Name Report For First Name ORAM:
ORAM
First name ORAM's origin is English. ORAM means "from tbe riverbank enclosure". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with ORAM below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of oram.(Brown names are of the same origin (English) with ORAM and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
Rhymes with ORAM - Names & Words
First Names Rhyming ORAM
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES ORAM AS A WHOLE:
joramNAMES RHYMING WITH ORAM (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (ram) - Names That Ends with ram:
ikram maram afram bertram bram bartram ram abiram abram amram aram barram barthram beorhthram ephram gram aviram tristram akram byram amiram baram chiram hiramRhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (am) - Names That Ends with am:
esinam selam ahlam hayam in'am siham mirjam lam tham al-sham dar-el-salam derham abdul-hakam abdul-salam adham bassam esam haytham hisham humam husam isam tamam gwynham nizam brigham william uilleam priam abraham shyam adinam chilam mariam maryam miriam myriam abracham adam addam avraham beckham beornham brigbam briggebam caddaham cam cunningham dunham elam fitzadam graham grisham isenham jonam jotham kam liam lyam maeadam odam orham pratham segenam windham wyndham yerucham zemariam venjam gersham amikam macadam wickam isham hallam greshamNAMES RHYMING WITH ORAM (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (ora) - Names That Begins with ora:
ora orabel orabelle orah orahamm oralee orali oralie oran orane oratunRhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (or) - Names That Begins with or:
orbart orbert ord ordalf ordella ordland ordman ordmund ordsone ordwald ordway ordwin ordwine ordwyn orea oreias orelia oren orenda oreste orestes orford orghlaith orguelleuse ori oria oriana orianna orick oriel orik orin orino orion oris orithyia orla orlaith orlaithe orlan orland orlando orlee orlege orlena orlene orlin orlina orlondo orman ormazd ormeman ormemund ormod ormond ormund ornah orneet ornet ornetta ornette oro orpah orpheus orquidea orquidia orran orren orri orrick orrik orrin orsen orson orthros orton ortun ortygia ortzi orva orval orvelle orvil orville orvin orvyn orwald orwel orzoraNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH ORAM:
First Names which starts with 'o' and ends with 'm':
odahingum odomEnglish Words Rhyming ORAM
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES ORAM AS A WHOLE:
| boramez | noun (n.) See Barometz. |
| cosmorama | noun (n.) An exhibition in which a series of views in various parts of the world is seen reflected by mirrors through a series of lenses, with such illumination, etc., as will make the views most closely represent reality. |
| cosmoramic | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a cosmorama. |
| cyclorama | noun (n.) A pictorial view which is extended circularly, so that the spectator is surrounded by the objects represented as by things in nature. The realistic effect is increased by putting, in the space between the spectator and the picture, things adapted to the scene represented, and in some places only parts of these objects, the completion of them being carried out pictorially. |
| diorama | noun (n.) A mode of scenic representation, invented by Daguerre and Bouton, in which a painting is seen from a distance through a large opening. By a combination of transparent and opaque painting, and of transmitted and reflected light, and by contrivances such as screens and shutters, much diversity of scenic effect is produced. |
| noun (n.) A building used for such an exhibition. |
| dioramic | adjective (a.) Pertaining to a diorama. |
| floramour | noun (n.) The plant love-lies-bleeding. |
| foramen | noun (n.) A small opening, perforation, or orifice; a fenestra. |
| foraminated | adjective (a.) Having small opening, or foramina. |
| foraminifer | noun (n.) One of the foraminifera. |
| foraminifera | noun (n. pl.) An extensive order of rhizopods which generally have a chambered calcareous shell formed by several united zooids. Many of them have perforated walls, whence the name. Some species are covered with sand. See Rhizophoda. |
