5-letter words containing n, o
- snoek — a long, slender marine food fish, Thyrsites atun, of the family Gempylidae, of the southern oceans.
- snoep — mean or tight-fisted
- snogs — to kiss and cuddle.
- snood — the distinctive headband formerly worn by young unmarried women in Scotland and northern England.
- snook — any basslike fish of the genus Centropomus, especially C. undecimalis, inhabiting waters off Florida and the West Indies and south to Brazil, valued as food and game.
- snool — to dominate or bully (someone)
- snoop — to prowl or pry; go about in a sneaking, prying way.
- snoot — Slang. the nose.
- snore — to breathe during sleep with hoarse or harsh sounds caused by the vibrating of the soft palate.
- snort — (of animals) to force the breath violently through the nostrils with a loud, harsh sound: The spirited horse snorted and shied at the train.
- snout — the part of an animal's head projecting forward and containing the nose and jaws; muzzle.
- snowy — abounding in or covered with snow: snowy fields.
- soane — Sir John, 1753–1837, English architect.
- soken — a district held by socage.
- solan — a gannet.
- solon — c638–c558 b.c, Athenian statesman.
- soman — an organophosphorus compound developed as a nerve gas in Germany during World War II
- sonal — pertaining to sound; sonic.
- sonar — a method for detecting and locating objects submerged in water by echolocation.
- sonce — good luck or prosperity
- sonde — a rocket, balloon, or rockoon used as a probe for observing phenomena in the atmosphere.
- sones — a unit for measuring the loudness of sound, equal to the loudness of a sound that, in the judgment of a group of listeners, is equal to that of a 1000-cycle-per-second reference sound having an intensity of 40 decibels.
- sonet — Synchronous Optical NETwork
- sonia — a female given name, Russian form of Sophia.
- sonic — of or relating to sound.
- sonly — like a son
- sonny — Theodore Walter ("Sonny") born 1930, U.S. jazz saxophonist and composer.
- sonsy — strong and healthy; robust.
- sonya — a female given name, Russian form of Sophia.
- soong — Charles Jones, 1866–1918, Chinese merchant (father of Ai-ling, Ch'ing-ling, Mei-ling, and Tse-ven Soong).
- soony — sentimental; emotional.
- sound — The, a strait between SW Sweden and Zealand, connecting the Kattegat and the Baltic. 87 miles (140 km) long; 3–30 miles (5–48 km) wide.
- sownd — to wield
- sozin — an antiseptic substance
- spoon — a utensil for use in eating, stirring, measuring, ladling, etc., consisting of a small, shallow bowl with a handle.
- steno — a stenographer.
- stone — the hard substance, formed of mineral matter, of which rocks consist.
- stonk — to bombard (soldiers, buildings, etc) with artillery
- stony — full of or abounding in stones or rock: a stony beach.
- sunos — (operating system) Sun Microsystems' version of Unix for Sun workstations. SunOS is similar to BSD Unix with some SVR4 features and OpenWindows 3.0. After version 4, SunOS was integrated into Sun's Solaris "operating environment".
- suwon — a city in NW South Korea, S of Seoul.
- swoln — swollen.
- swonk — a simple past tense of swink.
- swoon — to faint; lose consciousness.
- sworn — past participle of swear.
- sycon — a type of sponge having a thick body wall that is folded to form many short canals leading to the spongocoel.
- synod — an assembly of ecclesiastics or other church delegates, convoked pursuant to the law of the church, for the discussion and decision of ecclesiastical affairs; ecclesiastical council.
- taino — a member of an extinct Arawakan Indian tribe of the West Indies.
- talon — a claw, especially of a bird of prey.
- tango — a ballroom dance of Latin-American origin, danced by couples, and having many varied steps, figures, and poses.