2-Letter Words Starting with O

Outspeed

Outspell

Outspend

Outspoken

Outsprint

Not paid yet? That's just great!

Fine not yet paid

*Like some performances and debts

Outstart

Sparsely populated posts

Outsteer

OUTSTRIDE To surpass in striding.

OUTSTRIDE To surpass in striding.

Outstrip

Outstudy

Outstunt

Outswear

Outswim

Outthank

Outthink

Outthrob

Outthrow

Outtower

Outtrick

Outtrot

Outtrump

Outvaunt

""Concern with outward things or material objects (esp the body and its appearance) as opposed to the mind or the spirit or ideal concepts; as, hearty showmanship and all-around outwardness.as, hearty showmanship and all-around outwardness.""

Outwatch

Outweary

Outweigh

Outwhirl

OUTWRESTLE

Outwrestle

Outyield

Pl. ovariectomies See oophorectomy .

Overaction

Tax on everyone causes unnecessary worry

Excessive worry

Overassert

Overbeat

Overbet

Overcast

CAUTION to {warn=v}

Overcommit

""CONTROL to exercise authority over, also CONTROUL""

CORRECT to make {right=adj}

Overcount

Overcut

Overdirect

A bit too serious

Chap heading off back home is far too serious

Overedit

EDUCATE to {teach=v}

EMOTING emote

Excessively eager

Hyped-up

Overexcite

Overexert

EXPLOIT to take advantage of

Strains excessively that scrambles "red stone vex"

Excessive fatigue.

Overflight

Dope sheathes weapon in open coat

It's regularly worn outside

Overgrowth

Gather in too much of, as a natural resource

Headed for a stall, quite possibly

Overhunt

Subject to too much air pressure

Not at all laid-back

Overlet

Overlight

LITERAL a small error in printing or writing

Overmantel

Dominates

Overmatch

Overmatch

Overmelt

FedExed, perhaps

Motel patron, usually

OPERATE to perform a function

What may merit a refund

Overplant

Overplot

Overprint

PROMOTE to help forward

Baby, maybe

Overreact

Overreport

Oversalt

Overset

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

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.

VIOLENT to {force=v}

VOLTAGE electromotive force expressed in volts

Afflicted with root rot, perhaps

Overweight

Overwet

Overwinter

WRITING the act of {recording=v}

PURPLE

Too elaborate; highly strung

Nervously excited

Wrote Chekhov's last novel to include imperfect tense

Oviposit

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

Ovipositor

A salt or ester of oxalacetic acid.

Oxidative

""OXYGENATE To unite, or cause to combine, with oxygen; to treat with oxygen; to oxidize; as, oxygenated water (hydrogen dioxide). as, oxygenated water (hydrogen dioxide).""

What blood undergoes in the lungs

Oxygenator

Ozonation.

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

Obfuscation

Objectify

Objectivism

Objectivist

Objurgation

""Lanceolate in the reversed order, that is, narrowing toward the point of attachment more than toward the apex.""

Oblateness

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

OBNUBILATE To cloud; to obscure.

Clouding stink over knight with general rejoicing losing head

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

""The state of being obsolete, or no longer used; a state of desuetude.""

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

Obtuseness

Occidental

Occultation

Relating to one's job or profession

Rehabilitation via practical activities

To do with work

One whose main interest is scientific

Sea scientist

Scientist involved with study of the seas

Octahedral

Octapeptide

Old man's gone out with raincoat

Robert Frost, for example.

Veteran's gone out in shabby raincoat

Also octosyllabic ( k t -s -l b k) a. A line of verse containing eight syllables.

Octosyllabic.

Odontoblast

Officiation

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

Oligochaete

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

Omnipotence

With all-encompassing power

Omniscient

ONCOGENIC

English word

Formation of words from natural sounds.

Cuckoo or "whippoorwill," for example

Formation of words like "buzz" or "hiss"

Sounding like its meaning

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

Opalescent

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}

Unduly attached to one's own opinions; opinionated.

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

The condition or quality of being opposable.

The quality or state of being opposite.

""OPPOSITION The act of opposing; an attempt to check, restrain, or defeat; resistance.""

Optimality

""OPTIMISE to make as effective as possible, also OPTIMIZE""

""OPTIMIZE to make as effective as possible, also OPTIMISE""

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