2-Letter Words Starting with O

Ovariectomy

Word with prefix over-

Excess quantity

Excessive quantity

Surplus, excess

Overachiever

ACHIEVING achieve

A bracing novel oddly needing to be straightened

Overbleach

Past tense or past participle

CIVILIZED civilize

COMMITTED commit

Overconcern

Cocky drunk I've confronted

Too sure of oneself

Excessively self-assured

CONSCIOUS Possessing the faculty of knowing one's own thoughts or mental operations.

""CONSTRUCT To put together the constituent parts of (something) in their proper place and order; to build; to form; to make; as, to construct an edlifice. as, to construct an edlifice.""

CONSUMING consume

Overcorrect

Too credulous.

DECORATED decorate

Overdecorate

Overdirect

Overdiscount

Overdocument

DOMINANCE

EDUCATING educate

""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.""

""ENCOURAGE To give courage to; to inspire with courage, spirit, or hope; to raise, or to increase, the confidence of; to animate; enhearten; to incite; to help forward; the opposite of discourage. discourage.""

ENERGETIC

EXERCISED exercise

Overexercise

FOCUSSING focus

Overissuance

MEDICATED medicate

Overmedicate

PACKAGING package

""PRESCRIBE To lay down authoritatively as a guide, direction, or rule of action; to impose as a peremptory order; to dictate; to appoint; to direct.""

Overprocess

Overprocess

PRODUCING produce

Overprotect

REACTIONS reaction

Overreliance

""SECRETION The act of secreting or concealing; as, the secretion of dutiable goods. as, the secretion of dutiable goods.""

SERVICING service

""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.""

Too thinly spread

Made excessive demands on

Too extended

Overstretch

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Oxaloacetate

Black and white wader

Pied coastal wading bird

Bird of the seashore

Objectless

The act or the policy of obstructing progress.

Monkeywrench thrower

Exploded courts into bits, delaying legal process

OCCIDENTALIZE

Occidentalize

Occupational

Start of a quip

Oceanography

Octodecillion

Trade () Translations

Able to judge or deal with all matters omnicompetence   n

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.""

Oncogenicity

Oncornavirus

Oophorectomy

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.

Opisthobranch

Optimistical

(used with a sing. verb) The branch of physics that deals with the interconversion of electricity and light.

A chorister's not involved in these arrangements

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

ORGANISMIC

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

Metalorganic.

Ornithischian

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

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

""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

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

""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 .""

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

Outpolitick

OUTREPRODUCE

Past tense or past participle

Past tense or past participle

Overabundance

ACCENTUATE To pronounce with an accent or with accents.

Overactivity

Breaking down to a fault

ARTICULATE Expressed in articles or in separate items or particulars.

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

""COMMITMENT The act of commiting, or putting in charge, keeping, or trust; consigment; esp., the act of commiting to prison.""

COMMITTING commit

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.

Overcompress

Overcompress

Overconcern

Excessive self-assurance

An excess of self-assurance

Overconstruct

CONTROLLED control

Overcorrect

DECORATING decorate

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

DEPENDENCE The act or state of depending; state of being dependent; a hanging down or from; suspension from a support.

Overdiscount

Overdocument

Overdominance

Overeducation

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

Overencourage

EXERCISING exercise

""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.""

Excess (in, eg, food or drink)

Genuine CD lover condemned excess

Extra fulfilment by consuming too much

MEDICATING medicate

MEDICATION The act or process of medicating.

""OPTIMISTIC Of or pertaining to optimism; tending, or conforming, to the opinion that all events are ordered for the best.""

""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.""

PRESCRIBED

Overprescribe

Overprocess

Excessive production; supply beyond the demand.

Overprotect

Overprotect

Prone to mollycoddling

Scrupulous to excess.

Oversecretion

""SIMPLISTIC Of or pertaining to simples, or a simplist.""

""SOLICITOUS Disposed to solicit; eager to obtain something desirable, or to avoid anything evil; concerned; anxious; careful.""

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

Overstretch

STRUCTURED Having a definite organic structure; showing differentiation of parts.

(Of course) with more applications than places

Unusually BBC overrides us when too many shares had been applied for

Oversubscribe

SUSPICIOUS Inclined to suspect; given or prone to suspicion; apt to imagine without proof.

An enzyme that catalyzes an oxidation-reduction reaction.

OXYMORONIC

Birds that could give the coarsest cry

Dehumanising, if CIA somehow infiltrates dissent

OBJECTIVENESS Objectivity.

Obstructionism

Filibusterers

Obstructive

OCCIDENTALIZE

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

OFFICIOUSNESS officious

One of the cells comprising the oligodendroglia.

A short polymer of two to twenty nucleotides.

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

Omnicompetence

Like some antennae

Like versatile antennas

Remind coalition about covering all angles

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

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.""

Optoelectronic

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

ORTHODONTIC Of or pertaining to orthodontics or orthodontia.

Medical Specialties ()

Oscillography

OSTEOPATHIC Of or pertaining to osteopathy.

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.""

""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

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

Overcommitment

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

Overcompress

Overconfidence

With too much aplomb

Overconstruct

Target of satire in Dr. Seuss's 'The Lorax'

Target of satire in Dr. Seuss's "The Lorax"

CONTROLLING control

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