| O: | O the fifteenth letter of the English alphabet derives its form value and name from the Greek O through the Latin The letter came into the Greek from the Pho is most closely related to a e and u as in E bone AS bben E stone AS stben E broke AS brecan to break E bore AS beran to bear E dove AS dfe E toft tuft tone tune number F nombre |
| O: | The letter O or its sound |
| O: | A prefix to Irish family names which signifies grandson or descendant of and is a character of dignity as ONeil OCarrol |
| O: | A shortened form of of or on |
| O: | One |
| O: | An exclamation used in calling or directly addressing a person or personified object also as an emotional or impassioned exclamation expressing pain grief surprise desire fear etc |
| Oad: | See Woad |
| Oaf: | Originally an elfs child a changeling left by fairies or goblins hence a deformed or foolish child a simpleton an idiot |
| Oafish: | Like an oaf simple or clumsy |
| Oaken: | Made or consisting of oaks or of the wood of oaks |
| Oaker: | See Ocher |
| Oakling: | A young oak |
| Oakum: | The material obtained by untwisting and picking into loose fiber old hemp ropes used for calking the seams of ships stopping leaks etc |
| Oaky: | Resembling oak strong |
| Oar: | To row |
| Oared: | Furnished with oars chiefly used in composition as a fouroared boat |
| Oarfish: | The ribbon fish |
| Oarfoot: | Any crustacean of the genus Remipes |
| Oarfooted: | Having feet adapted for swimming |
| Oarless: | Without oars |
| Oarlock: | The notch fork or other device on the gunwale of a boat in which the oar rests and that holds the oar in place and acts as a fulcrum for rowing Certain oarlocks are designed for use with oars having attached swivels which insert into the oarlock and provide a firm pivot Same as Rowlock1 |
| Oarsman: | One who uses or is skilled in the use of an oar a rower |
| oarsmanship: | skill as an oarsman |
| Oarsweed: | Any large seaweed of the genus Laminaria tangle kelp See Kelp |
| oarswoman: | a woman oarsman |
| Oary: | Having the form or the use of an oar as the swans oary feet |
| OAS: | The Organization of American States an international association of countries in the Western hemisphere It was created in 1948 to promote military and economic and social and cultural cooperation |
| Oasis: | A fertile or green spot in a waste or desert esp in a sandy desert where the water table approaches the surface |
| Oast: | A kiln to dry hops or malt a cockle |
| Oat: | A wellknown cereal grass Avena sativa and its edible grain used as food and fodder commonly used in the plural and in a collective sense |
| Oatcake: | A cake made of oatmeal |
| Oaten: | Consisting of an oat straw or stem as an oaten pipe |
| Oath: | A solemn affirmation or declaration made with a reverent appeal to God for the truth of what is affirmed |
| Oathable: | Capable of having an oath administered to |
| Oathbreaking: | The violation of an oath perjury |
| Oatmeal: | Meal made of oats |
| Ob: | A prefix signifying to toward before against reversely etc also as a simple intensive as in oblige to bind to obstacle something standing before object lit to throw against obovate reversely or oppositely ovate Ob is commonly assimilated before c f g and p to oc of og and op |
| Obcompressed: | Compressed or flattened anteroposteriorly or in a way opposite to the usual one |
| Obconic: | Conical but having the apex downward inversely conical |
| Obcordate: | Heartshaped with the attachment at the pointed end inversely cordate as an obcordate petal or leaf |
| Obdiplostemonous: | Having twice as many stamens as petals those of the outer set being opposite the petals said of flowers |
| Obdiplostemony: | The condition of being obdiplostemonous |
| Obdormition: | Sleep |
| Obduce: | To draw over as a covering |
| Obduct: | To draw over to cover |
| Obduction: | The act of drawing or laying over as a covering |
| Obduracy: | The duality or state of being obdurate invincible hardness of heart obstinacy |
| Obdurate: | Hardened in feelings esp against moral or mollifying influences unyielding hardhearted stubbornly wicked |
| Obdurate: | To harden |
| Obduration: | A hardening of the heart hardness of heart |
| Obdure: | To harden |
| Obdure: | Obdurate hard |
| Obdureness: | Hardness |
| Obe: | See Obi |
| Obeah: | Same as Obi |
| obechi: | A large Western African tree Triplochiton scleroxcylon having large palmately lobed leaves and axillary cymose panicles of small white flowers and onewinged seeds it yields soft white to pale yellow wood |
| Obedible: | Obedient |
| Obedience: | The act of obeying or the state of being obedient compliance with that which is required by authority subjection to rightful restraint or control |
| Obedienciary: | One yielding obedience |
| Obedient: | Subject in will or act to authority willing to obey submissive to restraint control or command |
| Obediential: | According to the rule of obedience |
| Obediently: | In an obedient manner with obedience |
