5-letter words containing s, e, o
- soare — a young hawk
- soave — a dry, white wine from Verona, Italy.
- sober — not intoxicated or drunk.
- soche — Wade-Giles. Shache.
- socle — a low, plain part forming a base for a column, pedestal, or the like; plinth.
- sofer — scribe1 (def 3).
- soken — a district held by socage.
- solde — wages
- soled — the bottom or under surface of the foot.
- solei — a muscle in the calf of the leg, behind the gastrocnemius muscle, that helps extend the foot forward.
- soler — Padre Antonio [ahn-taw-nyaw] /ɑnˈtɔ nyɔ/ (Show IPA), 1729–83, Spanish organist and composer.
- soles — a fluid colloidal solution.
- solve — to find the answer or explanation for; clear up; explain: to solve the mystery of the missing books.
- somer — summer2 (def 1).
- somme — a river in N France, flowing NW to the English Channel: battles, World War I, 1916, 1918; World War II, 1944. 150 miles (241 km) long.
- sonce — good luck or prosperity
- sonde — a rocket, balloon, or rockoon used as a probe for observing phenomena in the atmosphere.
- sones — a unit for measuring the loudness of sound, equal to the loudness of a sound that, in the judgment of a group of listeners, is equal to that of a 1000-cycle-per-second reference sound having an intensity of 40 decibels.
- sonet — Synchronous Optical NETwork
- sooey — a call used to summon pigs
- soote — sweet
- soper — Donald (Oliver), Baron. 1903–98, British Methodist minister and publicist, noted esp for his pacifist convictions. His books include All His Grace (1953) and Calling for Action (1984)
- sorel — Georges [zhawrzh] /ʒɔrʒ/ (Show IPA), 1847–1922, French engineer and social philosopher.
- sorer — physically painful or sensitive, as a wound, hurt, or diseased part: a sore arm.
- sorex — a shrew or related animal
- soter — (Soter) king of Pergamum 241–197 b.c.
- sotie — a satirical and topical comedy employing actors dressed in traditional fool's costume, popular in France during the late Middle Ages, and often used as a curtain raiser to mystery and morality plays.
- souse — to swoop or pounce upon.
- sowed — to scatter (seed) over land, earth, etc., for growth; plant.
- sower — to scatter (seed) over land, earth, etc., for growth; plant.
- soyer — Moses1899-1974; U.S. painter, born in Russia
- soyle — prey
- speos — a cavelike temple, tomb, or the like, cut in rock.
- spode — Josiah, 1733–97, and his son, Josiah, 1754–1827, English potters.
- spoem — a poem made up entirely from the subject lines of different spam emails
- spoke — a simple past tense of speak.
- spore — Biology. a walled, single- to many-celled, reproductive body of an organism, capable of giving rise to a new individual either directly or indirectly.
- steno — a stenographer.
- stoep — a veranda
- stoke — to poke, stir up, and feed (a fire).
- stole — simple past tense of steal.
- stone — the hard substance, formed of mineral matter, of which rocks consist.
- 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.
- store — an establishment where merchandise is sold, usually on a retail basis.
- stove — one of the thin, narrow, shaped pieces of wood that form the sides of a cask, tub, or similar vessel.
- stowe — Harriet (Elizabeth) Beecher, 1811–96, U.S. abolitionist and novelist.
- svevo — Italo (iˈtalo), original name Ettore Schnitz. 1861–1928, Italian novelist and short-story writer, best known for the novel Confessions of Zeno (1923)
- swore — a simple past tense of swear.
- telos — the end term of a goal-directed process; especially, the Aristotelian final cause.
- tesol — teaching English to speakers of other languages. Compare ESOL.