| foraminiferous | adjective (a.) Having small openings, or foramina. |
| adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or composed of, Foraminifera; as, foraminiferous mud. |
| foraminous | adjective (a.) Having foramina; full of holes; porous. |
| georama | noun (n.) A hollow globe on the inner surface of which a map of the world is depicted, to be examined by one standing inside. |
| goramy | noun (n.) Same as Gourami. |
| hypermyriorama | noun (n.) A show or exhibition having a great number of scenes or views. |
| ignoramus | noun (n.) We are ignorant; we ignore; -- being the word formerly written on a bill of indictment by a grand jury when there was not sufficient evidence to warrant them in finding it a true bill. The phrase now used is, "No bill," "No true bill," or "Not found," though in some jurisdictions "Ignored" is still used. |
| noun (n.) A stupid, ignorant person; a vain pretender to knowledge; a dunce. |
| joram | noun (n.) See Jorum. |
| marinorama | noun (n.) A representation of a sea view. |
| marjoram | noun (n.) A genus of mintlike plants (Origanum) comprising about twenty-five species. The sweet marjoram (O. Majorana) is pecularly aromatic and fragrant, and much used in cookery. The wild marjoram of Europe and America is O. vulgare, far less fragrant than the other. |
| myriorama | noun (n.) A picture made up of several smaller pictures, drawn upon separate pieces in such a manner as to admit of combination in many different ways, thus producing a great variety of scenes or landscapes. |
| neorama | noun (n.) A panorama of the interior of a building, seen from within. |
| odorament | noun (n.) A perfume; a strong scent. |
| panorama | noun (n.) A complete view in every direction. |
| noun (n.) A picture presenting a view of objects in every direction, as from a central point. | |
| noun (n.) A picture representing scenes too extended to be beheld at once, and so exhibited a part at a time, by being unrolled, and made to pass continuously before the spectator. |
| panoramic | adjective (a.) Alt. of Panoramical |
| panoramical | adjective (a.) Of, pertaining to, or like, a panorama. |
| panstereorama | noun (n.) A model of a town or country, in relief, executed in wood, cork, pasteboard, or the like. |
| phloramine | noun (n.) A basic amido derivative of phloroglucin, having an astringent taste. |
| polyorama | noun (n.) A view of many objects; also, a sort of panorama with dissolving views. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH ORAM (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (ram) - English Words That Ends with ram:
| anagram | noun (n.) Literally, the letters of a word read backwards, but in its usual wider sense, the change or one word or phrase into another by the transposition of its letters. Thus Galenus becomes angelus; William Noy (attorney-general to Charles I., and a laborious man) may be turned into I moyl in law. |
| verb (v. t.) To anagrammatize. |
| anemogram | noun (n.) A record made by an anemograph. |
| actinogram | noun (n.) A record made by the actinograph. |
| bairam | noun (n.) The name of two Mohammedan festivals, of which one is held at the close of the fast called Ramadan, and the other seventy days after the fast. |
| noun (n.) Either of two Mohammedan festivals, of which one (the Lesser Bairam) is held at the close of the fast called Ramadan, and the other (the Greater Bairam) seventy days after the fast. |
| bartram | noun (n.) See Bertram. |
| bertram | noun (n.) Pellitory of Spain (Anacyclus pyrethrum). |
| buckram | noun (n.) A coarse cloth of linen or hemp, stiffened with size or glue, used in garments to keep them in the form intended, and for wrappers to cover merchandise. |
| noun (n.) A plant. See Ramson. | |
| adjective (a.) Made of buckram; as, a buckram suit. | |
| adjective (a.) Stiff; precise. | |
| verb (v. t.) To strengthen with buckram; to make stiff. |
