| offensiveness | (noun) the quality of being offensive | Synonyms: distastefulness, odiousness |
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| offer | (noun) a usually brief attempt | Synonyms: crack, fling, go, pass, whirl |
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| (noun) something offered (as a proposal or bid) | Synonyms: offering |
| (noun) the verbal act of offering | Synonyms: offering |
| offerer | (noun) someone who presents something to another for acceptance or rejection | Synonyms: offeror |
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| offering | (noun) the act of contributing to the funds of a church or charity | Synonyms: oblation |
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| (noun) something offered (as a proposal or bid) | Synonyms: offer |
| (noun) the verbal act of offering | Synonyms: offer |
| (noun) money contributed to a religious organization; item or items contributed to a religious organization for religious purposes | - |
| offeror | (noun) someone who presents something to another for acceptance or rejection | Synonyms: offerer |
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| offertory | (noun) the offerings of the congregation at a religious service | - |
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| office | (noun) a religious rite or service prescribed by ecclesiastical authorities | - |
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| (noun) the actions and activities assigned to or required or expected of a person or group | Synonyms: function, part, role |
| (noun) a job in an organization | Synonyms: berth, place, position, post, situation |
| (noun) place of business where professional or clerical duties are performed | Synonyms: business office |
| (noun) professional or clerical workers in an office | Synonyms: office staff |
| (noun) an administrative unit of government | Synonyms: agency, authority, bureau, federal agency, government agency |
| (noun) (of a government or government official) holding an office means being in power | Synonyms: power |
| officeholder | (noun) the official who holds an office | Synonyms: incumbent |
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| (noun) someone who is appointed or elected to an office and who holds a position of trust | Synonyms: officer |
| officer | (noun) a member of a police force | Synonyms: police officer |
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| (noun) someone who is appointed or elected to an office and who holds a position of trust | Synonyms: officeholder |
| (noun) any person in the armed services who holds a position of authority or command | Synonyms: military officer |
| (noun) a person authorized to serve in a position of authority on a vessel | Synonyms: ship's officer |
| official | (noun) someone who administers the rules of a game or sport | - |
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| (noun) a worker who holds or is invested with an office | Synonyms: functionary |
| officialdom | (noun) people elected or appointed to administer a government | Synonyms: government officials |
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| officialese | (noun) the style of writing characteristic of some government officials: formal and obscure | - |
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| officiant | (noun) a clergyman who officiates at a religious ceremony or service | - |
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| officiating | (noun) the act of umpiring | Synonyms: officiation, refereeing, umpirage |
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| officiation | (noun) the act of umpiring | Synonyms: officiating, refereeing, umpirage |
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| (noun) the performance of a religious or ceremonial or public duty | - |
| officiousness | (noun) aggressiveness as evidenced by intruding; by advancing yourself or your ideas without invitation | Synonyms: intrusiveness, meddlesomeness |
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| offing | (noun) the part of the sea that can be seen from the shore and is beyond the anchoring area | - |
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| (noun) the near or foreseeable future | - |
| offprint | (noun) a separately printed article that originally appeared in a larger publication | Synonyms: reprint, separate |
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| offset | (noun) structure where a wall or building narrows abruptly | Synonyms: set-back, setoff |
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| (noun) a plate makes an inked impression on a rubber-blanketed cylinder, which in turn transfers it to the paper | Synonyms: offset printing |
| (noun) a natural consequence of development | Synonyms: branch, offshoot, outgrowth |
| (noun) a horizontal branch from the base of plant that produces new plants from buds at its tips | Synonyms: runner, stolon |
| (noun) a compensating equivalent | Synonyms: counterbalance |
| (noun) the time at which something is supposed to begin | Synonyms: beginning, commencement, first, get-go, kickoff, outset, showtime, start, starting time |
| offshoot | (noun) a natural consequence of development | Synonyms: branch, offset, outgrowth |
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| offside | (noun) (sport) the mistake of occupying an illegal position on the playing field (in football, soccer, ice hockey, field hockey, etc.) | - |
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| offspring | (noun) any immature animal | Synonyms: young |
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| (noun) something that comes into existence as a result | Synonyms: materialisation, materialization |
| (noun) the immediate descendants of a person | Synonyms: issue, progeny |
| offstage | (noun) a stage area out of sight of the audience | Synonyms: backstage, wing |
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| oftenness | (noun) the number of occurrences within a given time period | Synonyms: frequence, frequency |
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| ogdoad | (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of seven and one | Synonyms: 8, eight, eighter, eighter from Decatur, octad, octet, octonary, VIII |
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| ogee | (noun) a molding that (in section) has the shape of an S with the convex part above and the concave part below | Synonyms: cyma reversa |
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| ogive | (noun) front consisting of the conical head of a missile or rocket that protects the payload from heat during its passage through the atmosphere | Synonyms: nose cone |
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| ogler | (noun) a viewer who gives a flirtatious or lewd look at another person | - |
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| ogre | (noun) (folklore) a giant who likes to eat human beings | - |
