4-letter words containing s, o
- ochs — Adolph Simon, 1858–1935, U.S. newspaper publisher.
- ocso — Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance (Trappists)
- odas — a room within a harem.
- odds — something that is odd.
- odes — a lyric poem typically of elaborate or irregular metrical form and expressive of exalted or enthusiastic emotion.
- odsa — Open Distributed System Architecture
- odso — a cry or interjection of shock or amazement
- oecs — Organization of Eastern Caribbean States
- offs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of off.
- ohms — the standard unit of electrical resistance in the International System of Units (SI), formally defined to be the electrical resistance between two points of a conductor when a constant potential difference applied between these points produces in this conductor a current of one ampere. The resistance in ohms is numerically equal to the magnitude of the potential difference. Symbol: Ω.
- oiks — Plural form of oik.
- oils — A viscous liquid derived from petroleum, esp. for use as a fuel or lubricant.
- oise — a river in W Europe, flowing SW from S Belgium through N France to the Seine, near Paris. 186 miles (300 km) long.
- okes — Plural form of oke.
- olds — (used with a plural verb) old persons collectively (usually preceded by the): appropriations to care for the old.
- omsk — a city in the SW Russian Federation in Asia on the Irtysh River.
- ones — 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.
- onis — Plural form of oni.
- onus — a difficult or disagreeable obligation, task, burden, etc.
- oohs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ooh.
- ooms — Plural form of oom.
- oops — Used to show recognition of a mistake or minor accident, often as part of an apology.
- oosd — Object-oriented structured design: a design method elaborated from structured design and incorporating the essential features of the object-oriented approach.
- oose — (Scotland) Fluff.
- oost — Jacob van [yah-kawp vahn] /ˈyɑ kɔp vɑn/ (Show IPA), 1600?–71, and his son, Jacob van, 1639?–1713, Flemish painters.
- opes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ope.
- opps — Misspelling of oops.
- ops5 — (language) A programming language for rule-based production systems. A rule consists of pre-condition(s) and a resulting action. The system checks its working memory to see if there are rules whose pre-conditions are satisfied, if so, the action in one selected satisfied rule is executed. There is a public domain implementation of an OPS5 interpreter written by Charles L. Forgy <[email protected]> in 1977. It was first implemented in Lisp and later in BLISS. It was also ported to Common Lisp by George Wood and Jim Kowalski. See also C5, OPS83, OPS4, OPS5+, OPS83. Inference Engine Tech, Cambridge MA.
- opts — to make a choice; choose (usually followed by for).
- opus — a musical composition.
- orbs — Encircle; enclose.
- orcs — Plural form of orc.
- ores — a metal-bearing mineral or rock, or a native metal, that can be mined at a profit.
- orse — (legal, British) otherwise.
- orsk — a city in the S Russian Federation in Europe, on the Ural River.
- orts — Usually, orts. a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
- os-9 — (operating system) A real-time operating system written by Microware Corporation. The original version was written about 1978 for the Motorola 6809 and has since been ported to the Motorola 68000, Intel 80386, Intel 486, and the PowerPC. The kernel of OS-9 is ROMable, modular, with a unified file system, allowing it to easily be scaled up or down as required.
- osar — plural of os3 .
- osax — OSA extension
- osce — Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe
- osee — Hosea.
- osel — German name of Saaremaa.
- osha — the division of the Department of Labor that sets and enforces occupational health and safety rules.
- oshi — (in sumo wrestling) a move in which an opponent is pushed backward or down.
- oslo — Norwegian Norge. a kingdom in N Europe, in the W part of the Scandinavian Peninsula. 124,555 sq. mi. (322,597 sq. km). Capital: Oslo.
- ospf — Open Shortest-Path First Interior Gateway Protocol
- osql — Object-oriented SQL
- ossa — a mountain in E Greece, in Thessaly. 6490 feet (1978 meters).
- ossi — a native, inhabitant, or citizen of that part of Germany that was formerly East Germany
- ossl — Operating Systems Simulation Language.