12-Letter Words Starting with O

Oafishness

Oarsmanship

Scientific study of the seas

A subject for deep study

Study of the sea

Ochlocracy

Octahedral

President, for one.

Functionary from ticket endings

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

Offishness

OLIGARCHIC

Oligochaete

Oligophagy

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

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

""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 .

Generously display palms

Generously

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

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.""

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

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.

Device for recording electrical waves

Device for visualising, eg, fluctuations in current

Osteopathy

Out of touch with reality

Relating to an imaginary realm

Spiritual; imaginary

OUTACHIEVE

In a bizarre way

Oddly - and in a foreign manner

Expense includes new food left in an odd way

Outpreach

(Of arms) extended

Poor tutors and the like he had extended

Fashion etc, the Tudors extended

Outstretch

Outthrob

ACHIEVED achieve

Academic Type A personality

Hardly a slacker

*Person who constantly exceeds expectations

Overachieve

Overbleach

Overbleach

Electrician's worry?

Electrician's worry (wordplay)

Ripping off

Overchill

Overcoach

EMPHASES emphasis

Promises have produced too much stress

Excessive stress

Excessive underlining

Excessively emphatic.

HANDLING the act of handling

Overharvest

Overhunting

LENGTHEN to make longer

Overlight

Superior feudal position

Ruling position

Spare house in Westminster - trendy 9 enjoyed it

Overmatch

OVERNIGHTER overnight

Overnight

REACHERS reacher

Aiming too high

Going too far.

Was more important than

Remaining fish on slate, perhaps, put in the shade

Outshone

Overshoot

Overslaugh

Overthink

Removing from power

Defeating husband in public argument

Overtighten

Overweigh

Overweight

Irresistible - huge

Completely overpowering

Completely defeating

Due a refund, in a way

WITHHOLD to hold back

Owlishness

Ozonosphere