| Obeisance: | Obedience |
| Obeisancy: | See Obeisance |
| Obeisant: | Ready to obey reverent deferential also servilely submissive |
| dObelion: | The region of the skull between the two parietal foramina where the closure of the sagittal suture usually begins |
| Obeliscal: | Formed like an obelisk |
| obelisk: | An upright foursided pillar gradually tapering as it rises and terminating in a pyramid called pyramidion It is ordinarily monolithic Egyptian obelisks are commonly covered with hieroglyphic writing from top to bottom |
| Obelisk: | To mark or designate with an obelisk |
| Obelize: | To designate with an obelus to mark as doubtful or spirituous |
| dObelus: | A mark thus mdash or f6 so called as resembling a needle In old MSS or editions of the classics it marks suspected passages or readings |
| Obequitate: | To ride about |
| Oberon: | The king of the fairies and husband of Titania or Queen Mab |
| Oberration: | A wandering about |
| Obese: | Excessively corpulent fat fleshy |
| Obeseness: | Quality of being obese obesity |
| obesity: | The state or quality of being obese excessive body weight incumbrance of flesh |
| Obey: | To give ear to to execute the commands of to yield submission to to comply with the orders of |
| Obey: | To give obedience |
| Obeyer: | One who yields obedience |
| Obeyingly: | Obediently submissively |
| Obfirm: | To make firm to harden in resolution |
| Obfirmation: | Hardness of heart obduracy |
| Obfuscate: | Obfuscated darkened obscured |
| Obfuscate: | To darken to obscure to becloud |
| Obfuscation: | The act of darkening or bewildering the state of being darkened |
| Obi: | A species of sorcery probably of African origin practiced among the negroes of the West Indies |
| Obi: | A sash esp the long beltlike broad sash of soft material worn by women aound the waist when wearing a traditional kimono and usually having a large bow at the back |
| Obiism: | Belief in or the practice of the obi superstitions and rites |
| Obimbricate: | Imbricated with the overlapping ends directed downward |
| Obit: | Death decease the date of ones death |
| dObiter: | In passing incidentally by the way |
| obiterdictum: | An incidental and collateral opinion uttered by a judge See Dictum n 2 a |
| Obitual: | Of or pertaining to obits or days when obits are celebrated as obitual days |
| Obituarily: | In the manner of an obituary |
| Obituary: | Of or pertaining to the death of a person or persons as an obituary notice obituary poetry |
| obituary: | That which pertains to or is called forth by the obit or death of a person esp an account of a deceased person |
| Object: | To set before or against to bring into opposition to oppose |
| Object: | To make opposition in words or argument to express ones displeasure usually followed by to as she objected to his vulgar language |
| Object: | That which is put or which may be regarded as put in the way of some of the senses something visible or tangible and persists for an appreciable time as he observed an object in the distance all the objects in sight he touched a strange object in the dark |
| Object: | Opposed presented in opposition also exposed |
| Objectable: | Such as can be presented in opposition that may be put forward as an objection |
| objectfile: | A computer program which has been translated into machine language by a compiler and assembler but not yet linked into an executable program sometimes called an obj file because its file name typically has the extension bdobjb8 |
| objectification: | representing as an object |
| Objectify: | To cause to become an object to cause to assume the character of an object to represent or consider as an object to render objective |
| Objection: | The act of objecting as to prevent agreement or action by objection |
| Objectionable: | Liable to objection likely to be objected to or disapproved of offensive as objectionable words |
| Objectist: | One who adheres to or is skilled in the objective philosophy |
| Objectivate: | To objectify |
| Objectivation: | Converting into an object |
| Objective: | Of or pertaining to an object |
| Objective: | The objective case |
| objectivelens: | An object glass See under Object n |
| Objectively: | In the manner or state of an object as a determinate idea objectively in the mind |
| Objectiveness: | Objectivity |
| Objectivity: | The state quality or relation of being objective character of the object or of the objective |
| Objectize: | To make an object of to regard as an object to place in the position of an object |
| Objectless: | Having no object purposeless |
| Objector: | One who objects one who offers objections to a proposition or measure |
| objectoriented: | Using data structures called objects which encapsulate data and typically are accessed by passing messages which in turn may trigger internal procedures within the object which are invisible outside the object |
| Objibways: | See Chippeways |
| Objicient: | One who makes objection an objector |
