Name Report For First Name ODE:
ODE
First name ODE's origin is African. ODE means "from the road". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with ODE below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of ode.(Brown names are of the same origin (African) with ODE and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
Rhymes with ODE - Names & Words
First Names Rhyming ODE
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES ODE AS A WHOLE:
odelia odele odelet odessa dzigbode odero laodegan leodegan godewyn ayodeji cullodena jodee modesta modeste odede odeletta odelina odelinda odella odelyn odelyna odette roderiga roderika attewode ayrwode boden broden broderic broderick broderik culloden ealdwode heortwode kermode kyrkwode leodegrance leodegraunce merewode northwode odel odell rodel rodell roderick roderigo rodes scirwode stanwode upwode winswode winwodem wodeleah wynwode egiodeo rhodes nodens odeda odelle roderica odelette lodema woden oded codee codell codey roderic roderikNAMES RHYMING WITH ODE (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (de) - Names That Ends with de:
grishilde bertilde aude brighde adelaide brunhilde zenaide tunde mercede kaede ade akintunde babatunde matunde berde jibade kazemde ganymede davide adelheide bathilde beorhthilde bride candide clarimonde clotilde ede eldride emeraude enide ethelinde gerde gertrude griselde grisjahilde griswalde hayley-jade heide hildagarde hilde holde hulde ide isolde isoude jade jayde magnilde maitilde mathilde matilde maude mayde melisande mide otthilde rolande romhilde romilde rosalinde rosamonde rosemonde serihilde shayde sigfriede tibelde trenade trude vande wande wilde winifride yolande ysolde andwearde birde cade calfhierde carmelide cinneide claude clyde dwade evinrude eweheorde forde gilbride giollabrighde heallstede hide jerande jude kade kayde ladde macbride olamide wade warde waydeNAMES RHYMING WITH ODE (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (od) - Names That Begins with od:
oda odahingum odakota odale odam odanda odanodan odayle odbart odbert odd odharnait odhert odhran odi odiana odiane odila odile odilia odin odion odo odom odon odra odran odwolf odwolfe odwulf ody odysseia odysseusNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH ODE:
First Names which starts with 'o' and ends with 'e':
o'keefe o-yone obelie obike octave octe ocypete oenone ogelsvie ogilvie ohanzee ohcumgache ohene oidhche oihane oilbhe oke olathe ole oline olive olympe omette omorose omphale onilee onille onslowe ooljee opaline ophelie orabelle oralee oralie orane ordsone ordwine oreste orguelleuse orlaithe orlee orlege orlene ornette orvelle orville osaze osbourne oseye oswine otilie ottilie ove ozzieEnglish Words Rhyming ODE
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES ODE AS A WHOLE:
abode | noun (n.) Act of waiting; delay. |
noun (n.) Stay or continuance in a place; sojourn. | |
noun (n.) Place of continuance, or where one dwells; abiding place; residence; a dwelling; a habitation. | |
verb (v. t.) An omen. | |
verb (v. t.) To bode; to foreshow. | |
verb (v. i.) To be ominous. | |
(imp. & p. p.) of Abide | |
() pret. of Abide. |
abodement | noun (n.) A foreboding; an omen. |
achroodextrin | noun (n.) Dextrin not colorable by iodine. See Dextrin. |
acnode | noun (n.) An isolated point not upon a curve, but whose coordinates satisfy the equation of the curve so that it is considered as belonging to the curve. |
alamode | noun (n.) A thin, black silk for hoods, scarfs, etc.; -- often called simply mode. |
adverb (adv. & a.) According to the fashion or prevailing mode. |
anapodeictic | adjective (a.) Not apodeictic; undemonstrable. |
anelectrode | noun (n.) The positive pole of a voltaic battery. |
anode | noun (n.) The positive pole of an electric battery, or more strictly the electrode by which the current enters the electrolyte on its way to the other pole; -- opposed to cathode. |
anticathode | noun (n.) The part of a vacuum tube opposite the cathode. Upon it the cathode rays impinge. |
antipode | noun (n.) One of the antipodes; anything exactly opposite. |
antipodean | adjective (a.) Pertaining to the antipodes, or the opposite side of the world; antipodal. |
antipodes | noun (n.) Those who live on the side of the globe diametrically opposite. |
noun (n.) The country of those who live on the opposite side of the globe. | |
noun (n.) Anything exactly opposite or contrary. |
apode | noun (n.) One of certain animals that have no feet or footlike organs; esp. one of certain fabulous birds which were said to have no feet. |
apodeictic | adjective (a.) Alt. of Apodictical |
apodeictical | adjective (a.) Alt. of Apodictical |
apodeme | noun (n.) One of the processes of the shell which project inwards and unite with one another, in the thorax of many Crustacea. |
apodes | noun (n. pl.) An order of fishes without ventral fins, including the eels. |
noun (n. pl.) A group of holothurians destitute of suckers. See Apneumona. | |
(pl. ) of Apode |
arthroderm | noun (n.) The external covering of an Arthropod. |
