2-Letter Words Starting with O

Large, sweet cherries

Capable of being oxidized

Rust-causing agents

Dye manufacturing agents

Rust agents

Oxidase

Pertaining to {oxidase=n}

Became rusty

Turns to rust

Gets rusty

Diode six remarkably had become rusty

Became rusty

Old football team declined around start of season and became rusty

Steer one having bumpy rides with chemical agent

Combines chemically with oxygen

Neat fish is beginning to eat sulphur and becomes rusty

Rusted, say

Formed rust

Maderized

Air, vis-a-vis wine

Removes electrons from

Gets rusty, for example

Develops rust

Bird that feeds on parasitic ticks

African bird related to the starling

African tick bird

Weed: it may be boiled as food

Protein in some authentic Mexican tacos

Main ingredient in lengua

Oxyacid

Of a common element

Like some photosynthesis

Definite maybe, for example

Pretty ugly, for one

"Jumbo shrimp," for one

""An organism that thrives on an acid environment, also OXYPHIL""

Oxyphil

Oxysalt

Oxysome

A drug that hastens childbirth

It induces milk letdown, for example

Hormone important in childbirth

Pituitary hormone

Oxytone

Worked the Delaware Bay, perhaps

Hunted for pearls (wordplay)

Hunted for bluepoints

Blue point fisherman.

Worker in a bed

He works in bed

Chemical compounds

Ozonise

Love is in district with school head it creates an atmosphere (wordplay)

Cleaned without chlorine

Water-purifying machine

Treats with a certain gas

Oakmoss

Oarfish

Female in crew, so man-o'-war goes crazy

Rebecca Romero, for example

She's involved in Samoan row

Females getting into row

People rowing creating chaos in a newsroom

Organised newsroom split by a group having a row

Overuses a hot tumble drier

Hops into the kiln

Hoses out a mucky building

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

Of a leaf, inversely heart-shaped

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

Dim alumnus wore subfusc (wordplay)

Darken or obscure something

Obscure cafe - but so original

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

Conscientious folks

They may be conscientious, but they're not yes-men

Dress down

Express strong disapproval and censure severely

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

In a crude way, old British activity disheartened lady

Improperly broadcast Beethoven's 8th and 9th by cellos half-heartedly

Bawdy to the max

Dirtiest old boy's oddly clean bedsit

Most offensive to the senses

Crude nicety? SOB, perhaps

First Amendment study

Something offensive or disgusting

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

Obsolete copper taken to bank in a haze

Soberly wanders around copper, in a vague way

Dimly

Like something bottom-of-mind (wordplay)

Least clear

Making dim

Beclouding

State of being unknown

Absence of fame

Lack of clarity

Funeral rites

Noticing old book with Jeeves, say

Attentive old boy, the butler (wordplay)

. . . while late employee is on watch

They come to watch

Eclipse viewers, for example

Paper's reporters

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

Obsessor

Obsidian

Become like last year's auto

Become out of date

Become outmoded, as machines.

Old plot to capture only Troy was made out of date by Americans

Renders outdated

Try to overcome them on a course

Start of a business observation

They can get in the way

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)

Prevents or hinders passage

Hinders

Blocks

Obtainer

Go-getter's activity (wordplay)

Go-getter's activity?

Coming into

Obtest

Obtruder

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

Obturate

Obturate

That which closes or stops an opening.

Broadcast verbosely as if turned towards one

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

Occulter

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

The proportion of a hotel in use

*Like many hotel rooms

Act of being a tenant

Certain insiders (wordplay)

They hold two thirds of magic's rubbish

Junk-mail receivers

Occupier

Holding (a position)

Happening

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)

Dwellers in an underwater habitat

Folks who don't come up for air (wordplay)

Sealab inhabitants

A month without choral work, he'd like the mob to rule

Spiny desert plants

Cactus relatives

Like the Dome of the Rock

With eight sides and angles

Having eight sides and angles

These solid figures heard Cato, perhaps

Solids with eight faces

Figures doctor had to care

The Raven feature

It has eight feet

Verse containing eight feet.

Octangle

1 followed by 27 zeros

Thousand raised to the ninth power

Billion cubed

Having eight haploid sets of chromosomes in a body cell.

Sea animals

Army marine creatures (wordplay)

Army sea creatures (wordplay)

Sea molluscs with eight arms

Octoroon

English word

Special delivery (wordplay)

Nanny's handful, to put it mildly

Major birth news

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

Peculiarities

Person with a line (wordplay)

One working on lines

One might create a spread

Odograph

Items which record distance driven (pl.)

They show mileage in cars etc

Things rolled over by drivers

Odontoid

Odorize

ODOROUS having an odor

""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

Oestrone

Oestrus

Perhaps dockers may be in the dock

Dockers in the wrong (wordplay)

Criminal dockers (wordplay)

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

Collection from a congregation

Money collected during church service

Tender this to a Conservative on a plate

Casual or curt in manual way (wordplay)

Abrupt manner of a rugby wing (wordplay)

In casual or indifferent manner

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

Stinking rich, but not allowed on board

Passed responsibility for

Got rid of

Offprint

Like many a Hollywood romance

Apt filmdom rhyme for "unseen"

In real life, to a movie actor

Rushes by rotten branches

Removes raspberries' branches

Branches or derivatives

Mouldy hop seed

Kids no longer enjoying the season

Children not working well

Offstage

Oghamist

OHMIC relating to a ohm

They measure resistance

Currently, they show resistance

Instruments for measuring electrical resistance

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

I agree - it's fine!

You got it!

All right (informal)

Oldness

Oldsquaw

Oldstyle

Poisonous evergreen shrubs

White-flowered shrubs

Shrubs with toxic saps

Buffalo berry and Russian olive

Shrubs with olive-shaped fruit.

Ornamental shrubs

The large process at the proximal end of the ulna which projects behind the articulation with the humerus and forms the bony prominence of the elbow.

Picture imitative of oil painting

No oil painting, and may make gaoler hop

Balm--of--Gilead, for one

Balsam fir or pine extract

Product from tropical trees.

Sense of smell

Act or function of smelling

Pertaining to smell

Relating to the sense of smell

Smelling nothing, left workplace

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.""