| Objuration: | A binding by oath |
| Objurgate: | To chide to reprove |
| Objurgation: | The act of objurgating reproof |
| Objurgatory: | Designed to objurgate or chide containing or expressing reproof culpatory |
| Oblanceolate: | Lanceolate in the reversed order that is narrowing toward the point of attachment more than toward the apex |
| Oblate: | One of an association of priests or religious women who have offered themselves to the service of the church There are three such associations of priests and one of women called oblates |
| Oblateness: | The quality or state of being oblate |
| dOblati: | Children dedicated in their early years to the monastic state |
| Oblation: | The act of offering or of making an offering |
| Oblationer: | One who makes an offering as an act worship or reverence |
| Oblatrate: | To bark or snarl as a dog |
| Oblatration: | The act of oblatrating a barking or snarling |
| dOblatum: | An oblate spheroid a figure described by the revolution of an ellipse about its minor axis Cf Oblongum |
| Oblectate: | To delight to please greatly |
| Oblectation: | The act of pleasing highly the state of being greatly pleased delight |
| Obligable: | Acknowledging or complying with obligation trustworthy |
| Obligate: | To bring or place under obligation moral or legal to hold by a constraining motive |
| obligated: | under a moral obligation to someone |
| Obligation: | The act of obligating |
| obligational: | relating or constituting or qualified to create a legal or financial obligation as obligational authority |
| dObligato: | See Obbligato |
| Obligatorily: | In an obligatory manner by reason of obligation |
| Obligatoriness: | The quality or state of being obligatory |
| Obligatory: | Binding in law or conscience imposing duty or obligation requiring performance or forbearance of some act often followed by on or upon as obedience is obligatory on a soldier |
| Oblige: | To attach as by a bond |
| obligee: | The person to whom another is bound or the person to whom a bond is given |
| obligement: | Obligation |
| obliger: | One who or that which obliges |
| obliging: | Putting under obligation disposed to oblige or do favors hence helpful civil kind |
| Obligor: | The person who binds himself or gives his bond to another |
| Obliquation: | The act of becoming oblique a turning to one side obliquity as the obliquation of the eyes |
| Oblique: | An oblique line |
| Oblique: | To deviate from a perpendicular line to move in an oblique direction |
| Obliqueangled: | Having oblique angles as an obliqueangled triangle |
| Obliquely: | In an oblique manner not directly indirectly |
| Obliqueness: | Quality or state of being oblique |
| Obliquity: | 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 |
| Oblite: | Indistinct slurred over |
| Obliterate: | To erase or blot out to efface to render undecipherable as a writing |
| Obliterate: | Scarcely distinct applied to the markings of insects |
| obliterated: | destroyed so thoroughly as to be unrecognizable or imperceptible |
| obliterating: | making undecipherable or imperceptible as obliterating mists |
| Obliteration: | The act of obliterating or the state of being obliterated extinction |
| Obliterative: | Tending or serving to obliterate |
| Oblivion: | The act of forgetting or the state of being forgotten cessation of remembrance forgetfulness |
| obliviousness: | total forgetfulness |
| Oblocutor: | A disputer a gainsayer |
| Oblong: | Having greater length than breadth esp when rectangular |
| Oblong: | A rectangular figure longer than it is broad hence any figure longer than it is broad |
| dOblongata: | The medulla oblongata |
| Oblongatal: | Of or pertaining to the medulla oblongata medullar |
| Oblongish: | Somewhat oblong |
| Oblongly: | In an oblong form |
| Oblongness: | State or quality of being oblong |
| Oblongovate: | Between oblong and ovate but inclined to the latter |
| dOblongum: | A prolate spheroid a figure described by the revolution of an ellipse about its greater axis Cf Oblatum and see Ellipsoid of revolution under Ellipsoid |
| Obloquious: | Containing obloquy reproachful |
| Obloquy: | Censorious speech defamatory language language that casts contempt on men or their actions blame reprehension |
| Obluctation: | A struggle against resistance opposition |
| Obmutescence: | A becoming dumb loss of speech |
| Obnoxious: | Subject liable exposed answerable amenable with to |
| Obnubilate: | To cloud to obscure |
| Oboe: | One of the higher wind instruments in the modern orchestra yet of great antiquity having a penetrating pastoral quality of tone somewhat like the clarinet in form but more slender and sounded by means of a double reed a hautboy |
| Oboist: | A performer on the oboe |
| Obolary: | Possessing only small coins impoverished |
| Obole: | A weight of twelve grains or according to some of ten grains or half a scruple |
| Obolize: | See Obelize |
| Obolo: | A copper coin used in the Ionian Islands about one cent in value |
