Name Report For First Name ODA:

ODA

First name ODA's origin is German. ODA means "elfin spear". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with ODA below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of oda.(Brown names are of the same origin (German) with ODA and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)

Rhymes with ODA - Names & Words

First Names Rhyming ODA

FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES ODA AS A WHOLE:

sroda hippodamia laodamia podarge rhoda odahingum shoda ciodaru clodagh godalupe joda jodayne miakoda odanda boda bodaway enkoodabaoo enkoodabooaoo meliodas odakota odale odam odanodan odayle rodas takoda enkoodabao rhodant rhodanthe leoda hooda abeodan bebeodan

NAMES RHYMING WITH ODA (According to last letters):

Rhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (da) - Names That Ends with da:

balinda dada makda makeda nehanda rashida saida sauda ghayda huda mas'ouda nashida nida rida warda zada daghda oppida seda milada arvada afreda belisarda clarimunda yolanda ciarda donalda albreda alda arnalda magnilda marelda mathilda romilda serilda andromeda dorinda elpida halimeda leda phillida varda darda chamunda chanda sharada clorinda elda geltruda alida orenda wakanda wihakayda adelajda nadezhda sanda adelinda muenda penda alwalda dar-al-baida abda fida reda ferda jarda standa tonda mudada balisarda abida ada adalheida adda aethelreda ahuda aida alameda aleda alfreda alfrida almunda alyda amada amalasanda amalda amanda ananda anda arlinda armanda arminda athilda atilda auda ayda belinda bernarda bertilda bethsaida

NAMES RHYMING WITH ODA (According to first letters):

Rhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (od) - Names That Begins with od:

odbart odbert odd ode oded odeda odede odel odele odelet odeletta odelette odelia odelina odelinda odell odella odelle odelyn odelyna odero odessa odette odharnait odhert odhran odi odiana odiane odila odile odilia odin odion odo odom odon odra odran odwolf odwolfe odwulf ody odysseia odysseus

NAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH ODA:

First Names which starts with 'o' and ends with 'a':

o'shea oana oba obelia ocelfa octa octavia octha offa ofra ogaleesha oifa okhmhaka okimma okpara oksana ola oldwina oleda oleisia olena oleta oletha olexa olga oliana olimpia olina olinda olita oliveria olivia olya olympia oma omayda omusa ona onawa onella onida onora oona opalina ophelia ophra ora ordella orea orelia oria oriana orianna orithyia orla orlena orlina ornetta orquidea orquidia ortygia orva orzora osana osberga osburga osla osra otha othma otka ottavia otthilda ottila ottilia otylia ovadya oxa oya ozanna

English Words Rhyming ODA

ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES ODA AS A WHOLE:

abnodationnoun (n.) The act of cutting away the knots of trees.

abodancenoun (n.) An omen; a portending.

accommodableadjective (a.) That may be accommodated, fitted, or made to agree.

accommodablenessnoun (n.) The quality or condition of being accommodable.

accommodatingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Accommodate
 adjective (a.) Affording, or disposed to afford, accommodation; obliging; as an accommodating man, spirit, arrangement.

accommodateadjective (a.) Suitable; fit; adapted; as, means accommodate to end.
 verb (v. t.) To render fit, suitable, or correspondent; to adapt; to conform; as, to accommodate ourselves to circumstances.
 verb (v. t.) To bring into agreement or harmony; to reconcile; to compose; to adjust; to settle; as, to accommodate differences, a dispute, etc.
 verb (v. t.) To furnish with something desired, needed, or convenient; to favor; to oblige; as, to accommodate a friend with a loan or with lodgings.
 verb (v. t.) To show the correspondence of; to apply or make suit by analogy; to adapt or fit, as teachings to accidental circumstances, statements to facts, etc.; as, to accommodate prophecy to events.
 verb (v. i.) To adapt one's self; to be conformable or adapted.

accommodatenessnoun (n.) Fitness.

accommodationnoun (n.) The act of fitting or adapting, or the state of being fitted or adapted; adaptation; adjustment; -- followed by to.
 noun (n.) Willingness to accommodate; obligingness.
 noun (n.) Whatever supplies a want or affords ease, refreshment, or convenience; anything furnished which is desired or needful; -- often in the plural; as, the accommodations -- that is, lodgings and food -- at an inn.
 noun (n.) An adjustment of differences; state of agreement; reconciliation; settlement.
 noun (n.) The application of a writer's language, on the ground of analogy, to something not originally referred to or intended.
 noun (n.) A loan of money.
 noun (n.) An accommodation bill or note.

