Discover a variety of interesting words that start with the letter ‘O’ and expand your vocabulary.
- Oasis: A fertile spot in a desert where water is found.
- Oatmeal: A porridge made from oats.
- Obedient: Complying or willing to comply with orders or requests.
- Obese: Overweight, having excessive body fat.
- Objective: Not influenced by personal feelings or opinions in considering and representing facts.
- Obligate: To bind legally or morally.
- Oblique: Neither parallel nor at a right angle to a specified or implied line; slanting.
- Obliterate: To destroy utterly; wipe out.
- Obnoxious: Extremely unpleasant.
- Obscure: Not discovered or known about; uncertain.
- Observe: To notice or perceive (something) and register it as being significant.
- Obsolete: No longer produced or used; out of date.
- Obstacle: A thing that blocks one’s way or prevents or hinders progress.
- Obstinate: Stubbornly refusing to change one’s opinion or chosen course of action.
- Obstruct: To block or impede.
- Obtain: To get, acquire, or secure something.
- Obvious: Easily perceived or understood; clear, self-evident.
- Occasion: A particular time or instance of an event.
- Occupy: To fill or take up space or time.
- Occur: To happen or take place.
- Ocean: A very large expanse of sea.
- Octagon: A plane figure with eight straight sides and angles.
- October: The tenth month of the year.
- Ocular: Of or connected with the eyes or vision.
- Odor: A distinctive smell, especially an unpleasant one.
- Offend: Cause to feel upset, annoyed, or resentful.
- Offer: Present or proffer (something) for acceptance or rejection.
- Office: A room, set of rooms, or building used for commercial, professional, or bureaucratic work.
- Officer: A person holding a position of command or authority in the armed services, a public department, or a commercial firm.
- Official: Relating to an authority or public body and its duties, actions, and responsibilities.
- Ogle: Stare at in a lecherous manner.
- Omission: A person or thing omitted or neglected.
- Omnivore: An animal or person that eats food of both plant and animal origin.
- Onerous: Involving an amount of effort and difficulty that is oppressively burdensome.
- Opaque: Not able to be seen through; not transparent.
- Opera: A dramatic work in one or more acts, set to music for singers and instrumentalists.
- Operate: Control the functioning of; use and manage (a machine, process, or system).
- Opinion: A view or judgment formed about something, not necessarily based on fact or knowledge.
- Opponent: Someone who competes against or fights another in a contest, game, or argument.
- Opportunity: A set of circumstances that makes it possible to do something.
- Oppress: Keep (someone) in subservience and hardship.
- Optimal: Best or most favorable; optimum.
- Optimist: A person who tends to be hopeful and confident about the future or the success of something.
- Option: A thing that is or may be chosen.
- Oral: Spoken rather than written; of the mouth.
- Orange: A citrus fruit and its color.
- Orbit: The curved path of a celestial object or spacecraft around a star, planet, or moon.
- Orchard: A piece of enclosed land planted with fruit trees.
- Ordain: Order or decree (something) officially.
- Ordeal: A painful or horrific experience.
- Order: The arrangement or disposition of people or things in relation to each other.
- Ordinary: With no special or distinctive features; normal.
- Organic: Relating to or derived from living matter.
- Organize: Arrange into a structured whole; order.
- Orient: Align or position (something) relative to the points of a compass or other specified positions.
- Origami: The Japanese art of folding paper into decorative shapes and figures.
- Origin: The point or place where something begins, arises, or is derived.
- Original: Present or existing from the beginning; first or earliest.
- Ornate: Made in an intricate shape or decorated with complex patterns.
- Oscillate: Move or swing back and forth in a regular rhythm.
- Ostracize: Exclude from a society or group.
- Ostentatious: Characterized by vulgar or pretentious display; designed to impress or attract notice.
- Other: Used to refer to a person or thing that is different or distinct from one already mentioned or known about.
- Ought: Used to indicate duty or correctness, typically when criticizing someone’s actions.
- Ounce: A unit of weight of one sixteenth of a pound avoirdupois (approximately 28 grams).
- Outbreak: The sudden or violent start of something unwelcome, such as war, disease, etc.
- Outcome: The way a thing turns out; a consequence.
- Outdoors: In or into the open air; outside a building or shelter.
- Outer: Situated on or toward the outside.
- Outfit: A set of clothes worn together, typically for a particular occasion or purpose.
- Outgoing: Friendly and socially confident.
- Outlet: A means by which something is expressed, achieved, or released.
- Outline: A line or set of lines enclosing or indicating the shape of an object in a sketch or diagram.
- Output: The amount of something produced by a person, machine, or industry.
- Outrage: An extremely strong reaction of anger, shock, or indignation.
- Outstanding: Exceptionally good.
- Oval: Having a rounded and slightly elongated outline or shape, like that of an egg.
- Oven: An enclosed compartment, usually part of a stove, for cooking and heating food.
- Overcome: Succeed in dealing with (a problem or difficulty).
- Overhead: Situated above the level of the head.
- Overlap: Extend over so as to cover partly.
- Overlook: Fail to notice something.
- Overseas: In or to a foreign country, especially one across the sea.
- Oversight: An unintentional failure to notice or do something.
- Overt: Done or shown openly; plainly apparent.
- Overture: An orchestral piece at the beginning of a musical composition.
- Owe: Have an obligation to pay or repay (something, especially money) in return for something received.
- Owl: A nocturnal bird of prey with large eyes and a flat face.
- Owner: A person who owns something.
- Oxide: A binary compound of oxygen with another element or group.
- Oxygen: A chemical element with symbol O and atomic number 8, necessary for most forms of life on Earth.
- Oyster: A marine mollusk that has a rough irregular shell, often cultivated for its edible muscle and pearls.
- Ozone: A reactive form of oxygen that is a bluish gas at room temperature, has a characteristic pungent odor, and is a powerful oxidant that deteriorates rubber and other materials.
- Opaque: Not able to be seen through; not transparent.
- Operetta: A short opera, usually on a light or humorous theme and typically having spoken dialogue.
- Ophthalmologist: A specialist in the branch of medicine concerned with the study and treatment of disorders and diseases of the eye.
- Optician: A person qualified to make and supply eyeglasses and contact lenses for the correction of vision.
- Ornithologist: A person who studies or is an expert on birds.
- Orthodox: Adhering to what is traditionally accepted as right or true; established and approved.
- Outsource: Obtain (goods or a service) from an outside or foreign supplier, especially in place of an internal source.