asphodel | noun (n.) A general name for a plant of the genus Asphodelus. The asphodels are hardy perennial plants, several species of which are cultivated for the beauty of their flowers. |
apocodeine | noun (n.) An alkaloid, /, prepared from codeine. In its effects it resembles apomorphine. |
arillode | noun (n.) A false aril; an aril originating from the micropyle instead of from the funicle or chalaza of the ovule. The mace of the nutmeg is an arillode. |
arthrodesis | noun (n.) Surgical fixation of joints. |
blastoderm | noun (n.) The germinal membrane in an ovum, from which the embryo is developed. |
blastodermatic | adjective (a.) Alt. of Blastodermic |
blastodermic | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the blastoderm. |
blooded | adjective (a.) Having pure blood, or a large admixture or pure blood; of approved breed; of the best stock. |
(imp. & p. p.) of Blood |
bode | noun (n.) An omen; a foreshadowing. |
noun (n.) A bid; an offer. | |
noun (n.) A stop; a halting; delay. | |
verb (v. t.) To indicate by signs, as future events; to be the omen of; to portend to presage; to foreshow. | |
verb (v. i.) To foreshow something; to augur. | |
verb (v. t.) A messenger; a herald. | |
(imp. & p. p.) Abode. | |
(p. p.) Bid or bidden. |
bodeful | adjective (a.) Portentous; ominous. |
bodement | noun (n.) An omen; a prognostic. |
bordlode | noun (n.) The service formerly required of a tenant, to carry timber from the woods to the lord's house. |
brodekin | noun (n.) A buskin or half-boot. |
cacodemon | noun (n.) An evil spirit; a devil or demon. |
noun (n.) The nightmare. |
catelectrode | noun (n.) The negative electrode or pole of a voltaic battery. |
cathode | noun (n.) The part of a voltaic battery by which the electric current leaves substances through which it passes, or the surface at which the electric current passes out of the electrolyte; the negative pole; -- opposed to anode. |
centrode | noun (n.) In two figures having relative motion, one of the two curves which are the loci of the instantaneous center. |
cephalopode | noun (n.) One of the Cephalopoda. |
cestode | noun (n.) One of the Cestoidea. |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Cestoidea. |
code | noun (n.) A body of law, sanctioned by legislation, in which the rules of law to be specifically applied by the courts are set forth in systematic form; a compilation of laws by public authority; a digest. |
noun (n.) Any system of rules or regulations relating to one subject; as, the medical code, a system of rules for the regulation of the professional conduct of physicians; the naval code, a system of rules for making communications at sea means of signals. |
codefendant | noun (n.) A joint defendant. |
codeine | noun (n.) One of the opium alkaloids; a white crystalline substance, C18H21NO3, similar to and regarded as a derivative of morphine, but much feebler in its action; -- called also codeia. |
codetta | noun (n.) A short passage connecting two sections, but not forming part of either; a short coda. |
codex | noun (n.) A book; a manuscript. |
noun (n.) A collection or digest of laws; a code. | |
noun (n.) An ancient manuscript of the Sacred Scriptures, or any part of them, particularly the New Testament. | |
noun (n.) A collection of canons. |
commode | noun (n.) A kind of headdress formerly worn by ladies, raising the hair and fore part of the cap to a great height. |
noun (n.) A piece of furniture, so named according to temporary fashion | |
noun (n.) A chest of drawers or a bureau. | |
noun (n.) A night stand with a compartment for holding a chamber vessel. | |
noun (n.) A kind of close stool. | |
noun (n.) A movable sink or stand for a wash bowl, with closet. |
corrodent | noun (n.) Anything that corrodes. |
adjective (a.) Corrosive. |
crunode | noun (n.) A point where one branch of a curve crosses another branch. See Double point, under Double, a. |
custode | noun (n.) See Custodian. |
cytode | noun (n.) A nonnucleated mass of protoplasm, the supposed simplest form of independent life differing from the amoeba, in which nuclei are present. |
dodecagon | noun (n.) A figure or polygon bounded by twelve sides and containing twelve angles. |
dodecagynia | noun (n. pl.) A Linnaean order of plants having twelve styles. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH ODE (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 2 Letters (de) - English Words That Ends with de:
aborticide | noun (n.) The act of destroying a fetus in the womb; feticide. |
accolade | noun (n.) A ceremony formerly used in conferring knighthood, consisting am embrace, and a slight blow on the shoulders with the flat blade of a sword. |
noun (n.) A brace used to join two or more staves. |
acerbitude | noun (n.) Sourness and harshness. |
acetaldehyde | noun (n.) Acetic aldehyde. See Aldehyde. |
acetamide | noun (n.) A white crystalline solid, from ammonia by replacement of an equivalent of hydrogen by acetyl. |
acetanilide | noun (n.) A compound of aniline with acetyl, used to allay fever or pain; -- called also antifebrine. |
acritude | noun (n.) Acridity; pungency joined with heat. |
alcade | noun (n.) Same as Alcaid. |
noun (n.) Var. of Alcaid. |
