2-Letter Words Starting with O

EXPLOIT to take advantage of

Excessive fatigue.

Overfear

Gut-stuffing too much

Causing a spill

Overfish

Overflight

Excessively full

""FULFILL to bring about the accomplishment of, also FULFIL""

Overfund

Overgild

Overgird

Overgoad

GRAZING land used for feeding animals

Overgrow

Overhand

Overhang

Overhaul

Overheap

Accidentally catching something perhaps

Being an eavesdropper

Headed for a stall, quite possibly

Overhold

Overhunt

IMPRESS to fix deeply in the mind

Take to excess

Go under and live precariously in gorge

Not stop when one should

Subject to too much air pressure

Overinform

Not at all laid-back

ISSUING issue

Overkill

Overlap

Overleap

Overlend

Overlet

Overlight

LITERAL a small error in printing or writing

Putting on too much weight!

Missing (4 letters)

Able to see but turning a blind eye

Failing to notice

Overlord

Overman

Overmelt

Overmilk

FedExed, perhaps

Motel patron, usually

NOURISH to sustain with food

OBVIOUS easily understood

Overpass

Overplaid

Overplay

PRAISED praise

Lauds, and then some

Too exacting

PRICING an act of pricing

Overprint

PRIZING prize

PROMISE to make a declaration of assurance

Overpump

REFINED refine

Overruff

Overrun

Oversalt

SAUCING sauce

Overseed

Oversell

SERIOUS thoughtful or subdued in appearance

SERVICE to {repair=v}

Overset

Overslip

SMOKING to preserve by smoke-drying

Oversoak

Exaggerator's activity

Exaggerating

Being a bad guest, in a way

Overstir

Overstory

Overstrain

Overstride

Oversuds

Oversup

Overtalk

Overtask

TIGHTEN to make {taut=adj}

Overtip

Overtoil

The act of rising above the top

Trading beyond one's capital

Overtrain

Overtrim

Reversing (eg, legal ruling)

Changing (a decision)

To exploit to the point of diminishing returns; to use excessively.

VALUING value

VIOLENT to {force=v}

Overwarm

Overwear

Report says abandoning the breast in too many cases is excessive

Arrogant

Pompous

Overweigh

Overweight

Overwet

Act that may wreck a watch

Overwinter

Overwork

WRITING the act of {recording=v}

PURPLE

Oviposit

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

Ovipositor

Oxidative

""OXYGENATE To unite, or cause to combine, with oxygen; to treat with oxygen; to oxidize; as, oxygenated water (hydrogen dioxide). as, oxygenated water (hydrogen dioxide).""

What blood undergoes in the lungs

Ozonation.

Oafishness

Oarsmanship

Obfuscation

Objectify

Objectivism

Objectivist

Objurgation

In an obligatory manner; by reason of obligation.

OBLIGING oblige

Erasing

Fantastic lob before repeat loss

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

Utter destruction

Tending or serving to obliterate.

Obliterator

OBNUBILATE To cloud; to obscure.

Clouding stink over knight with general rejoicing losing head

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

In a sycophantic way ("Richard III")

In a servile way

Roughly Sobers admits VAT is charged for examinations

Measurements from an experiment soon vibrates all over the place

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

Oceanology

One whose main interest is scientific

Sea scientist

Scientist involved with study of the seas

Ochlocracy

Octapeptide

Old man's gone out with raincoat

Robert Frost, for example.

Veteran's gone out in shabby raincoat

Also octosyllabic ( k t -s -l b k) a. A line of verse containing eight syllables.

Odiousness

President, for one.

Functionary from ticket endings

Last year's winner not skating - he's got a job

Officialdom

Officialese

Officialism

Officiation

Offishness

Offscouring

Oleaginous

English word

OLEORESIN A natural mixture of a terebinthinate oil and a resin.

OLIGARCHIC

Oligochaete

Oligophagy

""Feeding on a restricted range of food substances, especially a limited number of plants. Used chiefly of insects.""

Oligopsony

Lacking in plant nutrients and having a large amount of dissolved oxygen throughout. Used of a pond or lake.

Omnipotence

With all-encompassing power

Being everywhere at once

Drunk in recompense for divine existence (wordplay)

Ubiquity

Omniscience

Omniscient

Omnivorous

ONCOGENIC

Any of a group of viruses that contain single-stranded RNA and produce tumors in birds and mammals.

English word

Formation of words from natural sounds.

Cuckoo or "whippoorwill," for example

Formation of words like "buzz" or "hiss"

Sounding like its meaning

OPERATIC the technique of staging operas

""OPERATION The act or process of operating; agency; the exertion of power, physical, mechanical, or moral.""

""OPERATION The act or process of operating; agency; the exertion of power, physical, mechanical, or moral.""

Unduly attached to one's own opinions; opinionated.

Opportunism

They make the best of what happens to awful sprouts in pot

They make the best of what happens to wild sprouts in pot

The condition or quality of being opposable.

The quality or state of being opposite.

""OPPOSITION The act of opposing; an attempt to check, restrain, or defeat; resistance.""

Oppressive

Optimality

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

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

Optometrist

Oratorical

""Pertaining to, or resembling, a natural order (Orchidace\'91) of endogenous plants of which the genus Orchis is the type. They are mostly perennial herbs having the stamens and pistils united in a single column, and normally three petals and three sepals, all adherent to the ovary. The flowers are curiously shaped, often resembling insects, the odd or lower petal (called the lip) being unlike the others, and sometimes of a strange and unexpected appearance. About one hundred species occur in the United States, but several thousand in the tropics. Orchidace\'91) of endogenous plants of which the genus Orchis is the type. They are mostly perennial herbs having the stamens and pistils united in a single column, and normally three petals and three sepals, all adherent to the ovary. The flowers are curiously shaped, often resembling insects, the odd or lower petal (called the lip) being unlike the others, and sometimes of a strange and unexpected appearance. About one hundred species occur in the United States, but several thousand in the tropics.""

Commonly encountered; usual. See Synonyms at common .

Organicity

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.""

""Making an impression upon an organ; plastic; said of the effect or impression produced by any substance on the organs of touch, taste, or smell, and also on the organism as a whole.""

Organology

Orientalism

Orientalist

ORIENTALIZE to render Oriental; to cause to conform to Oriental manners or conditions.

Orientalize

Orientation

Sport involving maps and compasses

Sport using map and compass

Origination

Orismology