5-letter words that end in o
- pedro — any of several varieties of all fours in which the five of trumps counts at its face value.
- pengo — a former silver coin and monetary unit of Hungary, equal to 100 fillér: replaced by the forint in 1946.
- pesto — a sauce typically made with basil, pine nuts, olive oil, and grated Parmesan blended together and served hot or cold over pasta, fish, or meat.
- petro — of or relating to petroleum or the petroleum industry.
- petto — the bosom or chest
- phano — fanon.
- philo — Philo Judaeus
- phono — phonograph.
- photo — photograph.
- piano — a musical instrument in which felt-covered hammers, operated from a keyboard, strike the metal strings.
- pingo — a hill of soil-covered ice pushed up by hydrostatic pressure in an area of permafrost.
- pinko — a person with left-wing, but not extreme, political opinions.
- pinto — marked with spots of white and other colors; mottled; spotted: a pinto horse.
- pisco — a brandy made in the district near Pisco, a seaport in Peru.
- plago — A translator-interpreter for a PL/I subset. "PLAGO/360 User's Manual, Poly Inst Brooklyn.
- plano — pertaining to eyeglasses that do not contain a curvature for correcting vision defects: plano sunglasses.
- plato — 427–347 b.c, Greek philosopher.
- pluto — Classical Mythology. a name given to Hades, under which he is identified by the Romans with Orcus.
- pocho — an American of Mexican parentage, especially one who has adopted U.S. customs and attitudes; an Americanized Mexican.
- polio — poliomyelitis.
- pollo — chicken.
- pondo — a member of a Negroid people of southern Africa, living chiefly in Pondoland
- pongo — an anthropoid ape, esp an orang-utan or (formerly) a gorilla
- poopo — a lake in SW Bolivia, in the Andes. 60 miles (95 km) long; 12,000 feet (3660 meters) above sea level.
- porno — pornography
- porto — Portuguese name of Oporto.
- posho — corn meal
- potoo — any of several nocturnal birds of the family Nyctibiidae, of Mexico and Central and South America, related to the goatsuckers.
- potto — any of several lorislike, African lemurs of the genera Perodicticus and Arctocebus, especially P. potto, having a short tail and vestigial index fingers.
- prado — an art gallery in Madrid housing an important collection of Spanish paintings
- prato — a city in central Italy, near Florence.
- primo — the part of a piano duet played on the upper half of the keyboard.
- promo — promotion (def 5).
- proso — a type of millet, Panicum miliaceum, cultivated as a cereal and forage crop, esp in Asia and N America
- provo — a Dutch or German political agitator, especially in the 1960s and 1970s.
- pubco — a company operating a chain of pubic houses
- pulmo — a lung
- punto — a hit or sword thrust
- putto — a representation of a cherubic infant, often shown winged.
- quaco — (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)
- quipo — Alternative spelling of quipu.
- quito — a republic in NW South America. 109,483 sq. mi. (283,561 sq. km). Capital: Quito.
- radio — wireless telegraphy or telephony: speeches broadcast by radio.
- rambo — a fanatically militant or violently aggressive person.
- rando — random (def 4): We were followed by some rando creep.
- ratio — the relation between two similar magnitudes with respect to the number of times the first contains the second: the ratio of 5 to 2, written 5:2 or 5/2.
- raupo — a New Zealand bulrush, Typha orientalis, with sword-shaped leaves, traditionally used for construction and decoration
- razoo — an imaginary coin
- realo — a member of the German Green Party who has moderate views
- recto — a right-hand page of an open book or manuscript; the front of a leaf (opposed to verso).