alcayde | noun (n.) A commander of a castle or fortress among the Spaniards, Portuguese, and Moors. |
noun (n.) The warden, or keeper of a jail. | |
noun (n.) Same as Alcaid. |
alcalde | noun (n.) A magistrate or judge in Spain and in Spanish America, etc. |
aldehyde | noun (n.) A colorless, mobile, and very volatile liquid obtained from alcohol by certain processes of oxidation. |
alfenide | noun (n.) An alloy of nickel and silver electroplated with silver. |
alidade | noun (n.) The portion of a graduated instrument, as a quadrant or astrolabe, carrying the sights or telescope, and showing the degrees cut off on the arc of the instrument |
alkalamide | noun (n.) One of a series of compounds that may be regarded as ammonia in which a part of the hydrogen has been replaced by basic, and another part by acid, atoms or radicals. |
allemande | noun (n.) A dance in moderate twofold time, invented by the French in the reign of Louis XIV.; -- now mostly found in suites of pieces, like those of Bach and Handel. |
noun (n.) A figure in dancing. |
allhallowtide | noun (n.) The time at or near All Saints, or November 1st. |
almude | noun (n.) A measure for liquids in several countries. In Portugal the Lisbon almude is about 4.4, and the Oporto almude about 6.6, gallons U. S. measure. In Turkey the "almud" is about 1.4 gallons. |
altitude | noun (n.) Space extended upward; height; the perpendicular elevation of an object above its foundation, above the ground, or above a given level, or of one object above another; as, the altitude of a mountain, or of a bird above the top of a tree. |
noun (n.) The elevation of a point, or star, or other celestial object, above the horizon, measured by the arc of a vertical circle intercepted between such point and the horizon. It is either true or apparent; true when measured from the rational or real horizon, apparent when from the sensible or apparent horizon. | |
noun (n.) The perpendicular distance from the base of a figure to the summit, or to the side parallel to the base; as, the altitude of a triangle, pyramid, parallelogram, frustum, etc. | |
noun (n.) Height of degree; highest point or degree. | |
noun (n.) Height of rank or excellence; superiority. | |
noun (n.) Elevation of spirits; heroics; haughty airs. |
amaritude | noun (n.) Bitterness. |
amende | noun (n.) A pecuniary punishment or fine; a reparation or recantation. |
amide | noun (n.) A compound formed by the union of amidogen with an acid element or radical. It may also be regarded as ammonia in which one or more hydrogen atoms have been replaced by an acid atom or radical. |
amplitude | noun (n.) State of being ample; extent of surface or space; largeness of dimensions; size. |
noun (n.) Largeness, in a figurative sense; breadth; abundance; fullness. | |
noun (n.) Of extent of capacity or intellectual powers. | |
noun (n.) Of extent of means or resources. | |
noun (n.) The arc of the horizon between the true east or west point and the center of the sun, or a star, at its rising or setting. At the rising, the amplitude is eastern or ortive: at the setting, it is western, occiduous, or occasive. It is also northern or southern, when north or south of the equator. | |
noun (n.) The arc of the horizon between the true east or west point and the foot of the vertical circle passing through any star or object. | |
noun (n.) The horizontal line which measures the distance to which a projectile is thrown; the range. | |
noun (n.) The extent of a movement measured from the starting point or position of equilibrium; -- applied especially to vibratory movements. | |
noun (n.) An angle upon which the value of some function depends; -- a term used more especially in connection with elliptic functions. |
anhydride | noun (n.) An oxide of a nonmetallic body or an organic radical, capable of forming an acid by uniting with the elements of water; -- so called because it may be formed from an acid by the abstraction of water. |
anilide | noun (n.) One of a class of compounds which may be regarded as amides in which more or less of the hydrogen has been replaced by phenyl. |
anomalipede | adjective (a.) Having anomalous feet. |
anxietude | noun (n.) The state of being anxious; anxiety. |
aptitude | noun (n.) A natural or acquired disposition or capacity for a particular purpose, or tendency to a particular action or effect; as, oil has an aptitude to burn. |
noun (n.) A general fitness or suitableness; adaptation. | |
noun (n.) Readiness in learning; docility; aptness. |
arcade | noun (n.) A series of arches with the columns or piers which support them, the spandrels above, and other necessary appurtenances; sometimes open, serving as an entrance or to give light; sometimes closed at the back (as in the cut) and forming a decorative feature. |
noun (n.) A long, arched building or gallery. | |
noun (n.) An arched or covered passageway or avenue. |
arquebusade | noun (n.) The shot of an arquebus. |
noun (n.) A distilled water from a variety of aromatic plants, as rosemary, millefoil, etc.; -- originally used as a vulnerary in gunshot wounds. |
