2-Letter Words Starting with O

Obscenity

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

""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.""

Nebulosity

Obscurity

Rites

Ageing old boy with unique odour

Former pupil's only trace is out of date

Like streetcars, for instance.

OBSOLESCE To become obsolescent.

Concerned with labor (wordplay)

Obstinacy

Getting in the way

Blocking

Sand trap or bunker, for example.

MONKEY wrench, so to speak

Thing in the way

Being deliberately difficult

In the way

Deliberately causing difficulties

Obstructor

Bringing about

Bringing about

Bringing about*

Occipital

""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.""

Occupancy

Lines of work

Jobs

Occurrence

Oceanarium

Oceanfront

OCHLOCRAT

Octagonal

Octahedron

""A polypeptide, such as angiotensin, that is composed of eight amino acids.""

OECUMENIC

Authority

Bureaucratic verbiage

Excessive love of bureaucratic routine

Officiary

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.

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.

Officious

""That which is scoured off; hence, refuse; rejected matter; that which is vile or despised.""

Elite groups

Any of an order of hermaphroditic terrestrial and aquatic annelids (including the earthworms) having bristles borne singly along the length of the body; a member of the Oligochaeta.Oligochaeta.

Oligoclase

Unlimited power

Absolute power

Attribute of the Deity

Knowledge of everything

Total knowledge

Oncogenes

ONCOGENES oncogene

ONCOLOGIC

Oncologist

""ONEIRIC belonging to dreams, also ONIRIC""

Divination of dreams.

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

Metaphysical term.

Milky iridescent quality

A milky play of rainbow colours

Milky iridescence

""Closed by a lid or cover, as the capsules of the mosses.""

Adjective (-ic)

ORACULAR pertaining to an oracle

Orbicular

Orchardist

Organise (a complex enterprise)

Modify the score with art (wordplay)

Arrange (for maximum effect)

Ordonnance

How some vegetables are grown

How crops are grown without fertilisers or pesticides

Organicism

Organicist

""That point in which the three perpendiculars let fall from the angles of a triangle upon the opposite sides, or the sides produced, mutually intersect.""

Orthoclase

Relating to treatment of teeth/jaw irregularities

Killer keeps awfully hot - do I not? - aiming for straight sets

Making pegs fit in, doctor having difficulties introduces nevertheless

Dealing with treatment of bones

Of treatment of bones, muscles

Concerning the treatment of bones and muscles

Branch of medicine (in the US)

Treatment of bone or muscle injuries

""Giving an image in correct or normal proportions; giving a flat field of view; as, an orthoscopic eyepiece. as, an orthoscopic eyepiece.""

Relating to or caused by standing upright: orthostatic hypotension.

That oscillates; vibrating; swinging.

Cycle - 5 down (anagram)

Movement to and fro

Rhythmic swinging to and fro

Oscillator

""Moving, or characterized by motion, backward and forward like a pendulum; swinging; oscillating; vibratory; as, oscillatory motion. as, oscillatory motion.""

An autographic record made by an oscillograph.

Osculation

OSMOTIC pertaining to {osmosis=n}

Osteoclast

Of certain manipulators

Of the musculo-skeletal system

Treating by manipulation and massage

Trouble raising cost when sending to Coventry

""OSTRACIZE To exile by ostracism; to banish by a popular vote, as at Athens.""

Any of several extinct fishlike jawless vertebrates having a heavily armored body; of the Paleozoic.

Having one's head in the sand perhaps

OTOTOXIC adversely affecting hearing or balance

OUTACHIEVE

Outachieve

OUTBALANCE To outweight; to exceed in weight or effect.

Outbalance

Outbitch

Outcaper

Outcatch

OUTCAVIL to surpass in caviling

Outcavil

OUTCHARGE

Outcharm

Outcheat

Outclass

Outclimb

Outcoach

OUTCOMPETE

Outcompete

Outcount

Outcrawl

Outcrop

Outcross

Travel further than

Go far ahead of

Leave far behind

Doing better as 17, as were 4 19 9's 11

Outmatch

OUTMUSCLE

Outpitch

Word with prefix out-

Outpreach

Outpreach

OUTPRODUCE

Outproduce

Outpunch

Outreach

OUTSCHEME

Outscold

Outscoop

Outscorn

Outslick

Putting out to contract

Outtrick

Outwatch

Pl. ovariectomies See oophorectomy .

Perform better than one needs to

Go further than anyone would think

Do better than expected

Overaction

Eager ballet dancer's error (wordplay)

All-embracing

Dominating all else is ranch with grove I cultivated

After admitting abuse, a slip (wordplay)

Proponderant weight.

A lover can be excited and lose equilibrium

Overcall

Too careful.

Overcast

CAUTION to {warn=v}

Ripped off

Stung

Entry fees

Fees after one pays to get into a club (wordplay)

Overchill

Overclaim

Overclean

Overclear

Overcloud

Overcoach

Overcoach

Overcommit

COMPLEX to make complicated

CONCERN to be of interest to

CONSUME to {devour=v}

""CONTROL to exercise authority over, also CONTROUL""

Keeping on the stove too long

Overcool

CORRECT to make {right=adj}

Overcount

Overcram

Overcrop

Vowed record improperly packed

Holding too many people

Describing streets and subways at six.

Overcut

Overdeck

Overdirect

EDUCATE to {teach=v}

Excessively eager

Hyped-up

Overexcite

Overfocus

Overfocus

Overmatch

Overmatch

MUSCLED muscle

PACKAGE to put into a container or wrapping

Too exacting

PRICING an act of pricing

PROCESS to treat or prepare by a special method

PRODUCE to bring into existence

Baby, maybe

Tried to achieve too much (oneself)

One who overreaches; one who cheats; a cheat.

Overreach

Overreact

SAUCING sauce

SERVICE to {repair=v}

With excess in the warehouse, maybe

Sign at a clearance sale

Filled to excess

Cause a strain

Extend (a resource) too far

Reach too far as regards time in jail

A salt or ester of oxalacetic acid.

Obfuscation

Objectify

Objectivism

Objectivist

""Lanceolate in the reversed order, that is, narrowing toward the point of attachment more than toward the apex.""

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

Process of becoming out of date

The state of falling into disuse

Out-of-date quality

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

Hindrances

Noisy disturbances on street after outside broadcast means barriers

Obstructive

Cosy in a local? Can be, sometimes

From time to time

Party supporter? Now and then

Occidental

Occultation

Relating to one's job or profession

Rehabilitation via practical activities

To do with work

Scientific study of the seas

A subject for deep study

Study of the sea

Oceanology

One whose main interest is scientific

Sea scientist

Scientist involved with study of the seas

Ochlocracy

Octahedral

Octapeptide

Old man's gone out with raincoat

Robert Frost, for example.

Veteran's gone out in shabby raincoat