accommodatornoun (n.) He who, or that which, accommodates.

acnodaladjective (a.) Pertaining to acnodes.

acrodactylumnoun (n.) The upper surface of the toes, individually.

alamodalitynoun (n.) The quality of being a la mode; conformity to the mode or fashion; fashionableness.

amblypodanoun (n. pl.) A group of large, extinct, herbivorous mammals, common in the Tertiary formation of the United States.

amphipodanadjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Amphipoda.

amphipodanoun (n. pl.) A numerous group of fourteen -- footed Crustacea, inhabiting both fresh and salt water. The body is usually compressed laterally, and the anterior pairs or legs are directed downward and forward, but the posterior legs are usually turned upward and backward. The beach flea is an example. See Tetradecapoda and Arthrostraca.

anarthropodanoun (n. pl.) One of the divisions of Articulata in which there are no jointed legs, as the annelids; -- opposed to Arthropoda.

anisodactylanoun (n. pl.) Alt. of Anisodactyls

anisodactylsnoun (n. pl.) A group of herbivorous mammals characterized by having the hoofs in a single series around the foot, as the elephant, rhinoceros, etc.
 noun (n. pl.) A group of perching birds which are anisodactylous.

anisodactylousadjective (a.) Characterized by unequal toes, three turned forward and one backward, as in most passerine birds.

anisopodanoun (n. pl.) A division of Crustacea, which, in some its characteristics, is intermediate between Amphipoda and Isopoda.

annodatedadjective (a.) Curved somewhat in the form of the letter S.

antipodagricnoun (n.) A medicine for gout.
 adjective (a.) Good against gout.

antipodaladjective (a.) Pertaining to the antipodes; situated on the opposite side of the globe.
 adjective (a.) Diametrically opposite.

apodalnoun (n.) Without feet; footless.
 noun (n.) Destitute of the ventral fin, as the eels.

apodanoun (n.) A group of cirripeds, destitute of footlike organs.
 noun (n.) An order of Amphibia without feet. See Ophiomorpha.
 noun (n.) A group of worms without appendages, as the leech.

apodanadjective (a.) Apodal.

arthropodanoun (n. pl.) A large division of Articulata, embracing all those that have jointed legs. It includes Insects, Arachnida, Pychnogonida, and Crustacea.

artiodactylanoun (n. pl.) One of the divisions of the ungulate animals. The functional toes of the hind foot are even in number, and the third digit of each foot (corresponding to the middle finger in man) is asymmetrical and paired with the fourth digit, as in the hog, the sheep, and the ox; -- opposed to Perissodactyla.

artiodactylenoun (n.) One of the Artiodactyla.

artiodactylousadjective (a.) Even-toed.

brachiopodanoun (n.) A class of Molluscoidea having a symmetrical bivalve shell, often attached by a fleshy peduncle.

branchiogastropodanoun (n. pl.) Those Gastropoda that breathe by branchiae, including the Prosobranchiata and Opisthobranchiata.

branchiopodanoun (n. pl.) An order of Entomostraca; -- so named from the feet of branchiopods having been supposed to perform the function of gills. It includes the fresh-water genera Branchipus, Apus, and Limnadia, and the genus Artemia found in salt lakes. It is also called Phyllopoda. See Phyllopoda, Cladocera. It is sometimes used in a broader sense.

cephalopodanoun (n. pl.) The highest class of Mollusca.

chaetopodanoun (n. pl.) A very extensive order of Annelida, characterized by the presence of lateral setae, or spines, on most or all of the segments. They are divided into two principal groups: Oligochaeta, including the earthworms and allied forms, and Polychaeta, including most of the marine species.

cheilopodanoun (n.) See Ch/lopoda.

chilopodanoun (n. pl.) One of the orders of myriapods, including the centipeds. They have a single pair of elongated legs attached laterally to each segment; well developed jaws; and a pair of thoracic legs converted into poison fangs. They are insectivorous, very active, and some species grow to the length of a foot.

codanoun (n.) A few measures added beyond the natural termination of a composition.

commodatenoun (n.) A gratuitous loan.

copepodanoun (n. pl.) An order of Entomostraca, including many minute Crustacea, both fresh-water and marine.

