12-Letter Words Containing O

""The basic structure of a virus, consisting of a core of nucleic acid enclosed in a protein coat.""

Nucleophile

NUCLEOPHILE

Nucleoplasm

An enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of a nucleotide to a nucleoside and phosphoric acid.

Numerology

Believer in occult significance of numbers

NUMEROUS {many=adj}

NUMINOUS a {divinity=n}

Food value expert

One studying the value of food and its ingestion

Nutritious

Under the influence of nympholepsy; ecstatic; frenzied.

Many champion dissolute sex addict

Nymphomania

Oafishness

Oarsmanship

""OBDURATE to become hard-hearted, also OBDURE""

Obfuscation

Objectify

Objectivism

Objectivist

Objurgation

""Lanceolate in the reversed order, that is, narrowing toward the point of attachment more than toward the apex.""

Oblateness

In an obligatory manner; by reason of obligation.

OBLIGING oblige

Erasing

Fantastic lob before repeat loss

The removal of oil to Iran - bet it goes astray!

Utter destruction

Tending or serving to obliterate.

Obliterator

OBNUBILATE To cloud; to obscure.

Clouding stink over knight with general rejoicing losing head

For this custom, brain's abandoned

One who makes dim, daft subtractions

Wrong subtractions standing in the way of enlightenment

Resisting enlightenment, having messed up subtractions

Obscuration

In a sycophantic way ("Richard III")

In a servile way

Roughly Sobers admits VAT is charged for examinations

Measurements from an experiment soon vibrates all over the place

Process of becoming out of date

The state of falling into disuse

Out-of-date quality

""The state of being obsolete, or no longer used; a state of desuetude.""

Childbirth doctor

Medical specialist - is certain to get involved around start of birth (wordplay)

Expert with children, i.e. Scot involved with bairn taking temperature

Drunken bore's posture becomes unruly

Sober posture (anagram) - unruly

Noisy, hard to control

Hindrances

Noisy disturbances on street after outside broadcast means barriers

Obstructive

Obtuseness

Cosy in a local? Can be, sometimes

From time to time

Party supporter? Now and then

Occidental

Occultation

Relating to one's job or profession

Rehabilitation via practical activities

To do with work

Scientific study of the seas

A subject for deep study

Study of the sea

Oceanology

One whose main interest is scientific

Sea scientist

Scientist involved with study of the seas

Ochlocracy

Octahedral

Octapeptide

Old man's gone out with raincoat

Robert Frost, for example.

Veteran's gone out in shabby raincoat

Also octosyllabic ( k t -s -l b k) a. A line of verse containing eight syllables.

Octosyllabic.

Odiousness

Odontoblast

President, for one.

Functionary from ticket endings

Last year's winner not skating - he's got a job

Officialdom

Officialese

Officialism

Officiation

Offishness

Offscouring

Oleaginous

English word

OLEORESIN A natural mixture of a terebinthinate oil and a resin.

An apparatus for measuring the acuity of the sense of smell.

OLIGARCHIC

Oligochaete

Oligophagy

""Feeding on a restricted range of food substances, especially a limited number of plants. Used chiefly of insects.""

Oligopsony

Lacking in plant nutrients and having a large amount of dissolved oxygen throughout. Used of a pond or lake.

Omnipotence

With all-encompassing power

Being everywhere at once

Drunk in recompense for divine existence (wordplay)

Ubiquity

Omniscience

Omniscient

Omnivorous

ONCOGENIC

Any of a group of viruses that contain single-stranded RNA and produce tumors in birds and mammals.

English word

Formation of words from natural sounds.

Cuckoo or "whippoorwill," for example

Formation of words like "buzz" or "hiss"

Sounding like its meaning

""Any of numerous velvety-skinned wormlike carnivorous animals common in tropical forests having characteristics of both arthropods and annelid worms; a member of the Onychophora, also called Malacopoda. See Malacopoda.Onychophora, also called Malacopoda. See Malacopoda.""

Pl. oophorectomies Surgical removal of one or both ovaries. Also called ovariectomy .

Opalescence

Opalescent

Opaqueness

Generously display palms

Generously

He'd lend, no pay, all required in most generous fashion

OPERATIC the technique of staging operas

""OPERATION The act or process of operating; agency; the exertion of power, physical, mechanical, or moral.""

""OPERATION The act or process of operating; agency; the exertion of power, physical, mechanical, or moral.""

OPERATOR one that {operates=v}

Unduly attached to one's own opinions; opinionated.

Opportunism

They make the best of what happens to awful sprouts in pot

They make the best of what happens to wild sprouts in pot

The condition or quality of being opposable.

The quality or state of being opposite.

""OPPOSITION The act of opposing; an attempt to check, restrain, or defeat; resistance.""

Oppressive

Optimality

""OPTIMISE to make as effective as possible, also OPTIMIZE""

""OPTIMIZE to make as effective as possible, also OPTIMISE""

Optometrist

Oratorical

Orchestral

Gold casket marked and scored

Arranged to have the dart score put out

Arranged for gold casket getting evaluated

ORCHESTRATE to write an orchestra score for; -- of a musical composition.

