English words starting with bone

Meanings of Bone dry:

adjective

Completely or extremely dry.

Usage examples:

The springs failed this year, leaving the riverbed bone dry

idiom

Completely dry

Usage examples:

My boots kept my feet bone-dry even after a long walk through deep snow., the turkey was overcooked…

Meanings of Bone to pick:

idiom

To want to talk to someone about something annoying they have done

Usage examples:

I've got a bone to pick with you - you've been using my shaver again.

Meanings of Bone up:

phrasal verb

Study intensively, as before an exam

Meanings of Bone-idle:

idiom

Extremely lazy

Usage examples:

He never does any exercise - he's bone idle.

Meanings of Bonefishes:

noun

A silvery game fish of warm coastal waters.

Usage examples:

For the next hour or so we moved slowly along the mangroves seeing the odd bonefish, barracuda and …

Meanings of Boneheads:

noun

A stupid person.

Usage examples:

The mere mention of the words ‘far right’ calls forth an image of tattooed boneheads or the spectre…

Meanings of Boneless:

adjective

(of meat or fish) having had the bones removed before being sold, cooked, or served.

Usage examples:

Boneless chicken breasts

Meanings of Bonelessness:

noun

The quality or condition of being boneless.

Meanings of Bonelet:

noun

A small bone or calcified cartilage; an ossicle.

Meanings of Bonemeal:

noun

A substance made from crushed dried bones that is used to improve the earth to make plants grow better

Meanings of Bonesets:

noun

A north american plant of the daisy family, which bears clusters of small white flowers and is used in herbal medicine.

Usage examples:

Secondly, don't forget the potency and value of our local herbs such as boneset and lemon balm for …

Meanings of Boneshave:

noun

Painful disease affecting (or thought to affect) a bone or joint; especially sciatica.

Meanings of Bonework:

noun

Items made or carved from bone, considered collectively; (sometimes) specifically decoration made from carved or inlaid bone.

Meanings of Boney:

adjective

Of or like bone.

Usage examples:

The bony plates that protect turtles and tortoises

Meanings of Boneyard:

noun

A cemetery.

Usage examples:

It was a seventeenth-century boneyard, the oldest in the city