crunodaladjective (a.) Possessing, or characterized by, a crunode; -- used of curves.

decapodanoun (n. pl.) The order of Crustacea which includes the shrimps, lobsters, crabs, etc.
 noun (n. pl.) A division of the dibranchiate cephalopods including the cuttlefishes and squids. See Decacera.

deccapodaladjective (a.) Alt. of Deccapodous

deodandnoun (n.) A personal chattel which had caused the death of a person, and for that reason was given to God, that is, forfeited to the crown, to be applied to pious uses, and distributed in alms by the high almoner. Thus, if a cart ran over a man and killed him, it was forfeited as a deodand.

deodarnoun (n.) A kind of cedar (Cedrus Deodara), growing in India, highly valued for its size and beauty as well as for its timber, and also grown in England as an ornamental tree.

deodatenoun (n.) A gift or offering to God.

diplopodanoun (n. pl.) An order of myriapods having two pairs of legs on each segment; the Chilognatha.

disaccommodationnoun (n.) A state of being unaccommodated or unsuited.

discodactylnoun (n.) One of the tree frogs.

ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH ODA (According to last letters):


Rhyming Words According to Last 2 Letters (da) - English Words That Ends with da:


abadanoun (n.) The rhinoceros.

acraspedanoun (n. pl.) A group of acalephs, including most of the larger jellyfishes; the Discophora.

anacondanoun (n.) A large South American snake of the Boa family (Eunectes murinus), which lives near rivers, and preys on birds and small mammals. The name is also applied to a similar large serpent (Python tigris) of Ceylon.

andromedanoun (n.) A northern constellation, supposed to represent the mythical Andromeda.
 noun (n.) A genus of ericaceous flowering plants of northern climates, of which the original species was found growing on a rock surrounded by water.

annelidanoun (n. pl.) A division of the Articulata, having the body formed of numerous rings or annular segments, and without jointed legs. The principal subdivisions are the Chaetopoda, including the Oligochaeta or earthworms and Polychaeta or marine worms; and the Hirudinea or leeches. See Chaetopoda.

annuloidanoun (n. pl.) A division of the Articulata, including the annelids and allied groups; sometimes made to include also the helminths and echinoderms.

arachnidanoun (n. pl.) One of the classes of Arthropoda. See Illustration in Appendix.

araneidanoun (n. pl.) Alt. of Araneoidea

archiannelidanoun (n. pl.) A group of Annelida remarkable for having no external segments or distinct ventral nerve ganglions.

asafetidanoun (n.) Alt. of Asafoetida

asafoetidanoun (n.) The fetid gum resin or inspissated juice of a large umbelliferous plant (Ferula asafoetida) of Persia and the East Indies. It is used in medicine as an antispasmodic.

asiphonidanoun (n. pl.) A group of bivalve mollusks destitute of siphons, as the oyster; the asiphonate mollusks.

assaf/tidanoun (n.) Same as Asafetida.

barracudanoun (n.) Alt. of Barracouata
 noun (n.) Any of several voracious pikelike marine fishes allied to the gray mullets, constituting the genus Sphyraena and family Sphyraenidae. The great barracuda (S. barracuda) of the West Indies, Florida, etc., is often six feet or more long, and as dangerous as a shark. In Cuba its flesh is reputed to be poisonous. S. Argentea of the Pacific coast and S. sphyraena of Europe are smaller species, and are used as food.

bretwaldanoun (n.) The official title applied to that one of the Anglo-Saxon chieftains who was chosen by the other chiefs to lead them in their warfare against the British tribes.

ca–adanoun (n.) A small ca–on; a narrow valley or glen; also, but less frequently, an open valley.

canadanoun (n.) A British province in North America, giving its name to various plants and animals.

cassadanoun (n.) See Cassava.

chordanoun (n.) A cord.

cicadanoun (n.) Any species of the genus Cicada. They are large hemipterous insects, with nearly transparent wings. The male makes a shrill sound by peculiar organs in the under side of the abdomen, consisting of a pair of stretched membranes, acted upon by powerful muscles. A noted American species (C. septendecim) is called the seventeen year locust. Another common species is the dogday cicada.

cnidanoun (n.) One of the peculiar stinging, cells found in Coelenterata; a nematocyst; a lasso cell.

coloquintidanoun (n.) See Colocynth.

delendanoun (n. pl.) Things to be erased or blotted out.

