4-letter words containing s, o
- shod — a simple past tense and past participle of shoe.
- shoe — 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.
- shog — to shake; jolt.
- shoo — to drive away by saying or shouting “shoo.”.
- shop — a retail store, especially a small one.
- shot — a discharge of a firearm, bow, etc.
- show — to cause or allow to be seen; exhibit; display.
- sibo — SIxteen Bit Organisers
- sijo — a Korean lyric poem consisting of three lines
- silo — a structure, typically cylindrical, in which fodder or forage is kept.
- sion — a canton in SW Switzerland. 2021 sq. mi. (5235 sq. km). Capital: Sion.
- siop — (formerly) the secret and central U.S. contingency plan for waging a nuclear war with the Soviet Union.
- sjoe — an exclamation expressive of surprise, admiration, exhaustion, etc
- skeo — a dry-stone hut
- skol — Fortran pre-processor for COS (Cray Operating System).
- slob — a slovenly or boorish person.
- sloe — the small, sour, blackish fruit of the blackthorn, Prunus spinosa, of the rose family.
- slog — to hit hard, as in boxing or cricket; slug.
- slop — to spill or splash (liquid).
- slot — a long thin, narrow strip of wood, metal, etc., used as a support for a bed, as one of the horizontal laths of a Venetian blind, etc.
- slow — moving or proceeding with little or less than usual speed or velocity: a slow train.
- smog — smoke or other atmospheric pollutants combined with fog in an unhealthy or irritating mixture.
- smop — /S-M-O-P/ [Simple (or Small) Matter of Programming] 1. A piece of code, not yet written, whose anticipated length is significantly greater than its complexity. Used to refer to a program that could obviously be written, but is not worth the trouble. Also used ironically to imply that a difficult problem can be easily solved because a program can be written to do it; the irony is that it is very clear that writing such a program will be a great deal of work. "It's easy to enhance a Fortran compiler to compile COBOL as well; it's just an SMOP." 2. Often used ironically by the intended victim when a suggestion for a program is made which seems easy to the suggester, but is obviously (to the victim) a lot of work.
- snob — a person who imitates, cultivates, or slavishly admires social superiors and is condescending or overbearing to others.
- snod — smooth; sleek.
- snog — to kiss and cuddle.
- snot — Vulgar. mucus from the nose.
- snow — Sir Charles Percy (C. P. Snow) 1905–80, English novelist and scientist.
- so 2 — An early system on IBM 701.
- soak — to lie in and become saturated or permeated with water or some other liquid.
- soap — a substance used for washing and cleansing purposes, usually made by treating a fat with an alkali, as sodium or potassium hydroxide, and consisting chiefly of the sodium or potassium salts of the acids contained in the fat.
- soar — to fly upward, as a bird.
- soay — a breed of small horned sheep having long legs and dark brown wool that is plucked rather than shorn; found mainly on St Kilda where they were probably introduced by the Vikings
- soba — flat noodles made from buckwheat and wheat flours, used in Japanese cookery.
- soc. — Soc. is the written abbreviation for society.
- soca — a style of Caribbean dance music derived from calypso and American soul music and having a pounding beat.
- sock — a short stocking usually reaching to the calf or just above the ankle.
- soda — Symbolic Optimum DEUCE Assembly Program
- soer — in the way or manner indicated, described, or implied: Do it so.
- sofa — a long, upholstered couch with a back and two arms or raised ends.
- soft — yielding readily to touch or pressure; easily penetrated, divided, or changed in shape; not hard or stiff: a soft pillow.
- sohf — sense of humour failure
- soho — a district in New York City, in lower Manhattan, south of Houston Street, where many of the old warehouses and buildings have been converted into studios, galleries, shops, and restaurants.
- soif — Summary Object Interchange Format
- soil — the act or fact of soiling.
- soke — the privilege of holding court, usually connected with the feudal rights of lordship.
- sola — an Indian shrub, Aeschynomene aspera, of the legume family, the pith of which is used for making helmets.
- sold — simple past tense and past participle of sell1 .
- sole — being the only one; only: the sole living relative.
- soli — a musical composition or a passage or section in a musical composition written for performance by one singer or instrumentalist, with or without accompaniment: She sang a solo.