5-letter words that end in os
- heros — a person noted for courageous acts or nobility of character: He became a local hero when he saved the drowning child.
- hobos — Plural form of hobo.
- holos — Plural form of holo.
- homos — Plural form of homo.
- hypos — Plural form of hypo.
- jatos — Plural form of jato.
- jiaos — Plural form of jiao.
- kapos — 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.
- kavos — a coastal village on Corfu: tourist resort. Pop: 830 (2001)
- kayos — a knockout in boxing.
- khios — Greek name of Chios.
- kilos — Plural form of kilo.
- kolos — Plural form of kolo.
- komos — an ancient Greek and Roman god of drinking and revelry.
- kotos — Plural form of koto.
- kudos — plural of kudo.
- lagos — a seaport in SW Nigeria: former capital.
- legos — Plural form of lego.
- lenos — (historical) A trough used in ancient winemaking.
- leros — one of the Dodecanese Islands of Greece, off the SW coast of Turkey. 21 sq. mi. (54 sq. km).
- lidos — Plural form of lido.
- limos — Plural form of limo.
- locos — Plural form of loco.
- logos — a high-level programming language widely used to teach children how to use computers.
- lotos — Language Of Temporal Ordering Specification
- lycos — (web) A web index, served by Carnegie Mellon University. It allows you to search on document title and content for a list of keywords. Lycos is probably the biggest such index on the web. By April 1995, the Lycos database contained 2.95 million unique documents. The Lycos database is built by a Web crawler that can bring in 5000 documents per day. The index searches document title, headings, links, and keywords it locates in these documents. The Lycos servers are efficient but overloaded. Failure to connect or "please try later" messages are common.
- makos — Plural form of mako.
- manos — the upper or handheld stone used when grinding maize or other grains on a metate.
- maros — Hungarian name of Mures.
- mebos — a confection made from salted and sugared dried apricots
- melos — a city in NE Uruguay.
- memos — Plural form of memo.
- meros — (in the Doric order) a flat surface between two channels of a triglyph.
- mílos — Greek island of the SW Cyclades, in the Aegean Sea: 58 sq mi (150 sq km)
- minos — Minho.
- mojos — Plural form of mojo.
- moros — Aldo [al-doh;; Italian ahl-daw] /ˈæl doʊ;; Italian ˈɑl dɔ/ (Show IPA), 1916–78, Italian lawyer, author, and statesman: prime minister 1963–68, 1974–76.
- naxos — a Greek island in the S Aegean: the largest of the Cyclades group. 169 sq. mi. (438 sq. km).
- nepos — Cornelius, 99?–24? b.c, Roman biographer and historian.
- ninos — boy; child.
- nomos — a law, convention, or custom governing human conduct
- oleos — Plural form of oleo.
- olios — Plural form of olio.
- oppos — Plural form of oppo.
- ordos — a desert plateau in the S Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region in N China. About 35,000 sq. mi. (90,650 sq. km).
- ottos — a male given name: from a Germanic word meaning “rich.”.
- pahos — a prayer stick of the Hopi Indians.
- palos — a seaport in SW Spain: starting point of Columbus's first voyage westward.
- paros — a Greek island of the Cyclades, in the S Aegean: noted for its white marble. 77 sq. mi. (200 sq. km).
- patos — La·go·a dos [luh-gaw-uh doo s] /ləˈgɔ ə dʊs/ (Show IPA) a lagoon on the Atlantic Coast in SE Brazil: Pôrto Alegre is on the lagoon. About 150 miles (240 km) long and 30 miles (48 km) wide.