| dObolus: | A small silver coin of Athens the sixth part of a drachma about three cents in value |
| Obomegoid: | Obversely omegoid |
| Oboval: | Obovate |
| Obovate: | Inversely ovate ovate with the narrow end downward as an obovate leaf |
| Obreption: | The act of creeping upon with secrecy or by surprise |
| Obreptitious: | Done or obtained by surprise with secrecy or by concealment of the truth |
| Obrogate: | To annul indirectly by enacting a new and contrary law instead of by expressly abrogating or repealing the old one |
| dObrok: | A rent |
| Obscenity: | That quality in words or things which presents what is offensive to chastity or purity of mind obscene or impure lanquage or acts moral impurity lewdness obsceneness as the obscenity of a speech or a picture |
| Obscurant: | One who obscures one who prevents enlightenment or hinders the progress of knowledge and wisdom |
| Obscurantism: | The system or the principles of the obscurants |
| Obscurantist: | Same as Obscurant |
| Obscuration: | The act or operation of obscuring the state of being obscured as the obscuration of the moon in an eclipse |
| Obscure: | To render obscure to darken to make dim to keep in the dark to hide to make less visible intelligible legible glorious beautiful or illustrious |
| Obscure: | To conceal ones self to hide to keep dark |
| Obscure: | Obscurity |
| Obscurely: | In an obscure manner |
| Obscurement: | The act of obscuring or the state of being obscured obscuration |
| Obscureness: | Obscurity |
| Obscurer: | One who or that which obscures |
| obscurity: | The quality or state of being obscure |
| obsecrate: | To beseech to supplicate to implore |
| obsecration: | The act of obsecrating or imploring as the obsecrations of the Litany being those clauses beginning with bdByb8 |
| Obsecratory: | Expressing or used in entreaty supplicatory |
| Obsequent: | Obedient submissive obsequious |
| Obsequience: | Obsequiousness |
| Obsequies: | See Obsequy |
| Obsequious: | Promptly obedient or submissive to the will of another compliant yielding to the desires of another devoted |
| Obsequiously: | In an obsequious manner compliantly fawningly |
| Obsequiousness: | The quality or state of being obsequious |
| Obsequy: | The last duty or service to a person rendered after his death hence a rite or ceremony pertaining to burial now used only in the plural |
| Observable: | Capable of being observed discernible noticeable |
| Observance: | The act or practice of observing or noticing with attention a heeding or keeping with care performance usually with a sense of strictness and fidelity as the observance of the Sabbath is general the strict observance of duties |
| Observancy: | Observance |
| dObservandum: | A thing to be observed |
| Observant: | Taking notice viewing or noticing attentively watchful carefully attentive as an observant spectator observant habits |
| Observant: | One who observes forms and rules |
| Observantine: | One of a branch of the Order of Franciscans who profess to adhere more strictly than the Conventuals to the intention of the founder especially as to poverty called also Observants |
| Observantly: | In an observant manner |
| Observation: | The act or the faculty of observing or taking notice the act of seeing or of fixing the mind upon anything |
| Observational: | Of or pertaining to observation consisting of or containing observations |
| Observationcar: | A railway passenger car made so as to facilitate seeing the scenery en route a car open or with glass sides or with a kind of open balcony at the rear |
| Observationdeck: | A room or platform at a high point in a tall building with a broad view of the surrounding area It is often an outdoor platform but is sometimes indoors in a room with large windows to accommodate viewing |
| Observationpost: | a military outpost usually at a height above the surrounding terrain at or near the front line of a battle from which an observer may see the enemys positions and direct artillery fire |
| Observative: | Observing watchful |
| Observator: | One who observes or takes notice |
| Observatory: | A place or building for making observations on the heavenly bodies |
| Observe: | To take notice of by appropriate conduct to conform ones action or practice to to keep to heed to obey to comply with as to observe rules or commands to observe civility |
| Observe: | To take notice to give attention to what one sees or hears to attend |
| observed: | perceived with the eyes and sometimes with other senses as no explanation for the observed phenomena |
| Observer: | One who observes or pays attention to anything especially one engaged in or trained to habits of close and exact observation as an astronomical observer |
| Observership: | The office or work of an observer |
| Observing: | Giving particular attention habitually attentive to what passes observant1 as an observing person an observing mind |
| obsess: | To besiege to beset |
