2-Letter Words Starting with O

""OVIPOSITION The depositing of eggs, esp. by insects.""

Producing eggs that are hatched in the mother's body

Oxaloacetate

Black and white wader

Pied coastal wading bird

Bird of the seashore

Obdurateness

OCCIDENTALIZE

Occidentalize

Occupational

Start of a quip

Oceanography

Oiliness.

Oleomargarine

Ombudsmanship

Plural or third person singular

Navel-gazing

Plural or third person singular

""An infection with nematodes of the genus Onchocerca, especially Onchocerca volvulus. Untreated, such infections can cause serious dermatological problems, and in advanced cases may lead to blindness. In certain areas of tropical Africa the blindness caused by onchocerciasis is called river blindness.Onchocerca, especially Onchocerca volvulus. Untreated, such infections can cause serious dermatological problems, and in advanced cases may lead to blindness. In certain areas of tropical Africa the blindness caused by onchocerciasis is called river blindness.""

Oncornavirus

Onomatologist

Generosity

""The doctrine that the meaning of a proposition consists of the operations involved in defining, proving, or applying it.""

Of or pertaining to operationalism.

Medical Specialties

Instrument for inspecting the retina and other eye parts

A branch of physiognomy which deduces the knowledge of a person's temper and character from the appearance of the eyes.

Opinionative

Opisthobranch

Opposability

Optimistical

A chorister's not involved in these arrangements

Harmoniously settled scores, making speeches about case, right (wordplay)

Ordinariness

ORGANISMIC

""Of or pertaining to organization; as, organizational structure.as, organizational structure.""

""Any of various hydrocarbon pesticides, such as DDT, that contain chlorine.""

Metalorganic.

Ornamentation

Ornithischian

Wrought iron, hot with reason like study of 19s, say

""Photography Of, relating to, or accurately reproducing the colors of the subject.""

ORTHOGONALIZE

Orthogonalize

""Of or pertaining to orthography, or right spelling; also, correct in spelling; as, orthographical rules; the letter was orthographic.as, orthographical rules; the letter was orthographic.""

""Of, relating to, or being a theory holding that mental diseases or abnormalities result from various chemical imbalances or deficiencies and can be cured by restoring proper levels of chemical substances, such as vitamins and minerals, in the body.""

Orthopedical

ORTHOPHOSPHATE

OSCILLOGRAPH a device for making a record of the wave forms of fluctuating .

""Maintenance of an optimal, constant osmotic pressure in the body of a living organism.""

""Maintenance of an optimal, constant osmotic pressure in the body of a living organism.""

A testy solution deciphered flamboyantly

Auntie with toys, lots broken, like one that's 6 (wordplay)

Circulation booster needs cover that's redesigned so I lay out in an OTT style

""A form of arthritis, occurring mainly in older persons, that is characterized by chronic degeneration of the cartilage of the joints. Also called degenerative joint disease .""

Rio atheists rot from joint complaint

Inflammation in which cartilages of the joints and adjacent bones are worn away

Big toe injured by Arthur, not Posh; it's causing bone disease

Pl. osteosarcomata (-m -t ) or osteosarcomas A malignant bone tumor. Also called osteogenic sarcoma .

Medical Specialties

Outdatedness

Outlandish

Outmaneuver

OUTMANIPULATE

Outmanipulate

Outrageous

Past tense or past participle

Past tense or past participle

Overabundance

ACCENTUATE To pronounce with an accent or with accents.

Overactivity

""ADJUSTMENT The act of adjusting, or condition of being adjusted; act of bringing into proper relations; regulation.""

ADVERTISED called to public attention.

Overadvertise

""AGGRESSIVE Tending or disposed to aggress; having or showing determination and energetic pursuit of one's own ends at the expense of others or mindless of others' needs or desires; characterized by aggression; making assaults; unjustly attacking; as, an aggressive policy, war, person, nation; an aggressive businessman; an aggressive basketball player; he was aggressive and imperious in his convictions; aggressive drivers. Opposite of unaggressive.as, an aggressive policy, war, person, nation; an aggressive businessman; an aggressive basketball player; he was aggressive and imperious in his convictions; aggressive drivers. Opposite of unaggressive.""

