5-letter words containing l, o, s
- luso- — indicating Portugal or Portuguese
- lycos — (web) A web index, served by Carnegie Mellon University. It allows you to search on document title and content for a list of keywords. Lycos is probably the biggest such index on the web. By April 1995, the Lycos database contained 2.95 million unique documents. The Lycos database is built by a Web crawler that can bring in 5000 documents per day. The index searches document title, headings, links, and keywords it locates in these documents. The Lycos servers are efficient but overloaded. Failure to connect or "please try later" messages are common.
- lyons — a river flowing from the Alps in S Switzerland through the Lake of Geneva and SE France into the Mediterranean. 504 miles (810 km) long.
- lyso- — indicating a dissolving or loosening
- lysol — a solution containing a mixture of cresols in water, used as an antiseptic and disinfectant
- melos — a city in NE Uruguay.
- mílos — Greek island of the SW Cyclades, in the Aegean Sea: 58 sq mi (150 sq km)
- molds — Plural form of mold.
- moles — Plural form of mole.
- molls — Plural form of moll.
- molts — Plural form of molt.
- mools — soft, crumbly soil rich in mold or humus.
- mosel — a river in W Europe, rising in NE France and flowing northwest, forming part of the border between Luxembourg and Germany, then northeast to the Rhine: many vineyards along its lower course. Length: 547 km (340 miles)
- mosul — a city in N Iraq, on the Tigris, opposite the ruins of Nineveh.
- noels — Plural form of noel.
- nolls — Plural form of noll.
- obols — Plural form of obol.
- odyls — od.
- oesel — German name of Saaremaa.
- ogles — to look at amorously, flirtatiously, or impertinently.
- oldas — On-line Digital Analog Simulator. An interactive version of MIMIC, for IBM 360.
- oleos — Plural form of oleo.
- olios — Plural form of olio.
- ollas — Plural form of olla.
- olpes — Plural form of olpe.
- olson — Charles, 1910–70, U.S. poet and essayist.
- opals — Plural form of opal.
- orals — Plural form of oral.
- oslav — Old (Church) Slavonic
- osler — Sir William, 1849–1919, Canadian physician and professor of medicine.
- ousel — dipper (def 4).
- ovals — Plural form of oval.
- palos — a seaport in SW Spain: starting point of Columbus's first voyage westward.
- pilos — Greek name of Navarino.
- ploys — a maneuver or stratagem, as in conversation, to gain the advantage.
- polis — an ancient Greek city-state.
- polos — a tall, cylindrical headdress represented, especially on statutes, as worn by women in ancient Greece.
- pools — Also called pocket billiards. any of various games played on a pool table with a cue ball and 15 other balls that are usually numbered, in which the object is to drive all the balls into the pockets with the cue ball.
- pylos — Greek name of Navarino.
- roils — to render (water, wine, etc.) turbid by stirring up sediment.
- 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.
- saola — a small bovine mammal, Pseudoryx nghetinhensis,native to Vietnam and Laos
- scold — to find fault with angrily; chide; reprimand: The teacher scolded me for being late.
- scowl — to draw down or contract the brows in a sullen, displeased, or angry manner.
- seoul — a country in E Asia: formed 1948 after the division of the former country of Korea at 38° N. 36,600 sq. mi. (94,795 sq. km). Capital: Seoul. Compare Korea.
- sheol — the abode of the dead or of departed spirits.