2-Letter Words Starting with O

Excess or zeal

Pertaining to {ovicide=n}

Pertaining to an {oviduct=n}

Dropped an egg (wordplay)

Made eggs (wordplay)

Made an egg drop (wordplay)

Makes eggs, in a way

Acting like a night predator

Wisdom thus exemplified: how silly

How silly, bent out of shape while giving a hoot perhaps

Oxalate

Oxalate

Flowers that resemble shamrocks

Oxblood

Capable of being oxidized

""An organism that thrives on an acid environment, also OXYPHIL""

Oxyphil

Oxysalt

Instrumental parts not to be omitted

They are compulsory for the players

Musical parts not to be omitted

Must-do, as a musical motif

Subordinate motif, in music

Indispensable, in music

Obelise

Obelize

Offerings of thanksgiving.

Offerings to God.

Religious offerings

Forced to deal big blow

Bound to be kept in after boil burst

Bound to be glad I came round

Binds

Obligato

Unruly boy I quell in a roundabout way

In an indirect or underhand way

Oblique

""The condition of being oblique; deviation from a right line; deviation from parallelism or perpendicularity; the amount of such deviation; divergence; as, the obliquity of the ecliptic to the equator. as, the obliquity of the ecliptic to the equator.""

Oblivion

Practically illuminated in clear blind

Unaware of large individual in the clear

Unaware (of)

Obloquy

In a crude way, old British activity disheartened lady

Improperly broadcast Beethoven's 8th and 9th by cellos half-heartedly

Obsolete copper taken to bank in a haze

Soberly wanders around copper, in a vague way

Dimly

Become like last year's auto

Become out of date

Become outmoded, as machines.

Old plot to capture only Troy was made out of date by Americans

Renders outdated

Try to overcome them on a course

Start of a business observation

They can get in the way

Broadcast verbosely as if turned towards one

Like amnesiacs, left one out, it's clear

Clearly and unmistakeably

Manifestly, unmistakably

Relating to the back of the head

Bone forming back of skull

Pertaining to the lower skull bone

Occlude

Obstruction, blockage

Stopping up

Tending to obstruct

Occulter

Occult

Study of hidden and mysterious things

Study of supernatural or magical things

Study of supernatural phenomena

Believer in the supernatural.

Witch, for example

Believer in the supernatural

A month without choral work, he'd like the mob to rule

Spiny desert plants

Cactus relatives

Like the Dome of the Rock

With eight sides and angles

Having eight sides and angles

Octangle

1 followed by 27 zeros

Thousand raised to the ninth power

Billion cubed

Having eight haploid sets of chromosomes in a body cell.

Special delivery (wordplay)

Nanny's handful, to put it mildly

Major birth news

Octuple

Eye-maker is strangely suctorial

Working girl to lose a quid, perhaps

Lose a quid carelessly for working girl

All right on bed, even on board

ODOROUS having an odor

""OEDIPAL pertaining to a child's sexual feeling to a parent, also OEDIPEAN""

Oeillade

One who might hail a cab (wordplay)

QRW reader, for one

Connoisseur of clarets

Oestriol

Functionaries, rules administrators

They're in positions of authority

From last game, staying in charge for medical treatment

Stinking rich, but not allowed on board

Passed responsibility for

Got rid of

OHMIC relating to a ohm

Waterproof table coverings

Cupboard shelf liners

Painters' needs

Oilpaper

Certain sharpeners

Sharpening devices.

Tool sharpeners

Oldness

Oldsquaw

Oldstyle

Poisonous evergreen shrubs

White-flowered shrubs

Shrubs with toxic saps

Buffalo berry and Russian olive

Shrubs with olive-shaped fruit.

Ornamental shrubs

The large process at the proximal end of the ulna which projects behind the articulation with the humerus and forms the bony prominence of the elbow.

Picture imitative of oil painting

No oil painting, and may make gaoler hop

Balm--of--Gilead, for one

Balsam fir or pine extract

Product from tropical trees.

