2-Letter Words Starting with O

Something of the grain of an ox, perhaps

Like a Cheerio, say

Like the grain of the ox, perhaps

Occurring every eight days

Recurring on the 8th day.

Recurring every eighth day.

Frequently decimal (wordplay)

X's (wordplay)

It's usually X's, perhaps

Get the boat broken in (wordplay)

Get on a bit maybe

Opposite of "give up"

Ski rack, maybe

New potion? Take it or leave it!

Auto upgrade, perhaps

Defeat in battle

Have superior firepower over

Have more firepower than

Have more warriors

Have greater numbers than

Overwhelm, in a sense

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

To surpass in {sinning=v}

What one ate besides this (wordplay)

Figure-of-eight (wordplay)

It may say "STOP"

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

Stumped words (wordplay)

Webster delivery of old (wordplay)

Allowance sent from old address

Is Lorna to get the bird (wordplay)

Old World bunting

Old-World bird

Imperial seat (wordplay)

Place to put your dogs up (wordplay)

A sat-upon empire (wordplay)

To burn longer than

Make over (wordplay)

Pull down more than

Get paid more than

To surpass in fawning

To gain more than

To surpass in grinning

Outlie

To surpass in planning

Outsee

Sat upon (anagram)

Unyoke oxen (from a cart)

Unharness(ing) after trek

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No longer current

Too vain (anagram)

No tax? One working gives applause!

Sustained applause (may be standing)

Offering bool in latin (wordplay)

Offering to a deity.

Offering to a divine being

One of racially mixed ancestry

Visionary professional (wordplay)

One with a lot of contacts (wordplay)

Good-looking expert (wordplay)

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

Shown up at a restaurant (wordplay)

Outfly

To frown more than

Outgive

Outgnaw

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

Too {thin=adj}

Reverse (legal ruling)

Rev, O, up set (wordplay)

Capsize the open vase (wordplay)

It induces milk letdown, for example

Hormone important in childbirth

Pituitary hormone

Notice job is to be relocated - protest!

Statement of protest

Don't like the thing with one on the end

""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.""

Blocking of applause with both second and first entries

1 followed by 27 zeros

Thousand raised to the ninth power

Billion cubed

Sense of smell

Act or function of smelling

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

Outbid

Word with prefix out-

Outdrive

Beaten in a horse race

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

Inclined to say exactly what one thinks

That's quite blunt

Frank has wrong number around radius

Outthrow

Polished off three pizzas, say

Taken too much as a matter of course

Vere! An X means you've taken too much

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

Egg drop (wordplay)

Part of the menstrual cycle

Turn left amid cheers for release

Rusty beastification (wordplay)

Electron loss, to chemists

Loss of electrons during a reaction

Kin of a pearl diver (wordplay)

The Walrus and the Carpenter, by choice.

Mollusk chasers

""The act of treating with ozone; also, the act of converting into, or producing, ozone; ozonization.""

Bond's got no alibi prepared

Task at hand

The burden of debt

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

Calling for work (wordplay)

Cop working with caution - it's his job!

An orphan in The Idiot

A figure once hard to work out

Solid anchored to fluid

Cartoon he'd redrawn, taking solid form

Antagonism in workplace (wordplay)

Workplace rivals (wordplay)

Confrontation in workplace (wordplay)

That's been the making of Father

A lot of bull in one of four

In ceremony, noise interrupts speech

Act of kissing

Spooning Pasteur's third inoculation (wordplay)

Performance of coital nous in close contact

Word with prefix out-

OUTCHIDE to surpass in chiding

OUTSTATE to surpass in {stating=v}

Outwrite

Excessive performance

Overbeat

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

Intentional confusion

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

""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.""

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.

Program for freshmen

What a freshman needs

Relative position

Beginning (six letters)

Process of creation

True source.

One of the Orthoptera.

Cycle - 5 down (anagram)

Movement to and fro

Rhythmic swinging to and fro

Showing off, so attention is diverted

Gaudy display

Pretentious display

""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}

SWEETEN to make {sweet=adj}

TIGHTEN to make {taut=adj}

PURPLE

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

What blood undergoes in the lungs

Ozonation.

Fantastic lob before repeat loss

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

Utter destruction

Clouding stink over knight with general rejoicing losing head

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

English word

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

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

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.""

Action is so, if developing then hardening

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

The cardinal number equal to 10 57 .

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.""

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.

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.""

Dehumanising, if CIA somehow infiltrates dissent

""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