arsenide | noun (n.) A compound of arsenic with a metal, or positive element or radical; -- formerly called arseniuret. |
aside | noun (n.) Something spoken aside; as, a remark made by a stageplayer which the other players are not supposed to hear. |
adverb (adv.) On, or to, one side; out of a straight line, course, or direction; at a little distance from the rest; out of the way; apart. | |
adverb (adv.) Out of one's thoughts; off; away; as, to put aside gloomy thoughts. | |
adverb (adv.) So as to be heard by others; privately. |
assuetude | noun (n.) Accustomedness; habit; habitual use. |
attitude | noun (n.) The posture, action, or disposition of a figure or a statue. |
noun (n.) The posture or position of a person or an animal, or the manner in which the parts of his body are disposed; position assumed or studied to serve a purpose; as, a threatening attitude; an attitude of entreaty. | |
noun (n.) Fig.: Position as indicating action, feeling, or mood; as, in times of trouble let a nation preserve a firm attitude; one's mental attitude in respect to religion. |
aubade | noun (n.) An open air concert in the morning, as distinguished from an evening serenade; also, a pianoforte composition suggestive of morning. |
aurochloride | noun (n.) The trichloride of gold combination with the chloride of another metal, forming a double chloride; -- called also chloraurate. |
aurocyanide | noun (n.) A double cyanide of gold and some other metal or radical; -- called also cyanaurate. |
andromede | noun (n.) Alt. of Andromed |
backside | noun (n.) The hinder part, posteriors, or rump of a person or animal. |
bactericide | noun (n.) Same as Germicide. |
ballade | noun (n.) A form of French versification, sometimes imitated in English, in which three or four rhymes recur through three stanzas of eight or ten lines each, the stanzas concluding with a refrain, and the whole poem with an envoy. |
balotade | noun (n.) See Ballotade. |
balustrade | noun (n.) A row of balusters topped by a rail, serving as an open parapet, as along the edge of a balcony, terrace, bridge, staircase, or the eaves of a building. |
bambocciade | noun (n.) A representation of a grotesque scene from common or rustic life. |
bankside | noun (n.) The slope of a bank, especially of the bank of a steam. |
barde | noun (n.) A piece of defensive (or, sometimes, ornamental) armor for a horse's neck, breast, and flanks; a barb. [Often in the pl.] |
(pl.) Defensive armor formerly worn by a man at arms. | |
(pl.) A thin slice of fat bacon used to cover any meat or game. |
barmecide | noun (n.) One who proffers some illusory advantage or benefit. Also used as an adj.: Barmecidal. |
barraclade | noun (n.) A home-made woolen blanket without nap. |
barricade | noun (n.) A fortification, made in haste, of trees, earth, palisades, wagons, or anything that will obstruct the progress or attack of an enemy. It is usually an obstruction formed in streets to block an enemy's access. |
noun (n.) Any bar, obstruction, or means of defense. | |
noun (n.) To fortify or close with a barricade or with barricades; to stop up, as a passage; to obstruct; as, the workmen barricaded the streets of Paris. |
bastinade | noun (n.) See Bastinado, n. |
verb (v. t.) To bastinado. |
beatitude | noun (n.) Felicity of the highest kind; consummate bliss. |
noun (n.) Any one of the nine declarations (called the Beatitudes), made in the Sermon on the Mount (Matt. v. 3-12), with regard to the blessedness of those who are distinguished by certain specified virtues. | |
noun (n.) Beatification. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH ODE (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 2 Letters (od) - Words That Begins with od:
odalisque | noun (n.) A female slave or concubine in the harem of the Turkish sultan. |
oddity | noun (n.) The quality or state of being odd; singularity; queerness; peculiarity; as, oddity of dress, manners, and the like. |
noun (n.) That which is odd; as, a collection of oddities. |
oddness | noun (n.) The state of being odd, or not even. |
noun (n.) Singularity; strangeness; eccentricity; irregularity; uncouthness; as, the oddness of dress or shape; the oddness of an event. |
odds | adjective (a.) Difference in favor of one and against another; excess of one of two things or numbers over the other; inequality; advantage; superiority; hence, excess of chances; probability. |
adjective (a.) Quarrel; dispute; debate; strife; -- chiefly in the phrase at odds. |
ode | noun (n.) A short poetical composition proper to be set to music or sung; a lyric poem; esp., now, a poem characterized by sustained noble sentiment and appropriate dignity of style. |
odelet | noun (n.) A little or short ode. |
odeon | noun (n.) A kind of theater in ancient Greece, smaller than the dramatic theater and roofed over, in which poets and musicians submitted their works to the approval of the public, and contended for prizes; -- hence, in modern usage, the name of a hall for musical or dramatic performances. |
odeum | noun (n.) See Odeon. |
odible | adjective (a.) Fitted to excite hatred; hateful. |
odic | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to od. See Od. |
