5-letter words containing o, r, s
- shorl — the black variety of tourmaline
- shorn — a past participle of shear.
- short — having little length; not long.
- skort — a women's garment resembling a short skirt but having individual leg sections usually covered by a flap in front.
- slorm — to wipe carelessly
- smoor — to smother, suffocate or extinguish
- 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.
- soare — a young hawk
- sober — not intoxicated or drunk.
- sobor — a council, synod, or convention.
- sofar — a system for determining a position at sea by exploding a charge under water and measuring the time the shock waves take to reach three widely separated shore stations at known distances from each other.
- sofer — scribe1 (def 3).
- solar — of or relating to the sun: solar phenomena.
- soler — Padre Antonio [ahn-taw-nyaw] /ɑnˈtɔ nyɔ/ (Show IPA), 1729–83, Spanish organist and composer.
- somer — summer2 (def 1).
- sonar — a method for detecting and locating objects submerged in water by echolocation.
- soper — Donald (Oliver), Baron. 1903–98, British Methodist minister and publicist, noted esp for his pacifist convictions. His books include All His Grace (1953) and Calling for Action (1984)
- sopor — Pathology. a deep, unnatural sleep; lethargy.
- sopra — a musical instruction meaning above
- soral — relating to the sori of ferns
- sorda — deaf woman
- sordo — muted
- sords — a flight or flock of mallards.
- sorel — Georges [zhawrzh] /ʒɔrʒ/ (Show IPA), 1847–1922, French engineer and social philosopher.
- sorer — physically painful or sensitive, as a wound, hurt, or diseased part: a sore arm.
- sorex — a shrew or related animal
- sorgo — any of several varieties of sorghum grown chiefly for the sweet juice yielded by the stems, used in making sugar and syrup and also for fodder.
- soros — George. real name Schwartz György. (ʃvarts djørdj) born 1930, US investor and philanthropist, born in Hungary
- sorry — feeling regret, compunction, sympathy, pity, etc.: to be sorry to leave one's friends; to be sorry for a remark; to be sorry for someone in trouble.
- sorta — sort of; somewhat: I'm sorta nervous about asking for a date.
- sorus — Botany. one of the clusters of sporangia on the back of the fronds of ferns.
- soter — (Soter) king of Pergamum 241–197 b.c.
- sowar — an Indian cavalryman
- sower — to scatter (seed) over land, earth, etc., for growth; plant.
- soyer — Moses1899-1974; U.S. painter, born in Russia
- spohr — Ludwig [loot-vikh,, lood-] /ˈlut vɪx,, ˈlud-/ (Show IPA), or Louis [loo-ee] /ˈlu i/ (Show IPA), 1784–1859, German violinist and composer.
- spoor — a track or trail, especially that of a wild animal pursued as game.
- spore — Biology. a walled, single- to many-celled, reproductive body of an organism, capable of giving rise to a new individual either directly or indirectly.
- spork — a utensil used for eating, combining a spoon and a fork
- sport — an athletic activity requiring skill or physical prowess and often of a competitive nature, as racing, baseball, tennis, golf, bowling, wrestling, boxing, hunting, fishing, etc.
- sprod — a young salmon in its second year
- sprog — offspring, child
- store — an establishment where merchandise is sold, usually on a retail basis.
- stork — any of several wading birds of the family Ciconiidae, having long legs and a long neck and bill. Compare adjutant stork, jabiru, marabou (def 1), white stork, wood ibis.
- storm — Theodore Woldsen [tey-aw-dawr vawlt-suh n] /ˈteɪ ɔˌdɔr ˈvɔlt sən/ (Show IPA), 1817–88, German poet and novelist.
- story — a narrative, either true or fictitious, in prose or verse, designed to interest, amuse, or instruct the hearer or reader; tale.
- stour — British Dialect. tumult; confusion. a storm.
- strop — any of several devices for sharpening razors, especially a strip of leather or other flexible material.
- strow — strew.