2-Letter Words Starting with O

Like many sherry casks

Type of old bucket.

Make of oak

Something of the grain of an ox, perhaps

Like a Cheerio, say

Like the grain of the ox, perhaps

Continental divide (wordplay)

Sea - canoe (anagram)

Pacific place (wordplay)

Occurring every eight days

Recurring on the 8th day.

Recurring every eighth day.

Mass number provider maybe

Heart or lung, say

Newspaper with heart (wordplay)

Get the boat broken in (wordplay)

Get on a bit maybe

Opposite of "give up"

Tin Man accessory (wordplay)

Small lubricant applicator (3,3)

The Tinman's first aid kit (wordplay)

J.R. Ewing, for one

Crude guy (wordplay)

Getty, for one

Grandly decree no raid, perhaps

Make misters ministers, say

Lay down (law)

Marjoram has one among the pipes

Herb is in America, by the sound of it

In magazine I read it adds zest to foods

No dama for one (wordplay)

Would parenthood make me dote (wordplay)

Annie of the comics, for one

Have more warriors

Have greater numbers than

Overwhelm, in a sense

Beat in a heat, maybe

Bested at the track

Beat to the finish line

On Mars, a peculiar blue (wordplay)

One in an eight (wordplay)

A ransom (anagram)

Stick figures (wordplay)

Eight in a row (wordplay)

Strokes, say, one's arm when agitated

What one ate besides this (wordplay)

Figure-of-eight (wordplay)

It may say "STOP"

Person living in a town

Urban work by sanctimonious boy

Work in pad over in town ...

Stumped words (wordplay)

Webster delivery of old (wordplay)

Allowance sent from old address

Method for communicating knowledge

Means for acquisition of knowledge.

System for acquiring knowledge.

Is Lorna to get the bird (wordplay)

Old World bunting

Old-World bird

Imperial seat (wordplay)

Place to put your dogs up (wordplay)

A sat-upon empire (wordplay)

A cardiac stimulant

Make over (wordplay)

Pull down more than

Get paid more than

To surpass in fawning

To gain more than

Outlie

To surpass in planning

Sat upon (anagram)

Unyoke oxen (from a cart)

Unharness(ing) after trek

Of an egg-producing gland

Reproductive, in a way

Of a reproductive organ

Too vain (anagram)

No tax? One working gives applause!

Sustained applause (may be standing)

Featherbed with crew members

Provide with too many crew

Employ too much help

Lasted too long

Embraced by lover, ranger's overwhelmed

Sped too much, and exceeded the limit

Offering bool in latin (wordplay)

Offering to a deity.

Offering to a divine being

Black volcanic rock

Dark glassy rock formed from lava

Stranger is on a bid for some dark glass

Time (maybe special)

Cocoa's in (anagram)

Cause for a party (wordplay)

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

A marine food fish

Pertaining to snakes

Snake concealed by boy at work

Snake-related

Visionary professional (wordplay)

One with a lot of contacts (wordplay)

Good-looking expert (wordplay)

Inscribed potsherd of early Palestine.

Athenian ballot, used in banishing Aristides.

Potsherd or tile used for writing on in ancient Egypt

Outdraw

Shown up at a restaurant (wordplay)

Outgnaw

To surpass in learning

Smothered lover in a fury

Above the French in this has been on top of it

Leave no room for spontaneity

Leave basically nothing to chance

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

Blocking of applause with both second and first entries

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.

Sense of smell

Act or function of smelling

Official who hears complaints

*Official who hears complaints

Public-advocate official

Game with many buzzer beaters (wordplay)

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

Carmen, say, galvanised into action

Swinger at the zoo

Literally, "man of the forest"

Simian of Indonesia

The albumin of egg white.

CLEAN to rid of stain

Too much artistry put into it (wordplay)

Too greatly tempted, so in debt!

Too much artistry and too much red

Polished off three pizzas, say

Taken too much as a matter of course

Vere! An X means you've taken too much

Bearing excessive load

That's too much to have to bear

Under too great a load

Pursue studies unnecessarily.

Took too much, perhaps, and got passed

Openly, a boy has come up from behind

Public knowledge covering area passed

Clear water becomes stale

Prepare too much for apparent downpour

Get stale when open, requiring water

Egg drop (wordplay)

Part of the menstrual cycle

Turn left amid cheers for release

""A semisynthetic penicillin effective against penicillin-resistant infections, especially those of staphylococci.""

