5-letter words containing o, t
- eliot — George, real name Mary Ann Evans. 1819–80, English novelist, noted for her analysis of provincial Victorian society. Her best-known novels include Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), and Middlemarch (1872)
- elton — Ben(jamin) (Charles). born 1959, British comedian, scriptwriter, playwright, and novelist; his work includes the Blackadder series for television (1987–89), the play Gasping (1990), the novel High Society (2002), and the lyrics to the musical We Will Rock You (2002)
- elyot — Sir Thomas. ?1490–1546, English scholar and diplomat; author of The Boke named the Governour (1531), a treatise in English on education
- emote — (especially of an actor) portray emotion in a theatrical manner.
- ento- — inside; within
- epopt — one initiated into mysteries, esp Eleusinian
- erato — the Muse of love poetry
- ergot — A fungal disease of rye and other cereals in which black, elongated, fruiting bodies grow in the ears of the cereal. Eating contaminated food can result in ergotism.
- escot — to maintain or pay for
- estoc — a short stabbing sword
- estop — Bar or preclude by estoppel.
- estro — poetic inspiration
- ethos — belief system
- extol — Praise enthusiastically.
- eyots — Plural form of eyot.
- facto — Australian. a person who lives in an intimate relationship with but is not married to a person of the opposite sex; lover.
- fagot — a bundle of sticks, twigs, or branches bound together and used as fuel, a fascine, a torch, etc.
- fatso — a fat person (used as a term of address).
- fetor — a strong, offensive smell; stench.
- float — to rest or remain on the surface of a liquid; be buoyant: The hollow ball floated.
- flota — A fleet, especially a fleet of Spanish ships which formerly sailed every year from Cadiz to Vera Cruz, in Mexico, to transport to Spain the production of Spanish America.
- flote — a flotilla; a fleet
- flout — to treat with disdain, scorn, or contempt; scoff at; mock: to flout the rules of propriety.
- foist — to force upon or impose fraudulently or unjustifiably (usually followed by on or upon): to foist inferior merchandise on a customer.
- fonts — Plural form of font.
- foote — Andrew Hull, 1806–63, U.S. naval officer.
- foots — (in vertebrates) the terminal part of the leg, below the ankle joint, on which the body stands and moves.
- footy — poor; worthless; paltry.
- forte — a passage that is loud and played with force or is marked to be so. Abbreviation: f.
- forth — onward or outward in place or space; forward: to come forth; go forth.
- forts — Plural form of fort.
- forty — a cardinal number, ten times four.
- fouat — a succulent pink-flowered plant
- fouet — a whip
- fount — font2 .
- fouth — an abundance or fullness
- fouty — (obsolete) despicable.
- front — the foremost part or surface of anything.
- frost — Robert (Lee) 1874–1963, U.S. poet.
- froth — an aggregation of bubbles, as on an agitated liquid or at the mouth of a hard-driven horse; foam; spume.
- futon — a thin mattress, usually filled with layers of cotton batting and encased in cotton fabric, placed on a floor for sleeping, especially in traditional Japanese interiors, and folded and stored during the day.
- gator — Southern U.S. Informal. alligator.
- gavot — an old French dance in moderately quick quadruple meter.
- gemot — (in Anglo-Saxon England) a legislative or judicial assembly.
- ghost — the soul of a dead person, a disembodied spirit imagined, usually as a vague, shadowy or evanescent form, as wandering among or haunting living persons.
- ghoti — (rare, jocular) alternative spelling of fish.
- gigot — a leg-of-mutton sleeve.
- gitgo — start; beginning: to work hard from the git-go.
- gitmo — Guantánamo: referring more specifically to the detainment camp run there by the US military, in which suspected terrorists are detained and questioned
- gloat — to look at or think about with great or excessive, often smug or malicious, satisfaction: The opposing team gloated over our bad luck.