2-Letter Words Starting with O

Oversoak

Overspend

Overspread

Overstaff

Exaggerator's activity

Exaggerating

Being a bad guest, in a way

Overstep

Overstir

With excess in the warehouse, maybe

Sign at a clearance sale

Filled to excess

Overstory

Overstrain

Cause a strain

Extend (a resource) too far

Reach too far as regards time in jail

Overstrew

Overstride

Entirely covered with thick upholstery

Gorged

Oversuds

Oversup

SWEETEN to make {sweet=adj}

Overtalk

Overtask

THOUGHT a product of thinking

TIGHTEN to make {taut=adj}

Overtip

Overtness

Overtoil

The act of rising above the top

Trading beyond one's capital

Overtrain

Overtreat

Overtrim

Overtrump

Reversing (eg, legal ruling)

Changing (a decision)

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

VALUING value

VIOLENT to {force=v}

VOLTAGE electromotive force expressed in volts

Overwarm

Afflicted with root rot, perhaps

Overwear

Report says abandoning the breast in too many cases is excessive

Arrogant

Pompous

Overweigh

Overweight

Overwet

Filled with uncontrollable emotion

With too much on one's plate

With too much to handle

Act that may wreck a watch

Overwinter

Overwork

WRITING the act of {recording=v}

PURPLE

Too elaborate; highly strung

Nervously excited

Wrote Chekhov's last novel to include imperfect tense

Eager to a fault

Too full of enthusiasm

Gung-ho to a fault

Ovipositor

Oxygenator

""Of or pertaining to a mixture of oxygen and hydrogen; as, oxyhydrogen gas. as, oxyhydrogen gas.""

Layer 12 to 30 miles up.

Layer of the upper atmosphere

Oarsmanship

""OBDURATE to become hard-hearted, also OBDURE""

Objurgation

In an obligatory manner; by reason of obligation.

Erasing

Fantastic lob before repeat loss

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

Utter destruction

Tending or serving to obliterate.

Obliterator

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

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

Drunken bore's posture becomes unruly

Sober posture (anagram) - unruly

Noisy, hard to control

Hindrances

Noisy disturbances on street after outside broadcast means barriers

Obstructive

Scientific study of the seas

A subject for deep study

Study of the sea

Ochlocracy

Octahedral

Old man's gone out with raincoat

Robert Frost, for example.

Veteran's gone out in shabby raincoat

President, for one.

Functionary from ticket endings

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

Offscouring

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

An apparatus for measuring the acuity of the sense of smell.

OLIGARCHIC

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

Being everywhere at once

Drunk in recompense for divine existence (wordplay)

Ubiquity

Omnivorous

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

""Any of numerous velvety-skinned wormlike carnivorous animals common in tropical forests having characteristics of both arthropods and annelid worms; a member of the Onychophora, also called Malacopoda. See Malacopoda.Onychophora, also called Malacopoda. See Malacopoda.""

Pl. oophorectomies Surgical removal of one or both ovaries. Also called ovariectomy .

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.""

OPERATOR one that {operates=v}

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

Oppressive

Optometrist

Oratorical

Orchestral

Gold casket marked and scored

Arranged to have the dart score put out

Arranged for gold casket getting evaluated

ORCHESTRATE to write an orchestra score for; -- of a musical composition.

Arranges music

Narrow passages for killer whales (wordplay)

Or that scorer, perhaps (wordplay)

Speaker reserves royal box for arranger

Speaker keeps royal box for the organiser

""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

By way of ornament.

Ornateness

Orneriness

The branch of zoology that deals with the study of birds.

Ornithopter

Relating to the description of mountains

Pl. oropharynges (-f -r n j z) or oropharynxes The part of the pharynx between the soft palate and the epiglottis.

Oropharynx

Orotundity

Orthocenter

Orthodontia

Canine training (wordplay)

Correction of dental irregularities

Branch of dentistry

Professional who may say, "Hold still!"

Professional who may say, 'Hold still!'

... "Get to the chopper!"

Plural or third person singular

""Biology progressive evolution, leading to the development of a new form, as can be seen through successive generations. See also society . ; orthogenetic , adj . Evolution the sociological theory that all cultures or societies follow the same fixed course of determinate evolution. See also evolution . ; orthogenetic,""

""Biology progressive evolution, leading to the development of a new form, as can be seen through successive generations. See also society . ; orthogenetic , adj . Evolution the sociological theory that all cultures or societies follow the same fixed course of determinate evolution. See also evolution . ; orthogenetic,""

""Perpendicularly; at right angles; as, a curve cuts a set of curves orthogonally. as, a curve cuts a set of curves orthogonally.""

""ORTHOGRAPH An orthographic projection, sometimes partly in section, esp. of a building.""

The treatment of bone and muscle disorders

Rum do, as her topic is a medical speciality

Orthopedist

Orthopteran

Inflected form of ORTHOPTER Inflected form of ORTHO short for orthochromatic plate (a photographic plate)

Orthopter

Noting the system of crystallization which has three unequal axes at right angles to each other; trimetric. See Crystallization. Crystallization.

Having the axis of an ovule or seed straight from the hilum and chalaza to the orifice or the micropyle; atropous.

Oscillogram

Device for recording electrical waves

Device for visualising, eg, fluctuations in current

Osmolarity

""Pl. osteoporoses (-s z) A disease in which the bones become extremely porous, are subject to fracture, and heal slowly, occurring especially in women following menopause and often leading to curvature of the spine from vertebral collapse.""

Brittle bones condition

Oops, Tories so affected by bodily weakness!

Bone deficiency

""Pl. osteoporoses (-s z) A disease in which the bones become extremely porous, are subject to fracture, and heal slowly, occurring especially in women following menopause and often leading to curvature of the spine from vertebral collapse.""

A tumor having the structure of a sacroma in which there is a deposit of bone; sarcoma connected with bone.

Ostracoderm

Out of touch with reality

Relating to an imaginary realm

Spiritual; imaginary

Plural or third person singular

""A disease of the ear in which the movement of the stapes within the oval window becomes impeded by abnormal deposits of spongy bone, leading to a progressive loss of hearing.""

Outbargain

Outbreeding

Outcropping

Outdeliver

Excelled in military skill

Outglitter

OUTINTRIGUE

Outintrigue

Outmaneuver

Outnumber

OUTORGANIZE

Outorganize

Outperform

Outpreach

OUTPRODUCE

OUTPROMISE

In a shockingly bad manner

Outrebound

Word with prefix out-

Outrival

OUTSIDER one who does not belong to a particular group

Outsourcing

OUTSPARKLE To exceed in sparkling.

Extending broadly

Outsprint

(Of arms) extended

Poor tutors and the like he had extended

Fashion etc, the Tudors extended

Outstretch

Outstrip

Outthrob

OUTWRESTLE

Ovariotomy

ABSTRACT to draw away

Way, way, way too prevalent

On a roll, Dutch worker produces too much

ACHIEVED achieve

Academic Type A personality

Hardly a slacker

*Person who constantly exceeds expectations

Overachieve

ACTIVITY the state of being active

Overanalyse

Overanalysie

ANALYZED analyze

Overanalyze

Overarousal

ARRANGED arrange

Overarrange

Overassert

Fell down

Overbalance

Overbleach

Overbleach