odin | noun (n.) The supreme deity of the Scandinavians; -- the same as Woden, of the German tribes. |
odinic | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Odin. |
odious | adjective (a.) Hateful; deserving or receiving hatred; as, an odious name, system, vice. |
adjective (a.) Causing or provoking hatred, repugnance, or disgust; offensive; disagreeable; repulsive; as, an odious sight; an odious smell. |
odist | noun (n.) A writer of an ode or odes. |
odium | noun (n.) Hatred; dislike; as, his conduct brought him into odium, or, brought odium upon him. |
noun (n.) The quality that provokes hatred; offensiveness. |
odizing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Odize |
odmyl | noun (n.) A volatile liquid obtained by boiling sulphur with linseed oil. It has an unpleasant garlic odor. |
odometer | noun (n.) An instrument attached to the wheel of a vehicle, to measure the distance traversed; also, a wheel used by surveyors, which registers the miles and rods traversed. |
noun (n.) An instrument attached to a vehicle, to measure the distance traversed; also, a wheel used by surveyors, which registers the miles and rods traversed. |
odometrical | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the odometer, or to measurements made with it. |
odometrous | adjective (a.) Serving to measure distance on a road. |
odometry | noun (n.) Measurement of distances by the odometer. |
odonata | noun (n. pl.) The division of insects that includes the dragon flies. |
odontalgia | noun (n.) Toothache. |
odontalgic | noun (n.) A remedy for the toothache. |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to odontalgia. |
odontalgy | noun (n.) Same as Odontalgia. |
odontiasis | noun (n.) Cutting of the teeth; dentition. |
odontoblast | noun (n.) One of the more or less columnar cells on the outer surface of the pulp of a tooth; an odontoplast. They are supposed to be connected with the formation of dentine. |
noun (n.) One of the cells which secrete the chitinous teeth of Mollusca. |
odontocete | noun (n.pl.) A subdivision of Cetacea, including the sperm whale, dolphins, etc.; the toothed whales. |
odontogeny | noun (n.) Generetion, or mode of development, of the teeth. |
odontograph | noun (n.) An instrument for marking or laying off the outlines of teeth of gear wheels. |
odontographic | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to odontography. |
odontography | noun (n.) A description of the teeth. |
odontoid | adjective (a.) Having the form of a tooth; toothlike. |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the odontoid bone or to the odontoid process. |
odontolcae | noun (n. pl.) An extinct order of ostrichlike aquatic birds having teeth, which are set in a groove in the jaw. It includes Hesperornis, and allied genera. See Hesperornis. |
odontolite | noun (n.) A fossil tooth colored a bright blue by phosphate of iron. It is used as an imitation of turquoise, and hence called bone turquoise. |
odontology | noun (n.) The science which treats of the teeth, their structure and development. |
odontophora | noun (n.pl.) Same as Cephalophora. |
odontophore | noun (n.) A special structure found in the mouth of most mollusks, except bivalves. It consists of several muscles and a cartilage which supports a chitinous radula, or lingual ribbon, armed with teeth. Also applied to the radula alone. See Radula. |
odontophorous | adjective (a.) Having an odontophore. |
odontoplast | noun (n.) An odontoblast. |
odontopteryx | noun (n.) An extinct Eocene bird having the jaws strongly serrated, or dentated, but destitute of true teeth. It was found near London. |
odontornithes | noun (n. pl.) A group of Mesozoic birds having the jaws armed with teeth, as in most other vertebrates. They have been divided into three orders: Odontolcae, Odontotormae, and Saururae. |
odontostomatous | adjective (a.) Having toothlike mandibles; -- applied to certain insects. |
odontotormae | noun (n.pl.) An order of extinct toothed birds having the teeth in sockets, as in the genus Ichthyornis. See Ichthyornis. |
odor | noun (n.) Any smell, whether fragrant or offensive; scent; perfume. |
odorament | noun (n.) A perfume; a strong scent. |
odorant | adjective (a.) Yielding odors; fragrant. |
odorate | adjective (a.) Odorous. |
odorating | adjective (a.) Diffusing odor or scent; fragrant. |
odoriferous | adjective (a.) Bearing or yielding an odor; perfumed; usually, sweet of scent; fragrant; as, odoriferous spices, particles, fumes, breezes. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH ODE:
English Words which starts with 'o' and ends with 'e':
oatcake | noun (n.) A cake made of oatmeal. |
oathable | adjective (a.) Capable of having an oath administered to. |
obcordate | adjective (a.) Heart-shaped, with the attachment at the pointed end; inversely cordate: as, an obcordate petal or leaf. |
obdurate | adjective (a.) Hardened in feelings, esp. against moral or mollifying influences; unyielding; hard-hearted; stubbornly wicked. |
adjective (a.) Hard; harsh; rugged; rough; intractable. | |
verb (v. t.) To harden. |
obdure | adjective (a.) Alt. of Obdured |
