5-letter words containing p, t, o
- porto — Portuguese name of Oporto.
- porty — resembling port; affected by port
- poset — partially ordered set
- posit — to place, put, or set.
- post- — Post- is used to form words that indicate that something takes place after a particular date, period, or event.
- potae — a hat
- potch — inferior quality opal used in jewellery for mounting precious opals
- potin — a bronze alloy with high tin content, formerly used in the manufacture of coins
- potoo — any of several nocturnal birds of the family Nyctibiidae, of Mexico and Central and South America, related to the goatsuckers.
- potsy — hopscotch.
- potto — any of several lorislike, African lemurs of the genera Perodicticus and Arctocebus, especially P. potto, having a short tail and vestigial index fingers.
- potty — Chiefly British Informal. slightly insane; eccentric.
- potus — (in prescriptions) a drink.
- poult — a young fowl, as of the turkey, the pheasant, or a similar bird.
- pouty — inclined to pout, or marked by pouting: a sullen, pouty child; a pouty face.
- prato — a city in central Italy, near Florence.
- prost — Alain (alɛ̃). born 1955, French motor-racing driver: Formula One world champion 1985, 1986, 1989, and 1993
- prot- — proto-
- prot. — Protestant
- prout — Ebenezer. 1835–1909, English musicologist and composer, noted for his editions of works by Handel and J. S. Bach
- punto — a hit or sword thrust
- puton — a throw or cast, especially one made with a forward motion of the hand when raised close to the shoulder.
- putto — a representation of a cherubic infant, often shown winged.
- repot — to transfer (a plant) to another, especially larger, pot.
- spoot — a razor-shell, a type of shellfish
- 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.
- spout — to emit or discharge forcibly (a liquid, granulated substance, etc.) in a stream or jet.
- stipo — a tall, ornate, Italian desk with a drop lid.
- stoep — a veranda
- stomp — stamp (defs 1–3).
- stoop — to bend the head and shoulders, or the body generally, forward and downward from an erect position: to stoop over a desk.
- stope — any excavation made in a mine, especially from a steeply inclined vein, to remove the ore that has been rendered accessible by the shafts and drifts.
- stops — to cease from, leave off, or discontinue: to stop running.
- stopt — a simple past tense and past participle of stop.
- stoup — a basin for holy water, as at the entrance of a church.
- stowp — stoup.
- strop — any of several devices for sharpening razors, especially a strip of leather or other flexible material.
- t-top — a car with removable roof panels.
- taupo — Lake, a lake in N New Zealand, in the central part of North Island: largest lake in New Zealand. About 234 sq. mi. (605 sq. km).
- tempo — Music. relative rapidity or rate of movement, usually indicated by such terms as adagio, allegro, etc., or by reference to the metronome.
- tepoy — teapoy
- thorp — a hamlet; village.
- topaz — a mineral, a fluosilicate of aluminum, usually occurring in prismatic orthorhombic crystals of various colors, and used as a gem.
- toped — to drink alcoholic liquor habitually and to excess.
- topee — (in India) a lightweight helmet or sun hat made from the pith of the sola plant.
- toper — a hard drinker or chronic drunkard.
- tophi — a calcareous concretion formed in the soft tissue about a joint, in the pinna of the ear, etc., especially in gout; a gouty deposit.
- topic — a subject of conversation or discussion: to provide a topic for discussion.
- topo- — indicating place or region
- topoi — a convention or motif, especially in a literary work; a rhetorical convention.