| obsess: | To be excessively or persistently preoccupied with something usually used with on or over as to obsess over an imagined insult |
| obsessed: | having or showing excessive or compulsive concern used with with |
| Obsession: | The act of besieging |
| obsessional: | Persistently and abnormally preoccupied with some unreasonable idea |
| obsidian: | A kind of glass produced by volcanoes It is usually of a black color and opaque except in thin splinters |
| Obsidional: | Of or pertaining to a siege |
| Obsigillation: | A sealing up |
| Obsign: | To seal to confirm as by a seal or stamp |
| Obsignate: | To seal to ratify |
| Obsignation: | The act of sealing or ratifying the state of being sealed or confirmed confirmation as by the Holy Spirit |
| Obsignatory: | Ratifying confirming by sealing |
| Obsolesce: | To become obsolescent |
| Obsolescence: | The state of becoming obsolete |
| Obsolescent: | Going out of use becoming obsolete passing into desuetude |
| Obsolete: | No longer in use gone into disuse disused neglected as an obsolete word an obsolete statute applied chiefly to words writings or observances |
| Obsolete: | To become obsolete to go out of use |
| Obsoletely: | In an obsolete manner |
| Obsoleteness: | The state of being obsolete or no longer used a state of desuetude |
| Obsoletism: | A disused word or phrase an archaism |
| Obstacle: | That which stands in the way or opposes anything that hinders progress a hindrance an obstruction physical or moral |
| Obstancy: | Opposition impediment obstruction |
| Obstetric: | Of or pertaining to childbirth midwifery or the period around the time of the birth of children as the obstetric art |
| Obstetricate: | To perform the office of midwife |
| Obstetricate: | To assist as a midwife |
| Obstetrication: | The act of assisting as a midwife delivery |
| Obstetrician: | One skilled in obstetrics an accoucheur especially a physician who specializes in obstetrics |
| Obstetricious: | Serving to assist childbirth obstetric hence facilitating any bringing forth or deliverance |
| Obstetrics: | The science of midwifery |
| Obstetricy: | Obstetrics |
| Obstinacy: | A fixedness in will opinion or resolution that can not be shaken at all or only with great difficulty firm and usually unreasonable adherence to an opinion purpose or system unyielding disposition stubborness pertinacity persistency contumacy |
| Obstinate: | Pertinaciously adhering to an opinion purpose or course persistent not yielding to reason arguments or other means stubborn pertinacious usually implying unreasonableness |
| Obstination: | Obstinacy stubbornness |
| Obstipation: | The act of stopping up as a passage |
| Obstreperous: | Attended by or making a loud and tumultuous noise clamorous noisy vociferous |
| Obstriction: | The state of being constrained bound or obliged that which constrains or obliges obligation bond |
| Obstringe: | To constrain to put under obligation |
| Obstructer: | One who obstructs or hinders |
| Obstruction: | The act of obstructing or state of being obstructed |
| Obstructionism: | The act or the policy of obstructing progress |
| Obstructionist: | One who deliberately hinders progress one who obstructs business as in a legislative body |
| Obstructive: | Tending to obstruct presenting obstacles hindering causing impediment |
| Obstructive: | An obstructive person or thing |
| Obstruent: | Causing obstruction blocking up hindering as an obstruent medicine |
| Obstruent: | Anything that obstructs or closes a passage esp that which obstructs natural passages in the body as a medicine which acts as an obstruent |
| Obstupefaction: | See Stupefaction |
| Obstupefactive: | Stupefactive |
| Obstupefy: | See Stupefy |
| Obtain: | To gain or have a firm footing to be recognized or established to become prevalent or general to prevail as the custom obtains of going to the seashore in summer |
| Obtainable: | Capable of being obtained |
| Obtainer: | One who obtains |
| Obtainment: | The act or process of obtaining attainment |
| Obtected: | Covered protected |
| Obtemper: | To obey a judgment or decree |
| Obtemperate: | To obey |
| Obtend: | To oppose to hold out in opposition |
| Obtenebration: | The act of darkening the state of being darkened darkness |
| Obtension: | The act of obtending |
| Obtest: | To call to witness to invoke as a witness |
| Obtest: | To protest |
| Obtestation: | The act of obtesting supplication protestation |
| Obtrectation: | Slander detraction calumny |
| Obtrude: | To thrust impertinently to present to a person without warrant or solicitation as to obtrude ones self upon a company to obtrude ones opinion on another |
| Obtrude: | To thrust ones self upon a company or upon attention to intrude |
| Obtruder: | One who obtrudes |
| Obtruncate: | To deprive of a limb to lop |
| Obtruncation: | The act of lopping or cutting off |
| Obtrusion: | The act of obtruding a thrusting upon others by force or unsolicited as the obtrusion of crude opinions on the world |