verb (v. t.) To harden. |
obbe | noun (n.) See Obi. |
obedible | adjective (a.) Obedient. |
obedience | noun (n.) The act of obeying, or the state of being obedient; compliance with that which is required by authority; subjection to rightful restraint or control. |
noun (n.) Words or actions denoting submission to authority; dutifulness. | |
noun (n.) A following; a body of adherents; as, the Roman Catholic obedience, or the whole body of persons who submit to the authority of the pope. | |
noun (n.) A cell (or offshoot of a larger monastery) governed by a prior. | |
noun (n.) One of the three monastic vows. | |
noun (n.) The written precept of a superior in a religious order or congregation to a subject. |
obeisance | noun (n.) Obedience. |
noun (n.) A manifestation of obedience; an expression of difference or respect; homage; a bow; a courtesy. |
obese | adjective (a.) Excessively corpulent; fat; fleshy. |
obfuscate | adjective (a.) Obfuscated; darkened; obscured. |
verb (v. t.) To darken; to obscure; to becloud; hence, to confuse; to bewilder. |
obimbricate | adjective (a.) Imbricated, with the overlapping ends directed downward. |
objectable | adjective (a.) Such as can be presented in opposition; that may be put forward as an objection. |
objectionable | adjective (a.) Liable to objection; likely to be objected to or disapproved of; offensive; as, objectionable words. |
objective | noun (n.) The objective case. |
noun (n.) An object glass. See under Object, n. | |
noun (n.) Same as Objective point, under Objective, a. | |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to an object. | |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to an object; contained in, or having the nature or position of, an object; outward; external; extrinsic; -- an epithet applied to whatever ir exterior to the mind, or which is simply an object of thought or feeling, and opposed to subjective. | |
adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or designating, the case which follows a transitive verb or a preposition, being that case in which the direct object of the verb is placed. See Accusative, n. |
oblanceolate | adjective (a.) Lanceolate in the reversed order, that is, narrowing toward the point of attachment more than toward the apex. |
oblate | adjective (a.) Flattened or depressed at the poles; as, the earth is an oblate spheroid. |
adjective (a.) Offered up; devoted; consecrated; dedicated; -- used chiefly or only in the titles of Roman Catholic orders. See Oblate, n. | |
adjective (a.) 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. | |
adjective (a.) One of the Oblati. |
obligable | adjective (a.) Acknowledging, or complying with, obligation; trustworthy. |
obligee | noun (n.) The person to whom another is bound, or the person to whom a bond is given. |
oblique | noun (n.) An oblique line. |
adjective (a.) Not erect or perpendicular; neither parallel to, nor at right angles from, the base; slanting; inclined. | |
adjective (a.) Not straightforward; indirect; obscure; hence, disingenuous; underhand; perverse; sinister. | |
adjective (a.) Not direct in descent; not following the line of father and son; collateral. | |
verb (v. i.) To deviate from a perpendicular line; to move in an oblique direction. | |
verb (v. i.) To march in a direction oblique to the line of the column or platoon; -- formerly accomplished by oblique steps, now by direct steps, the men half-facing either to the right or left. |
oblite | adjective (a.) Indistinct; slurred over. |
obliterate | adjective (a.) Scarcely distinct; -- applied to the markings of insects. |
verb (v. t.) To erase or blot out; to efface; to render undecipherable, as a writing. | |
verb (v. t.) To wear out; to remove or destroy utterly by any means; to render imperceptible; as. to obliterate ideas; to obliterate the monuments of antiquity. |
obliterative | adjective (a.) Tending or serving to obliterate. |
obmutescence | noun (n.) A becoming dumb; loss of speech. |
noun (n.) A keeping silent or mute. |
oboe | noun (n.) 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. |
obole | noun (n.) A weight of twelve grains; or, according to some, of ten grains, or half a scruple. |
obovate | adjective (a.) Inversely ovate; ovate with the narrow end downward; as, an obovate leaf. |
obscure | noun (n.) Obscurity. |
adjective (a.) 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. | |
superlative (superl.) Covered over, shaded, or darkened; destitute of light; imperfectly illuminated; dusky; dim. | |
superlative (superl.) Of or pertaining to darkness or night; inconspicuous to the sight; indistinctly seen; hidden; retired; remote from observation; unnoticed. | |
superlative (superl.) Not noticeable; humble; mean. | |
superlative (superl.) Not easily understood; not clear or legible; abstruse or blind; as, an obscure passage or inscription. | |
superlative (superl.) Not clear, full, or distinct; clouded; imperfect; as, an obscure view of remote objects. | |
verb (v. i.) To conceal one's self; to hide; to keep dark. |
obsequience | noun (n.) Obsequiousness. |
