12-letter words that end in o
- dance studio — A dance studio is a place where people pay to learn how to dance.
- de dolo malo — with evil intention; with intent to defraud.
- desaparecido — one who has disappeared: used, especially in Latin America, in referring to a person who has been secretly imprisoned or killed during a government's program of political suppression.
- divertimento — an instrumental composition in several movements, light and diverting in character, similar to a serenade.
- do credit to — present or represent honourably
- do honour to — to pay homage to
- dutch borneo — the former name of the southern and larger part of the island of Borneo: now part of Indonesia.
- east chicago — a port in NW Indiana, on Lake Michigan, near Chicago.
- false indigo — any of several North American shrubs belonging to the genus Amorpha, of the legume family, especially A. fruticosa, having compound leaves with pinnate leaflets and long, dense clusters of purplish flowers.
- fernando póo — Bioko
- fidel castro — Cipriano [sip-ree-ah-noh;; Spanish see-pree-ah-naw] /ˌsɪp riˈɑ noʊ;; Spanish ˌsi priˈɑ nɔ/ (Show IPA), 1858?–1924, Venezuelan military and political leader: president 1901–08; exiled 1908.
- french congo — former name of the People's Republic of the Congo.
- fresco secco — the technique of painting in watercolors on dry plaster. Also called dry fresco, secco. Compare fresco (def 1).
- fried potato — Fried potatoes are pieces of potato cooked in oil or fat.
- fritto misto — small pieces of meat, fish, or vegetables dipped in batter and deep-fried.
- generation o — the youthful voters who supported Barack Obama in the 2008 US Presidential election
- get round to — find time
- give over to — If something is given over or given up to a particular use, it is used entirely for that purpose.
- give rein to — Often, reins. a leather strap, fastened to each end of the bit of a bridle, by which the rider or driver controls a horse or other animal by pulling so as to exert pressure on the bit.
- give rise to — to get up from a lying, sitting, or kneeling posture; assume an upright position: She rose and walked over to greet me. With great effort he rose to his knees.
- give suck to — to give (a baby or young animal) milk from the breast or udder
- give vent to — to release (an emotion, passion, idea, etc) in an utterance or outburst
- give wing to — to enable to fly or soar on or as if on wings
- golden hello — A golden hello is a sum of money that a company offers to a person in order to persuade them to join the company.
- golden ratio — the ratio of two lengths, equal in value to (1 + √5)/2, and given by b/a = (b + a)/b; it is the reciprocal of the golden section and also equal to (1 + golden section)
- gran turismo — (of an automobile) certified as conforming to the specifications, as fuel capacity and engine displacement, for a class of standard automobiles (Gran Turismo) qualified to engage in various types of competitions. Abbreviation: GTO.
- grana padano — a rich semifat hard cheese with a granular texture, often used grated, esp on pasta dishes and soups
- gravicembalo — a harpsichord.
- gut of canso — Canso (def 2).
- hark back to — recall: earlier era
- have need to — to be compelled or required to; must
- il penseroso — a poem (1632) by John Milton.
- in altissimo — in the octave commencing an octave above the treble clef
- in principio — at or in the beginning; at first.
- in regard to — to look upon or think of with a particular feeling: to regard a person with favor.
- in statu quo — in the state in which (anything was or is).
- irish potato — potato (def 1).
- it takes two — If you say it takes two or it takes two to tango, you mean that a situation or argument involves two people and they are both therefore responsible for it.
- juan hidalgo — Juan [hwahn] /ʰwɑn/ (Show IPA), c1600–85, Spanish composer and harpist.
- killer micro — [Popularised by Eugene Brooks] A microprocessor-based machine that infringes on mini, mainframe, or supercomputer performance turf. Often heard in "No one will survive the attack of the killer micros!", the battle cry of the downsizers. Used especially of RISC architectures. The popularity of the phrase "attack of the killer micros" is doubtless reinforced by the movie title "Attack Of The Killer Tomatoes" (one of the canonical examples of so-bad-it's-wonderful among hackers). This has even more flavour now that killer micros have gone on the offensive not just individually (in workstations) but in hordes (within massively parallel computers).
- lake ontario — a province in S Canada, bordering on the Great Lakes. 412,582 sq. mi. (1,068,585 sq. km). Capital: Toronto.
- lay claim to — to demand by or as by virtue of a right; demand as a right or as due: to claim an estate by inheritance.
- lay siege to — attack
- leaf tobacco — tobacco in leaf form
- liberum veto — a veto exercised by a single member of a legislative body whose rules require unanimity.
- lillibullero — a part of the refrain to a song deriding the Irish Roman Catholics, popular in England during and after the revolution of 1688.
- little abaco — two islands (Great Abaco and Little Abaco) in the N Bahamas. 776 sq. mi. (2010 sq. km).
- locus in quo — the place in which; the very place; the scene of the event.
- los angeleno — Angeleno (def 1).
- make poo poo — excrement; feces.