5-letter words containing a, o
- rioja — a city in W Argentina.
- roach — Maxwell ("Max") 1924–2007, U.S. jazz drummer and bandleader.
- roads — Subsystem of ICES. Sammet 1969, p.616.
- roary — roar-like or tending to roar, noisy
- roast — to bake (meat or other food) uncovered, especially in an oven.
- rojak — (in Malaysia) a salad dish served in chilli sauce
- rojas — Fernando de [fer-nahn-daw th e] /fɛrˈnɑn dɔ ðɛ/ (Show IPA), c1475–1541? Spanish writer.
- rolag — a roll of wool made using card that is ready for spinning
- rolla — a city in S central Missouri.
- roman — a metrical narrative, especially in medieval French literature.
- ronan — a king who killed his son, Mael Fothartaigh, after his wife had falsely accused the boy of attempting to seduce her, and who was himself killed by the children of Mael Fothartaigh.
- roosa — a type of grass
- rosas — Salvator [sahl-vah-tawr] /ˈsɑl vɑˌtɔr/ (Show IPA), 1615–73, Italian painter and poet.
- rospa — Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents
- rotal — relating to wheels or rotation
- rowan — the European mountain ash, Sorbus aucuparia, having pinnate leaves and clusters of bright red berries.
- roxas — Manuel [mah-nwel] /mɑˈnwɛl/ (Show IPA), 1892–1948, Philippine statesman: 1st president of the Philippines 1946–48.
- royal — of or relating to a king, queen, or other sovereign: royal power; a royal palace.
- sabot — a shoe made of a single block of wood hollowed out, worn especially by farmers and workers in the Netherlands, France, Belgium, etc.
- sacco — Nicola [nee-kaw-lah] /niˈkɔ lɑ/ (Show IPA), 1891–1927, Italian anarchist, in the U.S. after 1908: together with Bartolomeo Vanzetti, found guilty of robbery and murder 1921; executed 1927.
- saddo — If you say that someone is a saddo, you do not have any respect for them and think their behaviour or ideas are ridiculous.
- sadoc — Zadok.
- sajou — a South American monkey
- salol — a white, crystalline, aromatic powder, C 1 3 H 1 0 O 3 , produced by the interaction of salicylic acid and phenol, used as a preservative, a light absorber in suntan preparations, and in medicine chiefly as an antipyretic and as an antiseptic.
- salon — a drawing room or reception room in a large house.
- salop — a county in W England. 1348 sq. mi. (3490 sq. km).
- salto — a city in NW Uruguay, on the Uruguay River.
- salvo — a simultaneous or successive discharge of artillery, bombs, etc.
- sambo — a term used to refer to a black person, especially a male.
- samoa — a group of islands in the S Pacific, the islands W of 170° W longitude constituting an independent state and the rest belonging to the U.S.
- samos — one of a series of U.S. reconnaissance satellites.
- sampo — a magical object or substance that was stolen by Ilmarinen, Vainamoinen, and Lemminkainen from Louhi because of its powers.
- sango — a Niger-Congo language of the Adamawa-Eastern branch, used as a lingua franca in the Central African Republic.
- santo — a carved figure of a saint, usually of wood, as from Puerto Rico, Mexico, or the southwestern U.S.
- saola — a small bovine mammal, Pseudoryx nghetinhensis,native to Vietnam and Laos
- saona — an island in the Caribbean Sea, S of the SE Dominican Republic coast. About 13 miles (21 km) long.
- saone — a river flowing S from NE France to the Rhone. 270 miles (435 km) long.
- sapor — the quality in a substance that affects the sense of taste; savor; flavor.
- sargo — a silvery grunt, Anisotremus davidsonii, inhabiting waters off the coasts of California and Mexico, having blackish markings and yellowish fins.
- sarod — a lute of northern India, played with a bow.
- saros — Gulf of, an inlet of the Aegean, N of the Gallipoli Peninsula. 37 miles (60 km) long; 22 miles (35 km) wide.
- sarto — Andrea del [ahn-drey-uh del;; Italian ahn-dre-ah del] /ɑnˈdreɪ ə dɛl;; Italian ɑnˈdrɛ ɑ dɛl/ (Show IPA), Andrea del Sarto.
- savor — the quality in a substance that affects the sense of taste or of smell.
- savoy — a member of the royal house of Italy that ruled from 1861 to 1946.
- saxon — a member of a Germanic people in ancient times dwelling near the mouth of the Elbe, a portion of whom invaded and occupied parts of Britain in the 5th and 6th centuries.
- sayao — Bidú [bee-doo;; Portuguese bih-doo] /ˈbi du;; Portuguese bɪˈdu/ (Show IPA), (Balduina de Oliveira Sayão) 1902–1999, Brazilian soprano.
- sayon — a sleeveless tunic worn by lower-class men during the Middle Ages
- scopa — pollen brush.
- seato — an organization formed in Manila (1954), comprising Australia, Great Britain, France, New Zealand, Pakistan, the Philippines, Thailand, and the United States, for collective defense against aggression in southeastern Asia and the southwestern Pacific: abolished in 1977.
- shaco — An early system on the IBM 701.