2-Letter Words Starting with O

Sediment from river, say

Slip through the cracks (wordplay)

Go like goo (wordplay)

Like mud between one's toes, say

Like mud between the toes, perhaps

Like tar pits

Pilaf pasta, perhaps

Rice-a-roni (wordplay)

Rice rival (wordplay)

Strong stuff in a taverna

My Big Fat Greek Wedding libation

Greek aniseed spirit

Court order (wordplay)

Town crier's call (Z, not S)

Now hear this!

Acted like a sap (wordplay)

Moved like goo (wordplay)

Fell through the cracks (wordplay)

Breathing spaces (wordplay)

Falls through the cracks (wordplay)

Moves like molasses in January

Rice-like pastas

Rice-shaped pastas

Lamb side dishes

Dipper or blackbird

Blackbird or thrush.

Dipper of the feathered kind

Liqueurs often served with lamb

Anise-flavored liqueurs

Shots often taken in Crete

Australia up for one layer? Great gas!

O, three for one layer!

Great gas for one from Australia!

More messy, maybe

Having more seepage

More like sap

How mud might move

How the Blob moves

How slimy stuff seeps

Start off bender with a leak (wordplay)

Losing fluid? Don't start drinking!

Trickling through the cracks

European diving birds

White-crescented thrushes

European blackbirds

Pure airs Colloq.

Forms of oxygen.

Forms of oxygen

Like a damaged atmospheric layer

Of an air component.

Of an oxidizing agent.

""To mark with an obelus, also OBELISE""

Make scents of (wordplay)

Give a scent to

Add scent to

Most likely to seep through cracks

Runniest and squishiest

Muddiest

Thin, stiff fabric

Instrument to last with a material

Bridal gown material

Extra-large (garment)

Extra large (clothes)

Much larger than average, say clothes

A chemical compound

Become ash, maybe

Go from aluminum to alumina, say

Form rust, say

Compound containing oxygen.

""To convert into ozone, also OZONIZE""

""To convert into ozone, also OZONISE""

Pertaining to {ozone=n}

Marked a word or passage with a dagger-sign

Obelize

Scented

Odorize

Seepy sliminess

""To form opsonins in, also OPSONISE, OPSONIFY""

Make the best of

Make as good as possible

Make as good as can be

Undo a mess

Do union work

Form a labor union

Organza

To surpass in brilliance of light

Larger than normal

Larger than normal for its kind

Too large.

Is bigger than

More than large

Larger than life

Like some loads

Excess or zeal

A tranquilizing drug

Oxazine

Rusted, say

Formed rust

Maderized

Air, vis-a-vis wine

Removes electrons from

Gets rusty, for example

Develops rust

Chemical compounds

Ozonise

Love is in district with school head it creates an atmosphere (wordplay)

Cleaned without chlorine

Water-purifying machine

Treats with a certain gas

Obelize

Odorize

Opsonize

Opsonize

Optimize

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

Optimize

Kind of labor.

Emulated Obama, in his pre-Senate days

In apple-pie order

PalmPilot, for one

PDA, for example

Back-to-school purchase

Sorts out

Systematizes

""A kind of double thrown silk of very fine texture, that is, silk twisted like a rope with different strands, so as to increase its strength.""

Exclude from society

Banish from social favor.

Send to Coventry.

Outblaze

Outblaze

To surpass in dazzing.

Extra decoration on ceramic finish

Misuse a pastureland

What sheep and cows may do no more, a poet's said

Treasure too highly

Like most theater popcorn containers

Too big for comfort

Like a wide load

Such as XL and I zero in on nameless poetry

Overzeal

Oxazepam

Oxidizer

Oxidize

""A waxlike mineral resin; sometimes called native paraffin, and mineral wax. native paraffin, and mineral wax.""

""A yellow-brown to black or green hydrocarbon wax, found in irregular veins in sandstones and used in making electrical insulation and polishes.""

Ozonate

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

Ozonise

Ozonizer

Ozonize

Ooziness

Opsonize

Optimizer

Optimize

Labor-union officials.

They may be electronic

Party leaders.

Organize

Organzine

'Ground Zero' cast I'd banished

Excluded from society

Socially spurned

Kicks out

Outblaze

OUTDAZZLE To surpass in dazzing.

Outdazzle

Overglaze

GRAZED graze

Overgraze

Valued too highly

Overprize

Capable of being oxidized.

Ozocerite

Ozokerite

Ozonation

""Capable of being organized; esp. (Biol.), capable of being formed into living tissue; as, organizable matter. (Biol.), capable of being formed into living tissue; as, organizable matter.""

To render Oriental; to cause to conform to Oriental manners or conditions.

""OSTRACIZE To exile by ostracism; to banish by a popular vote, as at Athens.""