| barogram | noun (n.) A tracing, usually made by the barograph, showing graphically the variations of atmospheric pressure for a given time. |
| cablegram | noun (n.) A message sent by a submarine telegraphic cable. |
| centigram | noun (n.) Alt. of Centigramme |
| chronogram | noun (n.) An inscription in which certain numeral letters, made to appear specially conspicuous, on being added together, express a particular date or epoch, as in the motto of a medal struck by Gustavus Adolphus in 1632: ChrIstVs DVX; ergo trIVMphVs.- the capitals of which give, when added as numerals, the sum 1632. |
| noun (n.) The record or inscription made by a chronograph. |
| cram | noun (n.) The act of cramming. |
| noun (n.) Information hastily memorized; as, a cram from an examination. | |
| noun (n.) A warp having more than two threads passing through each dent or split of the reed. | |
| verb (v. t.) To press, force, or drive, particularly in filling, or in thrusting one thing into another; to stuff; to crowd; to fill to superfluity; as, to cram anything into a basket; to cram a room with people. | |
| verb (v. t.) To fill with food to satiety; to stuff. | |
| verb (v. t.) To put hastily through an extensive course of memorizing or study, as in preparation for an examination; as, a pupil is crammed by his tutor. | |
| verb (v. i.) To eat greedily, and to satiety; to stuff. | |
| verb (v. i.) To make crude preparation for a special occasion, as an examination, by a hasty and extensive course of memorizing or study. |
| cryptogram | noun (n.) A cipher writing. Same as Cryptograph. |
| cardiogram | noun (n.) The curve or tracing made by a cardiograph. |
| cartogram | noun (n.) A map showing geographically, by shades or curves, statistics of various kinds; a statistical map. |
| decagram | noun (n.) Alt. of Decagramme |
| decigram | noun (n.) Alt. of Decigramme |
| dekagram | noun (n.) Same as Decagram. |
| diagram | noun (n.) A figure or drawing made to illustrate a statement, or facilitate a demonstration; a plan. |
| noun (n.) Any simple drawing made for mathematical or scientific purposes, or to assist a verbal explanation which refers to it; a mechanical drawing, as distinguished from an artistical one. | |
| verb (v. t.) To put into the form of a diagram. |
| digram | noun (n.) A digraph. |
| dram | noun (n.) A weight; in Apothecaries' weight, one eighth part of an ounce, or sixty grains; in Avoirdupois weight, one sixteenth part of an ounce, or 27.34375 grains. |
| noun (n.) A minute quantity; a mite. | |
| noun (n.) As much spirituous liquor as is usually drunk at once; as, a dram of brandy; hence, a potation or potion; as, a dram of poison. | |
| noun (n.) A Persian daric. | |
| verb (v. i. & t.) To drink drams; to ply with drams. |
| epigram | noun (n.) A short poem treating concisely and pointedly of a single thought or event. The modern epigram is so contrived as to surprise the reader with a witticism or ingenious turn of thought, and is often satirical in character. |
| noun (n.) An effusion of wit; a bright thought tersely and sharply expressed, whether in verse or prose. | |
| noun (n.) The style of the epigram. |
| gram | noun (n.) The East Indian name of the chick-pea (Cicer arietinum) and its seeds; also, other similar seeds there used for food. |
| noun (n.) Alt. of Gramme | |
| adjective (a.) Angry. |
| grogram | noun (n.) Alt. of Grogran |
| hectogram | noun (n.) A measure of weight, containing a hundred grams, or about 3.527 ounces avoirdupois. |
| hektogram | noun (n.) Alt. of Hektometer |
| hierogram | noun (n.) A form of sacred or hieratic writing. |
| heliogram | noun (n.) A message transmitted by a heliograph. |
| hexagram | noun (n.) A figure of six lines |
| noun (n.) A figure composed of two equal triangles intersecting so that each side of one triangle is parallel to a side of the other, and the six points coincide with those of a hexagon. | |
| noun (n.) In Chinese literature, one of the sixty-four figures formed of six parallel lines (continuous or broken), forming the basis of the Yih King, or "Book of Changes." |