observable | adjective (a.) Worthy or capable of being observed; discernible; noticeable; remarkable. |
observance | noun (n.) 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. |
noun (n.) An act, ceremony, or rite, as of worship or respect; especially, a customary act or service of attention; a form; a practice; a rite; a custom. | |
noun (n.) Servile attention; sycophancy. |
observantine | noun (n.) 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. |
observative | adjective (a.) Observing; watchful. |
obsolescence | noun (n.) The state of becoming obsolete. |
obsolete | adjective (a.) No longer in use; gone into disuse; disused; neglected; as, an obsolete word; an obsolete statute; -- applied chiefly to words, writings, or observances. |
adjective (a.) Not very distinct; obscure; rudimental; imperfectly developed; abortive. | |
verb (v. i.) To become obsolete; to go out of use. |
obstinate | adjective (a.) Pertinaciously adhering to an opinion, purpose, or course; persistent; not yielding to reason, arguments, or other means; stubborn; pertinacious; -- usually implying unreasonableness. |
adjective (a.) Not yielding; not easily subdued or removed; as, obstinate fever; obstinate obstructions. |
obstructive | noun (n.) An obstructive person or thing. |
adjective (a.) Tending to obstruct; presenting obstacles; hindering; causing impediment. |
obstupefactive | adjective (a.) Stupefactive. |
obtainable | adjective (a.) Capable of being obtained. |
obtrusive | adjective (a.) Disposed to obtrude; inclined to intrude or thrust one's self or one's opinions upon others, or to enter uninvited; forward; pushing; intrusive. |
obverse | adjective (a.) Having the base, or end next the attachment, narrower than the top, as a leaf. |
adjective (a.) The face of a coin which has the principal image or inscription upon it; -- the other side being the reverse. | |
adjective (a.) Anything necessarily involved in, or answering to, another; the more apparent or conspicuous of two possible sides, or of two corresponding things. |
obvolute | adjective (a.) Alt. of Obvoluted |
occasionable | adjective (a.) Capable of being occasioned or caused. |
occasive | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the setting sun; falling; descending; western. |
occluse | adjective (a.) Shut; closed. |
occurrence | noun (n.) A coming or happening; as, the occurence of a railway collision. |
noun (n.) Any incident or event; esp., one which happens without being designed or expected; as, an unusual occurrence, or the ordinary occurrences of life. |
occurse | noun (n.) Same as Occursion. |
ocellate | adjective (a.) Same as Ocellated. |
ochre | noun (n.) 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. |
noun (n.) A metallic oxide occurring in earthy form; as, tungstic ocher or tungstite. | |
noun (n.) See Ocher. |
ochreate | adjective (a.) Alt. of Ochreated |
ocreate | adjective (a.) Alt. of Ocreated |
octahedrite | noun (n.) Titanium dioxide occurring in acute octahedral crystals. |
octane | noun (n.) Any one of a group of metametric hydrocarcons (C8H18) of the methane series. The most important is a colorless, volatile, inflammable liquid, found in petroleum, and a constituent of benzene or ligroin. |
octastyle | adjective (a.) See Octostyle. |
octave | noun (n.) The eighth day after a church festival, the festival day being included; also, the week following a church festival. |
noun (n.) The eighth tone in the scale; the interval between one and eight of the scale, or any interval of equal length; an interval of five tones and two semitones. | |
noun (n.) The whole diatonic scale itself. | |
noun (n.) The first two stanzas of a sonnet, consisting of four verses each; a stanza of eight lines. | |
noun (n.) A small cask of wine, the eighth part of a pipe. | |
adjective (a.) Consisting of eight; eight. |
octene | noun (n.) Same as Octylene. |
octile | noun (n.) Same as Octant, 2. |
octoate | noun (n.) A salt of an octoic acid; a caprylate. |
octodentate | adjective (a.) Having eight teeth. |
octonaphthene | noun (n.) A colorless liquid hydrocarbon of the octylene series, occurring in Caucasian petroleum. |
octopede | noun (n.) An animal having eight feet, as a spider. |
octostyle | noun (n.) An octostyle portico or temple. |
adjective (a.) Having eight columns in the front; -- said of a temple or portico. The Parthenon is octostyle, but most large Greek temples are hexastele. See Hexastyle. |
octosyllable | noun (n.) A word of eight syllables. |
adjective (a.) Octosyllabic. |
octuple | adjective (a.) Eightfold. |
octylene | noun (n.) Any one of a series of metameric hydrocarbons (C8H16) of the ethylene series. In general they are combustible, colorless liquids. |
oculate | adjective (a.) Alt. of Oculated |
odorline | noun (n.) A pungent oily substance obtained by redistilling bone oil. |
odyle | noun (n.) See Od. [Archaic]. |
oeillade | noun (n.) A glance of the eye; an amorous look. |
oenanthate | noun (n.) A salt of the supposed /nanthic acid. |
oenanthone | noun (n.) The ketone of oenanthic acid. |
oenanthylate | noun (n.) A salt of /nanthylic acid; as, potassium oenanthylate. |
