5-letter words containing o
- aggro — Aggro is the difficulties and problems that are involved in something.
- agios — a premium on money in exchange.
- aglow — If something is aglow, it is shining and bright with a soft, warm light.
- agnon — Shmuel Yosef, real name Samuel Josef Czaczkes. 1888–1970, Israeli novelist, born in Austria-Hungary. His works, which treat contemporary Jewish themes, include The Day Before Yesterday (1945). Nobel prize for literature 1966
- agoge — the rigorous Spartan educational training system
- agogo — A small bell made of two metal cones, used as a percussion instrument in African and Latin music.
- agone — ago; past
- agons — Plural form of agon.
- agony — Agony is great physical or mental pain.
- agood — in a serious or earnest manner
- agora — the marketplace in Athens, used for popular meetings, or any similar place of assembly in ancient Greece
- agro- — Agro- is used to form nouns and adjectives which refer to things relating to agriculture, or to agriculture combined with another activity.
- ahkio — pulka.
- ahold — a hold
- aholt — ahold.
- aidos — shame
- aioli — garlic mayonnaise
- aiora — a festival of ancient Attica at which dolls were swung from trees to commemorate Erigone's suicide by hanging.
- aknow — Obsolete form of acknow.
- akola — a city in Maharashtra, W central India, on the Morna River.
- akron — a city in NE Ohio. Pop: 212 215 (2003 est)
- alamo — Franciscan mission at San Antonio, Tex.: scene of a siege and massacre of Texans by Mexican troops (1836)
- alcon — a noted archer who helped Hercules abduct the cattle of Geryon.
- alcor — (language) A subset of ALGOL.
- aldol — a colourless or yellowish oily liquid, miscible with water, used in the manufacture of rubber accelerators, as an organic solvent, in perfume, and as a hypnotic and sedative. Formula: CH3CHOHCH2CHO
- algo- — denoting pain
- algol — the second brightest star in Perseus, the first known eclipsing binary. Visual magnitude: 2.2–3.5; period: 68.8 hours; spectral type (brighter component): B8V
- algor — chill
- alito — Samuel (Anthony, Jr.)1950- ; U.S. jurist: associate justice, Supreme Court (2006- )
- allo- — indicating difference, variation, or opposition
- alloa — a town in E central Scotland, the administrative centre of Clackmannanshire. Pop: 18 989 (2001)
- allod — allodium
- allon — the cry uttered by a whipper-in to signify that all the hounds are accounted for.
- alloo — (Scotland) To allow.
- allot — If something is allotted to someone, it is given to them as their share.
- allow — If someone is allowed to do something, it is all right for them to do it and they will not get into trouble.
- alloy — An alloy is a metal that is made by mixing two or more types of metal together.
- almon — a Philippine, dipterocarpaceous tree, Shorea eximia.
- aloed — containing, or shaded by, aloes
- aloes — any chiefly African shrub belonging to the genus Aloe, of the lily family, certain species of which yield a fiber.
- alofi — the capital of the Pacific Ocean island of Niue, a New Zealand dependency.
- aloft — Something that is aloft is in the air or off the ground.
- alogi — a group of Christians in the 2nd century a.d. who rejected the doctrine of the Logos.
- aloha — hello
- aloin — a bitter crystalline compound derived from various species of aloe: used as a laxative and flavouring agent
- alone — When you are alone, you are not with any other people.
- along — If something is situated along a road, river, or corridor, it is situated in it or beside it.
- aloof — Someone who is aloof is not very friendly and does not like to spend time with other people.
- alope — a daughter of Cercyon who was raped by Poseidon and bore a son, Hippothous.
- alors — well then! so!