| ideogram | noun (n.) An original, pictorial element of writing; a kind of hieroglyph expressing no sound, but only an idea. |
| noun (n.) A symbol used for convenience, or for abbreviation; as, 1, 2, 3, +, -, /, $, /, etc. | |
| noun (n.) A phonetic symbol; a letter. |
| ihram | noun (n.) The peculiar dress worn by pilgrims to Mecca. |
| kilogram | noun (n.) Alt. of Kilogramme |
| lipogram | noun (n.) A writing composed of words not having a certain letter or letters; -- as in the Odyssey of Tryphiodorus there was no A in the first book, no B in the second, and so on. |
| lockram | noun (n.) A kind of linen cloth anciently used in England, originally imported from Brittany. |
| logogram | noun (n.) A word letter; a phonogram, that, for the sake of brevity, represents a word; as, |, i. e., t, for it. Cf. Grammalogue. |
| lettergram | noun (n.) See Letter, above. |
| marram | noun (n.) A coarse grass found on sandy beaches (Ammophila arundinacea). See Beach grass, under Beach. |
| metergram | noun (n.) A measure of energy or work done; the power exerted in raising one gram through the distance of one meter against gravitation. |
| milligram | noun (n.) Alt. of Milligramme |
| muharram | noun (n.) The first month of the Mohammedan year. |
| noun (n.) A festival of the Shiah sect of the Mohammedans held during the first ten days of the month Mohurrum. |
| monogram | noun (n.) A character or cipher composed of two or more letters interwoven or combined so as to represent a name, or a part of it (usually the initials). Monograms are often used on seals, ornamental pins, rings, buttons, and by painters, engravers, etc., to distinguish their works. |
| noun (n.) A picture in lines; a sketch. | |
| noun (n.) An arbitrary sign for a word. |
| myogram | noun (n.) See Muscle curve, under Muscle. |
| myriagram | noun (n.) Alt. of Myriagramme |
| marconigram | noun (n.) A Marconi wireless message. |
| optogram | noun (n.) An image of external objects fixed on the retina by the photochemical action of light on the visual purple. See Optography. |
| ondogram | noun (n.) The record of an ondograph. |
| oscillogram | noun (n.) An autographic record made by an oscillograph. |
| paragram | noun (n.) A pun. |
| parallelogram | noun (n.) A right-lined quadrilateral figure, whose opposite sides are parallel, and consequently equal; -- sometimes restricted in popular usage to a rectangle, or quadrilateral figure which is longer than it is broad, and with right angles. |
| param | noun (n.) A white crystalline nitrogenous substance (C2H4N4); -- called also dicyandiamide. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH ORAM (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (ora) - Words That Begins with ora:
| ora | noun (n.) A money of account among the Anglo-Saxons, valued, in the Domesday Book, at twenty pence sterling. |
| (pl. ) of Os |
| orabassu | noun (n.) A South American monkey of the genus Callithrix, esp. |
| orach | noun (n.) Alt. of Orache |
| orache | noun (n.) A genus (Atriplex) of herbs or low shrubs of the Goosefoot family, most of them with a mealy surface. |
| oracle | noun (n.) The answer of a god, or some person reputed to be a god, to an inquiry respecting some affair or future event, as the success of an enterprise or battle. |
| noun (n.) Hence: The deity who was supposed to give the answer; also, the place where it was given. | |
| noun (n.) The communications, revelations, or messages delivered by God to the prophets; also, the entire sacred Scriptures -- usually in the plural. | |
| noun (n.) The sanctuary, or Most Holy place in the temple; also, the temple itself. | |
| noun (n.) One who communicates a divine command; an angel; a prophet. | |
| noun (n.) Any person reputed uncommonly wise; one whose decisions are regarded as of great authority; as, a literary oracle. | |
| noun (n.) A wise sentence or decision of great authority. | |
| verb (v. i.) To utter oracles. |
| oracling | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Oracle |
| oracular | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to an oracle; uttering oracles; forecasting the future; as, an oracular tongue. |
