9-Letter Words Starting with O

Oarfish

Instrumental parts not to be omitted

They are compulsory for the players

Musical parts not to be omitted

Must-do, as a musical motif

Subordinate motif, in music

Indispensable, in music

Obeahism

Focus at a boxer's school (wordplay)

Fido's field of study (wordplay)

As one is bid, so one does with this

Curtsy, for one

Order is one half-quince? Respect!

Homage or deference

Obelise

Obelize

Obesity

Express concretely

That's the thing to have - a mixed gin

What an angry owner may be doing

The thing with gin that's so off-putting

Notice job is to be relocated - protest!

Statement of protest

Don't like the thing with one on the end

Aim for the thing Gordius has (wordplay)

Not showing any bias

Aim for the thing I have

Offerings of thanksgiving.

Offerings to God.

Religious offerings

Forced to deal big blow

Bound to be kept in after boil burst

Bound to be glad I came round

Binds

Obligato

Unruly boy I quell in a roundabout way

In an indirect or underhand way

Oblique

""The condition of being oblique; deviation from a right line; deviation from parallelism or perpendicularity; the amount of such deviation; divergence; as, the obliquity of the ecliptic to the equator. as, the obliquity of the ecliptic to the equator.""

Oblivion

Practically illuminated in clear blind

Unaware of large individual in the clear

Unaware (of)

Obloquy

Holier-than-thou, maybe

Pushy, perhaps

Thoroughly offensive and objectionable

Crude nicety? SOB, perhaps

First Amendment study

Something offensive or disgusting

Making dim

Beclouding

State of being unknown

Absence of fame

Lack of clarity

Funeral rites

Watching and perhaps taking notes

Watching, taking notes perhaps

Watching, and taking notes perhaps

Obsess

Sitting with old boy on hobby-horse

That's a thing one has

Fixed idea of old boy prior to meeting

Single-minded to a degree.

Under a strong compulsion

Showing continual preoccupation

Obsidian

In the matter of deliverance, perhaps

Relating to childbirth

Bit with corset strained from childbirth

Pig-headedness

Interpretation of actions by intransigence

Mulishness.

Like a mule, maybe

Unrelenting over bowled, say, keeping in

Stub, born like this (wordplay)

Obtainer

Go-getter's activity (wordplay)

Go-getter's activity?

Coming into

Obtest

Imposing old boy hoping daughter replaces saint

""The act of obtruding; a thrusting upon others by force or unsolicited; as, the obtrusion of crude opinions on the world. as, the obtrusion of crude opinions on the world.""

Blatant over bust I fancy

Unpleasantly noticeable or prominent

Too forward, as behavior

Obtund

Obvert

Doing away with former pupil through sound

Blocking of applause with both second and first entries

Obviator

Like amnesiacs, left one out, it's clear

Clearly and unmistakeably

Manifestly, unmistakably

Do they happen to be chances (wordplay)

Events have causes

Causes to happen

Occident

Relating to the back of the head

Bone forming back of skull

Pertaining to the lower skull bone

Occlude

Obstruction, blockage

Stopping up

Tending to obstruct

Occult

Study of hidden and mysterious things

Study of supernatural or magical things

Study of supernatural phenomena

Believer in the supernatural.

Witch, for example

Believer in the supernatural

Occupier

Holding (a position)

How one might be happening to give a firm turn to a dog collar, perhaps

Going on

The happening of a firm turn-up with a beastly round

Massive glass houses (wordplay)

Shark tanks, maybe

Water worlds (wordplay)

Spiny desert plants

Cactus relatives

1 followed by 27 zeros

Thousand raised to the ninth power

Billion cubed

Having eight haploid sets of chromosomes in a body cell.

Octuple

Eye-maker is strangely suctorial

Working girl to lose a quid, perhaps

Lose a quid carelessly for working girl

All right on bed, even on board

Odontoid

Odorize

""OEDIPAL pertaining to a child's sexual feeling to a parent, also OEDIPEAN""

Oeillade

One who might hail a cab (wordplay)

QRW reader, for one

Connoisseur of clarets

Tubes out of shape, I go beyond circle

Parts of alimentary canals between pharynges and stomachs

Tubes replacing spaghetti with hoops instead of squares

Oestriol

Rotten finish - appalling!

Docking tails, perhaps, is hurtful

Docking in a hurtful way

Attack for being insulting (wordplay)

An insulting attack (wordplay)

Like some humor

Duck very loud rock singer sacrifices

Part of IPOs

Collection plate amounts

Commanded to be tender for about 1100

Led to its being ruddy well out of the fridge

Thus led to its being colourful out of the fridge

Functionaries, rules administrators

They're in positions of authority

Insect in charge of a ceremony

Of or pertaining to an office or an officer; official.

Act as referee

In face of it possibly, I perform duties

Ump or ref

From last game, staying in charge for medical treatment

Like a buttinsky

Bossy and interfering

Assertively meddling

Offprint

Mouldy hop seed

Kids no longer enjoying the season

Children not working well

Oghamist

OHMIC relating to a ohm

Waterproof table coverings

Cupboard shelf liners

Painters' needs

Oilpaper

Certain sharpeners

Sharpening devices.

