12-Letter Words Starting with O

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

Obfuscation

Objurgation

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

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

Occultation

Relating to one's job or profession

Rehabilitation via practical activities

To do with work

Odiousness

Offscouring

Oleaginous

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

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

Omnivorous

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

Opaqueness

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

""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.""

Orotundity

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

Given to showy display

Gaudy and garish

Showy and vulgar

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

Outmaneuver

Outnumber

OUTORGANIZE

Outorganize

Outperform

""The process of facilitating a terminated employee's search for a new job by provision of professional services, such as counseling, paid for by the former employer.""

Outpolitick

OUTPOPULATE

Outpopulate

Outpreach

OUTPRODUCE

OUTPROMISE

In a shockingly bad manner

Outrebound

Word with prefix out-

Outrival

OUTSIDER one who does not belong to a particular group

Outsourcing

OUTSPARKLE To exceed in sparkling.

Extending broadly

Outsprint

(Of arms) extended

Poor tutors and the like he had extended

Fashion etc, the Tudors extended

Outstretch

Outstrip

Outthrob

OUTWRESTLE

Way, way, way too prevalent

On a roll, Dutch worker produces too much

Overarousal

Overbuild

Weighed down, like singer with too many choruses (wordplay)

Overcaution

A curious vote, sadly going for the ultra-safe option (wordplay)

Overcloud

CONSUMED consume

Overconsume

Overcount

DISCOUNT to reduce the price of

DOCUMENT to support by conclusive information

EDUCATED educate

Overeducate

EQUIPPED equip

Too much publicity

Photo given too much light

Too much visibility

FATIGUED fatigue

Overfatigue

Overfocus

FOCUSSED focus

FOCUSSES focus

Overfulfill

Too bountiful

Overhunting

Spoilt

Overindulge

ISSUANCE the act of {issuing=v}

MATURITY the state of being {mature=adj}

To persuade or influence against one's inclination or judgment.

Put too many people into (a region)

Fill with too many people

Excessive pressure or urging.

PRODUCED produce

Overproduce

REGULATE to control according to rule

SANGUINE to stain with blood

To saturate to excess.

Overslaugh

Overstuff

SUPPLIED supply

Oversupply

Overtrump

UTILIZED utilize

Overutilize