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| (noun) a cruel wicked and inhuman person | Synonyms: demon, devil, fiend, monster |
| ogress | (noun) (folklore) a female ogre | - |
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| ohm | (noun) a unit of electrical resistance equal to the resistance between two points on a conductor when a potential difference of one volt between them produces a current of one ampere | - |
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| ohmage | (noun) the ohmic resistance of a conductor | - |
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| ohmmeter | (noun) a meter for measuring electrical resistance in ohms | - |
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| oil | (noun) oil paint containing pigment that is used by an artist | Synonyms: oil color, oil colour |
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| (noun) any of a group of liquid edible fats that are obtained from plants | Synonyms: vegetable oil |
| (noun) a slippery or viscous liquid or liquefiable substance not miscible with water | - |
| (noun) a dark oil consisting mainly of hydrocarbons | Synonyms: crude, crude oil, fossil oil, petroleum, rock oil |
| oilbird | (noun) nocturnal fruit-eating bird of South America that has fatty young yielding an oil that is used instead of butter | Synonyms: guacharo, Steatornis caripensis |
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| oilcan | (noun) a can with a long nozzle to apply oil to machinery | - |
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| oilcloth | (noun) cloth treated on one side with a drying oil or synthetic resin | - |
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| oiler | (noun) a cargo ship designed to carry crude oil in bulk | Synonyms: oil tanker, tank ship, tanker |
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| (noun) a well that yields or has yielded oil | Synonyms: oil well |
| (noun) a worker who oils engines or machinery | - |
| oilfield | (noun) a region rich in petroleum deposits (especially one with producing oil wells) | - |
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| oilfish | (noun) very large deep-water snake mackerel | Synonyms: Ruvettus pretiosus |
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| oiliness | (noun) consisting of or covered with oil | Synonyms: greasiness, oleaginousness |
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| (noun) smug self-serving earnestness | Synonyms: fulsomeness, oleaginousness, smarminess, unction, unctuousness |
| oilman | (noun) a worker who produces or sells petroleum | - |
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| (noun) a person who owns or operates oil wells | - |
| oilpaper | (noun) paper that has been made translucent and waterproof by soaking in oil | - |
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| oilrig | (noun) rig used in drilling for oil or gas | Synonyms: drill rig, drilling rig, oil rig |
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| oilseed | (noun) any of several seeds that yield oil | Synonyms: oil-rich seed |
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| oilskin | (noun) a macintosh made from cotton fabric treated with oil and pigment to make it waterproof | Synonyms: slicker |
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| oilstone | (noun) a whetstone for use with oil | - |
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| oilstove | (noun) heater that burns oil (as kerosine) for heating or cooking | Synonyms: kerosene heater, kerosine heater, oil heater |
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| oink | (noun) the short low gruff noise of the kind made by hogs | Synonyms: grunt |
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| ointment | (noun) semisolid preparation (usually containing a medicine) applied externally as a remedy or for soothing an irritation | Synonyms: balm, salve, unction, unguent |
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| (noun) toiletry consisting of any of various substances in the form of a thick liquid that have a soothing and moisturizing effect when applied to the skin | Synonyms: cream, emollient |
| oka | (noun) South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers | Synonyms: oca, Oxalis crenata, Oxalis tuberosa |
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| (noun) a Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds | - |
| (noun) a Turkish liquid unit equal to 1.3 pints | - |
| okapi | (noun) similar to the giraffe but smaller with much shorter neck and stripe on the legs | Synonyms: Okapia johnstoni |
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| okay | (noun) an endorsement | Synonyms: O.K., OK, okeh, okey |
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| okeh | (noun) an endorsement | Synonyms: O.K., OK, okay, okey |
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| okey | (noun) an endorsement | Synonyms: O.K., OK, okay, okeh |
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| okra | (noun) long mucilaginous green pods; may be simmered or sauteed but used especially in soups and stews | Synonyms: gumbo |
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| (noun) tall coarse annual of Old World tropics widely cultivated in southern United States and West Indies for its long mucilaginous green pods used as basis for soups and stews; sometimes placed in genus Hibiscus | Synonyms: Abelmoschus esculentus, gumbo, Hibiscus esculentus, lady's-finger, okra plant |
| (noun) long green edible beaked pods of the okra plant | - |
| ola | (noun) leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper | Synonyms: olla |
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| old | (noun) past times | - |
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| oldie | (noun) a song that was formerly popular | Synonyms: golden oldie |
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| oldness | (noun) the quality of being old; the opposite of newness | - |
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| (noun) the opposite of youngness | - |
| oldster | (noun) an elderly person | Synonyms: golden ager, old person, senior citizen |
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| oldtimer | (noun) an elderly man | Synonyms: antique, gaffer, old-timer, old geezer |
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| (noun) an experienced person who has been through many battles; someone who has given long service | Synonyms: old-timer, old hand, old stager, stager, veteran, warhorse |
| oldwench | (noun) tropical Atlantic fish | Synonyms: Balistes vetula, Bessy cerca, oldwife, queen triggerfish |
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| oldwife | (noun) tropical Atlantic fish | Synonyms: Balistes vetula, Bessy cerca, oldwench, queen triggerfish |
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| (noun) a common long-tailed sea duck of the northern parts of the United States | Synonyms: Clangula hyemalis, old squaw |
