2-Letter Words Starting with O

Completely finished

Too {pert=adj}

To devise an overly complex plot for

Estimate too highly

Place too high a value on

Put too high a value on.

Raise one's blood pressure, maybe

Season to excess.

Season too much.

Puts too much material into type.

Causes to fall.

Passed beyond the mark or runway

Threw an errant pass

Went past the target

Too {soft=adj}

Linger too long

One way to wear out your welcome

Breaking Troy vase, remain for too long

Go past (the mark)

Pass beyond (a limit)

Go beyond (a limit)

To stir too much

Pass (a vehicle)

Go by car, perhaps

Pass port? Not at first, drink!

To talk to excess

Too {tame=adj}

Too {tart=adj}

Open question: Tax too much (wordplay)

Too {thin=adj}

Extra hours (at work)

Fifth period, in basketball

Pay for extra work.

Leaves a lot on the table (wordplay)

Weary to excess

Wear out to exhaustion

Unconcealed rage may exhaust

To exhaust by excessive toil

Innuendo perhaps is never too outrageous

A hint - plain one!

Hint that's a blatant one

Rode down naked? O, all right!

Caught up with and went past

Caught up with

Excels at doing operations in public

Thus the works that are hidden makes one higher

Outdoes

To trim too much

William Tell, for one

Orchestral prelude to opera

Piece of music.

Reverse (legal ruling)

Rev, O, up set (wordplay)

Capsize the open vase (wordplay)

To defeat by a majority of votes

Overwet

Tubes down which human eggs pass

Lay an egg

Especially of insects, to lay eggs

Lay eggs, as a field cricket

Dropped an egg (wordplay)

Made eggs (wordplay)

Made an egg drop (wordplay)

Makes eggs, in a way

Oxalate

Oxalate

Large, sweet cherries

Rust-causing agents

Dye manufacturing agents

Rust agents

Became rusty

Turns to rust

Gets rusty

Weed: it may be boiled as food

Protein in some authentic Mexican tacos

Main ingredient in lengua

Oxysalt

A drug that hastens childbirth

It induces milk letdown, for example

Hormone important in childbirth

Pituitary hormone

Oxytone

Worked the Delaware Bay, perhaps

Hunted for pearls (wordplay)

Hunted for bluepoints

Blue point fisherman.

Worker in a bed

He works in bed

Overuses a hot tumble drier

Hops into the kiln

Hoses out a mucky building

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

Of a leaf, inversely heart-shaped

Obesity

Dim alumnus wore subfusc (wordplay)

Darken or obscure something

Obscure cafe - but so original

Express concretely

That's the thing to have - a mixed gin

What an angry owner may be doing

The thing with gin that's so off-putting

Notice job is to be relocated - protest!

Statement of protest

Don't like the thing with one on the end

Aim for the thing Gordius has (wordplay)

Not showing any bias

Aim for the thing I have

Conscientious folks

They may be conscientious, but they're not yes-men

Dress down

Express strong disapproval and censure severely

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

""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.""

Bawdy to the max

Dirtiest old boy's oddly clean bedsit

Most offensive to the senses

Crude nicety? SOB, perhaps

First Amendment study

Something offensive or disgusting

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

Like something bottom-of-mind (wordplay)

Least clear

State of being unknown

Absence of fame

Lack of clarity

Noticing old book with Jeeves, say

Attentive old boy, the butler (wordplay)

. . . while late employee is on watch

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

In the matter of deliverance, perhaps

Relating to childbirth

Bit with corset strained from childbirth

Pig-headedness

Interpretation of actions by intransigence

Mulishness.

Like a mule, maybe

Unrelenting over bowled, say, keeping in

Stub, born like this (wordplay)

Prevents or hinders passage

Hinders

Blocks

Obtainer

Go-getter's activity (wordplay)

Go-getter's activity?

Coming into

Obtest

Obtruder

Imposing old boy hoping daughter replaces saint

""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.""

Blatant over bust I fancy

Unpleasantly noticeable or prominent

Too forward, as behavior

Obtund

Obturate

Obturate

That which closes or stops an opening.

Obvert

Doing away with former pupil through sound

Blocking of applause with both second and first entries

Obviator

Occident

Relating to the back of the head

Bone forming back of skull

Pertaining to the lower skull bone

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

Certain insiders (wordplay)

They hold two thirds of magic's rubbish

Junk-mail receivers

Happening

Dwellers in an underwater habitat

Folks who don't come up for air (wordplay)

Sealab inhabitants

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

These solid figures heard Cato, perhaps

Solids with eight faces

Figures doctor had to care

The Raven feature

It has eight feet

Verse containing eight feet.