| adjective (a.) Resembling an oracle in some way, as in solemnity, wisdom, authority, obscurity, ambiguity, dogmatism. |
| oraculous | adjective (a.) Oracular; of the nature of an oracle. |
| oragious | adjective (a.) Stormy. |
| oraison | noun (n.) See Orison. |
| oral | adjective (a.) Uttered by the mouth, or in words; spoken, not written; verbal; as, oral traditions; oral testimony; oral law. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the mouth; surrounding or lining the mouth; as, oral cilia or cirri. |
| orang | noun (n.) See Orang-outang. |
| orange | noun (n.) The fruit of a tree of the genus Citrus (C. Aurantium). It is usually round, and consists of pulpy carpels, commonly ten in number, inclosed in a leathery rind, which is easily separable, and is reddish yellow when ripe. |
| noun (n.) The tree that bears oranges; the orange tree. | |
| noun (n.) The color of an orange; reddish yellow. | |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to an orange; of the color of an orange; reddish yellow; as, an orange ribbon. |
| orangeade | noun (n.) A drink made of orange juice and water, corresponding to lemonade; orange sherbet. |
| orangeat | noun (n.) Candied orange peel; also, orangeade. |
| orangeism | noun (n.) Attachment to the principles of the society of Orangemen; the tenets or practices of the Orangemen. |
| orangeman | noun (n.) One of a secret society, organized in the north of Ireland in 1795, the professed objects of which are the defense of the regning sovereign of Great Britain, the support of the Protestant religion, the maintenance of the laws of the kingdom, etc.; -- so called in honor of William, Prince of Orange, who became William III. of England. |
| orangeroot | noun (n.) An American ranunculaceous plant (Hidrastis Canadensis), having a yellow tuberous root; -- also called yellowroot, golden seal, etc. |
| orangery | noun (n.) A place for raising oranges; a plantation of orange trees. |
| orangetawny | noun (a. & n.) Deep orange-yellow; dark yellow. |
| orarian | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a coast. |
| oration | noun (n.) An elaborate discourse, delivered in public, treating an important subject in a formal and dignified manner; especially, a discourse having reference to some special occasion, as a funeral, an anniversary, a celebration, or the like; -- distinguished from an argument in court, a popular harangue, a sermon, a lecture, etc.; as, Webster's oration at Bunker Hill. |
| verb (v. i.) To deliver an oration. |
| orator | noun (n.) A public speaker; one who delivers an oration; especially, one distinguished for his skill and power as a public speaker; one who is eloquent. |
| noun (n.) In equity proceedings, one who prays for relief; a petitioner. | |
| noun (n.) A plaintiff, or complainant, in a bill in chancery. | |
| noun (n.) An officer who is the voice of the university upon all public occasions, who writes, reads, and records all letters of a public nature, presents, with an appropriate address, those persons on whom honorary degrees are to be conferred, and performs other like duties; -- called also public orator. |
| oratorial | adjective (a.) Oratorical. |
| oratorian | noun (n.) See Fathers of the Oratory, under Oratory. |
| adjective (a.) Oratorical. |
| oratorical | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to an orator or to oratory; characterized by oratory; rhetorical; becoming to an orator; as, an oratorical triumph; an oratorical essay. |
| oratorio | noun (n.) A more or less dramatic text or poem, founded on some Scripture nerrative, or great divine event, elaborately set to music, in recitative, arias, grand choruses, etc., to be sung with an orchestral accompaniment, but without action, scenery, or costume, although the oratorio grew out of the Mysteries and the Miracle and Passion plays, which were acted. |
| noun (n.) Performance or rendering of such a composition. |
| oratorious | adjective (a.) Oratorical. |
| oratory | noun (n.) A place of orisons, or prayer; especially, a chapel or small room set apart for private devotions. |