Rusty beastification (wordplay)

Electron loss, to chemists

Loss of electrons during a reaction

Kin of a pearl diver (wordplay)

""The act of treating with ozone; also, the act of converting into, or producing, ozone; ozonization.""

Bond's got no alibi prepared

Task at hand

The burden of debt

""The act of stopping up, or closing, an opening.""

Calling for work (wordplay)

Cop working with caution - it's his job!

An orphan in The Idiot

A figure once hard to work out

Solid anchored to fluid

Cartoon he'd redrawn, taking solid form

That's been the making of Father

A lot of bull in one of four

In ceremony, noise interrupts speech

Act of kissing

Spooning Pasteur's third inoculation (wordplay)

Performance of coital nous in close contact

Word with prefix out-

OUTSTATE to surpass in {stating=v}

Excessive performance

Overbeat

Cause of bowler's exhaustion (wordplay)

Risk a breakdown, in a way

Work too hard

Intentional confusion

The act of objurgating; reproof.

""The act or operation of obscuring; the state of being obscured; as, the obscuration of the moon in an eclipse. as, the obscuration of the moon in an eclipse.""

Remark; sighting to determine position

Result of a patient look

Keeping watch...

""The hiding of a heavenly body from sight by the intervention of some other of the heavenly bodies; applied especially to eclipses of stars and planets by the moon, and to the eclipses of satellites of planets by their primaries.""

OFFICIATE To act as an officer in performing a duty; to transact the business of an office or public trust; to conduct a public service.

Program for freshmen

What a freshman needs

Relative position

Beginning (six letters)

Process of creation

True source.

One of the Orthoptera.

Cycle - 5 down (anagram)

Movement to and fro

Rhythmic swinging to and fro

Showing off, so attention is diverted

Gaudy display

Pretentious display

""A man who spends considerable time in outdoor pursuits, such as hunting and fishing.""

CAUTION to {warn=v}

EXPLAIN to make clear and understandable

What blood undergoes in the lungs

Ozonation.

Fantastic lob before repeat loss

The removal of oil to Iran - bet it goes astray!

Utter destruction

Clouding stink over knight with general rejoicing losing head

Childbirth doctor

Medical specialist - is certain to get involved around start of birth (wordplay)

Expert with children, i.e. Scot involved with bairn taking temperature

Old man's gone out with raincoat

Robert Frost, for example.

Veteran's gone out in shabby raincoat

English word

English word

""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.""

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

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

Firm with The Irish Times, for one

Running over before Saigon train's off

Company talk about fantastic gains

""The act of organizing; the act of arranging in a systematic way for use or action; as, the organization of an army, or of a deliberative body. as, the organization of an army, or of a deliberative body.""

Action is so, if developing then hardening

Excessive response

Finish is about excitement and that's excessive for a comeback

TAXATION the process of taxing

Arrangement for lecture about royal box

Arrangement of gold part encircling box

Composer's skill

Detailed artistic embellishment

Decoration, embellishment

Decorative work

""Of, belonging to, or characteristic of the order Ornithischia.""

Overassert

""ATTENTION The act or state of attending or heeding; the application of the mind to any object of sense, representation, or thought; notice; exclusive or special consideration; earnest consideration, thought, or regard; obedient or affectionate heed; the supposed power or faculty of attending.""

""EDUCATION The act or process of educating; the result of educating, as determined by the knowledge skill, or discipline of character, acquired; also, the act or process of training by a prescribed or customary course of study or discipline; as, an education for the bar or the pulpit; he has finished his education. as, an education for the bar or the pulpit; he has finished his education.""

EXPANSION The act of expanding or spreading out; the condition of being expanded; dilation; enlargement.

One cause of premature tread wear (4,9)

Excessive valuation; overestimate.

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

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

The rating of something too highly

Excessive reckoning of value

Error of judgment that's highly inaccurate

EVALUATION Valuation; appraisement.

""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.""

MEDICATION The act or process of medicating.

""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.""

Excess of people in a place

Malthusian dilemma

Malthusian problem

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

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

Dehumanising, if CIA somehow infiltrates dissent

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

""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.""

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

ELABORATION The act or process of producing or refining with labor; improvement by successive operations; refinement.

EXPECTATION The act or state of expecting or looking forward to an event as about to happen.

SPECULATION The act of speculating.

""STIMULATION The act of stimulating, or the state of being stimulated.""

Exploitation to the point of diminishing returns.

Excessive recognition of loss

An excessive act of making amends

Good for a wage earner, bad for a tightrope walker

Too much dumbing down

Process of making too easy