5-letter words containing a, o
- azote — nitrogen
- azoth — the alchemical name for mercury, esp when regarded as the first principle of all metals
- baboo — babu.
- bacon — Bacon is salted or smoked meat which comes from the back or sides of a pig.
- balao — a halfbeak, Hemiramphus balao, of tropical western Atlantic seas.
- balbo — Italo (ˈitalo). 1896–1940, Italian Fascist politician and airman: minister of aviation (1929–33)
- balon — the lightness and grace of movement that make a dancer appear buoyant.
- baloo — a lullaby
- balop — Also called balop card. a photographic print made on smooth, matte, double-weight paper, used especially in television advertisements.
- balot — Alternative form of balut.
- banco — a call in gambling games such as chemin de fer and baccarat by a player or bystander who wishes to bet against the entire bank
- bando — A Welsh team sport related to hockey, hurling, shinty, and bandy.
- banjo — A banjo is a musical instrument that looks like a guitar with a circular body, a long neck, and four or more strings.
- banon — a small, round goat cheese from Provence, France, that is dipped in brandy before being wrapped in chestnut leaves.
- baoji — a city in W Shaanxi province, in central China.
- bardo — (in Tibetan Buddhism) the state of the soul between its death and its rebirth
- baro- — indicating weight or pressure
- baron — A baron is a man who is a member of the lowest rank of the nobility.
- barro — embarrassing
- basho — a grand tournament in sumo wrestling
- bason — a basin.
- basov — Nikolai Gennediyevich (nikaˈlaj ɡjiˈnadjejivitʃ). 1922–2001, Russian physicist: shared the Nobel prize for physics (1964) for his pioneering work on the maser
- basso — (esp in operatic or solo singing) a singer with a bass voice
- basto — the ace of clubs in certain card games, esp quadrille and ombre
- baton — A baton is a short heavy stick which is sometimes used as a weapon by the police.
- bayou — A bayou is a slow-moving, marshy area of water in the southern United States, especially Louisiana.
- bazoo — the mouth
- beano — a celebration, party, or other enjoyable time
- biota — the plant and animal life of a particular region or period
- bloat — to swell or cause to swell, as with a liquid, air, or wind
- board — A board is a flat, thin, rectangular piece of wood or plastic which is used for a particular purpose.
- boart — low-quality diamond, in granular aggregate or small fragments, valuable only in crushed or powdered form, especially for industrial use as an abrasive.
- boast — If someone boasts about something that they have done or that they own, they talk about it very proudly, in a way that other people may find irritating or offensive.
- bobak — a species of marmot found in the steppes of Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia
- bocca — the round opening of a glass-furnace from which the fused glass is taken
- bogan — (esp in the Maritime Provinces) a sluggish side stream
- bohai — a large inlet of the Yellow Sea on the coast of NE China
- bohea — a black Chinese tea, once regarded as the choicest, but now as an inferior grade
- bolar — of or relating to clay
- bolas — bola (def 1).
- bonpa — a member of the Bön sect.
- borah — William Edgar, 1865–1940, U.S. senator from Idaho 1906–40.
- borak — rubbish; nonsense
- boral — the powdered mixture of boron carbide and aluminium
- boras — a city in SW Sweden, chiefly producing textiles. Pop: 98 831 (2004 est)
- borax — Borax is a white powder used, for example, in the making of glass and as a cleaning chemical.
- botha — Louis. 1862–1919, South African statesman and general; first prime minister of the Union of South Africa (1910–19)
- bouar — a city in the W Central African Republic.
- bowat — a small lamp or lantern
- boyar — a member of an old order of Russian nobility, ranking immediately below the princes: abolished by Peter the Great