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9-letter words that end in o

  • caballero — a Spanish gentleman
  • cabo rojo — a city in SW Puerto Rico.
  • cacafuego — a person with a fiery temper
  • calamanco — a glossy woollen fabric woven with a checked design that shows on one side only
  • calimanco — calamanco.
  • calimocho — a cocktail popular in Spanish-speaking countries, consisting of a mixture of cola and red wine
  • camarillo — a city in SW California.
  • campesino — a Latin American rural peasant
  • canaletto — original name Giovanni Antonio Canale. 1697–1768, Italian painter and etcher, noted particularly for his highly detailed paintings of cities, esp Venice, which are marked by strong contrasts of light and shade
  • caporetto — Italian village (now in Slovenia): scene of a battle of WWI in which the Italian army was defeated by Austro-German forces (1917)
  • capotasto — capo1 .
  • capriccio — a lively piece composed freely and without adhering to the rules for any specific musical form
  • car radio — a radio built into the dashboard of an automobile
  • carbamino — relating to the compound produced when carbon dioxide reacts with an amino group
  • carbonado — a piece of meat, fish, etc, scored and grilled
  • carpaccio — an Italian dish of thin slices of raw meat or fish
  • cartonero — A person in Latin America who collects discarded waste, such as cardboard, to reuse or resell.
  • catanzaro — a city in S Italy, in Calabria. Pop: 95 251 (2001)
  • centesimo — a former monetary unit of Italy, San Marino, and the Vatican City worth one hundredth of a lira
  • cetshwayo — ?1826–84, king of the Zulus (1873–79): defeated the British at Isandhlwana (1879) but was overwhelmed by them at Ulundi (1879); captured, he stated his case in London, and was reinstated as ruler of part of Zululand (1883)
  • chechaquo — Alternative form of cheechako.
  • cheechako — a newcomer to the state of Alaska
  • chernenko — Konstantin (Ustinovich) (kənstanˈtin). 1911–85, Soviet statesman; general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party (1984–85)
  • chisimaio — a port in S Somalia, on the Indian Ocean. Pop: reliable recent estimates are not available
  • choo-choo — a child's name for a railway train
  • churrasco — meat cooked over an open fire.
  • cigarillo — a small cigar often only slightly larger than a cigarette
  • col legno — to be played (on a stringed instrument) by striking the strings with the back of the bow
  • colectivo — a small public bus.
  • comboloio — A Muslim rosary consisting of ninety-nine beads.
  • come into — If someone comes into some money, some property, or a title, they inherit it.
  • companero — (in the southwestern U.S.) a male companion or partner.
  • comprendo — (slang) do you understand?.
  • con fuoco — (to be performed) in a fiery manner
  • confessio — (legal) A confession; A defense of one's faith, or a confession of guilt.
  • contadino — (in Italy) a male farmer or peasant
  • contralto — A contralto is a woman with a low singing voice.
  • control-o — (character)   ASCII character 15 (SI). The character used on some operating systems to abort output but allow the program to keep on running. The name "SI" comes from its use on some terminals to "shift in" an alternative character set. "SO" is Control-N. Compare control-S.
  • corcovado — a volcano in S Chile, in the Andes. Height: 2300 m (7546 ft)
  • correggio — Antonio Allegri da (anˈtɔːnjo alˈleːɡri da). 1494–1534, Italian painter, noted for his striking use of perspective and foreshortening
  • cortadito — an espresso topped with an approximately equal amount of steamed milk.
  • cotton to — If you cotton to someone or something, you start to like them.
  • coyotillo — a thorny poisonous rhamnaceous shrub, Karwinskia humboldtiana of Mexico and the southwestern US, the berries of which cause paralysis
  • crescendo — A crescendo is a noise that gets louder and louder. Some people also use crescendo to refer to the point when a noise is at its loudest.
  • cupertino — a town in W California.
  • curandero — a male healer or shaman in Hispanic-America
  • cyclogiro — an aircraft lifted and propelled by pivoted blades rotating parallel to roughly horizontal transverse axes
  • dal segno — (of a piece of music) to be repeated from the point marked with a sign to the word fine
  • del sarto — Andrea [ahn-drey-uh;; Italian ahn-dre-ah] /ɑnˈdreɪ ə;; Italian ɑnˈdrɛ ɑ/ (Show IPA), Andrea del Sarto.
  • delmonico — club steak.
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