5-letter words containing o
- aboil — boiling
- aboma — a large South American snake, Boa aboma
- abood — Obsolete spelling of abode.
- abord — to approach or accost someone
- abore — Simple past form of abear (carry, bear; develop; put up with, thole, tolerate, abide).
- aborn — Born, begotten, created, developed.
- abort — If an unborn baby is aborted, the pregnancy is ended deliberately and the baby is not born alive.
- about — You use about to introduce who or what something relates to or concerns.
- above — If one thing is above another one, it is directly over it or higher than it.
- abowt — Obsolete spelling of about.
- accoy — to pacify or render calm
- achoo — Achoo is used, especially in writing, to represent the sound that you make when you sneeze.
- achor — (obsolete, pathology) dandruff (or similar condition).
- acock — in a cocked position
- acold — cold; chilled
- acoma — a Pueblo Indian village near Albuquerque, New Mexico, built on a sandstone mesa: oldest continuously inhabited location in the U.S.
- acorn — An acorn is a pale oval nut that is the fruit of an oak tree.
- acro- — denoting something at a height, summit, top, tip, beginning, or end
- acron — the unsegmented, preoral portion of the body of an arthropod.
- acton — a jacket or jerkin, originally of quilted cotton, worn under a coat of mail
- actor — An actor is someone whose job is acting in plays or films. 'Actor' in the singular usually refers to a man, but some women who act prefer to be called 'actors' rather than 'actresses'.
- actos — a short, realistic play, usually in Spanish, that dramatizes the social and economic problems of Chicanos.
- ada-o — (language) An Ada subset developed at the University of Karlsruhe in 1979, used for compiler bootstrapping. It lacks overloading, derived types, real numbers, tasks and generics.
- adamo — (database) A data management system written at CERN, based on the Entity-Relationship model.
- addio — goodbye
- addon — Something to expand something else.
- adios — goodbye; farewell
- adlog — (language) A language which adds a Prolog layer to Ada.
- adobe — Adobe is a mixture of mud and straw that is dried into bricks in the sun and used for building, especially in hot countries.
- adobo — the national dish of the Philippines, which consists of chunks of meat, fish, or vegetables, marinated in vinegar, soy sauce, garlic, and spices and then stewed in the marinade
- adolf — a male given name: from Germanic words meaning “noble” and “wolf.”.
- 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.