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4-letter words containing o, a

  • aone — noting a vessel regarded by a shipping-classification society as being equipped to the highest standard and with equipment maintained in first-class condition.
  • apo- — away from; off
  • apod — an animal with no feet or whose feet are rudimentary
  • apso — a Tibetan terrier
  • arco — a musical direction for instruments of the violin family indicating that the bow should be used (as opposed to plucking)
  • argo — the ship in which Jason sailed in search of the Golden Fleece
  • arno — a river in central Italy, rising in the Apennines and flowing through Florence to the Ligurian Sea. Length: about 240 km (150 miles)
  • aron — a male given name.
  • aros — Plural form of aro.
  • arow — in a row
  • arvo — afternoon
  • asbo — An ASBO is a legal order restricting the activities or movements of someone who has repeatedly behaved in a way that upsets or annoys other people. ASBO is an abbreviation for 'anti-social behaviour order'.
  • asio — Australian Security Intelligence Organization
  • atmo — (physics, dated) The standard atmospheric pressure used in certain physical measurements and calculations; conventionally, that pressure under which the barometer stands at 760 millimeters, at a temperature of 0° Centigrade, at the level of the sea, and in the latitude of Paris.
  • atob — (tool)   /A too B/ Utility software that converts ASCII to binary. The reverse process is btoa.
  • atoc — a variety of skunk
  • atom — An atom is the smallest amount of a substance that can take part in a chemical reaction.
  • aton — a solar deity declared by Amenhotep IV to be the only god, represented as a solar disk with rays ending in human hands.
  • atop — If something is atop something else, it is on top of it.
  • auto — an automobile
  • auxo — one of the Graces worshiped at Athens.
  • avon — a former county of SW England, created in 1974 from areas of N Somerset and S Gloucestershire: replaced in 1996 by the unitary authorities of Bath and North East Somerset (Somerset), North Somerset (Somerset), South Gloucestershire (Gloucestershire), and Bristol
  • avos — Plural form of avo.
  • avow — If you avow something, you admit it or declare it.
  • awol — If someone in the Armed Forces goes AWOL, they leave their post without the permission of a superior officer. AWOL is an abbreviation for 'absent without leave'.
  • axon — the long threadlike extension of a nerve cell that conducts nerve impulses from the cell body
  • azo- — indicating the presence of an azo group
  • azof — Sea of, a northern arm of the Black Sea connected with the Black Sea by Kerch Strait. About 14,500 sq. mi. (37,555 sq. km).
  • azon — a type of smart-bomb deployed in World War II
  • azov — Sea ofnorthern arm of the Black Sea, in SE Europe: c. 14,000 sq mi (36,260 sq km)
  • baor — British Army of the Rhine
  • bayo — a pinto or chili bean.
  • boac — British Overseas Airways Corporation
  • boar — A boar or a wild boar is a wild pig.
  • boas — Franz (frants). 1858–1942, US anthropologist, born in Germany. He made major contributions to cultural and linguistic anthropology in studies of North American Indians, including The Mind of Primitive Man (1911; 1938)
  • boat — A boat is something in which people can travel across water.
  • boaz — a kinsman of Naomi, who married her daughter-in-law Ruth (Ruth 2–4); one of David's ancestors
  • boba — a variety of tea containing balls of pearl tapioca, originating in Taiwan in the 1980s
  • bola — a missile used by gauchos and Indians of South America, consisting of two or more heavy balls on a cord. It is hurled at a running quarry, such as an ox or rhea, so as to entangle its legs
  • boma — an enclosure, esp a palisade or fence of thorn bush, set up to protect a camp, herd of animals, etc
  • bona — (italics) Latin. (used with a singular verb) good faith; absence of fraud or deceit; the state of being exactly as claims or appearances indicate: The bona fides of this contract is open to question. Compare mala fides.
  • bora — a violent cold north wind blowing from the mountains to the E coast of the Adriatic, usually in winter
  • bota — a small leather wine container
  • btoa — (tool, messaging, algorithm, file format)   /B too A/ A binary to ASCII conversion utility. btoa is a uuencode or base 64 equivalent which addresses some of the problems with the uuencode standard but not as many as the base 64 standard. It avoids problems that some hosts have with spaces (e.g. conversion of groups of spaces to tabs) by not including them in its character set, but may still have problems on non-ASCII systems (e.g. EBCDIC). btoa is primarily used to transfer binary files between systems across connections which are not eight-bit clean, e.g. electronic mail. btoa takes adjacent sets of four binary octets and encodes them as five ASCII octets using ASCII characters '!' through to 'u'. Special characters are also used: 'x' marks the beginning or end of the archive; 'z' marks four consecutive zeros and 'y' (version 5.2) four consecutive spaces. Each group of four octets is processed as a 32-bit integer. Call this 'I'. Let 'D' = 85^4. Divide I by D. Call this result 'R'. Make I = I - (R * D) to avoid overflow on the next step. Repeat, for values of D = 85^3, 85^2, 85 and 1. At each step, to convert R to the output character add decimal 33 (output octet = R + ASCII value for '!'). Five output octets are produced. btoa provides some integrity checking in the form of a line checksum, and facilities for patching corrupted downloads. The algorithm used by btoa is more efficient than uuencode or base 64. ASCII files are encoded to about 120% the size of their binary sources. This compares with 135% for uuencode or base 64. Pre-compiled MS-DOS versions are also available.
  • calo — a non-combatant servant to a soldier in the Roman army
  • camo — camouflage
  • capo — a device fitted across all the strings of a guitar, banjo, etc, so as to raise the pitch of each string simultaneously
  • caro — Sir Antony. 1924–2013, British sculptor, best known for his abstract steel sculptures
  • cato — Marcus Porcius (ˈmɑːkəsˈpɔːʃɪəs), known as Cato the Elder or the Censor. 234–149 bc, Roman statesman and writer, noted for his relentless opposition to Carthage
  • cayo — Lb Latin America A small island or ledge of rock in the water; a key.
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