2-Letter Words Starting with O

Compound derived from lichens.

Compound derived from lichens

Chemical solid

Mass number provider maybe

Heart or lung, say

Newspaper with heart (wordplay)

One of the stonecrops

Perennial plant also called livelong

Hidden within moor, pink plant

Unit of gene activity

Coordinated gene cluster

Cluster of genes

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

No dama for one (wordplay)

Would parenthood make me dote (wordplay)

Annie of the comics, for one

Beat in a heat, maybe

Bested at the track

Beat to the finish line

Leave in the dust, say

Go further but not in race

Go faster under anaesthetic and manage

On Mars, a peculiar blue (wordplay)

One in an eight (wordplay)

A ransom (anagram)

Stick figures (wordplay)

Eight in a row (wordplay)

Strokes, say, one's arm when agitated

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

Foreign letter - I'm no roc (anagram)

Head of Olympus (wordplay)

Circular Greek letter

Greek letter Var.

Greek letter variable

Stumped words (wordplay)

Webster delivery of old (wordplay)

Allowance sent from old address

Method for communicating knowledge

Means for acquisition of knowledge.

System for acquiring knowledge.

Is Lorna to get the bird (wordplay)

Old World bunting

Old-World bird

To burn longer than

Make over (wordplay)

Pull down more than

Get paid more than

To surpass in grinning

Yield, as of a crop.

Quantity produced; result of events

Result, consequence

Exhausted couple boarding old vessel

Our town has about had it

No longer current

Of an egg-producing gland

Reproductive, in a way

Of a reproductive organ

Featherbed with crew members

Provide with too many crew

Employ too much help

Superior types

Foremen.

Lasted too long

Embraced by lover, ranger's overwhelmed

Sped too much, and exceeded the limit

OR to go too far (wordplay)

Exceed (eg, time, cost)

Exceed (cost estimate)

One of racially mixed ancestry

TV camera tube more sensitive than the earlier iconoscope

Inscribed potsherd of early Palestine.

Athenian ballot, used in banishing Aristides.

Potsherd or tile used for writing on in ancient Egypt

Outdraw

To frown more than

Like some weeds

Gone past? If you do, it could be wrong

Gotten too big for

To surpass in learning

To surpass in {preening=v}

To surpass in scorning

Outswear

Overbear

Fill too much, as a data CD

Char the steaks

Too {keen=adj}

Smothered lover in a fury

Above the French in this has been on top of it

Leave no room for spontaneity

Leave basically nothing to chance

Supervised 17 without incident

Watched one rewriting the poetry in it

Supervised one at sea securing lines

Stitched up, confess to taking in lines

Too soon

It may be applied to a tennis ball

Tennis-shot effect

It may be applied to a cue ball

Too {thin=adj}

Reverse (legal ruling)

Rev, O, up set (wordplay)

Capsize the open vase (wordplay)

Become arrogant, old style.

Overwear

Definite maybe, for example

Pretty ugly, for one

"Jumbo shrimp," for one

Female in crew, so man-o'-war goes crazy

Rebecca Romero, for example

She's involved in Samoan row

Females getting into row

People rowing creating chaos in a newsroom

Organised newsroom split by a group having a row

""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.""

Like many a Hollywood romance

Apt filmdom rhyme for "unseen"

In real life, to a movie actor

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.

Balm--of--Gilead, for one

Balsam fir or pine extract

Product from tropical trees.

Game with many buzzer beaters (wordplay)

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

Carmen, say, galvanised into action

Swinger at the zoo

Literally, "man of the forest"

Simian of Indonesia

Outdrive

Beaten in a horse race

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

Outthrow

Too blooming inflated

Past full bloom

Like many stump speeches

CLEAN to rid of stain

Too much artistry put into it (wordplay)

Too greatly tempted, so in debt!

Too much artistry and too much red

Polished off three pizzas, say

Taken too much as a matter of course

Vere! An X means you've taken too much

Overfly

Like an unweeded garden

Covered, as with foliage.

Like weedy gardens

Bearing excessive load

That's too much to have to bear

Under too great a load

Pursue studies unnecessarily.

Took too much, perhaps, and got passed

Openly, a boy has come up from behind

Public knowledge covering area passed

Clear water becomes stale

Prepare too much for apparent downpour

Get stale when open, requiring water

Kin of a pearl diver (wordplay)

The Walrus and the Carpenter, by choice.

Mollusk chasers

""The act of stopping up, or closing, an opening.""

A figure once hard to work out

Solid anchored to fluid

Cartoon he'd redrawn, taking solid form

Tyranny

That's been the making of Father

A lot of bull in one of four

In ceremony, noise interrupts speech

Word with prefix out-

Outwrite

Excessive performance

Overbeat

BIDDEN bid

Ned, rub and pile too much on (wordplay)

Pile too much on

Weigh down

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

Exhausted.

GOVERN to rule or direct

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

STREWN strew

Done with seat of power, say, ousted

More of the fowl question

Where we hear the canopy of power may be brought down

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

Program for freshmen

What a freshman needs

Relative position

Beginning (six letters)

Process of creation

True source.

One of the Orthoptera.

""A man who spends considerable time in outdoor pursuits, such as hunting and fishing.""

OUTDOORS in the open air

OUTSTRIDE To surpass in striding.

CAUTION to {warn=v}

CONCERN to be of interest to

EXPLAIN to make clear and understandable

SWEETEN to make {sweet=adj}

TIGHTEN to make {taut=adj}

PURPLE

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

Fantastic lob before repeat loss

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

Utter destruction

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

""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.""

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.""

More than enough effort is a strain

Excess of effort

The use of too much effort

LENGTHEN to make longer

Excessive response

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

STRIDDEN stride

TAXATION the process of taxing

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.

""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.""

""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