5-letter words containing s, o, n
- owens — Sir Richard, 1804–92, English zoologist and anatomist.
- owsen — ox.
- pones — the player on the dealer's right. Compare eldest hand.
- porns — Sometimes, porno [pawr-noh] /ˈpɔr noʊ/ (Show IPA). pornography; sexually explicit videos, photographs, writings, or the like, produced to elicit sexual arousal (often used attributively): arrested for selling porn; a porn star; porn films.
- posen — German name of Poznań.
- psion — (company) The UK company that produced the Psion Organiser. They also wrote software for the Sinclair QL.
- rason — a long, loose, black gown with wide sleeves, worn by the clergy.
- rosin — Chemistry. the yellowish to amber, translucent, hard, brittle, fragmented resin left after distilling the oil of turpentine from the crude oleoresin of the pine: used chiefly in making varnishes, varnish and paint driers, printing inks, and for rubbing on the bows of such string instruments as the violin.
- salon — a drawing room or reception room in a large house.
- sango — a Niger-Congo language of the Adamawa-Eastern branch, used as a lingua franca in the Central African Republic.
- santo — a carved figure of a saint, usually of wood, as from Puerto Rico, Mexico, or the southwestern U.S.
- saona — an island in the Caribbean Sea, S of the SE Dominican Republic coast. About 13 miles (21 km) long.
- saone — a river flowing S from NE France to the Rhone. 270 miles (435 km) long.
- saxon — a member of a Germanic people in ancient times dwelling near the mouth of the Elbe, a portion of whom invaded and occupied parts of Britain in the 5th and 6th centuries.
- sayon — a sleeveless tunic worn by lower-class men during the Middle Ages
- scion — a descendant.
- scone — a village in central Scotland: site of coronation of Scottish kings until 1651.
- scorn — open or unqualified contempt; disdain: His face and attitude showed the scorn he felt.
- segno — a sign.
- senor — a Spanish term of address equivalent to sir or Mr., used alone or capitalized and prefixed to the name of a man. Abbreviation: Sr.
- seron — a bale or parcel wrapped in animal hide, usually containing exotic substances
- seton — Saint Elizabeth Ann (Bayley) ("Mother Seton") 1774–1821, U.S. educator, social-welfare reformer, and religious leader: first native-born American to be canonized (1975).
- shona — Also called Mashona. a member of a group of peoples constituting more than two thirds of the population of Zimbabwe.
- shone — a simple past tense and past participle of shine1 .
- shoon — an external covering for the human foot, usually of leather and consisting of a more or less stiff or heavy sole and a lighter upper part ending a short distance above, at, or below the ankle.
- shorn — a past participle of shear.
- shown — a past participle of show.
- sidon — a city of ancient Phoenicia: site of modern Saida.
- simon — the original name of the apostle Peter. Compare Peter.
- sino- — Sino- is added to adjectives indicating nationality to form adjectives which describe relations between China and another country.
- sinon — a Greek, posing as a deserter, who persuaded the Trojans to take the Trojan Horse into their city.
- sloan — John, 1871–1951, U.S. painter.
- snoek — a long, slender marine food fish, Thyrsites atun, of the family Gempylidae, of the southern oceans.
- snoep — mean or tight-fisted
- snogs — to kiss and cuddle.
- snood — the distinctive headband formerly worn by young unmarried women in Scotland and northern England.
- snook — any basslike fish of the genus Centropomus, especially C. undecimalis, inhabiting waters off Florida and the West Indies and south to Brazil, valued as food and game.
- snool — to dominate or bully (someone)
- snoop — to prowl or pry; go about in a sneaking, prying way.
- snoot — Slang. the nose.
- snore — to breathe during sleep with hoarse or harsh sounds caused by the vibrating of the soft palate.
- snort — (of animals) to force the breath violently through the nostrils with a loud, harsh sound: The spirited horse snorted and shied at the train.
- snout — the part of an animal's head projecting forward and containing the nose and jaws; muzzle.
- snowy — abounding in or covered with snow: snowy fields.
- soane — Sir John, 1753–1837, English architect.
- soken — a district held by socage.
- solan — a gannet.
- solon — c638–c558 b.c, Athenian statesman.
- soman — an organophosphorus compound developed as a nerve gas in Germany during World War II
- sonal — pertaining to sound; sonic.