10-letter words that end in o
- have to do — You use have to when you are saying that something is necessary or required, or must happen. If you do not have to do something, it is not necessary or required.
- hermosillo — a state in NW Mexico. 70,484 sq. mi. (182,555 sq. km). Capital: Hermosillo.
- hey presto — magician's conjuring words
- hold on to — grasp, clutch
- home video — a videotape recorded by camcorder generally for noncommercial use, especially for viewing at home.
- hoop-de-do — whoop-de-do.
- hootchinoo — hoochinoo.
- hot potato — Informal. a situation or issue that is difficult, unpleasant, or risky to deal with.
- hotel limo — A hotel limo is a large and very comfortable car. Hotel limos usually have a driver and are hired to bring guests to and from the hotel.
- hullabaloo — a clamorous noise or disturbance; uproar.
- impresario — a person who organizes or manages public entertainments, especially operas, ballets, or concerts.
- in extenso — at full length.
- in hock to — If you are in hock to someone, you feel you have to do things for them because they have given you money or support.
- inquirendo — an authority granted to someone to conduct an investigation, esp one for the benefit of the British monarch
- insurrecto — (US) A rebel, especially in Cuba or the Philippines during American military involvement there around the start of the 20th century.
- intermezzo — a short dramatic, musical, or other entertainment of light character, introduced between the acts of a drama or opera.
- intertrigo — Inflammation caused by the rubbing of one area of skin on another.
- ipso facto — by the fact itself; by the very nature of the deed: to be condemned ipso facto.
- janet reno — Janet, 1938–2016, U.S. lawyer: first woman U.S. attorney general, 1993–2001.
- kiss up to — be obsequious towards
- lake poopó — a lake in SW Bolivia, at an altitude of 3688 m (12 100 ft): fed by the Desaguadero River. Area: 2540 sq km (980 sq miles)
- lake taupo — a lake in New Zealand, on central North Island: the largest lake of New Zealand. Area: 616 sq km (238 sq miles)
- langostino — langoustine.
- latch onto — a device for holding a door, gate, or the like, closed, consisting basically of a bar falling or sliding into a catch, groove, hole, etc.
- latifundio — a great estate of Latin America or Spain.
- latticinio — an opaque, white glass first produced in Venice during the Renaissance, often used in thread form to decorate clear glass pieces.
- le duc tho — (Phan Dinh Khai) 1911–90, Vietnamese politician and statesman: declined 1973 Nobel Peace Prize.
- le-allegro — L'Allegro.
- lead on to — If one event or action leads on to another, it causes it or makes it possible.
- lead up to — to go before or with to show the way; conduct or escort: to lead a group on a cross-country hike.
- lentissimo — very slow.
- lhasa apso — one of a breed of small terriers having a long, heavy coat, raised in Tibet as watchdogs.
- li t'ai-po — Li Po
- light into — to get down or descend, as from a horse or a vehicle.
- limoncello — A lemon-flavored Italian liqueur.
- live up to — to have life, as an organism; be alive; be capable of vital functions: all things that live.
- local echo — (communications) (Obsolete: "half-duplex") A mode of operation of a communications program or device in which it displays the characters the user enters at the same time as it sends them to the remote system. In communications between computers or computing processes, particularly those involving human keyboarding and/or reading, duplex came to mean the re-transmission of a keyboard character to the output display. Early input device such as the Teletype ASR-33 teleprinter, being descended from the electric typewriter, printed all input characters as they were typed (i.e. they did local echo). Local echo was typically optional on the video terminals that replaced them, and usually disabled in favour of remote echo. A disadvantage of local echo is that it will continue, even when the communication circuit has failed, which can be misleading.
- lock on to — (of a radar beam) to automatically follow (a target)
- look up to — to turn one's eyes toward something or in some direction in order to see: He looked toward the western horizon and saw the returning planes.
- loss ratio — the ratio of the losses paid or accrued by an insurer to premiums earned, usually for a period of one year.
- magindanao — a member of a Moro people of Mindanao in the Philippines.
- major-domo — a man in charge of a great household, as that of a sovereign; a chief steward.
- make up to — to bring into existence by shaping or changing material, combining parts, etc.: to make a dress; to make a channel; to make a work of art.
- mamoncillo — the genip, Melicoccus bijugatus.
- manzanillo — a seaport in SE Cuba.
- mar-a-lago — an estate and resort in Palm Beach, Florida; used by Donald Trump as a presidential retreat
- maraschino — a sweet cordial or liqueur distilled from marascas.
- marco polo — Marco [mahr-koh] /ˈmɑr koʊ/ (Show IPA), c1254–1324, Venetian traveler.
- marry into — become part of: a family
- martellato — (of notes or chords in a musical score) heavily accented and detached.