| noun (n.) The art of an orator; the art of public speaking in an eloquent or effective manner; the exercise of rhetorical skill in oral discourse; eloquence. |
| oratress | noun (n.) A woman who makes public addresses. |
| oratrix | noun (n.) A woman plaintiff, or complainant, in equity pleading. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH ORAM:
English Words which starts with 'o' and ends with 'm':
| oakum | noun (n.) The material obtained by untwisting and picking into loose fiber old hemp ropes; -- used for calking the seams of ships, stopping leaks, etc. |
| noun (n.) The coarse portion separated from flax or hemp in nackling. |
| oblatum | noun (n.) An oblate spheroid; a figure described by the revolution of an ellipse about its minor axis. Cf. Oblongum. |
| oblongum | noun (n.) A prolate spheroid; a figure described by the revolution of an ellipse about its greater axis. Cf. Oblatum, and see Ellipsoid of revolution, under Ellipsoid. |
| obscurantism | noun (n.) The system or the principles of the obscurants. |
| observandum | noun (n.) A thing to be observed. |
| obsoletism | noun (n.) A disused word or phrase; an archaism. |
| obstructionism | noun (n.) The act or the policy of obstructing progress. |
| occasionalism | noun (n.) The system of occasional causes; -- a name given to certain theories of the Cartesian school of philosophers, as to the intervention of the First Cause, by which they account for the apparent reciprocal action of the soul and the body. |
| occultism | noun (n.) A certain Oriental system of theosophy. |
| oculiform | adjective (a.) In the form of an eye; resembling an eye; as, an oculiform pebble. |
| odeum | noun (n.) See Odeon. |
| 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. |
| officialism | noun (n.) The state of being official; a system of official government; also, adherence to office routine; red-tapism. |
| offscum | noun (n.) Removed scum; refuse; dross. |
| ogam | noun (n.) Same as Ogham. |
| ogham | noun (n.) A particular kind of writing practiced by the ancient Irish, and found in inscriptions on stones, metals, etc. |
| ogreism | noun (n.) Alt. of Ogrism |
| ogrism | noun (n.) The character or manners of an ogre. |
| ohm | noun (n.) The standard unit in the measure of electrical resistance, being the resistance of a circuit in which a potential difference of one volt produces a current of one ampere. As defined by the International Electrical Congress in 1893, and by United States Statute, it is a resistance substantially equal to 109 units of resistance of the C.G.S. system of electro-magnetic units, and is represented by the resistance offered to an unvarying electric current by a column of mercury at the temperature of melting ice 14.4521 grams in mass, of a constant cross-sectional area, and of the length of 106.3 centimeters. As thus defined it is called the international ohm. |
| oidium | noun (n.) A genus of minute fungi which form a floccose mass of filaments on decaying fruit, etc. Many forms once referred to this genus are now believed to be temporary conditions of fungi of other genera, among them the vine mildew (Oidium Tuckeri), which has caused much injury to grapes. |
| olibanum | noun (n.) The fragrant gum resin of various species of Boswellia; Oriental frankincense. |
| olusatrum | noun (n.) An umbelliferous plant, the common Alexanders of Western Europe (Smyrnium Olusatrum). |
| omasum | noun (n.) The third division of the stomach of ruminants. See Manyplies, and Illust. under Ruminant. |
| omentum | noun (n.) A free fold of the peritoneum, or one serving to connect viscera, support blood vessels, etc.; an epiploon. |
| ommateum | noun (n.) A compound eye, as of insects and crustaceans. |
| ommatidium | noun (n.) One of the single eyes forming the compound eyes of crustaceans, insects, and other invertebrates. |
| omniform | adjective (a.) Having every form or shape. |
| omnium | noun (n.) The aggregate value of the different stocks in which a loan to government is now usually funded. |
