8-letter words starting with SO
Embark on a linguistic journey with words that begin with the letter SO. This section showcases how SO at the start shapes the identity and sound of various words. From commonly used terms to rare finds, explore the diverse range of words that start with SO, enriching your vocabulary and appreciation for language.
| Word | Points | Definition | Sentence example |
|---|---|---|---|
| somebody | 16 | a human being | - |
| solution | 8 | a statement that solves a problem or explains how to solve the problem | they were trying to find a peaceful solution |
| sometime | 12 | belonging to some prior time | - |
| southern | 11 | from the south; used especially of wind | southern breezes |
| software | 14 | (computer science) written programs or procedures or rules and associated documentation pertaining to the operation of a computer system and that are stored in read/write memory | the market for software is expected to expand |
| somewhat | 16 | to certain extent or degree | - |
| souvenir | 11 | something of sentimental value | - |
| solitary | 11 | one who lives in solitude | - |
| sounding | 10 | appearing to be as specified; usually used as combining forms | fine-sounding phrases |
| solitude | 9 | a state of social isolation | - |
| socially | 13 | by or with respect to society | socially accepted norms |
| sorcerer | 10 | one who practices magic or sorcery | - |
| sorority | 11 | a social club for female undergraduates | - |
| softball | 13 | a game closely resembling baseball that is played on a smaller diamond and with a ball that is larger and softer | - |
| soothing | 12 | freeing from fear and anxiety | - |
| solemnly | 13 | in a grave and sedate manner | the judge sat there solemnly |
| solstice | 10 | either of the two times of the year when the sun is at its greatest distance from the celestial equator | - |
| sociable | 12 | a party of people assembled to promote sociability and communal activity | - |
| sobriety | 13 | moderation in or abstinence from alcohol or other drugs | - |
| soulless | 8 | lacking sensitivity or the capacity for deep feeling | - |
| softened | 12 | being or made softer or less loud or clear | - |
| softness | 11 | the quality of being indistinct and without sharp outlines | - |
| somerset | 10 | an acrobatic feat in which the feet roll over the head (either forward or backward) and return | - |
| solarium | 10 | a room enclosed largely with glass and affording exposure to the sun | - |
| songbird | 12 | any bird having a musical call | - |
| sopranos | 10 | - | - |
| sobering | 11 | tending to make sober or more serious | the news had a sobering effect |
| softener | 11 | a substance added to another to make it less hard | - |
| sonogram | 11 | an image of a structure that is produced by ultrasonography (reflections of high-frequency sound waves); used to observe fetal growth or to study bodily organs | - |
| sourpuss | 10 | someone with a habitually sullen or gloomy expression | - |
| sombrero | 12 | a straw hat with a tall crown and broad brim; worn in American southwest and in Mexico | - |
| soundman | 11 | a technician in charge of amplifying sound or producing sound effects (as for a TV or radio broadcast) | - |
| societal | 10 | relating to human society and its members | societal evolution |
| solidify | 15 | become solid | - |
| sodomite | 11 | someone who engages in anal copulation (especially a male who engages in anal copulation with another male) | - |
| sorriest | 8 | - | - |
| southpaw | 16 | a person who uses the left hand with greater skill than the right | their pitcher was a southpaw |
| sodomize | 20 | practice anal sex upon | - |
| solenoid | 9 | a coil of wire around an iron core; becomes a magnet when current passes through the coil | - |
| solvable | 13 | capable of being solved | such problems are perfectly solvable |
| songbook | 15 | a book containing a collection of songs | - |
| sonorous | 8 | full and loud and deep | a herald chosen for his sonorous voice |
| souvlaki | 15 | made of lamb | - |
| solidity | 12 | the quality of being solid and reliable financially or factually or morally | the solidity of the evidence worked in his favor |
| solvency | 16 | the ability to meet maturing obligations as they come due | - |
| sonority | 11 | having the character of a loud deep sound; the quality of being resonant | - |
| southing | 12 | - | - |