Sense of smell

Act or function of smelling

Pertaining to smell

Relating to the sense of smell

Smelling nothing, left workplace

Olibanum

The powerful old girl working with cash

Some co-leaders

Politically powerful few

Government by a few

Government by small elite

Government by the few

Oligomer

Movie biz, for one

Economic system with few sellers

Market with few sellers

Oliguria

""An olivegreen mineral, a hydrous arseniate of copper; olive ore.""

English word

Oldest sports gatherings

They restarted in 1896

They are soon back where they started

Dishes made with beaten eggs

Breakfast menu heading

Dishes often served au fromage

In a threatening fashion

In a portentous way

In a foreboding manner

Unimportant enough to be skipped

Worthy of exclusion

Not mandatory, to a list maker

""The branch of medicine that deals with tumors, including study of their development, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention.""

In a burdensome manner

In an oppressive way

One starts with difficulty

Bystanders, rubber-neckers

They want to see the action

Gillian Avery's audience

Looking on or forward.

Attack on street stifling roar maybe

Some person's laughter is offensive

Sudden and severe onset of trouble

ONTIC having real existence

Oolachan

Oologist

Opalesce

Is like a moonstone

Emits a play of colors

Sparkles with color

OPERANT one that {operates=v}

Opercele

Sorting out our place, right, in a bit of a flap (wordplay)

Opercule

Gill cover

OPEROSE involving great labour

Oppilate

Oppilate

Like our thumbs

Open to contravention

Subject to being challenged

To the eye

Measure topless girl by sight

At best

Optional

Opulence

Tune Polly played in luxury

Not at all poorly

Like the overendowed tup, lonely when doctored

Opuscule

Small literary or musical work

Minor work breaks US locum up

Orality

Approximately circular

Capable of being ordered; tractable.

All over the place

Out of sequence

Chaotic

Command falsehoods from the servants

The serve to demand falsehood

Hospital workers tell tales

Mitochondrion, for one

Specialized part of a cell

Specialized cell part

Poor relations living in China, say

Poor relations who live in China, say

Manchurians, for example

""ORIFICE a mouth-like opening, also ORIFEX""

Knight's standard (hist.)

Non-standard lime from a red standard

Banner that serves as a rallying point

They're not facsimiles

Things often left at copy shops

One-of-a-kinders

Orinasal

Orology

It's a cello arrangement for swing

Swing between limits

Swing like a pendulum

Kissed

Big copper's embracing ex with kisses

Kisses

Smooches

Of or pertaining to an ossicle.

The bare bones of the study

Medical students might bone up on this course (wordplay)

OTOLITH a hard mass that forms in the inner ear

Otology

Be let out I fancy from dungeon

Type of dungeon.

Elite bout unlikely in dungeon

We have no time for trips and fairies!

Who we are (wordplay)

Yank sure loves US!

Outbawl

Outblaze

Outblaze

Outbleat

Outbloom

Outbluff

Outbrawl

Outbuild

Outbulk

Outcavil

Outclimb

Outcrawl

To surpass in dazzing.

Outduel

Outfable

Outfable

Beyond the diamonds.

Not at home to deal with small areas on farm

Frustrates Kant's foul disposition

Maneuvers around

Outflow

Outfly

Outfool

Word with prefix out-

Outglare

Outglare

Outglow

Outhowl

Word with prefix out-

Outkill

Foreigner finding new land-route

'03 Mitsubishi mid-size SUV

Rule provides eponymous alien

Had longer legs than (wordplay)

Beat in a dance marathon

Went longer than

Outlaugh

Banning unpopular Los Angeles faction

Outlay

Won the broad jump.

Jumped farther

Gets more from school

Outlearn

Outliner

Delineating nothing retrogressive during excursion

Outliver

Existing longer

Outlove

Word with prefix out-

Beat on a tennis court, e.g

Beat on a tennis court, for example

Soundly beaten

Outpoll

Triumphed at tug of war.

Outrival

Outroll

Beat at sea

Outscold

Outsleep

Outslick

Outsmile

Outsmile

Outspell

Outsulk

Outtalk

Outvalue

Outvalue

Beat on foot

Covered more ground than

On the face of it, tray would break

As far as appearances are concerned

On the surface

Outwhirl

Outwile

Outwill

Outyell

Outyelp