oenanthylidene | noun (n.) A colorless liquid hydrocarbon, having a garlic odor; heptine. |
offence | noun (n.) See Offense. |
noun (n.) The act of offending in any sense; esp., a crime or a sin, an affront or an injury. | |
noun (n.) The state of being offended or displeased; anger; displeasure. | |
noun (n.) A cause or occasion of stumbling or of sin. |
offense | noun (n.) Alt. of Offence |
offensible | adjective (a.) That may give offense. |
offensive | noun (n.) The state or posture of one who offends or makes attack; aggressive attitude; the act of the attacking party; -- opposed to defensive. |
adjective (a.) Giving offense; causing displeasure or resentment; displeasing; annoying; as, offensive words. | |
adjective (a.) Giving pain or unpleasant sensations; disagreeable; revolting; noxious; as, an offensive smell; offensive sounds. | |
adjective (a.) Making the first attack; assailant; aggressive; hence, used in attacking; -- opposed to defensive; as, an offensive war; offensive weapons. |
offerable | adjective (a.) Capable of being offered; suitable or worthy to be offered. |
offerture | noun (n.) Offer; proposal; overture. |
office | noun (n.) That which a person does, either voluntarily or by appointment, for, or with reference to, others; customary duty, or a duty that arises from the relations of man to man; as, kind offices, pious offices. |
noun (n.) A special duty, trust, charge, or position, conferred by authority and for a public purpose; a position of trust or authority; as, an executive or judical office; a municipal office. | |
noun (n.) A charge or trust, of a sacred nature, conferred by God himself; as, the office of a priest under the old dispensation, and that of the apostles in the new. | |
noun (n.) That which is performed, intended, or assigned to be done, by a particular thing, or that which anything is fitted to perform; a function; -- answering to duty in intelligent beings. | |
noun (n.) The place where a particular kind of business or service for others is transacted; a house or apartment in which public officers and others transact business; as, the register's office; a lawyer's office. | |
noun (n.) The company or corporation, or persons collectively, whose place of business is in an office; as, I have notified the office. | |
noun (n.) The apartments or outhouses in which the domestics discharge the duties attached to the service of a house, as kitchens, pantries, stables, etc. | |
noun (n.) Any service other than that of ordination and the Mass; any prescribed religious service. | |
verb (v. t.) To perform, as the duties of an office; to discharge. |
offshore | adjective (a.) From the shore; as, an offshore wind; an offshore signal. |
ogee | noun (n.) A molding, the section of which is the form of the letter S, with the convex part above; cyma reversa. See Illust. under Cyma. |
noun (n.) Hence, any similar figure used for any purpose. |
ogive | noun (n.) The arch or rib which crosses a Gothic vault diagonally. |
ogle | noun (n.) An amorous side glance or look. |
verb (v. t.) To view or look at with side glances, as in fondness, or with a design to attract notice. |
ogre | noun (n.) An imaginary monster, or hideous giant of fairy tales, who lived on human beings; hence, any frightful giant; a cruel monster. |
oilstone | noun (n.) A variety of hone slate, or whetstone, used for whetting tools when lubricated with oil. |
oke | noun (n.) A Turkish and Egyptian weight, equal to about 2/ pounds. |
noun (n.) An Hungarian and Wallachian measure, equal to about 2/ pints. |
okenite | noun (n.) A massive and fibrous mineral of a whitish color, chiefly hydrous silicate of lime. |
oleandrine | noun (n.) One of several alkaloids found in the leaves of the oleander. |
oleate | noun (n.) A salt of oleic acid. Some oleates, as the oleate of mercury, are used in medicine by way of inunction. |
olefine | noun (n.) Olefiant gas, or ethylene; hence, by extension, any one of the series of unsaturated hydrocarbons of which ethylene is a type. See Ethylene. |
oleomargarine | noun (n.) A liquid oil made from animal fats (esp. beef fat) by separating the greater portion of the solid fat or stearin, by crystallization. It is mainly a mixture of olein and palmitin with some little stearin. |
noun (n.) An artificial butter made by churning this oil with more or less milk. |
oleone | noun (n.) An oily liquid, obtained by distillation of calcium oleate, and probably consisting of the ketone of oleic acid. |
oleoptene | noun (n.) See Eleoptene. |
oleose | adjective (a.) Alt. of Oleous |
olfactive | adjective (a.) See Olfactory, a. |
olibene | noun (n.) A colorless mobile liquid of a pleasant aromatic odor obtained by the distillation of olibanum, or frankincense, and regarded as a terpene; -- called also conimene. |
oligocene | noun (n.) The Oligocene period. See the Chart of Geology. |
adjective (a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, certain strata which occupy an intermediate position between the Eocene and Miocene periods. |
oligochete | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Oligochaeta. |
oligoclase | noun (n.) A triclinic soda-lime feldspar. See Feldspar. |