2-Letter Words Starting with O

""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 .

Outdatedness

Outgoingness

Outlandish

Outmaneuver

OUTMANIPULATE

Outmanipulate

Outrageous

OUTREPRODUCE

Outsiderness

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

""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.

DETERMINED Decided; resolute. "Adetermined foe. determined foe.

Overdevelop

Overdiscount

Overdocument

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

Overengineer

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.

EXERCISING exercise

Overexpansion

Overexplain

Overexploit

Overextension

""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.""

FERTILIZED united with a male gamete to begin the development of an individual embryo; -- of female gametes.

Overfertilize

Overfulfill

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

GENEROSITY Noble birth.

Overgenerous

Inflected form of GLAMORIZED Inflected form of GLAMORIZE

Overglamorize

Overharvest

""HOMOGENIZE To blend (a collection of unlike elements) together so as to make the whole uniform in character, composition, or function.""

IDEALIZING idealize

IDENTIFIED identify

Overidentify

Overimpress

Excess (in, eg, food or drink)

Genuine CD lover condemned excess

Extra fulfilment by consuming too much

Overinflation

""INVESTMENT The act of investing, or the state of being invested.""

Overlengthen

Overmaturity

MEDICATING medicate

MEDICATION The act or process of medicating.

Overnourish

Overnutrition

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

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

OVERPOWERING Excelling in power; too powerful; irresistible.

PRESCRIBED

Overprescribe

""PRIVILEGED Invested with a privilege; enjoying a peculiar right, advantage, or immunity.""

Overprocess

Excessive production; supply beyond the demand.

Overprogram

PROGRAMMED program

To make of too great proportion.

Overprotect

Overprotect

Prone to mollycoddling

Excessive refinement.

REGULATING regulate

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

Overrespond

SATURATING saturate

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

Scrupulous to excess.

Oversecretion

Firm I develop is unfortunately misrepresented as uncomplicated

Makes too easy

""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

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

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.

Oversweeten

Overtighten

Overtreatment

Overvaluation

Crushingly.

An enzyme that catalyzes an oxidation-reduction reaction.

Oxyhemoglobin

Birds that could give the coarsest cry

Dehumanising, if CIA somehow infiltrates dissent

OBJECTIVENESS Objectivity.

OBLIVIOUSNESS oblivious

OBNOXIOUSNESS obnoxious

Observability

Observational

OBSESSIVENESS obsessive

OBSTINATENESS obstinate

Obstructive

Obtainability

OBTRUSIVENESS obtrusive

OCCIDENTALIZE

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

Odoriferous

OFFENSIVENESS offensive

OFFHANDEDNESS offhanded

OFFICIOUSNESS officious

One of the cells comprising the oligodendroglia.

""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 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.""

Candor.

Openmouthed

Operationalism

Operationalist

OPERATIVENESS operative

Ophthalmology

Retinal inspection instruments

Opinionated

OPPORTUNENESS opportune

Opprobrious

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

Chemical has ruined oath on paper <197> gosh!

Orientational

Orthogonality

Orthophosphate

Oscillography

Osmoregulation

Plural or third person singular

OSTEOPATHIC Of or pertaining to osteopathy.

OUTSPOKENNESS outspoken

Present participle or gerund

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