OUTDAZZLE To surpass in dazzing.

OUTORGANIZE

Figure to a fault

GRAZING land used for feeding animals

PRIZING prize

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

Eager to a fault

Too full of enthusiasm

Gung-ho to a fault

Ozonation.

Layer 12 to 30 miles up.

Layer of the upper atmosphere

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

""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.""

ORIENTALIZE to render Oriental; to cause to conform to Oriental manners or conditions.

Orientalize

OUTORGANIZE

Outorganize

ANALYZED analyze

Overanalyze

""IDEALIZE to regard as perfect, also IDEALISE""

""ORGANIZE to form into an organic whole, also ORGANISE""

UTILIZED utilize

Overutilize

Ozonization

Ozonosphere

""OCCIDENTAL Of, pertaining to, or situated in, the occident, or west; western; opposed to oriental; as, occidental climates, or customs; an occidental planet. oriental; as, occidental climates, or customs; an occidental planet.""

Optimization

Organization

ORIENTALIZE to render Oriental; to cause to conform to Oriental manners or conditions.

""ORTHOGONAL Rightangled; rectangular; as, an orthogonal intersection of one curve with another. as, an orthogonal intersection of one curve with another.""

OUTORGANIZE

ANALYZING analyze

CIVILIZED civilize

To present in an overly dramatic manner.

""EMPHASIZE To utter or pronounce with a particular stress of voice; to make emphatic; as, to emphasize a word or a phrase. as, to emphasize a word or a phrase.""

""FERTILIZE To make fertile or enrich; to supply with nourishment for plants; to make fruitful or productive; as, to fertilize land, soil, ground, and meadows. as, to fertilize land, soil, ground, and meadows.""

""Inflected form of GLAMORIZE Inflected form of GLAMOR to bewitch, also GLAMOUR""

IDEALIZED idealize

Overidealize

ORGANIZED organize

Overorganize

UTILIZING utilize

OCCIDENTALIZE

Occidentalize

""Of or pertaining to organization; as, organizational structure.as, organizational structure.""

ORTHOGONALIZE

Orthogonalize

Past tense or past participle

""CAPITALIZE To convert into capital, or to use as capital.""

""CENTRALIZE To draw or bring to a center point; to gather into or about a center; to bring into one system, or under one control.""

""Inflected form of DRAMATIZED Inflected form of DRAMATIZE To compose in the form of the drama; to represent in a drama; to adapt to dramatic representation; as, to dramatize a novel, or an historical episode. as, to dramatize a novel, or an historical episode.""

Overdramatize

Given excessive weight, very large map he stupidly put inside

Overemphasize

FERTILIZED united with a male gamete to begin the development of an individual embryo; -- of female gametes.

Overfertilize

GENERALIZE To bring under a genus or under genera; to view in relation to a genus or to genera.

Inflected form of GLAMORIZED Inflected form of GLAMORIZE

Overglamorize

""HOMOGENIZE To blend (a collection of unlike elements) together so as to make the whole uniform in character, composition, or function.""

IDEALIZING idealize

ORGANIZING organize

SPECIALIZE To mention specialy; to particularize.

OCCIDENTALIZE

""A polymer that consists of two, three, or four monomers.""

ORTHOGONALIZE

Too highly valued, as a business

Estimates the value of property too highly

""CENTRALIZED drawn toward a center or brought under the control of a central authority; as, centralized control of emergency relief efforts; centralized government. Opposite of decentralized.as, centralized control of emergency relief efforts; centralized government. Opposite of decentralized.""

Overcentralize

""Inflected form of DRAMATIZING Inflected form of DRAMATIZE To compose in the form of the drama; to represent in a drama; to adapt to dramatic representation; as, to dramatize a novel, or an historical episode. as, to dramatize a novel, or an historical episode.""

Attaching too much weight to

Stressing excessively

Finished the map off, losing time measuring and marking too much

""Inflected form of FERTILIZING Inflected form of FERTILIZE To make fertile or enrich; to supply with nourishment for plants; to make fruitful or productive; as, to fertilize land, soil, ground, and meadows. as, to fertilize land, soil, ground, and meadows.""

""GENERALIZED Comprising structural characters which are separated in more specialized forms; synthetic; as, a generalized type. as, a generalized type.""

Has nonspecific opinions, e.g

Has nonspecific opinions, for example

Inflected form of GLAMORIZING Inflected form of GLAMORIZE

""HOMOGENIZED formed by blending unlike elements, especially by reducing one element to particles and dispersing them throughout another substance.""

Overhomogenize

Inflected form of SPECIALIZED Inflected form of SPECIALIZE To mention specialy; to particularize.

Overspecialize

Exploitation to the point of diminishing returns.

Overzealous

Arthritis drug [41 points]