dravidanoun (n. pl.) A race of Hindostan, believed to be the original people who occupied the land before the Hindoo or Aryan invasion.

eddanoun (n.) The religious or mythological book of the old Scandinavian tribes of German origin, containing two collections of Sagas (legends, myths) of the old northern gods and heroes.

elasipodanoun (n. pl.) An order of holothurians mostly found in the deep sea. They are remarkable for their bilateral symmetry and curious forms.

eucopepodanoun (n. pl.) A group which includes the typical copepods and the lerneans.

euryalidanoun (n. pl.) A tribe of Ophiuroidea, including the genera Euryale, Astrophyton, etc. They generally have the arms branched. See Astrophyton.

gasteropodanoun (n. pl.) Same as Gastropoda.

gastropodanoun (n. pl.) One of the classes of Mollusca, of great extent. It includes most of the marine spiral shells, and the land and fresh-water snails. They generally creep by means of a flat, muscular disk, or foot, on the ventral side of the body. The head usually bears one or two pairs of tentacles. See Mollusca.

geladanoun (n.) A baboon (Gelada Ruppelli) of Abyssinia, remarkable for the length of the hair on the neck and shoulders of the adult male.

haciendanoun (n.) A large estate where work of any kind is done, as agriculture, manufacturing, mining, or raising of animals; a cultivated farm, with a good house, in distinction from a farming establishment with rude huts for herdsmen, etc.; -- a word used in Spanish-American regions.

haggadanoun (n.) A story, anecdote, or legend in the Talmud, to explain or illustrate the text of the Old Testament.

heteropodanoun (n. pl.) An order of pelagic Gastropoda, having the foot developed into a median fin. Some of the species are naked; others, as Carinaria and Atlanta, have thin glassy shells.

hexapodanoun (n. pl.) The true, or six-legged, insects; insects other than myriapods and arachnids.

ichthyopsidanoun (n. pl.) A grand division of the Vertebrata, including the Amphibia and Fishes.

isopodanoun (n. pl.) An order of sessile-eyed Crustacea, usually having seven pairs of legs, which are all similar in structure.

jacarandanoun (n.) The native Brazilian name for certain leguminous trees, which produce the beautiful woods called king wood, tiger wood, and violet wood.
 noun (n.) A genus of bignoniaceous Brazilian trees with showy trumpet-shaped flowers.

kudanoun (n.) The East Indian tapir. See Tapir.

laemodipodanoun (n. pl.) A division of amphipod Crustacea, in which the abdomen is small or rudimentary and the legs are often reduced to five pairs. The whale louse, or Cyamus, and Caprella are examples.

lambdanoun (n.) The name of the Greek letter /, /, corresponding with the English letter L, l.
 noun (n.) The point of junction of the sagittal and lambdoid sutures of the skull.

linguatulidanoun (n. pl.) Same as Linguatulina.

lophopodanoun (n. pl.) Same as Phylactolemata.

lucernaridanoun (n. pl.) A division of acalephs, including Lucernaria and allied genera; -- called also Calycozoa.
 noun (n. pl.) A more extensive group of acalephs, including both the true lucernarida and the Discophora.

malacopodanoun (n. pl.) A class of air-breathing Arthropoda; -- called also Protracheata, and Onychophora.

marimondanoun (n.) A spider monkey (Ateles belzebuth) of Central and South America.

mastigopodanoun (n. pl.) The Infusoria.

meladanoun (n.) Alt. of Melado

midanoun (n.) The larva of the bean fly.

morindanoun (n.) A genus of rubiaceous trees and shrubs, mostly East Indian, many species of which yield valuable red and yellow dyes. The wood is hard and beautiful, and used for gunstocks.

ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH ODA (According to first letters):


Rhyming Words According to First 2 Letters (od) - Words That Begins with od:


odalisquenoun (n.) A female slave or concubine in the harem of the Turkish sultan.

odditynoun (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.

oddnessnoun (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.

oddsadjective (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.

odenoun (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.

odeletnoun (n.) A little or short ode.

odeonnoun (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.

odeumnoun (n.) See Odeon.

odibleadjective (a.) Fitted to excite hatred; hateful.

odicadjective (a.) Of or pertaining to od. See Od.

odinnoun (n.) The supreme deity of the Scandinavians; -- the same as Woden, of the German tribes.

odinicadjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Odin.

odiousadjective (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.

