5-letter words containing s, t, o
- stony — full of or abounding in stones or rock: a stony beach.
- stood — simple past tense and past participle of stand.
- stook — shock2 (def 1).
- stool — a single seat on legs or a pedestal and without arms or a back.
- stoop — to bend the head and shoulders, or the body generally, forward and downward from an erect position: to stoop over a desk.
- 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.
- stops — to cease from, leave off, or discontinue: to stop running.
- stopt — a simple past tense and past participle of stop.
- store — an establishment where merchandise is sold, usually on a retail basis.
- stork — any of several wading birds of the family Ciconiidae, having long legs and a long neck and bill. Compare adjutant stork, jabiru, marabou (def 1), white stork, wood ibis.
- storm — Theodore Woldsen [tey-aw-dawr vawlt-suh n] /ˈteɪ ɔˌdɔr ˈvɔlt sən/ (Show IPA), 1817–88, German poet and novelist.
- story — a narrative, either true or fictitious, in prose or verse, designed to interest, amuse, or instruct the hearer or reader; tale.
- stoss — Geology. noting or pertaining to the side, as of a hill or dale, that receives or has received the thrust of a glacier or other impulse.
- stoup — a basin for holy water, as at the entrance of a church.
- stour — British Dialect. tumult; confusion. a storm.
- stout — bulky in figure; heavily built; corpulent; thickset; fat: She is getting too stout for her dresses. Synonyms: big, rotund, stocky, portly, fleshy. Antonyms: thin, lean, slender, slim; skinny, scrawny.
- 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.
- stowp — stoup.
- strop — any of several devices for sharpening razors, especially a strip of leather or other flexible material.
- strow — strew.
- stroy — to destroy.
- sutor — a cobbler or shoemaker
- talos — a man of brass made by Hephaestus for Minos as a guardian of Crete.
- tasso — Torquato [tawr-kwah-taw] /tɔrˈkwɑ tɔ/ (Show IPA), 1544–95, Italian poet.
- telos — the end term of a goal-directed process; especially, the Aristotelian final cause.
- tesol — teaching English to speakers of other languages. Compare ESOL.
- those — (used with adjectives and adverbs of quantity or extent) to the extent or degree indicated: that much; The fish was that big.
- thous — to address as “thou.”.
- tinos — a Greek island in the Mediterranean Sea, part of the Cyclades Islands. 79 sq. mi. (204 sq. km).
- tiros — one of a series of satellites for transmitting television pictures of the earth's cloud cover.
- toast — a salutation or a few words of congratulation, good wishes, appreciation, remembrance, etc., uttered immediately before drinking to a person, event, etc.
- tobes — the principal outer garment in some parts of north and central Africa, consisting of a length of cloth that is sewn into a long loose skirt or is draped around the body and fastened over one shoulder.
- toffs — a stylishly dressed, fashionable person, especially one who is or wants to be considered a member of the upper class.
- toise — an old French unit of length equivalent to 6.395 feet (1.949 meters).
- tokus — the buttocks.
- toles — enameled or lacquered metalware, usually with gilt decoration, often used, especially in the 18th century, for trays, lampshades, etc.
- tombs — an excavation in earth or rock for the burial of a corpse; grave.
- tomes — a book, especially a very heavy, large, or learned book.
- tomsk — a city in the central Russian Federation in Asia, E of the Ob River.
- tongs — (in China) an association, society, or political party.
- tonus — a normal state of continuous slight tension in muscle tissue that facilitates its response to stimulation.
- tools — Technology of Object-Oriented Languages and Systems
- toots — a paper bag.
- topos — a convention or motif, especially in a literary work; a rhetorical convention.
- toras — the Pentateuch, being the first of the three Jewish divisions of the Old Testament. Compare Tanach.
- tores — a torus.
- toros — a bull.
- torse — a wreath of twisted silks of two alternating tinctures, usually a metal and a color, depicted supporting a crest or coronet, often upon a helmet.
- torsi — a plural of torso.