5-letter words containing o, a
- adopt — If you adopt a new attitude, plan, or way of behaving, you begin to have it.
- adore — If you adore someone, you feel great love and admiration for them.
- adorn — If something adorns a place or an object, it makes it look more beautiful.
- adour — a river in SW France, flowing N from the Pyrenees and then W to the Bay of Biscay. 210 miles (338 km) long.
- adowa — Adwa
- adown — down, downward
- adoze — asleep; dozing
- aedon — a daughter of Pandareus who mistakenly killed her son. Zeus took pity on her and turned her into a nightingale.
- aeons — Plural form of aeon.
- aero- — aero- is used at the beginning of words, especially nouns, that refer to things or activities connected with air or movement through the air.
- aesop — ?620–564 bc, Greek author of fables in which animals are given human characters and used to satirize human failings
- affor — Alternative spelling of afore.
- afnor — Association Française de Normalisation: the standards organization of France
- afoam — In a foaming state.
- afoot — If you say that a plan or scheme is afoot, it is already happening or being planned, but you do not know much about it.
- afore — before
- afoul — in or into a state of difficulty, confusion, or conflict (with)
- afro- — Afro- is used to form adjectives and nouns that describe something that is connected with Africa.
- afyon — a city in W Turkey.
- aggro — Aggro is the difficulties and problems that are involved in something.
- agios — a premium on money in exchange.
- aglow — If something is aglow, it is shining and bright with a soft, warm light.
- agnon — Shmuel Yosef, real name Samuel Josef Czaczkes. 1888–1970, Israeli novelist, born in Austria-Hungary. His works, which treat contemporary Jewish themes, include The Day Before Yesterday (1945). Nobel prize for literature 1966
- agoge — the rigorous Spartan educational training system
- agogo — A small bell made of two metal cones, used as a percussion instrument in African and Latin music.
- agone — ago; past
- agons — Plural form of agon.
- agony — Agony is great physical or mental pain.
- agood — in a serious or earnest manner
- agora — the marketplace in Athens, used for popular meetings, or any similar place of assembly in ancient Greece
- agro- — Agro- is used to form nouns and adjectives which refer to things relating to agriculture, or to agriculture combined with another activity.
- ahkio — pulka.
- ahold — a hold
- aholt — ahold.
- aidos — shame
- aioli — garlic mayonnaise
- aiora — a festival of ancient Attica at which dolls were swung from trees to commemorate Erigone's suicide by hanging.
- aknow — Obsolete form of acknow.
- akola — a city in Maharashtra, W central India, on the Morna River.
- akron — a city in NE Ohio. Pop: 212 215 (2003 est)
- alamo — Franciscan mission at San Antonio, Tex.: scene of a siege and massacre of Texans by Mexican troops (1836)
- alcon — a noted archer who helped Hercules abduct the cattle of Geryon.
- alcor — (language) A subset of ALGOL.
- aldol — a colourless or yellowish oily liquid, miscible with water, used in the manufacture of rubber accelerators, as an organic solvent, in perfume, and as a hypnotic and sedative. Formula: CH3CHOHCH2CHO
- algo- — denoting pain
- algol — the second brightest star in Perseus, the first known eclipsing binary. Visual magnitude: 2.2–3.5; period: 68.8 hours; spectral type (brighter component): B8V
- algor — chill
- alito — Samuel (Anthony, Jr.)1950- ; U.S. jurist: associate justice, Supreme Court (2006- )
- allo- — indicating difference, variation, or opposition
- alloa — a town in E central Scotland, the administrative centre of Clackmannanshire. Pop: 18 989 (2001)