odistnoun (n.) A writer of an ode or odes.

odiumnoun (n.) Hatred; dislike; as, his conduct brought him into odium, or, brought odium upon him.
 noun (n.) The quality that provokes hatred; offensiveness.

odizingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Odize

odmylnoun (n.) A volatile liquid obtained by boiling sulphur with linseed oil. It has an unpleasant garlic odor.

odometernoun (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.

odometricaladjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the odometer, or to measurements made with it.

odometrousadjective (a.) Serving to measure distance on a road.

odometrynoun (n.) Measurement of distances by the odometer.

odonatanoun (n. pl.) The division of insects that includes the dragon flies.

odontalgianoun (n.) Toothache.

odontalgicnoun (n.) A remedy for the toothache.
 adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to odontalgia.

odontalgynoun (n.) Same as Odontalgia.

odontiasisnoun (n.) Cutting of the teeth; dentition.

odontoblastnoun (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.

odontocetenoun (n.pl.) A subdivision of Cetacea, including the sperm whale, dolphins, etc.; the toothed whales.

odontogenynoun (n.) Generetion, or mode of development, of the teeth.

odontographnoun (n.) An instrument for marking or laying off the outlines of teeth of gear wheels.

odontographicadjective (a.) Of or pertaining to odontography.

odontographynoun (n.) A description of the teeth.

odontoidadjective (a.) Having the form of a tooth; toothlike.
 adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the odontoid bone or to the odontoid process.

odontolcaenoun (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.

odontolitenoun (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.

odontologynoun (n.) The science which treats of the teeth, their structure and development.

odontophoranoun (n.pl.) Same as Cephalophora.

odontophorenoun (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.

odontophorousadjective (a.) Having an odontophore.

odontoplastnoun (n.) An odontoblast.

odontopteryxnoun (n.) An extinct Eocene bird having the jaws strongly serrated, or dentated, but destitute of true teeth. It was found near London.

odontornithesnoun (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.

odontostomatousadjective (a.) Having toothlike mandibles; -- applied to certain insects.

odontotormaenoun (n.pl.) An order of extinct toothed birds having the teeth in sockets, as in the genus Ichthyornis. See Ichthyornis.

odornoun (n.) Any smell, whether fragrant or offensive; scent; perfume.

odoramentnoun (n.) A perfume; a strong scent.

odorantadjective (a.) Yielding odors; fragrant.

odorateadjective (a.) Odorous.

odoratingadjective (a.) Diffusing odor or scent; fragrant.

odoriferousadjective (a.) Bearing or yielding an odor; perfumed; usually, sweet of scent; fragrant; as, odoriferous spices, particles, fumes, breezes.

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English Words which starts with 'o' and ends with 'a':

oblongatanoun (n.) The medulla oblongata.

ocanoun (n.) A Peruvian name for certain species of Oxalis (O. crenata, and O. tuberosa) which bear edible tubers.

ochreanoun (n.) A greave or legging.
 noun (n.) A kind of sheath formed by two stipules united round a stem.

ocranoun (n.) See Okra.

ocreanoun (n.) See Ochrea.

octandrianoun (n.pl.) A Linnaean class of plants, in which the flowers have eight stamens not united to one another or to the pistil.

octoceranoun (n.pl.) Octocerata.

octoceratanoun (n.pl.) A suborder of Cephalopoda including Octopus, Argonauta, and allied genera, having eight arms around the head; -- called also Octopoda.

octogynianoun (n.pl.) A Linnaean order of plants having eight pistils.

octopodanoun (n.pl.) Same as Octocerata.
 noun (n.pl.) Same as Arachnida.

octopodianoun (n.pl.) Same as Octocerata.

oculinanoun (n.) A genus of tropical corals, usually branched, and having a very volid texture.

oculinaceanoun (n.pl.) A suborder of corals including many reef-building species, having round, starlike calicles.

oedemanoun (n.) A swelling from effusion of watery fluid in the cellular tissue beneath the skin or mucous membrance; dropsy of the subcutaneous cellular tissue.

oenomanianoun (n.) Delirium tremens.
 noun (n.) Dipsomania.

oinomanianoun (n.) See oenomania.

okranoun (n.) An annual plant (Abelmoschus, / Hibiscus, esculentus), whose green pods, abounding in nutritious mucilage, are much used for soups, stews, or pickles; gumbo.
 noun (n.) The pods of the plant okra, used as a vegetable; also, a dish prepared with them; gumbo.

