11-Letter Words Starting with O

Rowing skill

Making unclear

Intentional confusion

OBFUSCATE Obfuscated; darkened; obscured.

Obituarist

""-fies , -fying , -fied (Philosophy) (tr) to represent concretely; present as an object objectification   n""

Objectify

""In the manner or state of an object; as, a determinate idea objectively in the mind. as, a determinate idea objectively in the mind.""

OBJECTIVE Of or pertaining to an object.

OBJECTIVISE OBJECTIVE Of or pertaining to an object.

Consideration unaffected by external influences

OBJURGATE To chide; to reprove.

The act of objurgating; reproof.

Designed to objurgate or chide; containing or expressing reproof; culpatory.

Obligation

Quality or state of being oblique.

Obliquity

Utterly destroyed

Book learned in Oxford, only covers erased

Effaced

Beats soundly

Utterly destroys

""OBLITERATE To erase or blot out; to efface; to render undecipherable, as a writing.""

Betraying unconcern

In an extremely unpleasant manner

OBNUBILATE To cloud; to obscure.

Obnubilate

Obscenity

OBSCURANT One who obscures; one who prevents enlightenment or hinders the progress of knowledge and wisdom.

""The act or operation of obscuring; the state of being obscured; as, the obscuration of the moon in an eclipse. as, the obscuration of the moon in an eclipse.""

Nebulosity

Obscurity

Observable

Rites

How many practice religion

Remark; sighting to determine position

Result of a patient look

Keeping watch...

E.g. Jodrell Bank

Star spotter (wordplay)

Building housing a large telescope

Observing

Dominating one's thoughts

Alumnus sitting with Scarface is haunted

Pertaining to a siege.

Boy is vessel (anagram)

In a continually preoccupied manner

Passionately evil bosses reformed before end of play

Ageing old boy with unique odour

Former pupil's only trace is out of date

Like streetcars, for instance.

OBSOLESCE To become obsolescent.

Concerned with labor (wordplay)

Obstinacy

Stubbornly, eat only bits that are well-cooked

Getting in the way

Blocking

Sand trap or bunker, for example.

MONKEY wrench, so to speak

Thing in the way

Being deliberately difficult

In the way

Deliberately causing difficulties

Obstructor

Obtainment

Obtrusive

Obturation

OBVIOUS easily understood

Bringing about

Bringing about

Bringing about*

Occipital

""The hiding of a heavenly body from sight by the intervention of some other of the heavenly bodies; applied especially to eclipses of stars and planets by the moon, and to the eclipses of satellites of planets by their primaries.""

Occupancy

Lines of work

Jobs

Occurrence

Oceanarium

Oceanfront

OCHLOCRAT

Octagonal

Octahedron

""A polypeptide, such as angiotensin, that is composed of eight amino acids.""

One of the more or less columnar cells on the outer surface of the pulp of a tooth; an odontoplast. They are supposed to be connected with the formation of dentine.

Giving off a smell

Smelly

ODOROUS having an odor

OECUMENIC

Unoffending; inoffensive.

Offensive

Offertory

In a casual manner

Thus spake Venus de Milo

Sharia justice thus applied anyhow (wordplay)

Authority

Bureaucratic verbiage

Excessive love of bureaucratic routine

Officiary

OFFICIATE To act as an officer in performing a duty; to transact the business of an office or public trust; to conduct a public service.

OFFICIATE To act as an officer in performing a duty; to transact the business of an office or public trust; to conduct a public service.

Officious

Offprint

""That which is scoured off; hence, refuse; rejected matter; that which is vile or despised.""

Elite groups

Any of an order of hermaphroditic terrestrial and aquatic annelids (including the earthworms) having bristles borne singly along the length of the body; a member of the Oligochaeta.Oligochaeta.

Oligoclase

Oligopoly

OMINOUS portending evil

""Of all varieties, forms, or kinds.""

Unlimited power

Absolute power

Omnipotent

Dodge for Christmas (wordplay)

Always there!

Everywhere at once

Attribute of the Deity

Knowledge of everything

Total knowledge

Oncogenes

ONCOGENES oncogene

ONCOLOGIC

Oncologist

""ONEIRIC belonging to dreams, also ONIRIC""

Divination of dreams.

Difficulty

ONGOING a course of conduct

The science of names or of their classification.

""Biology ontogeny. ; ontogenetic, ontogenetical , adj . Life""

""Biology ontogeny. ; ontogenetic, ontogenetical , adj . Life""

""Of or pertaining to ontogenesis; as, ontogenetic phenomena. as, ontogenetic phenomena.""

Metaphysical term.