| Obtrusionist: | One who practices or excuses obtrusion |
| Obtrusive: | Disposed to obtrude inclined to intrude or thrust ones self or ones opinions upon others or to enter uninvited forward pushing intrusive |
| Obtund: | To reduce the edge pungency or violent action of to dull to blunt to deaden to quell as to obtund the acrimony of the gall |
| Obtundent: | A substance which sheathes a part or blunts irritation usually some bland oily or mucilaginous matter nearly the same as demulcent |
| Obtunder: | That which obtunds or blunts especially that which blunts sensibility |
| Obturate: | To stop or close as an opening |
| Obturation: | The act of stopping up or closing an opening |
| Obturator: | That which closes or stops an opening |
| Obturator: | Serving as an obturator closing an opening pertaining to or in the region of the obturator foramen as the obturator nerve |
| Obtusangular: | See Obstuseangular |
| Obtuse: | Not pointed or acute blunt applied esp to angles greater than a right angle or containing more than ninety degrees |
| Obtuseangled: | Having an obtuse angle as an obtuseangled triangle |
| Obtusely: | In an obtuse manner |
| Obtuseness: | State or quality of being obtuse |
| Obtusion: | The act or process of making obtuse or blunt |
| Obtusity: | Obtuseness |
| Obumbrant: | Overhanging as obumbrant feathers |
| Obumbrate: | To shade to darken to cloud |
| Obumbration: | Act of darkening or obscuring |
| Obuncous: | Hooked or crooked in an extreme degree |
| Obvention: | The act of happening incidentally that which happens casually an incidental advantage an occasional offering |
| Obversant: | Conversant familiar |
| Obverse: | Having the base or end next the attachment narrower than the top as a leaf |
| Obverse: | The face of a coin which has the principal image or inscription upon it the other side being the reverse |
| Obversely: | In an obverse manner |
| Obversion: | The act of turning toward or downward |
| Obvert: | To turn toward |
| obviating: | making impossible or unnecessary |
| Obviation: | The act of obviating or the state of being obviated |
| Obvious: | Opposing fronting |
| Obvolute: | Overlapping contorted convolute applied primarily in botany to two opposite leaves each of which has one edge overlapping the nearest edge of the other and secondarily to a circle of several leaves or petals which thus overlap |
| Oby: | See Obi |
| dOca: | A Peruvian name for certain species of Oxalis Oxalis crenata and Oxalis tuberosa which bear edible tubers |
| Ocarina: | A kind of small simple wind instrument |
| Occamy: | An alloy imitating gold or silver |
| Occasion: | A falling out happening or coming to pass hence that which falls out or happens occurrence incident event |
| Occasion: | To give occasion to to cause to produce to induce as to occasion anxiety |
| Occasionable: | Capable of being occasioned or caused |
| Occasional: | Occuring at times but not constant regular or systematic made or happening as opportunity requires or admits casual incidental as occasional remarks or efforts |
| Occasionalism: | The system of occasional causes a name given to certain theories of the Cartesian school of philosophers as to the intervention of the First Cause by which they account for the apparent reciprocal action of the soul and the body |
| Occasionality: | Quality or state of being occasional occasional occurrence |
| Occasionally: | In an occasional manner on occasion at times as convenience requires or opportunity offers not regularly |
| Occasionate: | To occasion |
| Occasioner: | One who or that which occasions causes or produces |
| Occasive: | Of or pertaining to the setting sun falling descending western |
| Occecation: | The act of making blind or the state of being blind |
| Occident: | The part of the horizon where the sun last appears in the evening that part of the earth towards the sunset the west opposed to orient Specifically in former times Europe as opposed to Asia now also the Western hemisphere |
| Occidental: | Of pertaining to or situated in the occident or west western opposed to oriental as occidental climates or customs an occidental planet |
| Occidentals: | Western Christians of the Latin rite See Orientals |
| Occiduous: | Western occidental |
| Occipital: | Of or pertaining to the occiput or back part of the head or to the occipital bone |
| Occipital: | The occipital bone |
| Occipito: | A combining form denoting relation to the occiput or situation near the occiput as occipitoaxial occipitomastoid |
| Occipitoaxial: | Of or pertaining to the occipital bone and second vertebra or axis |
| Occiput: | The back or posterior part of the head or skull the region of the occipital bone |
| Occision: | A killing the act of killing |
| Occlude: | To shut up to close |
| Occludent: | Serving to close shutting up |
| Occluse: | Shut closed |
| Occlusion: | The act of occluding or the state of being occluded |
| Occrustate: | To incrust to harden |