Octangle

1 followed by 27 zeros

Thousand raised to the ninth power

Billion cubed

Having eight haploid sets of chromosomes in a body cell.

Sea animals

Army marine creatures (wordplay)

Army sea creatures (wordplay)

Sea molluscs with eight arms

Octoroon

English word

Special delivery (wordplay)

Nanny's handful, to put it mildly

Major birth news

Octuple

Eye-maker is strangely suctorial

Items which record distance driven (pl.)

They show mileage in cars etc

Things rolled over by drivers

Odontoid

Oestriol

Oestrone

Oestrus

Collection from a congregation

Money collected during church service

Tender this to a Conservative on a plate

Insect in charge of a ceremony

Act as referee

In face of it possibly, I perform duties

Ump or ref

Offprint

Rushes by rotten branches

Removes raspberries' branches

Branches or derivatives

Offstage

Oghamist

They measure resistance

Currently, they show resistance

Instruments for measuring electrical resistance

Waterproof table coverings

Cupboard shelf liners

Painters' needs

Certain sharpeners

Sharpening devices.

Tool sharpeners

Doctor sent Tom in for medicinal creams

Soothing or medicinal preparations

Soothing salves

Oiticica

Oldstyle

Buffalo berry and Russian olive

Shrubs with olive-shaped fruit.

Ornamental shrubs

Sense of smell

Act or function of smelling

Pertaining to smell

Relating to the sense of smell

Smelling nothing, left workplace

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

Dishes made with beaten eggs

Breakfast menu heading

Dishes often served au fromage

""Pl. ommatidia (- - ) One of the structural elements, resembling a single simplified eye, that make up the compound eye of insects and other arthropods.""

Possibly contains one like Portnoy

Pertaining to proper names

Like a secondhand signature on a sitcom rewrite

Of names

Attack on street stifling roar maybe

Some person's laughter is offensive

Sudden and severe onset of trouble

ONTIC having real existence

Oogamete

Biology

Oologist

Features shown by cataracts round Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, perhaps

OPERANT one that {operates=v}

Overwrought behavior

Directing or controlling, machinery say

On choosing to conceal age

Long time choosing to go out working

Game with many buzzer beaters (wordplay)

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

Carmen, say, galvanised into action

In working order

Company abandons helpful worker

Working with before tea, I have

Some who stand by (wordplay)

Ones standing by (wordplay)

Patching experts (wordplay)

Top 5 composing pieces

Works such as 'H.M.S. Pinafore'

The Merry Widow and "The Mikado"

Oppilate

Oppilate

The other side

4 down is among those on the other side

Bush and Gore, in 2000

Timely work on river - River Aire, say

Timely, advantageous moment

Suitable work on piano, or melody

Night and day, say

Completely different pair

Near and far, for example

Optative

To the eye

Measure topless girl by sight

They make a lot of contacts

They make a lot of contacts at work

They make lots of contacts

Opticist

At best

Making pie, I'd most bananas made best use of

Made the most of being work-shy around the Home Counties

Optimise

Optimism

Community-service club

Silver-lining seekers.

Owners of rose-colored glasses.

Optimize

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

Optimize

Optional

Optionee

Option

Motor type (anagram)

Profession concerned with refraction

Eye-opening career

Tune Polly played in luxury

Not at all poorly

Like the overendowed tup, lonely when doctored

Orality

Orangy

Swinger at the zoo

Literally, "man of the forest"

Simian of Indonesia

Places of prayer

Prayrooms (wordplay)

Small private chapels

Handel bars (wordplay)

"Messiah" et al.

Some Handel opera

Oratrix

Players with excited roar about 16, say

Boston Pops, for one

Musicians in a pit (wordplay)

Counterparts of abscissae

Appoints.

They play while people pray

They may be heard in a temple

They often play at stadiums

Tragic love is crazy and wild

Like a really wild party

Of frantic unrestrained celebrations

Oribatid

Poor relations living in China, say

Poor relations who live in China, say

Manchurians, for example

Face the East in entire Tao, perhaps

Get one's bearings

Turn in a certain direction.

One who should not get lost in Leyton!

Take part in a map-reading sport

Run with aid of map and compass

Ascertaining the bearings of.

Turning in an indicated direction.

Getting one's bearings

Be the first to perform (a role)

Start to speak about one mother's ruin

Invent, bring something into being

Bulbs, for example

Trinkets on trees

Tars: men on stormy decks

Ornery

""An amino acid, C 5 H 12 N 2 O 2 , not found in proteins, formed by hydrolyzing arginine and important in the formation of urea.""

Aneroid barometers

Orpiment

Fragrant rhizome of Florentine iris

Pulverized perfumery item

Ingredient in sachet powder.

Orthicon

What most people believe

Accepted belief and practice

Conforming belief