| oleaginousness | (noun) consisting of or covered with oil | Synonyms: greasiness, oiliness |
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| (noun) smug self-serving earnestness | Synonyms: fulsomeness, oiliness, smarminess, unction, unctuousness |
| oleander | (noun) an ornamental but poisonous flowering shrub having narrow evergreen leaves and clusters of fragrant white to pink or red flowers: native to East Indies but widely cultivated in warm regions | Synonyms: Nerium oleander, rose bay |
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| oleaster | (noun) any of several shrubs of the genus Elaeagnus having silver-white twigs and yellow flowers followed by olivelike fruits | - |
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| olecranon | (noun) process of the ulna that forms the outer bump of the elbow and fits into the fossa of the humerus when the arm is extended | Synonyms: olecranon process |
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| olefin | (noun) any unsaturated aliphatic hydrocarbon | Synonyms: alkene, olefine |
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| olefine | (noun) any unsaturated aliphatic hydrocarbon | Synonyms: alkene, olefin |
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| olein | (noun) a naturally occurring glyceride of oleic acid that is found in fats and oils | Synonyms: triolein |
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| oleo | (noun) a spread made chiefly from vegetable oils and used as a substitute for butter | Synonyms: margarin, margarine, marge, oleomargarine |
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| oleography | (noun) the art or process of producing chromolithographs printed on cloth to imitate an oil painting. | - |
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| oleomargarine | (noun) a spread made chiefly from vegetable oils and used as a substitute for butter | Synonyms: margarin, margarine, marge, oleo |
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| oleoresin | (noun) a naturally occurring mixture of a resin and an essential oil; obtained from certain plants | - |
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| olfaction | (noun) the faculty that enables us to distinguish scents | Synonyms: olfactory modality, sense of smell, smell |
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| olfactology | (noun) the scientific study of smells or of the sense of smell. | - |
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| olibanum | (noun) an aromatic gum resin obtained from various Arabian or East African trees; formerly valued for worship and for embalming and fumigation | Synonyms: frankincense, gum olibanum, thus |
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| oligarch | (noun) one of the rulers in an oligarchy | - |
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| oligarchy | (noun) a political system governed by a few people | - |
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| oligo | (noun) (biochemistry) a polynucleotide whose molecules contain relatively few nucleotides | Synonyms: oligonucleotide |
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| oligochaete | (noun) hermaphroditic terrestrial and aquatic annelids having bristles borne singly along the length of the body | Synonyms: oligochaete worm |
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| oligoclase | (noun) any of a series of triclinic feldspars that form rocks | Synonyms: plagioclase |
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| oligodactyly | (noun) congenital condition in which some fingers or toes are missing | - |
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| oligodendria | (noun) tissue consisting of glial cells with sheetlike processes that form the myelin sheath of nerve fibers | Synonyms: oligodendroglia |
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| oligodendrocyte | (noun) a cell of the oligodendroglia | - |
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| oligodendroglia | (noun) tissue consisting of glial cells with sheetlike processes that form the myelin sheath of nerve fibers | Synonyms: oligodendria |
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| oligodontia | (noun) congenital condition in which some of the teeth are missing | - |
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| oligomenorrhea | (noun) abnormally light or infrequent menstruation | - |
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| oligonucleotide | (noun) (biochemistry) a polynucleotide whose molecules contain relatively few nucleotides | Synonyms: oligo |
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| oligopoly | (noun) (economics) a market in which control over the supply of a commodity is in the hands of a small number of producers and each one can influence prices and affect competitors | - |
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| oligosaccharide | (noun) any of the carbohydrates that yield only a few monosaccharide molecules on complete hydrolysis | - |
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| oligospermia | (noun) insufficient spermatozoa in the semen | - |
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| oliguria | (noun) production of an abnormally small amount of urine | - |
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| (noun) abnormally small production of urine; can be a symptom of kidney disease or obstruction of the urinary tract or edema or an imbalance of fluids and electrolytes in the body | - |
| olive | (noun) a yellow-green color of low brightness and saturation | - |
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| (noun) one-seeded fruit of the European olive tree usually pickled and used as a relish | - |
| (noun) evergreen tree cultivated in the Mediterranean region since antiquity and now elsewhere; has edible shiny black fruits | Synonyms: European olive tree, Olea europaea |
| (noun) small ovoid fruit of the European olive tree; important food and source of oil | - |
| (noun) hard yellow often variegated wood of an olive tree; used in cabinetwork | - |
| olivenite | (noun) rare green to black mineral consisting of hydrated copper arsenate that is found in copper deposits | - |
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| olivine | (noun) a mineral consisting of magnesium iron silicate; a source of magnesium | - |
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| olla | (noun) leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper | Synonyms: ola |
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| olm | (noun) European aquatic salamander with permanent external gills that lives in caves | Synonyms: Proteus anguinus |
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| ology | (noun) an informal word (abstracted from words with this ending) for some unidentified branch of knowledge | - |
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