8-letter words ending with O
Dive into the specific realm of 8-letter words that conclude with the letter O. This focused section reveals the fascinating ways in which words of this particular length, ending with O, contribute to the richness of the English language. Whether it's for expanding your vocabulary, solving puzzles, or simply for the love of words, discover how these terms uniquely blend length and ending sound.
| Word | Points | Definition | Sentence example |
|---|---|---|---|
| scenario | 10 | an outline or synopsis of a play (or, by extension, of a literary work) | - |
| mosquito | 19 | two-winged insect whose female has a long proboscis to pierce the skin and suck the blood of humans and animals | - |
| colorado | 11 | a state in west central United States in the Rocky Mountains | - |
| kangaroo | 13 | any of several herbivorous leaping marsupials of Australia and New Guinea having large powerful hind legs and a long thick tail | - |
| espresso | 10 | strong black coffee brewed by forcing hot water under pressure through finely ground coffee beans | - |
| commando | 15 | a member of a military unit trained as shock troops for hit-and-run raids | - |
| geronimo | 11 | Apache chieftain who raided the white settlers in the Southwest as resistance to being confined to a reservation (1829-1909) | - |
| flamenco | 15 | a style of dancing characteristic of the Andalusian Gypsies; vigorous and rhythmic with clapping and stamping of feet | - |
| concerto | 12 | a composition for orchestra and a soloist | - |
| castrato | 10 | a male singer who was castrated before puberty and retains a soprano or alto voice | - |
| pachinko | 19 | a Japanese pinball game played on a vertical board | - |
| waterloo | 11 | the battle on 18 June 1815 in which Prussian and British forces under Blucher and the Duke of Wellington routed the French forces under Napoleon | - |
| flamingo | 14 | large pink to scarlet web-footed wading bird with down-bent bill; inhabits brackish lakes | - |
| stiletto | 8 | a small dagger with a tapered blade | - |
| peekaboo | 16 | a game played with young children; you hide your face and suddenly reveal it as you say boo! | - |
| fellatio | 11 | oral stimulation of the penis | - |
| falsetto | 11 | a male singing voice with artificially high tones in an upper register | - |
| innuendo | 9 | an indirect (and usually malicious) implication | - |
| eldorado | 10 | an imaginary place of great wealth and opportunity; sought in South America by 16th-century explorers | - |
| virtuoso | 11 | someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field | - |
| bordello | 11 | a building where prostitutes are available | - |
| hitherto | 14 | used in negative statement to describe a situation that has existed up to this point or up to the present time | - |
| gazpacho | 25 | a soup made with chopped tomatoes and onions and cucumbers and peppers and herbs; served cold | - |
| superego | 11 | (psychoanalysis) that part of the unconscious mind that acts as a conscience | - |
| sombrero | 12 | a straw hat with a tall crown and broad brim; worn in American southwest and in Mexico | - |
| jalapeno | 17 | plant bearing very hot and finely tapering long peppers; usually red | - |
| perfecto | 15 | - | - |
| fandango | 13 | a provocative Spanish courtship dance in triple time; performed by a man and a woman playing castanets | - |
| libretto | 10 | the words of an opera or musical play | - |
| palomino | 12 | a horse of light tan or golden color with cream-colored or white mane and tail | - |
| buckaroo | 16 | local names for a cowboy (`vaquero' is used especially in southwestern and central Texas and `buckaroo' is used especially in California) | - |
| presidio | 11 | a fortress established in the southwestern United States by the Spanish in order to protect their missions and other holdings | Tucson was first settled as a walled presidio |
| expresso | 17 | - | - |
| cilantro | 10 | parsley-like herb used as seasoning or garnish | - |
| staccato | 12 | (music) marked by or composed of disconnected parts or sounds; cut short crisply | staccato applause |
| neutrino | 8 | an elementary, electrically neutral particle with a very small mass | - |
| cockatoo | 16 | white or light-colored crested parrot of the Australian region; often kept as cage birds | - |
| machismo | 17 | exaggerated masculinity | - |
| amaretto | 10 | an Italian almond liqueur | - |
| lothario | 11 | a successful womanizer; a man who behaves selfishly in his sexual relationships with women | - |
