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11-letter words that end in o

  • husk tomato — ground cherry (def 1).
  • husk-tomato — ground-cherry
  • in order to — so that it is possible to
  • inclined to — deviating in direction from the horizontal or vertical; sloping.
  • internuncio — a papal ambassador ranking next below a nuncio.
  • juramentado — (formerly) a Muslim, especially a Moro, bound by an oath to be killed fighting against Christians and other infidels.
  • jure divino — by divine law.
  • jure humano — by human law.
  • kilimanjaro — a volcanic mountain in N Tanzania: highest peak in Africa. 19,321 feet (5889 meters).
  • kohanga reo — an infant class in which the lessons are conducted in Māori
  • launch into — begin enthusiastically
  • legatissimo — to be performed as smoothly and connectedly as possible
  • leoncavallo — Ruggiero [rood-je-raw] /rudˈdʒɛ rɔ/ (Show IPA), 1858–1919, Italian operatic composer and librettist.
  • like billyo — (intensifier)
  • local radio — radio services for a particular area, as opposed to radio aimed at a national audience
  • loco citato — loc. cit.
  • lollo rosso — a variety of lettuce originating in Italy, having curly red-tipped leaves and a slightly bitter taste
  • mano a mano — (italics) Spanish. a corrida in which two matadors alternate in fighting two or three bulls each.
  • marcantonio — Raimondi, Marcantonio.
  • match up to — If someone or something does not match up to what was expected, they are smaller, less impressive, or of poorer quality.
  • mato grosso — a plateau in SW Brazil.
  • monte carlo — a town in Monaco principality, in SE France: gambling resort.
  • monte corno — a mountain in central Italy: highest peak in the Apennines, 9585 feet (2922 meters).
  • montefeltro — an Italian noble family who ruled Urbino from the 13th to the 16th century. Federigo Montefeltro, duke of Urbino (1422–82), was a noted patron of the arts and military leader
  • mu-neutrino — muon-neutrino.
  • mud volcano — a vent in the earth's surface through which escaping gas and vapor issue, causing mud to boil and occasionally to overflow, forming a conical mound around the vent.
  • mumbo jumbo — meaningless incantation or ritual.
  • music video — a commercial video featuring a performance of a popular song, often through a stylized dramatization by the performers with lip-syncing and special effects.
  • niger-congo — a subfamily of Niger-Kordofanian, that comprises a large number of languages of Africa, as Ewe, Ibo, Yoruba, and the Bantu languages, spoken in nearly all of the equatorial forest region and in much of southern Africa.
  • oil embargo — a prohibition of the trade of petroleum from one country to another
  • pango pango — Pago Pago.
  • passo fundo — a city in S Brazil.
  • pearl danio — a slender iridescent tropical cyprinid, Brachydanio albolineatus, from parts of southeast Asia: a popular freshwater aquarium fish.
  • pedal piano — a piano having a pedal keyboard of 29 notes and connected with an action placed at the back where a special soundboard, covered with 29 strings, is built into the case.
  • pentium pro — (processor)   (Known as "P6" during development) Intel's successor to the Pentium processor, in development Jan 1995, generally available 1995-11-01. The P6 has an internal RISC architecture with a CISC-RISC translator, 3-way superscalar execution, and out-of order execution (or "speculative execution", which Intel calls "Dynamic Execution"). It also features branch prediction and register renaming, and is superpipelined (14 stages). The P6 is made as a two-chip assembly: the first chip is the CPU and 16 kilobyte first-level cache (5.5 million transistors) and the other is a 256 (or 512) kilobyte second-level cache (15 million transistors). The first version has a clock rate of 133 Mhz and consumes about 20W of power. It is about twice as fast as the 100 MHz Pentium. The original 0.35 micron versions of the Pentium Pro released on 1995-11-01 run at 150 and 166 Mhz for desktop machines and up to 200 Mhz for servers. Heat disspation is about 20 Watts. The Pentium Pro is optimised for 32-bit software and runs 16-bit software slower than the original Pentium. The successor was the Pentium II.
  • petting zoo — a zoo, or a part of a larger zoo, where children may hold and stroke and sometimes feed small or young animals
  • plaza lasso — Galo [gah-law] /ˈgɑ lɔ/ (Show IPA), 1906–87, Ecuadorian statesman and diplomat, born in the U.S.: president 1948–52.
  • plough into — If something, for example a car, ploughs into something else, it goes out of control and crashes violently into it.
  • plum tomato — an egg-shaped or oblong variety of tomato.
  • pocket veto — the action of the President in retaining unsigned a bill passed by Congress within the last ten days of a session and thus causing it to die
  • pocket-veto — to veto (a bill) by exercising a pocket veto.
  • poco a poco — gradually; little by little: poco a poco accelerando.
  • porto velho — a state in W Brazil. 93,815 sq. mi. (242,980 sq. km). Capital: Pôrto Velho.
  • pre-embargo — an order of a government prohibiting the movement of merchant ships into or out of its ports.
  • prestissimo — (a musical direction) in the most rapid tempo.
  • previous to — before, prior to
  • promo video — a video or short film that promotes or advertises something
  • puerto rico — an island in the central West Indies: a commonwealth associated with the U.S. 3435 sq. mi. (8895 sq. km). Capital: San Juan. Abbreviation: P.R., PR.
  • punchinello — a grotesque or absurd chief character in a puppet show of Italian origin: the prototype of Punch.
  • pure merino — a free settler rather than a convict
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