oleanoun (n.) A genus of trees including the olive.

oligochaetanoun (n. pl.) An order of Annelida which includes the earthworms and related species.

olivanoun (n.) A genus of polished marine gastropod shells, chiefly tropical, and often beautifully colored.

ollanoun (n.) A pot or jar having a wide mouth; a cinerary urn, especially one of baked clay.
 noun (n.) A dish of stewed meat; an olio; an olla-podrida.

omagranoun (n.) Gout in the shoulder.

omeganoun (n.) The last letter of the Greek alphabet. See Alpha.
 noun (n.) The last; the end; hence, death.

omnivoranoun (n. pl.) A group of ungulate mammals including the hog and the hippopotamus. The term is also sometimes applied to the bears, and to certain passerine birds.

onagganoun (n.) The dauw.

onomatopoeianoun (n.) The formation of words in imitation of sounds; a figure of speech in which the sound of a word is imitative of the sound of the thing which the word represents; as, the buzz of bees; the hiss of a goose; the crackle of fire.

onychanoun (n.) An ingredient of the Mosaic incense, probably the operculum of some kind of strombus.
 noun (n.) The precious stone called onyx.

onychianoun (n.) A whitlow.
 noun (n.) An affection of a finger or toe, attended with ulceration at the base of the nail, and terminating in the destruction of the nail.

onychophoranoun (n. pl.) Malacopoda.

oothecanoun (n.) An egg case, especially those of many kinds of mollusks, and of some insects, as the cockroach. Cf. Ooecium.

oozoanoun (n. pl.) Same as Acrita.

operanoun (n.) A drama, either tragic or comic, of which music forms an essential part; a drama wholly or mostly sung, consisting of recitative, arials, choruses, duets, trios, etc., with orchestral accompaniment, preludes, and interludes, together with appropriate costumes, scenery, and action; a lyric drama.
 noun (n.) The score of a musical drama, either written or in print; a play set to music.
 noun (n.) The house where operas are exhibited.
  (pl. ) of Opus

operculanoun (n. pl.) See Operculum.
  (pl. ) of Operculum

operettanoun (n.) A short, light, musical drama.

ophidianoun (n. pl.) The order of reptiles which includes the serpents.
  (pl. ) of Ophidion

ophiomorphanoun (n. pl.) An order of tailless amphibians having a slender, wormlike body with regular annulations, and usually with minute scales imbedded in the skin. The limbs are rudimentary or wanting. It includes the caecilians. Called also Gymnophiona and Ophidobatrachia.

ophiuranoun (n.) A genus of ophiurioid starfishes.

ophiuridanoun (n. pl.) Same as Ophiurioidea.

ophiurioideanoun (n. pl.) Alt. of Ophiuroidea

ophiuroideanoun (n. pl.) A class of star-shaped echinoderms having a disklike body, with slender, articulated arms, which are not grooved beneath and are often very fragile; -- called also Ophiuroida and Ophiuridea. See Illust. under Brittle star.

ophthalmianoun (n.) An inflammation of the membranes or coats of the eye or of the eyeball.

opisthobranchianoun (n. pl.) Alt. of Opisthobranchiata

opisthobranchiatanoun (n. pl.) A division of gastropod Mollusca, in which the breathing organs are usually situated behind the heart. It includes the tectibranchs and nudibranchs.

opisthoglyphanoun (n. pl.) A division of serpents which have some of the posterior maxillary teeth grooved for fangs.

optocoelianoun (n.) The cavity of one of the optic lobes of the brain in many animals.

opuntianoun (n.) A genus of cactaceous plants; the prickly pear, or Indian fig.

oquassanoun (n.) A small, handsome trout (Salvelinus oquassa), found in some of the lakes in Maine; -- called also blueback trout.

oranoun (n.) A money of account among the Anglo-Saxons, valued, in the Domesday Book, at twenty pence sterling.
  (pl. ) of Os

orbiculanoun (n.) Same as Discina.

orbulinanoun (n.) A genus of minute living Foraminifera having a globular shell.

