2-Letter Words Starting with O

Forward

Proceeding

Command to go forward

A selfish sort of goal (wordplay)

Be entitled (wordplay)

This goal is scored for one's opponents

Breaking a mirror, maybe (wordplay)

Broken mirror, maybe

Gregory Peck film (with "The")

Word a dentist says

Word in a magic saying.

No salt in polentas? Honest!

Dutch, for one

Child's chamber (wordplay)

Finisher in a bake-off (wordplay)

Draft choices (wordplay)

Hauling pair, perhaps

The yoke's on them (wordplay)

Like many sherry casks

Type of old bucket.

Make of oak

Something of the grain of an ox, perhaps

Like a Cheerio, say

Like the grain of the ox, perhaps

Continental divide (wordplay)

Sea - canoe (anagram)

Pacific place (wordplay)

Occurring every eight days

Recurring on the 8th day.

Recurring every eighth day.

Nickel finish (wordplay)

Nickel add-on (wordplay)

Theater hall (Var.)

Frequently decimal (wordplay)

X's (wordplay)

It's usually X's, perhaps

Times before 1990 to Gen Zers, maybe

Led on (anagram)

(Of days) in the long distant past!

Fatty liquid (anagram of NO LIE)

Fatty liquid anagram of NO LIE

The liquid part of fat

Frank option (wordplay)

Bermuda, for one

Thin-skinned one (wordplay)

A type of {protein=n}

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

Owse

Get the boat broken in (wordplay)

Get on a bit maybe

Opposite of "give up"

Tin Man accessory (wordplay)

Small lubricant applicator (3,3)

The Tinman's first aid kit (wordplay)

J.R. Ewing, for one

Crude guy (wordplay)

Getty, for one

Drill instructors (wordplay)

Drill team (wordplay)

Crude types? They work well!

Type of hydrocarbon; no life (anagram)

Kind of synthetic textile fiber

Type of hydrocarbon

Unit of gene activity

Coordinated gene cluster

Cluster of genes

Question the validity of (something)

Dispute the truth of

Question the validity of

Ski rack, maybe

New potion? Take it or leave it!

Auto upgrade, perhaps

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

Bone's basis

Collagen component of bone

Basis of bone

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}

O, that great gas!

Burning need (wordplay)

O for this help up a mountain!

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

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""

Bribes relatives as protection

Crude film that's about a sailor

Fisherman's wear

Foreign letter - I'm no roc (anagram)

Head of Olympus (wordplay)

Circular Greek letter

Greek letter Var.

Greek letter variable

Leader leader (wordplay)

Angle round wing

View over wing

Person living in a town

Urban work by sanctimonious boy

Work in pad over in town ...

An antibody of blood serum

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

Imperial seat (wordplay)

Place to put your dogs up (wordplay)

A sat-upon empire (wordplay)

A cardiac stimulant

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

Of an egg-producing gland

Reproductive, in a way

Of a reproductive organ

Too vain (anagram)

No tax? One working gives applause!

Sustained applause (may be standing)

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)

Offering bool in latin (wordplay)

Offering to a deity.

Offering to a divine being

Its nowhere to be remembered in blackout

State of being totally forgotten

Died with violin play and forgetfulness

Black volcanic rock

Dark glassy rock formed from lava

Stranger is on a bid for some dark glass

Time (maybe special)

Cocoa's in (anagram)

Cause for a party (wordplay)

One of racially mixed ancestry

""Pertaining to a child's sexual feeling to a parent, also OEDIPAL""

Skipping over the Alamo, say

Skipper's result (wordplay)

Round trip perhaps getting cut

A marine food fish

Pertaining to snakes

Snake concealed by boy at work

Snake-related

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

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

It induces milk letdown, for example

Hormone important in childbirth

Pituitary hormone

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

Notice job is to be relocated - protest!

Statement of protest

Don't like the thing with one on the end

Sitting with old boy on hobby-horse

That's a thing one has

Fixed idea of old boy prior to meeting

""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

Obstruction, blockage

Stopping up

1 followed by 27 zeros

Thousand raised to the ninth power

Billion cubed

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.

Sense of smell

Act or function of smelling

Official who hears complaints

*Official who hears complaints

Public-advocate official

Consumer advocates

Lily perhaps producing thin paper

Type of paper.

Kind of paper

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

The albumin of egg white.

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

Egg drop (wordplay)

Part of the menstrual cycle

Turn left amid cheers for release

""A semisynthetic penicillin effective against penicillin-resistant infections, especially those of staphylococci.""

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)

Tyranny

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

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

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}

CONCERN to be of interest to

EXPLAIN to make clear and understandable

SWEETEN to make {sweet=adj}

TIGHTEN to make {taut=adj}

PURPLE

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

What blood undergoes in the lungs

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

Ozonation.

Fantastic lob before repeat loss

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

Utter destruction