9-letter words that end in o
- sarmiento — a city in E Argentina, a suburb of Buenos Aires.
- sausalito — a town in W California on San Fransisco Bay: resort; formerly artist's colony.
- scarpetto — a type of shoe traditionally worn by Alpine climbers
- semimicro — using or involving measurements on a scale between micro and macro
- sex ratio — the proportional distribution of the sexes in a population aggregate, expressed as the number of males per 100 females.
- sforzando — to be played with strong initial attack
- sgraffito — a technique of ornamentation in which a surface layer of paint, plaster, slip, etc., is incised to reveal a ground of contrasting color.
- siciliano — a graceful folk dance of Sicily.
- signorino — a conventional Italian title of respect for a young man.
- simionato — Giulietta [joo-lyet-tah] /dʒuˈlyɛt tɑ/ (Show IPA), 1910–2010, Italian mezzo-soprano.
- simpatico — congenial or like-minded; likable: I find our new neighbor simpatico in every respect.
- sincelejo — a city in Sucre department, NW Colombia.
- sixteenmo — Also called sextodecimo. a book size (about 4×6 in.; 10×15 cm) determined by printing on sheets folded to form 16 leaves or 32 pages.
- sixty-two — a cardinal number, 60 plus 2.
- size zero — a very small size in women's clothes, originating in the US, equivalent to a UK size 4
- skanky-ho — a promiscuous woman
- slovensko — Slovakia
- smackeroo — a hard slap or swat: He gave the ball a smackeroo.
- smasheroo — a popular success
- smorzando — fading away; dying out (a musical direction).
- so-and-so — someone or something not definitely named: to gossip about so-and-so.
- soffritto — Also called battuto. Italian Cookery. a base for stews and soups, consisting of hot oil, butter, or fat in which a chopped onion or crushed garlic clove has been browned, often with the addition of chopped parsley, celery, and carrot.
- solfeggio — a vocal exercise in which the sol-fa syllables are used.
- solferino — a village in SE Lombardy, in N Italy: battle 1859. 1811.
- songololo — a millipede, Jurus terrestris, having a hard shiny dark brown segmented exoskeleton
- sopranino — a musical instrument, as a saxophone or recorder, that is a pitch higher than the soprano instrument of its class.
- sostenuto — sustained or prolonged in the time value of the tones.
- spiritoso — spirited; lively (used as a musical direction).
- square go — a fair fight between two individuals
- step into — enter
- stinkaroo — something markedly inferior in quality: a stinkaroo of a motion picture.
- stinkeroo — a bad or contemptible person or thing
- stornello — a type of short Italian rhyming poem or song which usually contains three lines
- strappado — an old form of punishment or torture in which the victim, with arms bound behind, was raised from the ground by a rope fastened to the wrists, abruptly released, then arrested with a painful jerk just before reaching the ground.
- sub verbo — (used as a direction to a reference) under the word or heading. Abbreviation: s.v.
- super-ego — Your super-ego is the part of your mind which makes you aware of what is right and wrong, and which causes you to feel guilty when you have done something wrong.
- superhero — a hero, especially in children's comic books and television cartoons, possessing extraordinary, often magical powers.
- supermoto — a form of motorcycle racing in which powerful motorbikes are raced over a circuit that is part tarmac and part dirt
- sympatico — simpatico
- taekwondo — a Korean martial art, a particularly aggressive form of karate, that utilizes punches, jabs, chops, blocking and choking moves, and especially powerful, leaping kicks.
- talk into — persuade
- tamarillo — the edible, plumlike fruit of a tree, Cyphomandra betacea, of the nightshade family, native to the Peruvian Andes.
- tape echo — a means of delaying the repeat of a sound by adjusting the time lapse between the recording and playback heads of a tape recorder
- tarantino — Quentin. born 1963, US film director and screenwriter, noted for violent quirky dramas including Reservoir Dogs (1993), Pulp Fiction (1994), Jackie Brown (1998), the two parts of Kill Bill (2003, 2004), Inglourious Basterds (2009), and Django Unchained (2012)
- tasajillo — a bushy or treelike cactus, Opuntia leptocaulis, of the southwestern U.S., having slender, spiny branches, greenish-yellow flowers, and red berrylike fruit.
- tear into — to pull apart or in pieces by force, especially so as to leave ragged or irregular edges. Synonyms: rend, rip, rive. Antonyms: mend, repair, sew.
- telephoto — noting or pertaining to telephotography.
- thanks to — to express gratitude, appreciation, or acknowledgment to: She thanked them for their hospitality.
- the alamo — a mission in San Antonio, Texas, the site of a siege and massacre in 1836 by Mexican forces under Santa Anna of a handful of American rebels fighting for Texan independence from Mexico
- thereinto — into that place or thing.