orchestranoun (n.) The space in a theater between the stage and the audience; -- originally appropriated by the Greeks to the chorus and its evolutions, afterward by the Romans to persons of distinction, and by the moderns to a band of instrumental musicians.
 noun (n.) The place in any public hall appropriated to a band of instrumental musicians.
 noun (n.) Loosely: A band of instrumental musicians performing in a theater, concert hall, or other place of public amusement.
 noun (n.) Strictly: A band suitable for the performance of symphonies, overtures, etc., as well as for the accompaniment of operas, oratorios, cantatas, masses, and the like, or of vocal and instrumental solos.
 noun (n.) A band composed, for the largest part, of players of the various viol instruments, many of each kind, together with a proper complement of wind instruments of wood and brass; -- as distinguished from a military or street band of players on wind instruments, and from an assemblage of solo players for the rendering of concerted pieces, such as septets, octets, and the like.
 noun (n.) The instruments employed by a full band, collectively; as, an orchestra of forty stringed instruments, with proper complement of wind instruments.

oreosomanoun (n. pl.) A genus of small oceanic fishes, remarkable for the large conical tubercles which cover the under surface.

organistanoun (n.) Any one of several South American wrens, noted for the sweetness of their song.

orgyianoun (n.) A genus of bombycid moths whose caterpillars (esp. those of Orgyia leucostigma) are often very injurious to fruit trees and shade trees. The female is wingless. Called also vaporer moth.

ornithodelphianoun (n. pl.) Same as Monotremata.

ornithopodanoun (n. pl.) An order of herbivorous dinosaurs with birdlike characteristics in the skeleton, esp. in the pelvis and hind legs, which in some genera had only three functional toes, and supported the body in walking as in Iguanodon. See Illust. in Appendix.

ornithosaurianoun (n. pl.) An order of extinct flying reptiles; -- called also Pterosauria.

ornithoscelidanoun (n. pl.) A group of extinct Reptilia, intermediate in structure (especially with regard to the pelvis) between reptiles and birds.

orthopn/anoun (n.) Alt. of Orthopny

orthopodanoun (n. pl.) An extinct order of reptiles which stood erect on the hind legs, and resembled birds in the structure of the feet, pelvis, and other parts.

orthopteranoun (n. pl.) An order of mandibulate insects including grasshoppers, locusts, cockroaches, etc. See Illust. under Insect.

oryzanoun (n.) A genus of grasses including the rice plant; rice.

oscillarianoun (n.) A genus of dark green, or purplish black, filamentous, fresh-water algae, the threads of which have an automatic swaying or crawling motion. Called also Oscillatoria.

oscillatorianoun (n. pl.) Same as Oscillaria.

osteocollanoun (n.) A kind of glue obtained from bones.
 noun (n.) A cellular calc tufa, which in some places forms incrustations on the stems of plants, -- formerly supposed to have the quality of uniting fractured bones.

osteocommanoun (n.) A metamere of the vertebrate skeleton; an osteomere; a vertebra.

osteomanoun (n.) A tumor composed mainly of bone; a tumor of a bone.

osteomalacianoun (n.) A disease of the bones, in which they lose their earthy material, and become soft, flexible, and distorted. Also called malacia.

osteosarcomanoun (n.) A tumor having the structure of a sacroma in which there is a deposit of bone; sarcoma connected with bone.

osteozoanoun (n. pl.) Same as Vertebrata.

ostraceanoun (n. pl.) A division of bivalve mollusks including the oysters and allied shells.

ostracodanoun (n. pl.) Ostracoidea.

ostracoideanoun (n. pl.) An order of Entomostraca possessing hard bivalve shells. They are of small size, and swim freely about.

ostreanoun (n.) A genus of bivalve Mollusca which includes the true oysters.

otalgianoun (n.) Pain in the ear; earache.

otorrh/anoun (n.) A flow or running from the ear, esp. a purulent discharge.

ovanoun (n. pl.) See Ovum.
  (pl. ) of Ovum

overseaadjective (a.) Beyond the sea; foreign.
 adverb (adv.) Alt. of Overseas

oviparanoun (n. pl.) An artifical division of vertebrates, including those that lay eggs; -- opposed to Vivipara.

ovoplasmanoun (n.) Yolk; egg yolk.

oxyammonianoun (n.) Same as Hydroxylamine.

oxyopianoun (n.) Alt. of Oxyopy

oxyrhynchanoun (n. pl.) The maioid crabs.

ozenanoun (n.) A discharge of fetid matter from the nostril, particularly if associated with ulceration of the soft parts and disease of the bones of the nose.

ocarinanoun (n.) A kind of small simple wind instrument.