Ontologist

Milky iridescent quality

A milky play of rainbow colours

Milky iridescence

Abstract noun (-ity)

Very warm and kindly

Frank

Kindly

Amazed how the dentist likes me!

Frank said to appear surprised

Prepared to eat, though astonished

Power to function

Operagoing

Ready to function

Ready for action

In working order

In an operative manner.

""Closed by a lid or cover, as the capsules of the mosses.""

Operettist

OPEROSE involving great labour

Ophthalmia

Not shy about expressing views

Prone to going off

Assertive in one's views

Opportune

Making the most of favourable moments

Making the most of current circumstances

Expediency

One who strikes while the iron is hot

Person without fixed principles

Knock heeder

Well-known knocker.

Pt. 2 of the quotation

It only knocks once

Opposition

Oppression

Reproachful

Opprobrium

Opsonify

OPTIONAL an elective course of study

Adjective (-ic)

Optometry

I'm to protest about optician

Pupil watcher

Vision tester

ORACULAR pertaining to an oracle

Orangewood

Orbicular

Orchardist

Organise (a complex enterprise)

Modify the score with art (wordplay)

Arrange (for maximum effect)

Ordainment

Felix Unger's obsession

Neatnik's forte

Commands inclusion of rows with regularity

Ordinary

Noise interrupts speeches in church ceremonies

Ordonnance

How some vegetables are grown

How crops are grown without fertilisers or pesticides

Organicism

Organicist

""Capable of being organized; esp. (Biol.), capable of being formed into living tissue; as, organizable matter. (Biol.), capable of being formed into living tissue; as, organizable matter.""

Book by Edward W. Said

Seminal Edward Said book on representation of "the East"

Expert on faraway part of world transformed relations with it

Nothing exotic in old books catalogue to engage a student of far-off lands

To render Oriental; to cause to conform to Oriental manners or conditions.

""ORIENTATE To place or turn toward the east; to cause to assume an easterly direction, or to veer eastward.""

Program for freshmen

What a freshman needs

Relative position

Inventiveness; novelty

Novel quality

Innovativeness

Starting

Beginning (six letters)

Process of creation

True source.

""Having power, or tending, to originate, or bring into existence; originating.""

Originator

Some nursery items

Decorative objects

Beautifying shrubs.

Ornament

Study of birds

Bebop tune by Charlie "Bird" Parker

Ornithopod

A machine shaped like an aircraft that is held aloft and propelled by wing movements.

Orography

Orphanhood

""That point in which the three perpendiculars let fall from the angles of a triangle upon the opposite sides, or the sides produced, mutually intersect.""

Orthoclase

Specialty that may be bracing (wordplay)

Branch of dentistry

The treatment of jaw and teeth irregularities

Relating to treatment of teeth/jaw irregularities

Killer keeps awfully hot - do I not? - aiming for straight sets

Making pegs fit in, doctor having difficulties introduces nevertheless

Belief systems

Orthoepist

Correct spelling.

Perturbed Tory must limit animal strike, initially helped using right characters

Adjective (-al)

Dealing with treatment of bones

Of treatment of bones, muscles

Concerning the treatment of bones and muscles

Branch of medicine (in the US)

Treatment of bone or muscle injuries

Joint resolution figure (wordplay)

Joint expert

One of the Orthoptera.

""Giving an image in correct or normal proportions; giving a flat field of view; as, an orthoscopic eyepiece. as, an orthoscopic eyepiece.""

Relating to or caused by standing upright: orthostatic hypotension.

That oscillates; vibrating; swinging.

Cycle - 5 down (anagram)

Movement to and fro

Rhythmic swinging to and fro

Oscillator

""Moving, or characterized by motion, backward and forward like a pendulum; swinging; oscillating; vibratory; as, oscillatory motion. as, oscillatory motion.""

An autographic record made by an oscillograph.

Osculation

Osmiridium

Osmometry

OSMOTIC pertaining to {osmosis=n}

In an ostensive manner.

""Pl. ostensoria (-sôr - , -s r -) also ostensories Roman Catholic Church See monstrance .""

Showing off, so attention is diverted

Gaudy display

Pretentious display

Osteoblast

Osteoclast

Osteology

One who is skilled in osteology; an osteologer.

Of certain manipulators

Of the musculo-skeletal system

Treating by manipulation and massage

An operation or process by which the total or partial loss of a bone is remedied.

Trouble raising cost when sending to Coventry

""OSTRACIZE To exile by ostracism; to banish by a popular vote, as at Athens.""

Any of several extinct fishlike jawless vertebrates having a heavily armored body; of the Paleozoic.

Having one's head in the sand perhaps

Otherness

Otherwhile

Otherworld

OTOTOXIC adversely affecting hearing or balance