| Occult: | Hidden from the eye or the understanding invisible secret concealed unknown |
| Occult: | To eclipse to hide from sight |
| Occultation: | 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 |
| Occulted: | Hidden secret |
| Occulting: | Same as Occultation |
| Occultism: | A certain Oriental system of theosophy |
| Occultist: | An adherent of occultism |
| Occultly: | In an occult manner |
| Occultness: | State or quality of being occult |
| Occupancy: | The act of taking or holding possession especially of real property or rental property possession occupation |
| Occupant: | One who occupies or takes possession one who has the actual use or possession or is in possession of a thing as the occupant of the apartment is not at home |
| Occupate: | To occupy |
| Occupation: | The act or process of occupying or taking possession actual possession and control the state of being occupied a holding or keeping tenure use as the occupation of lands by a tenant |
| occupational: | Of or pertaining to an occupation3 or occupations3 caused by or incidental to an occupation3 as occupational hazard occupational illness |
| occupied: | Engaged in use being used by a person and not free for use by someone else as the wc is occupied Opposite of free available and unoccupied |
| Occupier: | One who occupies or has possession |
| Occupy: | To take or hold possession of to hold or keep for use to possess |
| Occupy: | To hold possession to be an occupant |
| occupying: | the act of taking occupancy |
| Occur: | To meet to clash |
| Occurrence: | A coming or happening as the occurence of a railway collision |
| Occurrent: | Occurring or happening hence incidental accidental |
| Occurrent: | One who meets hence an adversary |
| Occurse: | Same as Occursion |
| Occursion: | A meeting a clash a collision |
| Ocean: | The whole body of salt water which covers more than three fifths of the surface of the globe called also the sea or great sea |
| Ocean: | Of or pertaining to the main or great sea as the ocean waves an ocean stream |
| oceanfront: | Bordering an ocean as oceanfront property |
| oceanfront: | Land bordering an ocean |
| oceangoing: | capable of crossing an ocean used on the high seas used mostly of ships as oceangoing vessels |
| Oceania: | A large group of islands in the south Pacific sometimes including Australasia and the Malay Archipelago |
| Oceanic: | Of or pertaining to the ocean found or formed in or about or produced by the ocean frequenting the ocean especially midocean |
| Oceanica: | Same as Oceania |
| Oceanid: | A daughter of the Titans Oceanus and Tethys |
| oceanographer: | A scientist who studies physical and biological aspects of the seas |
| Oceanography: | A description of the ocean |
| Oceanology: | That branch of science which relates to the ocean |
| dOceanus: | The god of the great outer sea or the river which was believed to flow around the whole earth |
| Ocellary: | Of or pertaining to ocelli |
| Ocellate: | Same as Ocellated |
| Ocellated: | Resembling an eye |
| dOcellus: | A little eye a minute simple eye found in many invertebrates |
| Oceloid: | Resembling the ocelot |
| Ocelot: | An American feline carnivore Felis pardalis It ranges from the Southwestern United States to Patagonia It is covered with blackish ocellated spots and blotches which are variously arranged The ground color varies from reddish gray to tawny yellow |
| Ocher: | A impure earthy ore of iron or a ferruginous clay usually red hematite or yellow limonite used as a pigment in making paints etc The name is also applied to clays of other colors |
| ochermutation: | A mutation in which the base sequence of one of the codons in the messenger RNA has been converted to UAA Such a mutation may be conditionally suppressed as can an amber mutation by the presence of a special transfer RNA |
| Ocherous: | Of or pertaining to ocher containing or resembling ocher as ocherous matter ocherous soil |
| Ochery: | Ocherous |
| Ochimy: | See Occamy |
| dOchlesis: | A general morbid condition induced by the crowding together of many persons esp sick persons under one roof |
| Ochlocracy: | A form of government by the multitude a mobocracy mob rule |
| Ochlocratic: | Of or pertaining to ochlocracy having the form or character of an ochlocracy mobocratic |
| Ochotonidae: | A natural family of mammals including pikas and extinct forms |
| Ochraceous: | Ocherous |
| Ochre: | See Ocher |
| dOchrea: | A greave or legging |
| Ochreate: | Wearing or furnished with an ochrea or legging wearing boots booted |
| Ochreous: | See Ocherous |
| Ochrey: | See Ochery |
| Ochroleucous: | Yellowish white having a faint tint of dingy yellow |
| Ochry: | See Ochery |
| Ochymy: | See Occamy |
| ock: | A suffix used to form diminutives as bullock hillock |
| Ocra: | See Okra |
| dOcrea: | See Ochrea |
| Ocreate: | Same as Ochreate Ochreated |
| Octa: | A prefix meaning eight See Octo |
| Octachord: | An instrument of eight strings a system of eight tones |