Tool sharpeners

Doctor sent Tom in for medicinal creams

Soothing or medicinal preparations

Soothing salves

Oiticica

Balm--of--Gilead, for one

Balsam fir or pine extract

Product from tropical trees.

Sense of smell

Act or function of smelling

Olibanum

The powerful old girl working with cash

Some co-leaders

Politically powerful few

Government by a few

Government by small elite

Government by the few

Oligomer

Movie biz, for one

Economic system with few sellers

Market with few sellers

Oliguria

""An olivegreen mineral, a hydrous arseniate of copper; olive ore.""

English word

Oldest sports gatherings

They restarted in 1896

They are soon back where they started

In a threatening fashion

In a portentous way

In a foreboding manner

Unimportant enough to be skipped

Worthy of exclusion

Not mandatory, to a list maker

Things left out.

Left-out items

Ellipses, for example

""Pl. ommatidia (- - ) One of the structural elements, resembling a single simplified eye, that make up the compound eye of insects and other arthropods.""

Omniarch

Literary collections.

London vehicles.

Public vehicles.

A radio network that provides aircraft with complete information on bearings. Also called omnidirectional radio range .

We take everything in!

Eat-anything types

Their appetites are all-consuming

Possibly contains one like Portnoy

Oncidium

ONCOGENE a gene that causes a cell to become cancerous

""The branch of medicine that deals with tumors, including study of their development, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention.""

Oncoming

Lily perhaps producing thin paper

Type of paper.

Kind of paper

Looking on or forward.

Pertaining to proper names

Like a secondhand signature on a sitcom rewrite

Of names

Flowing forward forcefully

Flowing quickly forward

Rowdy using horn approaching at speed

ONTIC having real existence

Development of the ovum

Biology

Oogonium

Oologist

Oompah

Opacify

Opacify

Features shown by cataracts round Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, perhaps

Overwrought behavior

Directing or controlling, machinery say

On choosing to conceal age

Long time choosing to go out working

Game with many buzzer beaters (wordplay)

I open aorta - burst without a major...!

Carmen, say, galvanised into action

In working order

Company abandons helpful worker

Working with before tea, I have

Snakes etc. from India shop flogged

Onset of panic concealed by man surrounded by very big snakes

See brittle star .

Obstinate or dogmatic

Having very strong views or nothing fixed (wordplay)

Opiumism

Oppilate

Oppilate

Night and day, say

Completely different pair

Near and far, for example

Oppugn

Opsonize

Opsonize

Optative

To the eye

Measure topless girl by sight

They make a lot of contacts

They make a lot of contacts at work

They make lots of contacts

Opticist

At best

Making pie, I'd most bananas made best use of

Made the most of being work-shy around the Home Counties

Optimise

Optimism

Community-service club

Silver-lining seekers.

Owners of rose-colored glasses.

Optimize

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

Optimize

Optional

Optionee

Option

Orality

English word

Orangy

Places of prayer

Prayrooms (wordplay)

Small private chapels

Handel bars (wordplay)

"Messiah" et al.

Some Handel opera

Oratrix

Approximately circular

Sin-adorer upsetting bishops (wordplay)

Bishop's happy task

Making a father of

Investing with priestly authority

Command falsehoods from the servants

The serve to demand falsehood

Hospital workers tell tales

Artillery keeping independent regulation

Decree artillery is to surround island

One into munitions regulation

Seminarians from Breton town dividing gold and diamonds

Counterparts of abscissae

Appoints.

Sheer fabrics.

Orchestrated grandiose changes

Set up, mobilised

Arranged in grandiose fashion

So, rearing ugly head (wordplay)

One who arranges things

One plans a ring with new earrings

Organise

Strange living structures of Mrs Saigon

Living systems of Mrs Saigon

Living things

They play while people pray

They may be heard in a temple

They often play at stadiums

Kind of labor.

Emulated Obama, in his pre-Senate days

In apple-pie order

PalmPilot, for one

PDA, for example

Back-to-school purchase

Sorts out

Systematizes

""A kind of double thrown silk of very fine texture, that is, silk twisted like a rope with different strands, so as to increase its strength.""

Tragic love is crazy and wild

Like a really wild party

Of frantic unrestrained celebrations

Oribatid

Poor relations living in China, say

Poor relations who live in China, say

Manchurians, for example

Face the East in entire Tao, perhaps

Get one's bearings

Turn in a certain direction.

One who should not get lost in Leyton!

Take part in a map-reading sport

Run with aid of map and compass

Ascertaining the bearings of.

Turning in an indicated direction.

Getting one's bearings

""ORIFICE a mouth-like opening, also ORIFEX""

Knight's standard (hist.)

Non-standard lime from a red standard

Banner that serves as a rallying point

Origanum

They're not facsimiles

Things often left at copy shops

One-of-a-kinders

Be the first to perform (a role)

Start to speak about one mother's ruin

Invent, bring something into being

Orinasal

Ornery

""An amino acid, C 5 H 12 N 2 O 2 , not found in proteins, formed by hydrolyzing arginine and important in the formation of urea.""

Orogeny

Orology

Orphan

Orpiment