5-letter words that end in os
- paxos — one of the Ionian Islands, off the NW coast of Greece. 7 sq. mi. (18 sq. km).
- pecos — a river flowing SE from N New Mexico through W Texas to the Rio Grande. 735 miles (1183 km) long.
- pilos — Greek name of Navarino.
- polos — a tall, cylindrical headdress represented, especially on statutes, as worn by women in ancient Greece.
- praos — proa.
- pylos — Greek name of Navarino.
- quaos — (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)
- ramos — Fidel V. born 1928, Philippine political leader: president 1992–98.
- redos — to do again; repeat.
- rotos — rotogravure.
- samos — one of a series of U.S. reconnaissance satellites.
- saros — Gulf of, an inlet of the Aegean, N of the Gallipoli Peninsula. 37 miles (60 km) long; 22 miles (35 km) wide.
- secos — sekos.
- sekos — a sanctuary. the cella of a temple.
- shoos — to drive away by saying or shouting “shoo.”.
- soros — George. real name Schwartz György. (ʃvarts djørdj) born 1930, US investor and philanthropist, born in Hungary
- speos — a cavelike temple, tomb, or the like, cut in rock.
- sunos — (operating system) Sun Microsystems' version of Unix for Sun workstations. SunOS is similar to BSD Unix with some SVR4 features and OpenWindows 3.0. After version 4, SunOS was integrated into Sun's Solaris "operating environment".
- syros — an island in the Aegean Sea, off the SE coast of Greece, the largest island in the Cyclades group. 32 sq. mi. (84 sq. km).
- talos — a man of brass made by Hephaestus for Minos as a guardian of Crete.
- telos — the end term of a goal-directed process; especially, the Aristotelian final cause.
- tinos — a Greek island in the Mediterranean Sea, part of the Cyclades Islands. 79 sq. mi. (204 sq. km).
- tiros — one of a series of satellites for transmitting television pictures of the earth's cloud cover.
- topos — a convention or motif, especially in a literary work; a rhetorical convention.
- toros — a bull.
- tyros — a beginner in learning anything; novice.
- uncos — news
- volos — a seaport in E Thessaly, in E Greece: ancient ruins.
- winos — Plural form of wino.
- yasos — Yet Another Scheme Object System
- yoyos — Plural form of yoyo.
- zelos — the ancient Greek personification of zeal or emulation: the son of the Titan Pallas and of Styx, and the brother of Bia, Cratus, and Nike.
- zeros — Plural form of zero Two or more zero digits.