| sorehead | 12 | someone who is peevish or disgruntled | - |
| soughing | 13 | characterized by soft sounds | a soughing wind in the pines |
| sodality | 12 | people engaged in a particular occupation | - |
| solarize | 17 | become overexposed | The film solarized |
| soldiery | 12 | soldiers collectively | - |
| someways | 16 | in some unspecified way or manner; or by some unspecified means | - |
| songster | 9 | any bird having a musical call | - |
| soreness | 8 | an uncomfortable feeling of mental painfulness or distress | - |
| sourness | 8 | the property of being acidic | - |
| soakages | 13 | - | - |
| soakaway | 18 | - | - |
| soakings | 13 | - | - |
| soapbark | 16 | - | - |
| soapdish | 14 | - | - |
| soapfish | 16 | fishes with slimy mucus-covered skin; found in the warm Atlantic coastal waters of America | - |
| soapiest | 10 | - | - |
| soapland | 11 | - | - |
| soapless | 10 | - | - |
| soaplike | 14 | - | - |
| soaproot | 10 | - | - |
| soapsuds | 11 | the froth produced by soaps or detergents | - |
| soapwort | 13 | plant of European origin having pink or white flowers and leaves yielding a detergent when bruised | - |
| soaraway | 14 | - | - |
| soarings | 9 | - | - |
| sobbings | 13 | - | - |
| soberest | 10 | - | - |
| soberise | 10 | - | - |
| soberize | 19 | - | - |
| socagers | 11 | - | - |
| soccages | 13 | - | - |
| sociably | 15 | in a gregarious manner | - |
| sociates | 10 | - | - |
| socketed | 15 | - | - |
| sockette | 14 | - | - |
| sockeyes | 17 | - | - |
| sockless | 14 | - | - |
| sodaless | 9 | - | - |
| sodalist | 9 | a member of a sodality | - |
| sodalite | 9 | a vitreous mineral consisting of sodium aluminum silicate and sodium chloride in crystalline form; occurs in igneous rocks | - |
| sodamide | 12 | - | - |
| soddened | 11 | - | - |
| soddenly | 13 | - | - |
| soddiest | 10 | - | - |
| sodgered | 11 | - | - |
| sodicity | 14 | - | - |
| sodomies | 11 | - | - |
| sodomise | 11 | practice anal sex upon | - |
| sodomist | 11 | someone who engages in anal copulation (especially a male who engages in anal copulation with another male) | - |
| sofabeds | 14 | - | - |
| soffioni | 14 | - | - |
| softback | 19 | a book with paper covers | - |
| softcore | 13 | - | - |
| softhead | 15 | - | - |
| softling | 12 | - | - |
| softwood | 15 | wood that is easy to saw (from conifers such as pine or fir) | - |
| soggiest | 10 | - | - |
| soggings | 11 | - | - |
| soilages | 9 | - | - |
| soiliest | 8 | - | - |
| soilings | 9 | - | - |
| soilless | 8 | - | - |
| soilures | 8 | - | - |
| sojourns | 15 | - | - |
| solacers | 10 | - | - |
| solacing | 11 | - | - |
| solander | 9 | - | - |
| solanine | 8 | - | - |
| solanins | 8 | - | - |
| solanums | 10 | - | - |
| solarise | 8 | become overexposed | - |
| solarism | 10 | - | - |
| solarist | 8 | - | - |
| solating | 9 | - | - |
| solation | 8 | - | - |
| solatium | 10 | - | - |
| soldados | 10 | - | - |
| soldered | 10 | - | - |
| solderer | 9 | a worker who joins or mends with solder | - |
| soldiers | 9 | - | - |
| solecise | 10 | - | - |
| solecism | 12 | a socially awkward or tactless act | - |
| solecist | 10 | - | - |
| solecize | 19 | - | - |
| soleless | 8 | having no sole | - |
| solemner | 10 | - | - |
| soleness | 8 | - | - |
| solerets | 8 | - | - |
| soleuses | 8 | - | - |
| solfeges | 12 | - | - |
| solfeggi | 13 | - | - |
| solicits | 10 | - | - |
| solicity | 13 | - | - |
| solidago | 10 | goldenrod | - |
| solidare | 9 | - | - |
| solidary | 12 | - | - |
| solidate | 9 | - | - |
| solidest | 9 | - | - |
| solidish | 12 | - | - |
| solidism | 11 | - | - |
| solidist | 9 | - | - |
| solidums | 11 | - | - |
| solipeds | 11 | - | - |
| soliquid | 18 | - | - |
| solitons | 8 | - | - |
| sollared | 9 | - | - |
| solleret | 8 | armor plate that protects the foot; consists of mail with a solid toe and heel | - |
| soloists | 8 | - | - |
| solonets | 8 | - | - |
| solonetz | 17 | - | - |
| solpugid | 12 | - | - |
| solubles | 10 | - | - |
| solutive | 11 | - | - |
| solvated | 12 | - | - |
| solvates | 11 | - | - |
| solvents | 11 | - | - |
| somatism | 12 | - | - |
| somatist | 10 | - | - |
| sombered | 13 | - | - |
| somberer | 12 | - | - |
| somberly | 15 | in a somber manner | `That's sure bad news,' said Dowd, somberly |
| sombrely | 15 | in a somber manner | - |
| sombrest | 12 | - | - |
| sombring | 13 | - | - |
| sombrous | 12 | - | - |
| somedeal | 11 | - | - |
| somedele | 11 | - | - |
