4-letter words that end in o
- hypo — a hypodermic syringe or injection.
- iago — the villain in Shakespeare's Othello.
- icao — International Civil Aviation Organization
- igbo — Ibo.
- igzo — indium gallium zinc oxide, a compound semiconductor.
- illo — (informal) An illustration.
- imao — IMHO
- imco — Intergovernmental Maritime Consultative Organization: the department of the United Nations concerned with international maritime safety, antipollution regulations, etc
- imho — (chat) (From SF fandom via Usenet) In My Humble Opinion. Also seen in variant forms such as IMO, IMNSHO (In My Not-So-Humble Opinion) and IMAO (In My Arrogant Opinion).
- info — information.
- ingo — To go in; to enter.
- inro — a small lacquer box with compartments for medicines, cosmetics, etc., worn on the waist sash of the traditional Japanese costume.
- into — to the inside of; in toward: He walked into the room. The train chugged into the station.
- jamo — Any of the 24 building blocks of the Korean (hangeul) alphabet.
- jato — a jet-assisted takeoff, especially one using auxiliary rocket motors that are jettisoned at the completion of the takeoff.
- jiao — a copper-zinc coin and monetary unit of the People's Republic of China, the 10th part of a yuan, equal to 10 fen.
- jmho — (chat) Just My Humble Opinion.
- joco — a joke
- jodo — Pure Land.
- jolo — an island group in the SW Philippines, separating the Sulawesi Sea from the Sulu Sea. 1086 sq. mi. (2813 sq. km). Capital: Jolo.
- jomo — A female jo (yak-cow hybrid), the male such hybrid being a jobo or jopho.
- juco — junior college
- judo — a method of defending oneself or fighting without the use of weapons, based on jujitsu but differing from it in banning dangerous throws and blows and stressing the athletic or sport element.
- juno — the ancient Roman queen of heaven, a daughter of Saturn and the wife and sister of Jupiter: the protector of women and marriage. Compare Hera.
- kago — (in Japan) a small basketwork palanquin strung from a pole each end of which rests on the shoulder of a bearer.
- kano — a city in N Nigeria.
- kapo — a Nazi concentration camp prisoner who was given privileges in return for supervising prisoner work gangs: often a common criminal and frequently brutal to fellow inmates.
- karo — a shrub or small tree, Pittosporum crassifolium, of New Zealand, having shiny leaves with a white, felty underside, red flowers, and densely hairy fruit.
- kayo — a knockout in boxing.
- kcvo — Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order
- keno — a game of chance, adapted from lotto for gambling purposes.
- kero — a wooden container, as a beaker, made by the Incas.
- keto — of or derived from a ketone.
- kevo — (language) A prototype-based object-oriented language written for Macintosh by Antero Taivalsaari at UTA, Finland. Kevo is built around a threaded code interpreter and features a unique prototype-based object model (which is based neither on classes nor Self-style delegation), pre-emptive multitasking, cooperative multitasking, dynamic memory management, an icon-based object browser and editor modelled loosely after Mac Finder. Kevo's syntax is close to Forth and its semantics resembles Self and Omega. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
- kibo — /ki:'boh/ 1. [acronym] Knowledge In, Bullshit Out. A summary of what happens whenever valid data is passed through an organisation (or person) that deliberately or accidentally disregards or ignores its significance. Consider, for example, what an advertising campaign can do with a product's actual specifications. Compare GIGO; see also SNAFU principle. 2. James Parry <[email protected]>, a Usenetter infamous for various surrealist net.pranks and an uncanny, machine-assisted knack for joining any thread in which his nom de guerre is mentioned.
- kigo — (poetry) A seasonal word; a word required in haiku to indicate the season.
- kilo — kilogram.
- kino — (in Europe) a motion-picture theater; cinema.
- kobo — a bronze coin and monetary unit of Nigeria, the 100th part of a naira.
- koko — lebbek (def 2).
- kolo — a Serbian folk dance performed by a group arranged in a circle, with the soloists in the center.
- koro — a culture-specific syndrome, occurring chiefly in China and southeastern Asia, characterized by anxiety and the fear of retraction of the penis or breasts and labia into the body.
- koto — a Japanese musical instrument having numerous strings, usually seven or thirteen, that are stretched over a convex wooden sounding board and are plucked with three plectra, worn on the thumb, index finger, and middle finger of one hand.
- krio — an English-based creole of Sierra Leone, a first language of the residents of Freetown and its environs, and a lingua franca elsewhere in the country.
- kudo — honor; glory; acclaim: No greater kudo could have been bestowed.
- kybo — a temporary lavatory constructed for use when camping
- lalo — (Victor Antoine) Edouard [veek-tawr ahn-twan ey-dwar] /vikˈtɔr ɑ̃ˈtwan eɪˈdwar/ (Show IPA), 1832–92, French composer.
- lego — one of these blocks, usually as part of a set.
- leno — Also called leno weave, gauze weave. a weave structure in which paired warp yarns are intertwined in a series of figure eights and filling yarn is passed through each of the interstices so formed, producing a firm, open mesh.
- leto — the mother by Zeus of Apollo and Artemis, called Latona by the Romans.