| Octad: | An atom or radical which has a valence of eight or is octavalent |
| Octaedral: | See Octahedral |
| dOctaemeron: | A fast of eight days before a great festival |
| Octagon: | A plane figure of eight sides and eight angles |
| octagonal: | Having eight sides and eight angles |
| Octagynous: | Having eight pistils or styles octogynous |
| Octahedral: | Having eight faces or sides of pertaining to or formed in octahedrons as octahedral cleavage an octahedral crystal |
| Octahedrite: | Titanium dioxide occurring in acute octahedral crystals |
| Octahedron: | A solid bounded by eight faces The regular octahedron is contained by eight equal equilateral triangles |
| Octamerous: | Having the parts in eights as an octamerous flower octamerous mesenteries in polyps |
| octander: | One of the Octandria |
| dOctandria: | A Linnan class of plants in which the flowers have eight stamens not united to one another or to the pistil |
| octandrian: | Of or pertaining to the Octandria having eight distinct stamens |
| octane: | Any one of a group of metametric hydrocarbons C8H18 of the methane paraffin series The most important is a colorless volatile inflammable liquid found in petroleum and a constituent of gasoline or ligroin |
| Octangular: | Having eight angles eightangled |
| Octant: | The eighth part of a circle an arc of 45 degrees |
| dOctapla: | A portion of the Old Testament prepared by Origen in the 3d century containing the Hebrew text and seven Greek versions of it arranged in eight parallel columns |
| Octaroon: | See Octoroon |
| Octastyle: | See Octostyle |
| Octateuch: | A collection of eight books especially the first eight books of the Old Testament |
| Octavalent: | Having a valence of eight capable of being combined with exchanged for or compared with eight atoms of hydrogen said of certain atoms or radicals |
| Octave: | The eighth day after a church festival the festival day being included also the week following a church festival |
| Octave: | Consisting of eight eight |
| Octavo: | A book composed of sheets each of which is folded into eight leaves hence indicating more or less definitely a size of book so made usually written 8vo or 8deg |
| Octavo: | Having eight leaves to a sheet as an octavo form book leaf size etc |
| Octene: | Same as Octylene |
| Octennial: | Happening every eighth year also lasting a period of eight years |
| octet: | A composition for eight parts usually for eight solo instruments or voices |
| Octic: | Of the eighth degree or order |
| Octile: | Same as Octant 2 |
| Octillion: | According to the French method of numeration which method is followed also in the United States the number expressed by a unit with twentyseven ciphers annexed According to the English method the number expressed by a unit with fortyeight ciphers annexed See Numeration |
| Octo: | A combining form meaning eight as in octodecimal octolocular |
| Octoate: | A salt of an octoic acid a caprylate |
| October: | The tenth month of the year containing thirtyone days |
| dOctocera: | Octocerata |
| dOctocerata: | A suborder of Cephalopoda including Octopus Argonauta and allied genera having eight arms around the head called also Octopoda |
| Octochord: | See Octachord |
| Octodecimo: | Having eighteen leaves to a sheet as an octodecimo form book leaf size etc |
| Octodecimo: | A book composed of sheets each of which is folded into eighteen leaves hence indicating more or less definitely a size of book whose sheets are so folded usually written 18mo or 18eighteenmo |
| Octodentate: | Having eight teeth |
| Octodont: | Of or pertaining to the Octodontid a family of rodents which includes the coypu and many other South American species |
| Octoedrical: | See Octahedral |
| Octofid: | Cleft or separated into eight segments as a calyx |
| Octogamy: | A marrying eight times |
| Octogenarian: | A person eighty years or more of age |
| Octogenary: | Of eighty years of age |
| Octogild: | A pecuniary compensation for an injury of eight times the value of the thing |
| Octogonal: | See Octagonal |
| dOctogynia: | A Linnaean order of plants having eight pistils |
| Octogynian: | Having eight pistils octagynous |
| Octoic: | Pertaining to derived from or resembling octane used specifically to designate any one of a group of acids the most important of which is called caprylic acid |
| Octolocular: | Having eight cells for seeds |
| Octonaphthene: | A colorless liquid hydrocarbon of the octylene series occurring in Caucasian petroleum |
| Octonary: | Of or pertaining to the number eight |
| Octonocular: | Having eight eyes |
| Octopede: | An animal having eight feet as a spider |
| Octopetalous: | Having eight petals or flower leaves |
| Octopod: | One of the Octocerata |
| dOctopoda: | Same as Octocerata |
| dOctopodia: | Same as Octocerata |
| Octopus: | A genus of eightarmed cephalopods including numerous species some of them of large size See Devilfish |
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