5-letter words containing s, e, o
- oases — a small fertile or green area in a desert region, usually having a spring or well.
- oates — Joyce Carol, born 1938, U.S. novelist and short-story writer.
- obese — very fat or overweight; corpulent.
- obeys — Comply with the command, direction, or request of (a person or a law); submit to the authority of.
- obies — Plural form of oby.
- oboes — Plural form of oboe.
- odets — Clifford, 1906–63, U.S. dramatist.
- oecus — (in an ancient Roman house) an apartment, especially a dining room, decorated with columns.
- oesel — German name of Saaremaa.
- ogees — Plural form of ogee.
- ogles — to look at amorously, flirtatiously, or impertinently.
- ogres — Plural form of ogre.
- oleos — Plural form of oleo.
- olpes — Plural form of olpe.
- omens — Plural form of omen.
- omers — Plural form of omer.
- one's — possessive
- oners — Plural form of oner.
- onest — being or amounting to a single unit or individual or entire thing, item, or object rather than two or more; a single: one woman; one nation; one piece of cake.
- onsen — A hot spring in Japan, often with accompanying bathing facilities.
- onset — a beginning or start: the onset of winter.
- oozes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ooze.
- opens — Plural form of open.
- opers — Plural form of oper.
- osage — a member of a North American Indian people formerly of western Missouri, now living in northern Oklahoma.
- osier — any of various willows, as the red osier, having tough, flexible twigs or branches that are used for wickerwork.
- osler — Sir William, 1849–1919, Canadian physician and professor of medicine.
- osset — a member of an Aryan people of Ossetia whose religion combines features of Islam and Christianity.
- oste- — osteo-
- ouens — Plural form of ou.
- oused — Simple past tense and past participle of ouse.
- ousel — dipper (def 4).
- ovens — Plural form of oven.
- owens — Sir Richard, 1804–92, English zoologist and anatomist.
- owsen — ox.
- oyers — oyer and terminer.
- paseo — a slow, idle, or leisurely walk or stroll.
- pecos — a river flowing SE from N New Mexico through W Texas to the Rio Grande. 735 miles (1183 km) long.
- pesto — a sauce typically made with basil, pine nuts, olive oil, and grated Parmesan blended together and served hot or cold over pasta, fish, or meat.
- poesy — the work or the art of poetic composition.
- poise — a centimeter-gram-second unit of viscosity, equal to the viscosity of a fluid in which a stress of one dyne per square centimeter is required to maintain a difference of velocity of one centimeter per second between two parallel planes in the fluid that lie in the direction of flow and are separated by a distance of one centimeter. Symbol: P.
- pomes — the characteristic fruit of the apple family, as an apple, pear, or quince, in which the edible flesh arises from the greatly swollen receptacle and not from the carpels.
- pones — the player on the dealer's right. Compare eldest hand.
- posed — to assume a particular attitude or stance, especially with the hope of impressing others: He likes to pose as an authority on literature.
- posen — German name of Poznań.
- poser — wannabe, pretentious person
- poset — partially ordered set
- posey — characteristic of or being a poser, especially in being trendy or fashionable in a superficial way.
- posse — posse comitatus.
- prose — the ordinary form of spoken or written language, without metrical structure, as distinguished from poetry or verse.