2-Letter Words Starting with O

Overjoy

Overlade

Overlay

Overlearn

LENGTH the extent from end to end

Overlive

Overlove

MANAGE to control or direct

Overman

Piece of ornamentation from what could be maiden novelist

Overmine

Overmix

Overnight

Overpay

Overplant

Overply

Too potent or powerful.

Stamp collectors' delights

Judging too highly

Thinking too much of maiden maybe, sailor goes under

Veto's fate, sometimes

Horse thus exhausted put aside

Like some vetoes

Dominant, ruling part of Yorkshire once

Main reason for horse being tired (wordplay)

Principal getting horse knackered (wordplay)

Judge's activity, at times

Feeling excessive regret about lover's first rejection

Oversave

Keeping an eye on

Director's skill

One grieves about being in charge

Oversew

Uses up more than one's allowance to fix Devon press

Cause of bowler's exhaustion (wordplay)

Risk a breakdown, in a way

Work too hard

STREWN strew

Too tight as a racket

Too tight as a racket

Very tense

Overswing

Action in a card game

Passing old, green, family silver around

Catching up to.

Being too onerous

Overthink

Done with seat of power, say, ousted

More of the fowl question

Where we hear the canopy of power may be brought down

Overtime

Overtire

Does too many push-ups, etc.

Works too hard on public transport

Prepares physically to a fault

Overture

Reversed (a legal decision)

Went too far round and toppled

Placed upside down

Overurge

Overvote

Overween

Drug carried by town river with treatment to get through cold period

'Eggspulsions' (wordplay)

Solemn sagacity

Legal rights of possession

Oxacillin

Laboratory processes.

Like the blood in the pulmonary veins

Like blood carried from the lungs

Like some hemoglobin

Oxygenate

An oxidizer.

OXYGEN a gaseous element

Like plastic silverware

Oystering

Ozonation

Rowing skill

Making unclear

Intentional confusion

OBJURGATE To chide; to reprove.

The act of objurgating; reproof.

Obligation

Quality or state of being oblique.

In an extremely unpleasant manner

OBNUBILATE To cloud; to obscure.

Obnubilate

Obscenity

OBSCURANT One who obscures; one who prevents enlightenment or hinders the progress of knowledge and wisdom.

""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.""

Nebulosity

Rites

How many practice religion

Remark; sighting to determine position

Result of a patient look

Keeping watch...

Observing

Dominating one's thoughts

Alumnus sitting with Scarface is haunted

Pertaining to a siege.

Ageing old boy with unique odour

Former pupil's only trace is out of date

Like streetcars, for instance.

OBSOLESCE To become obsolescent.

Obstinacy

Stubbornly, eat only bits that are well-cooked

Getting in the way

Blocking

Sand trap or bunker, for example.

MONKEY wrench, so to speak

Thing in the way

Obtainment

Obturation

OBVIOUS easily understood

Bringing about

Bringing about

Bringing about*

""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.""

Occupancy

Lines of work

Jobs

Occurrence

Oceanarium

Oceanfront

Octagonal

Octahedron

One of the more or less columnar cells on the outer surface of the pulp of a tooth; an odontoplast. They are supposed to be connected with the formation of dentine.

ODOROUS having an odor

OECUMENIC

Unoffending; inoffensive.

Offensive

In a casual manner

Thus spake Venus de Milo

Sharia justice thus applied anyhow (wordplay)

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.

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.

Offprint

""That which is scoured off; hence, refuse; rejected matter; that which is vile or despised.""

OMINOUS portending evil

""Of all varieties, forms, or kinds.""

Unlimited power

Absolute power

Omnipotent

Dodge for Christmas (wordplay)

Always there!

Everywhere at once

Attribute of the Deity

Knowledge of everything

Total knowledge

Oncogenes

ONCOGENES oncogene

ONCOLOGIC

Oncologist

""ONEIRIC belonging to dreams, also ONIRIC""

Divination of dreams.

Difficulty

ONGOING a course of conduct

The science of names or of their classification.

""Biology ontogeny. ; ontogenetic, ontogenetical , adj . Life""

""Biology ontogeny. ; ontogenetic, ontogenetical , adj . Life""

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

Metaphysical term.

Ontologist

Milky iridescent quality

A milky play of rainbow colours

Milky iridescence

Abstract noun (-ity)

Very warm and kindly

Frank

Kindly

Amazed how the dentist likes me!

Frank said to appear surprised

Prepared to eat, though astonished

Operagoing

Ready to function

Ready for action

In working order

OPEROSE involving great labour

Not shy about expressing views

Prone to going off

Assertive in one's views

Opportune

Making the most of favourable moments

Making the most of current circumstances

Expediency

One who strikes while the iron is hot

Person without fixed principles

Knock heeder

Well-known knocker.

Pt. 2 of the quotation

It only knocks once

Opposition

Oppression

Opsonify

OPTIONAL an elective course of study

Adjective (-ic)

Orangewood

Ordainment

Felix Unger's obsession

Neatnik's forte

Commands inclusion of rows with regularity

Ordinary

Noise interrupts speeches in church ceremonies

Ordonnance

How some vegetables are grown

How crops are grown without fertilisers or pesticides

Organicism

Organicist

""Capable of being organized; esp. (Biol.), capable of being formed into living tissue; as, organizable matter. (Biol.), capable of being formed into living tissue; as, organizable matter.""

Book by Edward W. Said

Seminal Edward Said book on representation of "the East"

Expert on faraway part of world transformed relations with it

Nothing exotic in old books catalogue to engage a student of far-off lands

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

""ORIENTATE To place or turn toward the east; to cause to assume an easterly direction, or to veer eastward.""

Program for freshmen

What a freshman needs

Relative position

Inventiveness; novelty

Novel quality

Innovativeness

Starting

Beginning (six letters)

Process of creation

True source.

""Having power, or tending, to originate, or bring into existence; originating.""

Originator

Some nursery items

Decorative objects

Beautifying shrubs.

Ornament

Study of birds

Bebop tune by Charlie "Bird" Parker

Ornithopod

A machine shaped like an aircraft that is held aloft and propelled by wing movements.

Orphanhood

""That point in which the three perpendiculars let fall from the angles of a triangle upon the opposite sides, or the sides produced, mutually intersect.""

Specialty that may be bracing (wordplay)

Branch of dentistry

The treatment of jaw and teeth irregularities

Relating to treatment of teeth/jaw irregularities

Killer keeps awfully hot - do I not? - aiming for straight sets

Making pegs fit in, doctor having difficulties introduces nevertheless

Adjective (-al)

One of the Orthoptera.

That oscillates; vibrating; swinging.

Cycle - 5 down (anagram)

Movement to and fro

Rhythmic swinging to and fro

Osculation

In an ostensive manner.

""Pl. ostensoria (-sôr - , -s r -) also ostensories Roman Catholic Church See monstrance .""

Showing off, so attention is diverted

Gaudy display

Pretentious display

Trouble raising cost when sending to Coventry

""OSTRACIZE To exile by ostracism; to banish by a popular vote, as at Athens.""

Otherness

OUTBALANCE To outweight; to exceed in weight or effect.

Outbalance

Outbargain

Outbitch

Outbleat

Outbless

Outbloom

Outbluff

Outblush

Outboast

Outbrag

Outbrawl

Outbreed

Shed unfashionable fabrication

Such as a barn or stable associated with a house

Outbully

Outcaper

Outcatch

OUTCAVIL to surpass in caviling

OUTCHARGE

Outcharm

Outcheat