| omosternum | noun (n.) The anterior element of the sternum which projects forward from between the clavicles in many batrachians and is usually tipped with cartilage. |
| noun (n.) In many mammals, an interarticular cartilage, or bone, between the sternum and the clavicle. |
| onanism | noun (n.) Self-pollution; masturbation. |
| oncidium | noun (n.) A genus of tropical orchidaceous plants, the flower of one species of which (O. Papilio) resembles a butterfly. |
| oneirocriticism | noun (n.) Alt. of Oneirocritics |
| ooecium | noun (n.) One of the special zooids, or cells, of Bryozoa, destined to receive and develop ova; an ovicell. See Bryozoa. |
| oogonium | noun (n.) A special cell in certain cryptogamous plants containing oospheres, as in the rockweeds (Fucus), and the orders Vaucherieae and Peronosporeae. |
| oophoridium | noun (n.) The macrosporangium or case for the larger kind of spores in heterosporous flowerless plants. |
| oosperm | noun (n.) The ovum, after fusion with the spermatozoon in impregnation. |
| oosporangium | noun (n.) An oogonium; also, a case containing oval or rounded spores of some other kind than oospores. |
| operculiform | adjective (a.) Having the form of a lid or cover. |
| operculum | noun (n.) The lid of a pitcherform leaf. |
| noun (n.) The lid of the urnlike capsule of mosses. | |
| noun (n.) Any lidlike or operculiform process or part; as, the opercula of a dental follicle. | |
| noun (n.) The fold of integument, usually supported by bony plates, which protects the gills of most fishes and some amphibians; the gill cover; the gill lid. | |
| noun (n.) The principal opercular bone in the upper and posterior part of the gill cover. | |
| noun (n.) The lid closing the aperture of various species of shells, as the common whelk. See Illust. of Gastropoda. | |
| noun (n.) Any lid-shaped structure closing the aperture of a tube or shell. |
| opium | noun (n.) The inspissated juice of the Papaver somniferum, or white poppy. |
| opobalsam | noun (n.) Alt. of Opobalsamum |
| opobalsamum | noun (n.) The old name of the aromatic resinous juice of the Balsamodendron opobalsamum, now commonly called balm of Gilead. See under Balm. |
| opossum | noun (n.) Any American marsupial of the genera Didelphys and Chironectes. The common species of the United States is Didelphys Virginiana. |
| opportunism | noun (n.) The art or practice of taking advantage of opportunities or circumstances, or of seeking immediate advantage with little regard for ultimate consequences. |
| opprobrium | noun (n.) Disgrace; infamy; reproach mingled with contempt; abusive language. |
| optimism | noun (n.) The opinion or doctrine that everything in nature, being the work of God, is ordered for the best, or that the ordering of things in the universe is such as to produce the highest good. |
| noun (n.) A disposition to take the most hopeful view; -- opposed to pessimism. |
| opusculum | noun (n.) An opuscule. |
| ordinalism | noun (n.) The state or quality of being ordinal. |
| organicism | noun (n.) The doctrine of the localization of disease, or which refers it always to a material lesion of an organ. |
| organism | noun (n.) Organic structure; organization. |
| noun (n.) An organized being; a living body, either vegetable or animal, compozed of different organs or parts with functions which are separate, but mutually dependent, and essential to the life of the individual. |
| organum | noun (n.) An organ or instrument; hence, a method by which philosophical or scientific investigation may be conducted; -- a term adopted from the Aristotelian writers by Lord Bacon, as the title ("Novum Organon") of part of his treatise on philosophical method. |
| orgasm | noun (n.) Eager or immoderate excitement or action; the state of turgescence of any organ; erethism; esp., the height of venereal excitement in sexual intercourse. |
| orientalism | noun (n.) Any system, doctrine, custom, expression, etc., peculiar to Oriental people. |
| noun (n.) Knowledge or use of Oriental languages, history, literature, etc. |