| somegate | 11 | - | - |
| someones | 10 | - | - |
| somewhen | 16 | - | - |
| somewise | 13 | - | - |
| somniate | 10 | - | - |
| somnific | 15 | sleep inducing | - |
| sonances | 10 | - | - |
| sonantal | 8 | - | - |
| sonantic | 10 | - | - |
| sonarman | 10 | - | - |
| sonarmen | 10 | - | - |
| sonatina | 8 | a short and simple sonata | - |
| sonatine | 8 | - | - |
| sondages | 10 | - | - |
| sondelis | 9 | - | - |
| songfest | 12 | - | - |
| songkoks | 17 | - | - |
| songless | 9 | - | - |
| songlike | 13 | having a melody (as distinguished from recitative) | - |
| sonhoods | 12 | - | - |
| sonicate | 10 | - | - |
| sonliest | 8 | - | - |
| sonneted | 9 | - | - |
| sonobuoy | 13 | - | - |
| sonorant | 8 | - | - |
| sonships | 13 | - | - |
| sonsiest | 8 | - | - |
| soochong | 14 | a fine quality of black tea native to China | - |
| sookiest | 12 | - | - |
| soopings | 11 | - | - |
| soothers | 11 | - | - |
| soothest | 11 | - | - |
| soothful | 14 | - | - |
| soothsay | 14 | - | - |
| sootiest | 8 | - | - |
| sootings | 9 | - | - |
| sootless | 8 | - | - |
| sopheric | 15 | - | - |
| sopherim | 15 | - | - |
| sophisms | 15 | - | - |
| sophists | 13 | - | - |
| sopiting | 11 | - | - |
| soporose | 10 | - | - |
| soporous | 10 | - | - |
| soppiest | 12 | - | - |
| soppings | 13 | - | - |
| sorbable | 12 | - | - |
| sorbaria | 10 | - | - |
| sorbates | 10 | - | - |
| sorbents | 10 | - | - |
| sorbitan | 10 | - | - |
| sorbites | 10 | - | - |
| sorbitic | 12 | - | - |
| sorbitol | 10 | - | - |
| sorboses | 10 | - | - |
| sorbuses | 10 | - | - |
| sordider | 10 | - | - |
| sordidly | 13 | in a sordid or squalid way | - |
| sordines | 9 | - | - |
| soredial | 9 | - | - |
| soredium | 11 | - | - |
| sorehons | 11 | - | - |
| sorghums | 14 | - | - |
| soricine | 10 | - | - |
| soricoid | 11 | - | - |
| sornings | 9 | - | - |
| sorobans | 10 | - | - |
| soroches | 13 | - | - |
| sororate | 8 | - | - |
| sororial | 8 | - | - |
| sororise | 8 | - | - |
| sororize | 17 | - | - |
| sorption | 10 | the process in which one substance takes up or holds another (by either absorption or adsorption) | - |
| sorptive | 13 | - | - |
| sorrowed | 12 | - | - |
| sorrower | 11 | a person who is feeling grief (as grieving over someone who has died) | - |
| sorryish | 14 | - | - |
| sortable | 10 | - | - |
| sortably | 13 | - | - |
| sortance | 10 | - | - |
| sortings | 9 | - | - |
| sortment | 10 | - | - |
| sosaties | 8 | - | - |
| sossings | 9 | - | - |
| soterial | 8 | - | - |
| sottedly | 12 | - | - |
| sottings | 9 | - | - |
| soubises | 10 | - | - |
| souchong | 14 | a fine quality of black tea native to China | - |
| souffled | 15 | - | - |
| souffles | 14 | - | - |
| souldans | 9 | - | - |
| souldier | 9 | - | - |
| soullike | 12 | - | - |
| soulmate | 10 | - | - |
| soulster | 8 | - | - |
| soumings | 11 | - | - |
| soundbar | 11 | - | - |
| soundbox | 18 | a resonating chamber in a musical instrument (as the body of a violin) | - |
| sounders | 9 | - | - |
| soundest | 9 | - | - |
| soundmen | 11 | - | - |
| soupcons | 12 | - | - |
| soupfins | 13 | - | - |
| soupiest | 10 | - | - |
| soupless | 10 | - | - |
| souplike | 14 | - | - |
| soupling | 11 | - | - |
| sourball | 10 | round piece of tart hard candy | - |
| sourcing | 11 | - | - |
| sourdine | 9 | a mute for a violin | - |
| sourgums | 11 | - | - |
| sourings | 9 | - | - |
| sourocks | 14 | - | - |
| soursops | 10 | - | - |
| sourveld | 12 | - | - |
| sourwood | 12 | deciduous shrubby tree of eastern North America having deeply fissured bark and sprays of small fragrant white flowers and sour-tasting leaves | - |
| sousings | 9 | - | - |
| sousliks | 12 | - | - |
| soutache | 13 | a narrow braid used as a decorative trimming | - |
| soutanes | 8 | - | - |
| souterly | 11 | - | - |
| southers | 11 | - | - |
| southron | 11 | - | - |
| southsay | 14 | - | - |
| soutpiel | 10 | - | - |
| sovietic | 13 | - | - |
| sovkhozy | 30 | - | - |
| sovranly | 14 | - | - |
| sovranty | 14 | - | - |
| sowarree | 11 | - | - |
| sowbacks | 19 | - | - |
| sowbelly | 16 | salt pork from the belly of a hog carcass | - |
| sowbread | 14 | common wild European cyclamen with pink flowers | - |
| sowffing | 18 | - | - |
| sownding | 13 | - | - |
| sowssing | 12 | - | - |
| sowthing | 15 | - | - |
| soybeans | 13 | - | - |
| soymeals | 13 | - | - |
| soymilks | 17 | - | - |
| sozzlier | 26 | - | - |
| sozzling | 27 | - | - |