| cruzeiro | 19 | - | - |
| alfresco | 13 | outside a building | - |
| habanero | 13 | - | - |
| caudillo | 11 | - | - |
| cornetto | 10 | - | - |
| vitiligo | 12 | an acquired skin disease characterized by patches of unpigmented skin (often surrounded by a heavily pigmented border) | - |
| sargasso | 9 | brown algae with rounded bladders forming dense floating masses in tropical Atlantic waters as in the Sargasso Sea | - |
| garbanzo | 20 | large white roundish Asiatic legume; usually dried | - |
| intaglio | 9 | glyptic art consisting of a sunken or depressed engraving or carving on a stone or gem (as opposed to cameo) | - |
| moderato | 11 | (of tempo) moderate | - |
| politico | 12 | a person active in party politics | - |
| antihero | 11 | a protagonist who lacks the characteristics that would make him a hero (or her a heroine) | - |
| ranchero | 13 | - | - |
| autogyro | 12 | an aircraft that is supported in flight by unpowered rotating horizontal wings (or blades); forward propulsion is provided by a conventional propeller | - |
| graffito | 15 | a rude decoration inscribed on rocks or walls | - |
| hereunto | 11 | - | - |
| impetigo | 13 | a very contagious infection of the skin; common in children; localized redness develops into small blisters that gradually crust and erode | - |
| wayleggo | 16 | - | - |
| wanderoo | 12 | - | - |
| wallaroo | 11 | - | - |
| whakairo | 18 | - | - |
| zecchino | 24 | - | - |
| yakimono | 17 | - | - |
| verdelho | 15 | - | - |
| vargueno | 12 | - | - |
| varletto | 11 | - | - |
| vindaloo | 12 | - | - |
| villagio | 12 | - | - |
| villiago | 12 | - | - |
| vigoroso | 12 | - | - |
| zuchetto | 22 | - | - |
| stoccado | 13 | - | - |
| subaudio | 11 | - | - |
| subimago | 13 | - | - |
| suppeago | 13 | - | - |
| superpro | 12 | - | - |
| superloo | 10 | - | - |
| taleggio | 10 | - | - |
| tenebrio | 10 | - | - |
| tapacolo | 12 | - | - |
| tapaculo | 12 | - | - |
| tapadero | 11 | - | - |
| terrazzo | 26 | - | - |
| terzetto | 17 | the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one | - |
| tokotoko | 16 | - | - |
| trapunto | 10 | - | - |
| tornillo | 8 | shrub or small tree of southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico having spirally twisted pods | - |
| trecento | 10 | - | - |
| twelvemo | 16 | - | - |
| tucotuco | 12 | - | - |
| tucutuco | 12 | - | - |
| umbrello | 12 | - | - |
| sticcado | 13 | - | - |
| sticcato | 12 | - | - |
| stampedo | 13 | - | - |
| rispetto | 10 | - | - |
| ritenuto | 8 | (music) gradually decreasing in tempo | - |
| riroriro | 8 | - | - |
| risoluto | 8 | - | - |
| rosoglio | 9 | - | - |
| rubbaboo | 14 | - | - |
| saltando | 9 | - | - |
| scaldino | 11 | - | - |
| scirocco | 14 | - | - |
| scordato | 11 | - | - |
| semihobo | 15 | - | - |
| seraglio | 9 | living quarters reserved for wives and concubines and female relatives in a Muslim household | - |
| seicento | 10 | - | - |
| sforzato | 20 | - | - |
| sestetto | 8 | - | - |
| sigisbeo | 11 | - | - |
| smorzato | 19 | - | - |
| solidago | 10 | goldenrod | - |
| spiccato | 14 | bowing in such a way that the bow bounces lightly off the strings | - |
| spadillo | 11 | - | - |
| renegado | 10 | - | - |
| parlando | 11 | - | - |
| paterero | 10 | - | - |
| pastitso | 10 | - | - |
| perdendo | 12 | - | - |
| peperino | 12 | - | - |
| peekapoo | 16 | - | - |
| pecorino | 12 | - | - |
| pederero | 11 | - | - |
| pimiento | 12 | plant bearing large mild thick-walled usually bell-shaped fruits; the principal salad peppers | - |
| piquillo | 19 | - | - |
| poignado | 12 | - | - |
| plumbago | 15 | used as a lubricant and as a moderator in nuclear reactors | - |
| preradio | 11 | - | - |
| preludio | 11 | - | - |
| prunello | 10 | - | - |
| pyinkado | 18 | - | - |
| pulvilio | 13 | - | - |
| reddendo | 11 | - | - |
| palmetto | 12 | any of several low-growing palms with fan-shaped leaves | - |
| palisado | 11 | - | - |
| palamino | 12 | - | - |
| paderero | 11 | - | - |
| amoretto | 10 | - | - |
| assiento | 8 | - | - |
| arpeggio | 12 | a chord whose notes are played in rapid succession rather than simultaneously | - |
| armigero | 11 | - | - |
| autogiro | 9 | an aircraft that is supported in flight by unpowered rotating horizontal wings (or blades); forward propulsion is provided by a conventional propeller | - |
| atamasco | 12 | - | - |
| ballyhoo | 16 | blatant or sensational promotion | - |