Breaking down to a fault

ARTICULATE Expressed in articles or in separate items or particulars.

ASSERTIONS assertion

""ASSESSMENT The act of assessing; the act of determining an amount to be paid; as, an assessment of damages, or of taxes; an assessment of the members of a club. as, an assessment of damages, or of taxes; an assessment of the members of a club.""

Overattention

Overbreathing

Overcapacity

""CAPITALIZE To convert into capital, or to use as capital.""

Present participle or gerund

""CENTRALIZE To draw or bring to a center point; to gather into or about a center; to bring into one system, or under one control.""

CLASSIFIED classify

Overclassify

Go too far in trying to correct a fault

Make excessive corrections

""COMPLIANCE The act of complying; a yielding; as to a desire, demand, or proposal; concession; submission.""

COMPLICATE Composed of two or more parts united; complex; complicated; involved.

DECORATING decorate

""DECORATION The act of adorning, embellishing, or honoring; ornamentation.""

Overdominance

""Inflected form of DRAMATIZED Inflected form of DRAMATIZE To compose in the form of the drama; to represent in a drama; to adapt to dramatic representation; as, to dramatize a novel, or an historical episode. as, to dramatize a novel, or an historical episode.""

Overdramatize

Overeducation

""Inflected form of ELABORATED Inflected form of ELABORATE Wrought with labor; finished with great care; studied; executed with exactness or painstaking; as, an elaborate discourse; an elaborate performance; elaborate research. as, an elaborate discourse; an elaborate performance; elaborate research.""

Overelaborate

Given excessive weight, very large map he stupidly put inside

Overemphasize

""ENCOURAGED made to feel more courage, hope, or optimism.""

Overencourage

Excessive enthusiasm.

Catching small boy in greedy behaviour, being highly judgmental (wordplay)

Second time I'm into greedy behaviour, being highly mistaken

The rating of something too highly

Excessive reckoning of value

Error of judgment that's highly inaccurate

EVALUATION Valuation; appraisement.

EXAGGERATE To heap up; to accumulate.

Overexpansion

Overexplain

""EXTRACTION The act of extracting, or drawing out; as, the extraction of a tooth, of a bone or an arrow from the body, of a stump from earth, of a passage from a book, of an essence or tincture. as, the extraction of a tooth, of a bone or an arrow from the body, of a stump from earth, of a passage from a book, of an essence or tincture.""

""FASTIDIOUS Difficult to please; delicate to fault; suited with difficulty; squeamish; as, a fastidious mind or ear; a fastidious appetite. as, a fastidious mind or ear; a fastidious appetite.""

GENERALIZE To bring under a genus or under genera; to view in relation to a genus or to genera.

Inflected form of GLAMORIZED Inflected form of GLAMORIZE

Overglamorize

Overharvest

IDEALIZING idealize

Overinflation

Overmaturity

MEDICATING medicate

MEDICATION The act or process of medicating.

ORGANIZING organize

Gingerbready.

""PARTICULAR Relating to a part or portion of anything; concerning a part separated from the whole or from others of the class; separate; sole; single; individual; specific; as, the particular stars of a constellation. as, the particular stars of a constellation.""

PERSUADING persuade

""PERSUASION The act of persuading; the act of influencing the mind by arguments or reasons offered, or by anything that moves the mind or passions, or inclines the will to a determination.""

POPULATING populate

Excess of people in a place

Malthusian dilemma

Malthusian problem

Overprogram

PROGRAMMED program

REGULATING regulate

""REGULATION The act of regulating, or the state of being regulated.""

SATURATING saturate

""SATURATION The act of saturating, or the state of being saturating; complete penetration or impregnation.""

SPECIALIZE To mention specialy; to particularize.

""Inflected form of SPECULATED Inflected form of SPECULATE To consider by turning a subject in the mind, and viewing it in its different aspects and relations; to meditate; to contemplate; to theorize; as, to speculate on questions in religion; to speculate on political events. as, to speculate on questions in religion; to speculate on political events.""

