6-letter words containing o
- acoria — (pathology) Excessive eating due to a lack of the sensation of satiety.
- acorns — Plural form of acorn.
- acount — Misspelling of account.
- across — If someone or something goes across a place or a boundary, they go from one side of it to the other.
- acrost — Eye dialect of across.
- act on — to regulate one's behaviour in accordance with (advice, information, etc)
- action — Action is doing something for a particular purpose.
- actons — Plural form of acton.
- actors — Plural form of actor.
- ad hoc — An ad hoc activity or organization is done or formed only because a situation has made it necessary and is not planned in advance.
- ad out — receiver's advantage
- adagio — Adagio written above a piece of music means that it should be played slowly.
- adamov — Arthur. 1908–70, French dramatist, born in Russia: one of the foremost exponents of the Theatre of the Absurd. His plays include Le Professeur Taranne (1953), Le Ping-Pong (1955), and Le Printemps '71 (1960)
- add on — If one thing is added on to another, it is attached to the other thing, or is made a part of it.
- add-on — a device or unit added to equipment or a construction: an add-on to a computer; a nice add-on to an old house.
- addoom — to declare or determine, esp judicially
- adeno- — gland or glandular
- adjigo — a yam plant, Dioscorea hastifolia, native to SW Australia that has edible tubers
- adjoin — If one room, place, or object adjoins another, they are next to each other.
- adnoun — an adjective used as a noun; absolute adjective
- adobes — Plural form of adobe.
- adobos — Plural form of adobo.
- adolph — a masculine name: equiv. L. Adolphus, Fr. Adolphe, Ger. Adolf
- adonai — a name for God
- adonic — (in classical prosody) of or relating to a verse line consisting of a dactyl (– ◡ ◡) followed by a spondee (– –) or by a trochee (– ◡), thought to have been first used in laments for Adonis
- adonis — a handsome youth loved by Aphrodite. Killed by a wild boar, he was believed to spend part of the year in the underworld and part on earth, symbolizing the vegetative cycle
- adoors — at the door; of the door
- adopts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of adopt.
- adoral — Relating to or denoting the side or end where the mouth is situated, especially in animals, such as echinoderms, that lack clear upper and lower sides.
- adorbs — Informal. very cute; adorable.
- adored — to regard with the utmost esteem, love, and respect; honor.
- adorer — to regard with the utmost esteem, love, and respect; honor.
- adores — to regard with the utmost esteem, love, and respect; honor.
- adorno — Theodor Wiesengrund. 1903–69, German philosopher, sociologist, and music critic. His writings include The Philosophy of the New Music (1949) and Negative Dialectics (1966)
- adorns — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of adorn.
- adoula — Cyrille [see-ril] /siˈrɪl/ (Show IPA), 1922–78, African statesman: premier of the Democratic Republic of the Congo 1961–64.
- adours — a river in SW France, flowing N from the Pyrenees and then W to the Bay of Biscay. 210 miles (338 km) long.
- adroit — Someone who is adroit is quick and skilful in their thoughts, behaviour, or actions.
- adsorb — to undergo or cause to undergo a process in which a substance, usually a gas, accumulates on the surface of a solid forming a thin film, often only one molecule thick
- adsorp — (nonstandard) To adsorb.
- adviso — (obsolete) information; advice; intelligence.
- advoke — To summon or call (to a higher tribunal).
- aeolia — Aeolis
- aeolic — of or relating to the Aeolians or their dialect
- aeolis — the ancient name for the coastal region of NW Asia Minor, including the island of Lesbos, settled by the Aeolian Greeks (about 1000 bc)
- aeolus — the god of the winds
- aeonic — lasting for an aeon
- aerobe — an organism that requires oxygen for respiration
- aeron. — aeronautics
- aerope — the wife of Atreus, seduced by her brother-in-law Thyestes.