11-letter words that end in o
- pursuant to — legal: in accordance with
- put down to — ascribe to
- put paid to — to end or destroy
- qinhuangdao — a seaport in NE Hebei province, in NE China, on the Bohai.
- quick ratio — A quick ratio is a measure of liquidity that is calculated by dividing current assets minus inventories by current liabilities.
- rallentando — slackening; becoming slower (used as a musical direction).
- relative to — a person who is connected with another or others by blood or marriage.
- remote echo — (communications) (Obsolete: "full-duplex") A mode of operation of communicating programs or devices in which the sending system does not display the characters the user enters, but only sends them to the remote system which then "echoes" them back to be displayed to the user. This lets the operator see not only typing errors, but also transmission errors. This is now the usual mode of most systems with remote users. Contrast: local echo.
- rifacimento — a recast or adaptation, as of a literary or musical work.
- roh tae woo — born 1932, president of South Korea 1988–93.
- saltimbanco — a charlatan or fake
- san anselmo — a city in W California.
- san antonio — a city in S Texas: site of the Alamo.
- san domingo — Santo Domingo (defs 2, 3).
- san gennaro — San [san;; Italian sahn] /sæn;; Italian sɑn/ (Show IPA), Januarius.
- san jacinto — a river in E Texas, flowing SE to Galveston Bay: Texans defeated Mexicans near the mouth of this river 1836.
- san leandro — a city in W California.
- san lorenzo — a town in W California, near San Francisco Bay.
- san stefano — the former name of Yesilkoy, a town in Turkey, near Istanbul: treaty between Russia and Turkey 1878.
- sao goncalo — a city in SE Brazil, NE of Rio de Janeiro.
- say amen to — to express strong approval of or support for (an assertion, hope, etc)
- seed potato — a potato tuber used for planting
- set fire to — a state, process, or instance of combustion in which fuel or other material is ignited and combined with oxygen, giving off light, heat, and flame.
- seventy-two — a cardinal number, 70 plus 2.
- sextodecimo — sixteenmo (def 1).
- shine up to — to give forth or glow with light; shed or cast light.
- shock radio — broadcasting by a commercial radio station whose humor includes tasteless jokes, sexual innuendo, and ethnic insults.
- stand up to — (of a person) to be in an upright position on the feet.
- status zero — the condition of young people who are out of school but not in further education or training, permanently or regularly out of work, and dropping out of the mainstream of society
- steam radio — radio, seen as old-fashioned in comparison with television
- stick it to — to pierce or puncture with something pointed, as a pin, dagger, or spear; stab: to stick one's finger with a needle.
- stop-and-go — characterized by periodically enforced stops, as caused by heavy traffic or traffic signals: stop-and-go traffic.
- supposed to — have responsibility, job
- tae kwon do — a Korean martial art, a particularly aggressive form of karate, that utilizes punches, jabs, chops, blocking and choking moves, and especially powerful, leaping kicks.
- the cariboo — a region in the W foothills of the Cariboo Mountains, scene of a gold rush beginning in 1860
- the inferno — hell; the infernal region
- there is no — If you say there is no doing a particular thing, you mean that it is very difficult or impossible to do that thing.
- thumb piano — any of various African boxlike musical instruments, such as the kalimba or mbira, having tuned strips of metal or wood that vibrate when played with the thumbs.
- tickety-boo — fine; OK.
- tragic hero — a great or virtuous character in a dramatic tragedy who is destined for downfall, suffering, or defeat: Oedipus, the classic tragic hero.
- tree tomato — an arborescent shrub, Cyphomandra betacea or C. crassifolia, native to South America but widely cultivated, bearing red egg-shaped edible fruit: family Solanaceae
- true fresco — fresco (def 1).
- true-fresco — fresco (def 1).
- unalachtigo — a member of a North American Indian people, one of the Delaware group.
- view halloo — the shout made by a hunter on seeing a fox break cover.
- violoncello — cello1 .
- vivacissimo — to be played in a very lively manner
- whiskerando — a man with extravagant whiskers
- whoop-de-do — lively and noisy festivities; merrymaking: New Year's Eve whoop-de-do.
- wild indigo — any of several plants belonging to the genus Baptisia, of the legume family, especially B. tinctoria, having yellow flowers.