| bargello | 11 | needlepoint embroidery stitch that produces zigzag lines | - |
| barbasco | 14 | West Indian shrub or small tree having leathery saponaceous leaves and extremely hard wood | - |
| barranco | 12 | - | - |
| besognio | 11 | - | - |
| biscotto | 12 | - | - |
| bocaccio | 16 | - | - |
| bozzetto | 28 | - | - |
| bonamano | 12 | - | - |
| borachio | 15 | - | - |
| buckeroo | 16 | local names for a cowboy (`vaquero' is used especially in southwestern and central Texas and `buckaroo' is used especially in California) | - |
| buckayro | 19 | - | - |
| cacafogo | 16 | - | - |
| cabresto | 12 | - | - |
| cabestro | 12 | - | - |
| burdizzo | 29 | - | - |
| duettino | 9 | - | - |
| duecento | 11 | - | - |
| encierro | 10 | - | - |
| espumoso | 12 | - | - |
| escalado | 11 | - | - |
| escapado | 13 | - | - |
| farolito | 11 | - | - |
| fascismo | 15 | - | - |
| finnesko | 15 | - | - |
| finochio | 16 | - | - |
| fricando | 14 | - | - |
| forzando | 21 | - | - |
| galapago | 12 | - | - |
| gardyloo | 13 | - | - |
| doloroso | 9 | - | - |
| dolcetto | 11 | - | - |
| gracioso | 11 | - | - |
| grazioso | 18 | - | - |
| guacharo | 14 | nocturnal fruit-eating bird of South America that has fatty young yielding an oil that is used instead of butter | - |
| hallaloo | 11 | - | - |
| hereinto | 11 | - | - |
| horopito | 13 | - | - |
| huaquero | 20 | - | - |
| huaracho | 16 | - | - |
| hubbuboo | 17 | - | - |
| intonaco | 10 | - | - |
| jackaroo | 21 | - | - |
| jackeroo | 21 | - | - |
| junkanoo | 19 | - | - |
| kakemono | 18 | a Japanese (paper or silk) wall hanging; usually narrow with a picture or writing on it and a roller at the bottom | - |
| kamokamo | 20 | - | - |
| jillaroo | 15 | - | - |
| jerepigo | 18 | - | - |
| jordeloo | 16 | - | - |
| korimako | 18 | - | - |
| koromiko | 18 | - | - |
| largando | 10 | - | - |
| gillaroo | 9 | - | - |
| mameluco | 14 | - | - |
| mancando | 13 | - | - |
| manzello | 19 | - | - |
| maestoso | 10 | - | - |
| malgrado | 12 | - | - |
| mallecho | 15 | - | - |
| makimono | 16 | - | - |
| martello | 10 | - | - |
| micromho | 17 | - | - |
| millimho | 15 | - | - |
| milesimo | 12 | - | - |
| mercapto | 14 | - | - |
| minimoto | 12 | - | - |
| miromiro | 12 | - | - |
| montanto | 10 | - | - |
| mokomoko | 20 | - | - |
| mundungo | 12 | - | - |
| muchacho | 20 | - | - |
| nonmetro | 10 | - | - |
| nopalito | 10 | - | - |
| noctilio | 10 | - | - |
| obligato | 11 | a persistent but subordinate motif | - |
| ocotillo | 10 | desert shrub of southwestern United States and Mexico having slender naked spiny branches that after the rainy season put forth foliage and clusters of red flowers | - |
| notturno | 8 | a pensive lyrical piece of music (especially for the piano) | - |
| oratorio | 8 | a musical composition for voices and orchestra based on a religious text | - |
| ottavino | 11 | - | - |
| ostinato | 8 | a musical phrase repeated over and over during a composition | - |
| lentando | 9 | - | - |
| leggiero | 10 | - | - |
| libeccio | 14 | - | - |
| literato | 8 | - | - |
| locofoco | 15 | - | - |
| charneco | 15 | - | - |
| charango | 14 | - | - |
| cavalero | 13 | - | - |
| chechako | 22 | - | - |
| classico | 12 | - | - |
| chubasco | 17 | - | - |
| cioppino | 14 | - | - |
| cicisbeo | 14 | - | - |
| cockapoo | 18 | - | - |
| cocobolo | 14 | a valuable timber tree of tropical South America | - |
| confetto | 13 | - | - |
| concetto | 12 | - | - |
| coraggio | 12 | - | - |
| corocoro | 12 | - | - |
| continuo | 10 | a bass part written out in full and accompanied by numbers to indicate the chords to be played | - |
| contorno | 10 | - | - |
| contango | 11 | - | - |
| contempo | 14 | - | - |
| conjunto | 17 | - | - |
| converso | 13 | (medieval Spain and Portugal) a Jew or Moor who professed to convert to Christianity in order to avoid persecution or expulsion | - |
| couranto | 10 | - | - |
| crostino | 10 | - | - |
| curculio | 12 | - | - |
| camisado | 13 | - | - |
| capitano | 12 | - | - |
| callaloo | 10 | - | - |
| capuccio | 16 | - | - |
| ossobuco | 12 | - | - |
| kleftiko | 19 | - | - |
| manchego | 16 | - | - |
| maltipoo | 12 | - | - |
| roshambo | 15 | - | - |
| requinto | 17 | - | - |
| prosecco | 14 | - | - |
| cursillo | 10 | - | - |
| corretto | 10 | - | - |
| grissino | 9 | a long slender crusty breadstick | - |
| genipapo | 13 | - | - |
| friulano | 11 | - | - |
| tenorino | 8 | - | - |
| villiaco | 13 | - | - |
| boogaloo | 11 | - | - |
| affogato | 15 | - | - |
| babycino | 17 | - | - |
