2-Letter Words Starting with O

Fatty liquid (anagram of NO LIE)

Fatty liquid anagram of NO LIE

The liquid part of fat

Frank option (wordplay)

Bermuda, for one

Thin-skinned one (wordplay)

A type of {protein=n}

Compound derived from lichens.

Compound derived from lichens

Chemical solid

One of the stonecrops

Perennial plant also called livelong

Hidden within moor, pink plant

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

Drill instructors (wordplay)

Drill team (wordplay)

Crude types? They work well!

Type of hydrocarbon; no life (anagram)

Kind of synthetic textile fiber

Type of hydrocarbon

Ski rack, maybe

New potion? Take it or leave it!

Auto upgrade, perhaps

Purple dyestuff

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

Start in after cheque bounced (wordplay)

Beginning (of species?)

Cycling race sent back home for start

So it's a prayer in iron (wordplay)

Prayer for gold is working!

Alternatively, a prayer for one 7 down

Bone's basis

Collagen component of bone

Basis of bone

To surpass in {sinning=v}

""A female sex hormone also ESTRIOL, OESTRIOL, ESTRIN, ESTROGEN, OESTROGEN, ESTRONE, OESTRONE, THEELIN, THEELOL""

Bribes relatives as protection

Crude film that's about a sailor

Fisherman's wear

Foreign letter - I'm no roc (anagram)

Head of Olympus (wordplay)

Circular Greek letter

Greek letter Var.

Greek letter variable

Leader leader (wordplay)

Angle round wing

View over wing

Person living in a town

Urban work by sanctimonious boy

Work in pad over in town ...

An antibody of blood serum

Stumped words (wordplay)

Webster delivery of old (wordplay)

Allowance sent from old address

A cardiac stimulant

To gain more than

To surpass in grinning

Outlie

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)

Offering bool in latin (wordplay)

Offering to a deity.

Offering to a divine being

Its nowhere to be remembered in blackout

State of being totally forgotten

Died with violin play and forgetfulness

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""

Skipping over the Alamo, say

Skipper's result (wordplay)

Round trip perhaps getting cut

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)

TV camera tube more sensitive than the earlier iconoscope

Outgive

Smothered lover in a fury

Above the French in this has been on top of it

It may be applied to a tennis ball

Tennis-shot effect

It may be applied to a cue ball

Too {thin=adj}

It induces milk letdown, for example

Hormone important in childbirth

Pituitary hormone

Notice job is to be relocated - protest!

Statement of protest

Don't like the thing with one on the end

Sitting with old boy on hobby-horse

That's a thing one has

Fixed idea of old boy prior to meeting

""The act of obtruding; a thrusting upon others by force or unsolicited; as, the obtrusion of crude opinions on the world. as, the obtrusion of crude opinions on the world.""

Blocking of applause with both second and first entries

Obstruction, blockage

Stopping up

1 followed by 27 zeros

Thousand raised to the ninth power

Billion cubed

Balm--of--Gilead, for one

Balsam fir or pine extract

Product from tropical trees.

Sense of smell

Act or function of smelling

Lily perhaps producing thin paper

Type of paper.

Kind of paper

Game with many buzzer beaters (wordplay)

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

Carmen, say, galvanised into action

Outbid

Word with prefix out-

Outdrive

Beaten in a horse race

Journeyed beyond, round Uranus first, then Earth - spinning and hollow

The albumin of egg white.

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

""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

Antagonism in workplace (wordplay)

Workplace rivals (wordplay)

Confrontation in workplace (wordplay)

Tyranny

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-

OUTCHIDE to surpass in chiding

OUTSTATE to surpass in {stating=v}

Outwrite

Excessive performance

BIDDEN bid

""DESIGN to plan in outline, also DESINE, DESYNE""

Exhausted.

Veto's fate, sometimes

Horse thus exhausted put aside

Like some vetoes

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...

Sand trap or bunker, for example.

MONKEY wrench, so to speak

Thing in the way

""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.

Cycle - 5 down (anagram)

Movement to and fro

Rhythmic swinging to and fro

Showing off, so attention is diverted

Gaudy display

Pretentious display

OUTSTRIDE To surpass in striding.

CAUTION to {warn=v}

EXPLAIN to make clear and understandable

TIGHTEN to make {taut=adj}

PURPLE

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

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

""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

More than enough effort is a strain

Excess of effort

The use of too much effort

Excessive response

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

STRIDDEN stride

TAXATION the process of taxing

The cardinal number equal to 10 57 .

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.

EXTENSION The act of extending or the state of being extended; a stretching out; enlargement in breadth or continuation of length; increase; augmentation; expansion.

One cause of premature tread wear (4,9)

""NUTRITION In the broadest sense, a process or series of processes by which the living organism as a whole (or its component parts or organs) is maintained in its normal condition of life and growth.""

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

Excessive valuation; overestimate.

See Hemoglobin.Hemoglobin.

""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

Excessive production; supply beyond the demand.

To make of too great proportion.

Overprotect

""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.""

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

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

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