Arranges music

Narrow passages for killer whales (wordplay)

Or that scorer, perhaps (wordplay)

Speaker reserves royal box for arranger

Speaker keeps royal box for the organiser

""Pertaining to, or resembling, a natural order (Orchidace\'91) of endogenous plants of which the genus Orchis is the type. They are mostly perennial herbs having the stamens and pistils united in a single column, and normally three petals and three sepals, all adherent to the ovary. The flowers are curiously shaped, often resembling insects, the odd or lower petal (called the lip) being unlike the others, and sometimes of a strange and unexpected appearance. About one hundred species occur in the United States, but several thousand in the tropics. Orchidace\'91) of endogenous plants of which the genus Orchis is the type. They are mostly perennial herbs having the stamens and pistils united in a single column, and normally three petals and three sepals, all adherent to the ovary. The flowers are curiously shaped, often resembling insects, the odd or lower petal (called the lip) being unlike the others, and sometimes of a strange and unexpected appearance. About one hundred species occur in the United States, but several thousand in the tropics.""

Commonly encountered; usual. See Synonyms at common .

Organicity

Firm with The Irish Times, for one

Running over before Saigon train's off

Company talk about fantastic gains

""The act of organizing; the act of arranging in a systematic way for use or action; as, the organization of an army, or of a deliberative body. as, the organization of an army, or of a deliberative body.""

""Making an impression upon an organ; plastic; said of the effect or impression produced by any substance on the organs of touch, taste, or smell, and also on the organism as a whole.""

Organology

Orientalism

Orientalist

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

Orientalize

Orientation

Sport involving maps and compasses

Sport using map and compass

Origination

Orismology

By way of ornament.

Ornateness

Orneriness

The branch of zoology that deals with the study of birds.

Ornithopter

Relating to the description of mountains

Pl. oropharynges (-f -r n j z) or oropharynxes The part of the pharynx between the soft palate and the epiglottis.

Oropharynx

Orotundity

Orthocenter

Orthodontia

Canine training (wordplay)

Correction of dental irregularities

Branch of dentistry

Professional who may say, "Hold still!"

Professional who may say, 'Hold still!'

... "Get to the chopper!"

Plural or third person singular

""Biology progressive evolution, leading to the development of a new form, as can be seen through successive generations. See also society . ; orthogenetic , adj . Evolution the sociological theory that all cultures or societies follow the same fixed course of determinate evolution. See also evolution . ; orthogenetic,""

""Biology progressive evolution, leading to the development of a new form, as can be seen through successive generations. See also society . ; orthogenetic , adj . Evolution the sociological theory that all cultures or societies follow the same fixed course of determinate evolution. See also evolution . ; orthogenetic,""

""Perpendicularly; at right angles; as, a curve cuts a set of curves orthogonally. as, a curve cuts a set of curves orthogonally.""

""ORTHOGRAPH An orthographic projection, sometimes partly in section, esp. of a building.""

The treatment of bone and muscle disorders

Rum do, as her topic is a medical speciality

Orthopedist

Orthopteran

Inflected form of ORTHOPTER Inflected form of ORTHO short for orthochromatic plate (a photographic plate)

Orthopter

Noting the system of crystallization which has three unequal axes at right angles to each other; trimetric. See Crystallization. Crystallization.

Having the axis of an ovule or seed straight from the hilum and chalaza to the orifice or the micropyle; atropous.

Devious colonialists making waves

Oscillogram

Device for recording electrical waves

Device for visualising, eg, fluctuations in current

Laboratory device for viewing waveforms

Laboratory instrument

Osmolality

Osmolarity

Action is so, if developing then hardening

Ostentation

Given to showy display

Gaudy and garish

Showy and vulgar

""OSTEOBLAST One of the protoplasmic cells which occur in the osteogenetic layer of the periosteum, and from or around which the matrix of the bone is developed; an osteoplast.""

OSTEOCLAST A myeloplax.

OSTEOGEN a substance from which bone is formed

OSTEOGEN a substance from which bone is formed

Of or pertaining to osteology.

Osteologist

""A disease of the bones, in which they lose their earthy material, and become soft, flexible, and distorted. Also called malacia. malacia.""

Osteopathy

""Producing bone; as, osteoplastic cells. as, osteoplastic cells.""

""Pl. osteoporoses (-s z) A disease in which the bones become extremely porous, are subject to fracture, and heal slowly, occurring especially in women following menopause and often leading to curvature of the spine from vertebral collapse.""

Brittle bones condition

Oops, Tories so affected by bodily weakness!

Bone deficiency

""Pl. osteoporoses (-s z) A disease in which the bones become extremely porous, are subject to fracture, and heal slowly, occurring especially in women following menopause and often leading to curvature of the spine from vertebral collapse.""

A tumor having the structure of a sacroma in which there is a deposit of bone; sarcoma connected with bone.

Ostracoderm

Out of touch with reality

Relating to an imaginary realm

Spiritual; imaginary

Otioseness

Plural or third person singular

""A disease of the ear in which the movement of the stapes within the oval window becomes impeded by abnormal deposits of spongy bone, leading to a progressive loss of hearing.""

OUTACHIEVE

OUTBALANCE To outweight; to exceed in weight or effect.

Outbargain

Outbreeding

Sheds what's not popular in the architects plans

Sheds what's not popular from groundbreaking developments

Outcavil

OUTCOMPETE

Outcropping

OUTDATED outdate

Outdeliver

Outdesign

Left (a competitor) far behind

Leaves behind.

Excelled in military skill

Outglitter

OUTGOING expenditure

OUTINTRIGUE

Outintrigue

In a bizarre way

Oddly - and in a foreign manner

Expense includes new food left in an odd way