite way | Synonyms: bosie ball, googly, wrong 'un |
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| bosk | (noun) a small wooded area | - |
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| bosom | (noun) a close affectionate and protective acceptance | Synonyms: embrace |
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| (noun) cloth that covers the chest or breasts | - |
| (noun) either of two soft fleshy milk-secreting glandular organs on the chest of a woman | Synonyms: boob, breast, knocker, tit, titty |
| (noun) a person's breast or chest | - |
| (noun) the locus of feelings and intuitions | Synonyms: heart |
| (noun) the chest considered as the place where secret thoughts are kept | - |
| boson | (noun) any particle that obeys Bose-Einstein statistics but not the Pauli exclusion principle; all nuclei with an even mass number are bosons | - |
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| boss | (noun) a circular rounded projection or protuberance | Synonyms: knob |
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| (noun) a person responsible for hiring workers | Synonyms: hirer |
| (noun) a person who exercises control over workers | Synonyms: chief, foreman, gaffer, honcho |
| (noun) a leader in a political party who controls votes and dictates appointments | Synonyms: party boss, political boss |
| (noun) a person who exercises control and makes decisions | - |
| bossism | (noun) domination of a political organization by a party boss | - |
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| bosun | (noun) a petty officer on a merchant ship who controls the work of other seamen | Synonyms: bo's'n, bo'sun, boatswain, bos'n |
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| deoxyribose | (noun) a sugar that is a constituent of nucleic acids | - |
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| embossment | (noun) sculpture consisting of shapes carved on a surface so as to stand out from the surrounding background | Synonyms: relief, relievo, rilievo, sculptural relief |
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| (noun) an impression produced by pressure or printing | Synonyms: imprint |
| gibbosity | (noun) something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings | Synonyms: bulge, bump, excrescence, extrusion, gibbousness, hump, jut, prominence, protrusion, protuberance, swelling |
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| globosity | (noun) the roundness of a 3-dimensional object | Synonyms: globularness, rotundity, rotundness, sphericalness, sphericity |
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| hippoboscid | (noun) bloodsucking dipterous fly parasitic on birds and mammals | Synonyms: louse fly |
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| jambosa | (noun) tropical tree of the East Indies cultivated for its edible fruit | Synonyms: Eugenia jambos, rose-apple tree, rose apple |
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| phlebothrombosis | (noun) thrombosis of a vein without prior inflammation of the vein; associated with sluggish blood flow (as in prolonged bedrest or pregnancy or surgery) or with rapid coagulation of the blood | Synonyms: venous thrombosis |
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| proboscidean | (noun) massive herbivorous mammals having tusks and a long trunk | Synonyms: proboscidian |
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| proboscidian | (noun) massive herbivorous mammals having tusks and a long trunk | Synonyms: proboscidean |
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| proboscis | (noun) a long flexible snout as of an elephant | Synonyms: trunk |
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| (noun) the human nose (especially when it is large) | - |
| ribose | (noun) a pentose sugar important as a component of ribonucleic acid | - |
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| ribosome | (noun) an organelle in the cytoplasm of a living cell; they attach to mRNA and move down it one codon at a time and then stop until tRNA brings the required amino acid; when it reaches a stop codon it falls apart and releases the completed protein molecule for use by the cell | - |
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| rooibos | (noun) South African shrub having flat acuminate leaves and yellow flowers; leaves are aromatic when dried and used to make an herbal tea | Synonyms: Aspalathus cedcarbergensis, Aspalathus linearis |
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| stroboscope | (noun) scientific instrument that provides a flashing light synchronized with the periodic movement of an object; can make moving object appear stationary | Synonyms: strobe, strobe light |
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| thrombosis | (noun) the formation or presence of a thrombus (a clot of coagulated blood attached at the site of its formation) in a blood vessel | - |
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| twimbos | (noun) a pair of twins, who are sexually promiscuous | - |
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| underboss | (noun) an assistant or second-in-command to a chief (especially in a crime syndicate) | - |
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| verboseness | (noun) an expressive style that uses excessive or empty words | Synonyms: verbosity |
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| verbosity | (noun) an expressive style that uses excessive or empty words | Synonyms: verboseness |
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