5-letter words containing co
- myco- — indicating fungus
- narco — narc.
- nicol — device for producing plane-polarized light
- norco — a town in S California.
- ocode — An assembly language for a stack-based virtual machine, used as the intermediate language of the Cambridge BCPL compiler.
- ofcom — Office of Communications: a government body regulating the telecommunications industries; a super-regulator merging the Radio Authority, Independent Television Commission, and Oftel
- onco- — denoting a tumour
- pasco — a city in S Washington, on the Columbia River.
- patco — Professional Air Traffic Controllers' Organization
- pecos — a river flowing SE from N New Mexico through W Texas to the Rio Grande. 735 miles (1183 km) long.
- pico- — prefix
- picot — one of a number of ornamental loops in embroidery, or along the edge of lace, ribbon, etc.
- pisco — a brandy made in the district near Pisco, a seaport in Peru.
- pubco — a company operating a chain of pubic houses
- 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)
- racon — radar beacon.
- recol — REtrieval COmmand Language. CACM 6(3):117-122 (Mar 1963).
- recon — reconnaissance.
- ronco — any grunt of the genus Haemulon, especially H. parrai, the sailor's-choice, of West Indian waters.
- sacco — Nicola [nee-kaw-lah] /niˈkɔ lɑ/ (Show IPA), 1891–1927, Italian anarchist, in the U.S. after 1908: together with Bartolomeo Vanzetti, found guilty of robbery and murder 1921; executed 1927.
- scode — The internal representation used by the Liar compiler for MIT Scheme.
- scody — unkempt; dirty
- scoff — to speak derisively; mock; jeer (often followed by at): If you can't do any better, don't scoff. Their efforts toward a peaceful settlement are not to be scoffed at.
- scoke — pokeweed.
- scold — to find fault with angrily; chide; reprimand: The teacher scolded me for being late.
- scone — a village in central Scotland: site of coronation of Scottish kings until 1651.
- scoop — a ladle or ladlelike utensil, especially a small, deep-sided shovel with a short, horizontal handle, for taking up flour, sugar, etc.
- scoot — to go swiftly or hastily; dart.
- scopa — pollen brush.
- scope — extent or range of view, outlook, application, operation, effectiveness, etc.: an investigation of wide scope.
- scops — an Old English bard or poet.
- score — the record of points or strokes made by the competitors in a game or match.
- scorn — open or unqualified contempt; disdain: His face and attitude showed the scorn he felt.
- scots — a native or inhabitant of Scotland.
- scott — Barbara Ann, 1928–2012, Canadian figure skater.
- scoup — to jump or scamper
- scour — to range over, as in a search: They scoured the countryside for the lost child.
- scout — a soldier, warship, airplane, etc., employed in reconnoitering.
- scowl — to draw down or contract the brows in a sullen, displeased, or angry manner.
- secco — fresco secco.
- secos — sekos.
- shaco — An early system on the IBM 701.
- sycon — a type of sponge having a thick body wall that is folded to form many short canals leading to the spongocoel.
- taxco — a city in Guerrero state, S Mexico: silver mining.
- tcode — Intermediate language used by the Spineless Tagless G-machine (an abstract machine based on graph reduction) designed as a target for compilation of non-strict functional languages. "The Spineless tagless G- machine", S. Peyton Jones et al, Fourth Intl Conf Func Prog Langs and Comp Arch pp.184-201, ACM Sept 1989.
- telco — a telecommunications company
- turco — (formerly) an Algerian serving in the light infantry of the French army
- uncol — UNiversal Computer Oriented Language. A universal intermediate language, discussed but never implemented.
- uncos — news
- uncoy — artfully or affectedly shy or reserved; slyly hesitant; coquettish.