Overspeculate

Overstatement

""Inflected form of STIMULATED Inflected form of STIMULATE To excite as if with a goad; to excite, rouse, or animate, to action or more vigorous exertion by some pungent motive or by persuasion; as, to stimulate one by the hope of reward, or by the prospect of glory. as, to stimulate one by the hope of reward, or by the prospect of glory.""

Overstimulate

Overtreatment

Overvaluation

An enzyme that catalyzes an oxidation-reduction reaction.

OXYMORONIC

Birds that could give the coarsest cry

Dehumanising, if CIA somehow infiltrates dissent

Observability

Observational

OBSTINATENESS obstinate

Obtainability

OCCIDENTALIZE

Rise of gas with cheap coal I moved about, referring to marine studies

OFFHANDEDNESS offhanded

""Neuroglia consisting of cells similar to but smaller than astrocytes, found in the central nervous system and associated with the formation of myelin.""

""A polymer that consists of two, three, or four monomers.""

A carbohydrate that consists of a relatively small number of monosaccharides.

Like some antennae

Like versatile antennas

Remind coalition about covering all angles

""ONTOGENETIC Of or pertaining to ontogenesis; as, ontogenetic phenomena. as, ontogenetic phenomena.""

Candor.

Operationalism

Operationalist

OPERATIVENESS operative

Ophthalmology

An examiner of pupils, perhaps

Specialist in eye diseases

Important doctor of medicine.

Retinal inspection instruments

""OPHTHALMOSCOPE An instrument for viewing the interior of the eye, particularly the retina. Light is thrown into the eye by a mirror (usually concave) and the interior is then examined with or without the aid of a lens.""

Opinionated

ORCHESTRATION The arrangement of music for an orchestra; orchestral treatment of a composition; called also instrumentation. instrumentation.

Organochlorine

An organic compound that contains mercury.

Organometallic

Chemical has ruined oath on paper <197> gosh!

Orientational

ORTHODONTIC Of or pertaining to orthodontics or orthodontia.

Orthogonality

ORTHOGONALIZE

Orthophosphate

Medical Specialties ()

Oscillography

Osmoregulation

OSTEOPATHIC Of or pertaining to osteopathy.

Camper's quality

OUTMANIPULATE

Present participle or gerund

Inflected form of ACCENTUATED Inflected form of ACCENTUATE To pronounce with an accent or with accents.

Overaccentuate

""ACHIEVEMENT The act of achieving or performing; an obtaining by exertion; successful performance; accomplishment; as, the achievement of his object. as, the achievement of his object.""

Overadjustment

ADVERTISING a communication publicly promoting some product or service.

""APPLICATION The act of applying or laying on, in a literal sense; as, the application of emollients to a diseased limb. as, the application of emollients to a diseased limb.""

""ARTICULATED United by, or provided with, articulations; jointed; as, an articulated skeleton. as, an articulated skeleton.""

Overarticulate

Overassessment

Too highly valued, as a business

Estimates the value of property too highly

""CENTRALIZED drawn toward a center or brought under the control of a central authority; as, centralized control of emergency relief efforts; centralized government. Opposite of decentralized.as, centralized control of emergency relief efforts; centralized government. Opposite of decentralized.""

Overcentralize

Overclassify

COMMUNICATE To share in common; to participate in.

More than made up (for)

Tried too hard, in a way

Tries too hard to make up for a weakness

Rewards unduly

Acts excessively

Overcompliance

Inflected form of COMPLICATED Inflected form of COMPLICATE Composed of two or more parts united; complex; complicated; involved.

Overcomplicate

CULTIVATION The art or act of cultivating; improvement for agricultural purposes or by agricultural processes; tillage; production by tillage.

Overdecoration

""Inflected form of DRAMATIZING Inflected form of DRAMATIZE To compose in the form of the drama; to represent in a drama; to adapt to dramatic representation; as, to dramatize a novel, or an historical episode. as, to dramatize a novel, or an historical episode.""

EAGERNESSES eagerness