| origanum | noun (n.) A genus of aromatic labiate plants, including the sweet marjoram (O. Marjorana) and the wild marjoram (O. vulgare). |
| origenism | noun (n.) The opinions of Origen of Alexandria, who lived in the 3d century, one of the most learned of the Greek Fathers. Prominent in his teaching was the doctrine that all created beings, including Satan, will ultimately be saved. |
| orphanism | noun (n.) Orphanhood. |
| orphanotrophism | noun (n.) The care and support of orphans. |
| orthognathism | noun (n.) The quality or state of being orthognathous. |
| osculum | noun (n.) Same as Oscule. |
| osmaterium | noun (n.) One of a pair of scent organs which the larvae of certain butterflies emit from the first body segment, either above or below. |
| osmium | noun (n.) A rare metallic element of the platinum group, found native as an alloy in platinum ore, and in iridosmine. It is a hard, infusible, bluish or grayish white metal, and the heaviest substance known. Its tetroxide is used in histological experiments to stain tissues. Symbol Os. Atomic weight 191.1. Specific gravity 22.477. |
| osphradium | noun (n.) The olfactory organ of some Mollusca. It is connected with the organ of respiration. |
| ossiculum | noun (n.) Same as Ossicle. |
| ossuarium | noun (n.) A charnel house; an ossuary. |
| ostensorium | noun (n.) Alt. of Ostensory |
| osteocranium | noun (n.) The bony cranium, as distinguished from the cartilaginous cranium. |
| ostium | noun (n.) An opening; a passage. |
| ostracism | noun (n.) Banishment by popular vote, -- a means adopted at Athens to rid the city of a person whose talent and influence gave umbrage. |
| noun (n.) Banishment; exclusion; as, social ostracism. |
| otozoum | noun (n.) An extinct genus of huge vertebrates, probably dinosaurs, known only from four-toed tracks in Triassic sandstones. |
| outform | noun (n.) External appearance. |
| outroom | noun (n.) An outer room. |
| outterm | noun (n.) An external or superficial thing; outward manner; superficial remark, etc. |
| ovaliform | adjective (a.) Having the form of an egg; having a figure such that any section in the direction of the shorter diameter will be circular, and any in the direction of the longer diameter will be oval. |
| ovarium | noun (n.) An ovary. See Ovary. |
| oversum | noun (n.) A sum or quantity over; surplus. |
| overwhelm | noun (n.) The act of overwhelming. |
| verb (v. t.) To cover over completely, as by a great wave; to overflow and bury beneath; to ingulf; hence, figuratively, to immerse and bear down; to overpower; to crush; to bury; to oppress, etc., overpoweringly. | |
| verb (v. t.) To project or impend over threateningly. | |
| verb (v. t.) To cause to surround, to cover. |
| oviform | adjective (a.) Having the form or figure of an egg; egg-shaped; as, an oviform leaf. |
| ovulum | noun (n.) An ovule. |
| ovum | noun (n.) A more or less spherical and transparent mass of granular protoplasm, which by a process of multiplication and growth develops into a mass of cells, constituting a new individual like the parent; an egg, spore, germ, or germ cell. See Illust. of Mycropyle. |
| noun (n.) One of the series of egg-shaped ornaments into which the ovolo is often carved. |
| owlism | noun (n.) Affected wisdom; pompous dullness. |
| oxycalcium | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to oxygen and calcium; as, the oxycalcium light. See Drummond light. |
| oxygenium | noun (n.) The technical name of oxygen. |
| obiism | noun (n.) Belief in, or the practice of, the obi superstitions and rites. |
| odinism | noun (n.) Worship of Odin; broadly, the Teutonic heathenism. |
| olympianism | noun (n.) Worship of the Olympian gods, esp. as a dominant cult or religion. |
| ophism | noun (n.) Doctrines and rites of the Ophites. |
| noun (n.) Serpent worship or the use of serpents as magical agencies. |
| ovism | noun (n.) The old theory that the egg contains the whole embryo of the future organism and the germs of all subsequent offsprings and is merely awakened to activity by the spermatozoon; -- opposed to spermism or animalculism. |
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