5-letter words containing s, e, o
- gosse — Sir Edmund William, 1849–1928, English poet, biographer, and critic.
- helos — helicopter.
- heros — a person noted for courageous acts or nobility of character: He became a local hero when he saved the drowning child.
- hoers — a long-handled implement having a thin, flat blade usually set transversely, used to break up the surface of the ground, destroy weeds, etc.
- hoise — to hoist.
- hokes — to alter or manipulate so as to give a deceptively or superficially improved quality or value (usually followed by up): a political speech hoked up with phony statistics.
- holes — Plural form of hole.
- homes — a house, apartment, or other shelter that is the usual residence of a person, family, or household.
- hones — a whetstone of fine, compact texture for sharpening razors and other cutting tools.
- hoose — (Geordie, and, Scotland) house.
- hopes — Plural form of hope.
- horse — a large, solid-hoofed, herbivorous quadruped, Equus caballus, domesticated since prehistoric times, bred in a number of varieties, and used for carrying or pulling loads, for riding, and for racing.
- hosea — a Minor Prophet of the 8th century b.c.
- hosed — a flexible tube for conveying a liquid, as water, to a desired point: a garden hose; a fire hose.
- hosel — the socket in the club head of an iron that receives the shaft.
- hosen — a flexible tube for conveying a liquid, as water, to a desired point: a garden hose; a fire hose.
- hoser — a person who is considered unintelligent or uncouth, especially a beer-drinking man.
- hoses — Plural form of hose.
- hosey — to choose sides, as in a children's game.
- house — a building in which people live; residence for human beings.
- hoves — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hove.
- howes — Plural form of howe.
- isode — ISO Development Environment
- jobes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of jobe.
- joeys — Plural form of joey.
- jokes — Plural form of joke.
- joles — jowl2 .
- jones — Anson [an-suh n] /ˈæn sən/ (Show IPA), 1798–1858, president of the Republic of Texas.
- josei — A class of manga written for an older female audience.
- josep — a male given name, form of Joseph.
- josie — a female given name, form of Josephine.
- josue — Joshua (defs 1, 2).
- joves — Jupiter (def 1).
- kelso — a town in SW Washington.
- koses — one of the Greek Dodecanese Islands in the SE Aegean Sea, off the SW coast of Turkey. 111 sq. mi. (287 sq. km).
- legos — Plural form of lego.
- lenos — (historical) A trough used in ancient winemaking.
- leros — one of the Dodecanese Islands of Greece, off the SW coast of Turkey. 21 sq. mi. (54 sq. km).
- lesbo — a contemptuous term used to refer to a lesbian.
- lobes — Plural form of lobe.
- lodes — a veinlike deposit, usually metalliferous.
- loess — a loamy deposit formed by wind, usually yellowish and calcareous, common in the Mississippi Valley and in Europe and Asia.
- loges — (in a theater) the front section of the lowest balcony, separated from the back section by an aisle or railing or both.
- loose — free or released from fastening or attachment: a loose end.
- lopes — Plural form of lope.
- lores — the space between the eye and the bill of a bird, or a corresponding space in other animals, as snakes.
- losed — (obsolete) Simple past tense and past participle of lose.
- losel — a worthless person; scoundrel.
- loser — a person, team, nation, etc., that loses: The visiting team was the loser in the series.
- loses — to come to be without (something in one's possession or care), through accident, theft, etc., so that there is little or no prospect of recovery: I'm sure I've merely misplaced my hat, not lost it.