5-letter words containing os
- kotos — Plural form of koto.
- kudos — plural of kudo.
- lagos — a seaport in SW Nigeria: former capital.
- legos — Plural form of lego.
- lenos — (historical) A trough used in ancient winemaking.
- leros — one of the Dodecanese Islands of Greece, off the SW coast of Turkey. 21 sq. mi. (54 sq. km).
- lidos — Plural form of lido.
- limos — Plural form of limo.
- locos — Plural form of loco.
- logos — a high-level programming language widely used to teach children how to use computers.
- loose — free or released from fastening or attachment: a loose end.
- losed — (obsolete) Simple past tense and past participle of lose.
- losel — a worthless person; scoundrel.
- loser — a person, team, nation, etc., that loses: The visiting team was the loser in the series.
- loses — to come to be without (something in one's possession or care), through accident, theft, etc., so that there is little or no prospect of recovery: I'm sure I've merely misplaced my hat, not lost it.
- losey — Joseph. 1909–84, US film director, in Britain from 1952. His films include The Servant (1963), The Go-Between (1971), and Don Giovanni (1979)
- lossy — (of a material or transmission line) causing appreciable loss or dissipation of energy.
- lotos — Language Of Temporal Ordering Specification
- lycos — (web) A web index, served by Carnegie Mellon University. It allows you to search on document title and content for a list of keywords. Lycos is probably the biggest such index on the web. By April 1995, the Lycos database contained 2.95 million unique documents. The Lycos database is built by a Web crawler that can bring in 5000 documents per day. The index searches document title, headings, links, and keywords it locates in these documents. The Lycos servers are efficient but overloaded. Failure to connect or "please try later" messages are common.
- makos — Plural form of mako.
- manos — the upper or handheld stone used when grinding maize or other grains on a metate.
- maros — Hungarian name of Mures.
- mebos — a confection made from salted and sugared dried apricots
- melos — a city in NE Uruguay.
- memos — Plural form of memo.
- meros — (in the Doric order) a flat surface between two channels of a triglyph.
- mílos — Greek island of the SW Cyclades, in the Aegean Sea: 58 sq mi (150 sq km)
- minos — Minho.
- mojos — Plural form of mojo.
- moose — a large, long-headed mammal, Alces alces, of the deer family, having circumpolar distribution in the Northern Hemisphere, the male of which has enormous palmate antlers.
- moros — Aldo [al-doh;; Italian ahl-daw] /ˈæl doʊ;; Italian ˈɑl dɔ/ (Show IPA), 1916–78, Italian lawyer, author, and statesman: prime minister 1963–68, 1974–76.
- mosby — John Singleton [sing-guh l-tuh n] /ˈsɪŋ gəl tən/ (Show IPA), 1833–1916, Confederate cavalry colonel.
- mosel — a river in W Europe, rising in NE France and flowing northwest, forming part of the border between Luxembourg and Germany, then northeast to the Rhine: many vineyards along its lower course. Length: 547 km (340 miles)
- moser — Johann Jakob [yoh-hahn yah-kawp] /ˈyoʊ hɑn ˈyɑ kɔp/ (Show IPA), 1701–85, German jurist and publicist.
- moses — Anna Mary Robertson ("Grandma Moses") 1860–1961, U.S. painter.
- mosey — to wander or shuffle about leisurely; stroll; saunter (often followed by along, about, etc.).
- moshi — a city in N Tanzania.
- mossi — an agricultural people of Africa living mainly in Burkina Faso.
- mosso — rapid; fast.
- mossy — overgrown with or abounding in moss: a mossy stone.
- moste — Obsolete spelling of most.
- mosts — in the greatest quantity, amount, measure, degree, or number: to win the most votes.
- mosul — a city in N Iraq, on the Tigris, opposite the ruins of Nineveh.
- naxos — a Greek island in the S Aegean: the largest of the Cyclades group. 169 sq. mi. (438 sq. km).
- nepos — Cornelius, 99?–24? b.c, Roman biographer and historian.
- ninos — boy; child.
- niosh — National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health.
- nkosi — a term of address to a superior; master; chief
- nomos — a law, convention, or custom governing human conduct
- noose — a loop with a running knot, as in a snare, lasso, or hangman's halter, that tightens as the rope is pulled.