5-letter words containing os
- prosy — of the nature of or resembling prose.
- pylos — Greek name of Navarino.
- quaos — (formerly, especially in creole-speaking cultures) a name given at birth to a black child, in accordance with African customs, indicating the child's sex and the day of the week on which he or she was born, as the male and female names for Sunday (Quashee and Quasheba) Monday (Cudjo or Cudjoe and Juba) Tuesday (Cubbena and Beneba) Wednesday (Quaco and Cuba or Cubba) Thursday (Quao and Abba) Friday (Cuffee or Cuffy and Pheba or Phibbi) and Saturday (Quamin or Quame and Mimba)
- ramos — Fidel V. born 1928, Philippine political leader: president 1992–98.
- redos — to do again; repeat.
- roosa — a type of grass
- roose — to flatter or praise
- roost — a perch upon which birds or fowls rest at night.
- rosas — Salvator [sahl-vah-tawr] /ˈsɑl vɑˌtɔr/ (Show IPA), 1615–73, Italian painter and poet.
- roset — resin; rosin.
- roshi — the religious leader of a group of Zen Buddhists.
- rosie — a female given name, form of Rose.
- 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.
- rospa — Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents
- rosse — William Parsons, Third Earl of, William Parsons.
- rösti — a Swiss dish consisting of grated potato formed into a cake, sometimes with onion, fried, and topped with cheese
- rosys — a female given name, form of Rose.
- rotos — rotogravure.
- samos — one of a series of U.S. reconnaissance satellites.
- saros — Gulf of, an inlet of the Aegean, N of the Gallipoli Peninsula. 37 miles (60 km) long; 22 miles (35 km) wide.
- secos — sekos.
- sekos — a sanctuary. the cella of a temple.
- shoos — to drive away by saying or shouting “shoo.”.
- skosh — a bit; a jot: We need just a skosh more room.
- slosh — to splash or move through water, mud, or slush.
- soros — George. real name Schwartz György. (ʃvarts djørdj) born 1930, US investor and philanthropist, born in Hungary
- speos — a cavelike temple, tomb, or the like, cut in rock.
- sposh — slush
- 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.
- sunos — (operating system) Sun Microsystems' version of Unix for Sun workstations. SunOS is similar to BSD Unix with some SVR4 features and OpenWindows 3.0. After version 4, SunOS was integrated into Sun's Solaris "operating environment".
- syros — an island in the Aegean Sea, off the SE coast of Greece, the largest island in the Cyclades group. 32 sq. mi. (84 sq. km).
- talos — a man of brass made by Hephaestus for Minos as a guardian of Crete.
- telos — the end term of a goal-directed process; especially, the Aristotelian final cause.
- those — (used with adjectives and adverbs of quantity or extent) to the extent or degree indicated: that much; The fish was that big.
- 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.
- topos — a convention or motif, especially in a literary work; a rhetorical convention.
- toros — a bull.
- tosca — an opera (1900) by Giacomo Puccini.
- toshy — of or relating to tosh
- tossy — impudent or scornful; tossing the head in pride
- tyros — a beginner in learning anything; novice.
- uncos — news
- volos — a seaport in E Thessaly, in E Greece: ancient ruins.
- whose — as who should say, Archaic. in a manner of speaking; so to say.
- whoso — (archaic) whomsoever, whatever person.
- winos — Plural form of wino.
- woosh — whoosh
- woosy — (dialectal) oozy; wet.
- xhosa — a member of a Nguni people of eastern Cape Province, Republic of South Africa.