Name Report For First Name ORIA:
ORIA
First name ORIA's origin is Europe. ORIA means "golden". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with ORIA below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of oria.(Brown names are of the same origin (Europe) with ORIA and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
Rhymes with ORIA - Names & Words
First Names Rhyming ORIA
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES ORƯA AS A WHOLE:
viktoria victoria korian horia devoria floria floriana gloriane glorianna gregoria lorian loriana loriann lorianne moria moriah orianna toriana vittoria dorian jorian moriarty victoriano oriana gregoriana doria cloria gloriana coriann corianne loria honoriaNAMES RHYMING WITH ORƯA (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (ria) - Names That Ends with ria:
kamaria berengaria cambria ingria demetria egeria elefteria hesperia tiberia kaaria zaharia adairia alegria alexandria andria annamaria aphria aria audria azaria azzaria bria caffaria calandria ceria daria deandria desideria erendiria fearcharia garia honbria kambria kendria kiandria laria mairia oliveria ria rosamaria rosemaria sabria xavieria xeveria yanamaria zimria zacharia chandria niria elepheteria cytheria maria zuria auria neria naiaria berangariaRhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (ia) - Names That Ends with ia:
afia aminia ashia efia fowsia safia tawia beornia bernia odelia alaia badi'a dummonia amaia donia erensia kamia melodia saskia nubia tabia bethia abelia adalia aloysia agalaia agalia aglaia alesia ambrosia anthia anysia artemia aspasia athanasia basilia callia calligenia cassiopeia castalia celosia cosimia cynthiaNAMES RHYMING WITH ORƯA (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (ori) - Names That Begins with ori:
ori orick oriel orik orin orino orion oris orithyiaRhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (or) - Names That Begins with or:
ora orabel orabelle orah orahamm oralee orali oralie oram oran orane oratun orbart orbert ord ordalf ordella ordland ordman ordmund ordsone ordwald ordway ordwin ordwine ordwyn orea oreias orelia oren orenda oreste orestes orford orghlaith orguelleuse orham 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 orzora orzsebetNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH ORƯA:
First Names which starts with 'o' and ends with 'a':
o'shea oana oba obelia ocelfa octa octavia octha oda odakota odanda odeda odeletta odelina odelinda odella odelyna odessa odiana odila odilia odra odysseia offa ofra ogaleesha oifa okhmhaka okimma okpara oksana ola oldwina oleda oleisia olena oleta oletha olexa olga oliana olimpia olina olinda olita olivia olya olympia oma omayda omusa ona onawa onella onida onora oona opalina ophelia ophra oppida osana osberga osburga osla osra otha othma otka ottavia otthilda ottila ottilia otylia ovadya oxa oya ozannaEnglish Words Rhyming ORIA
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES ORƯA AS A WHOLE:
| accessorial | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to an accessory; as, accessorial agency, accessorial guilt. |
| accusatorial | adjective (a.) Accusatory. |
| adaptorial | adjective (a.) Adaptive. |
| admonitorial | adjective (a.) Admonitory. |
| amatorial | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a lover or to love making; amatory; as, amatorial verses. |
| amatorian | adjective (a.) Amatory. |
| ambassadorial | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to an ambassador. |
| ambulatorial | adjective (a.) Ambulatory; fitted for walking. |
| ancestorial | adjective (a.) Ancestral. |
| aporia | noun (n.) A figure in which the speaker professes to be at a loss what course to pursue, where to begin to end, what to say, etc. |
| armorial | adjective (a.) Belonging to armor, or to the heraldic arms or escutcheon of a family. |
| assertorial | adjective (a.) Asserting that a thing is; -- opposed to problematical and apodeictical. |
| assessorial | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to an assessor, or to a court of assessors. |
| auditorial | adjective (a.) Auditory. |
| authorial | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to an author. |
| azorian | noun (n.) A native of the Azores. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Azores. |
| anisocoria | noun (n.) Inequality of the pupils of the eye. |
| bosporian | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Thracian or the Cimmerian Bosporus. |
| censorial | adjective (a.) Belonging to a censor, or to the correction of public morals. |
| adjective (a.) Full of censure; censorious. |
| censorian | adjective (a.) Censorial. |
| choriamb | noun (n.) Same as Choriambus. |
| choriambic | noun (n.) A choriamb. |
| adjective (a.) Pertaining to a choriamb. |
| choriambus | noun (n.) A foot consisting of four syllables, of which the first and last are long, and the other short (- ~ ~ -); that is, a choreus, or trochee, and an iambus united. |
| clamatorial | adjective (a.) Like or pertaining to the Clamatores. |
| commentatorial | adjective (a.) Pertaining to the making of commentaries. |
| compromissorial | adjective (a.) Relating to compromise. |
| compurgatorial | adjective (a.) Relating to a compurgator or to compurgation. |
| consistorial | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a consistory. |
| consistorian | adjective (a.) Pertaining to a Presbyterian consistory; -- a contemptuous term of 17th century controversy. |
| coriaceous | adjective (a.) Consisting of or resembling, leather; leatherlike; tough. |
| adjective (a.) Stiff, like leather or parchment. |
| coriander | noun (n.) An umbelliferous plant, the Coriandrum sativum, the fruit or seeds of which have a strong smell and a spicy taste, and in medicine are considered as stomachic and carminative. |
| cursorial | adjective (a.) Adapted to running or walking, and not to prehension; as, the limbs of the horse are cursorial. See Illust. of Aves. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Cursores. |
| decretorial | adjective (a.) Decretory; authoritative. |
| dedicatorial | adjective (a.) Dedicatory. |
| dictatorial | adjective (a.) Pertaining or suited to a dictator; absolute. |
| adjective (a.) Characteristic of a dictator; imperious; dogmatical; overbearing; as, a dictatorial tone or manner. |
| dictatorian | adjective (a.) Dictatorial. |
| directorial | adjective (a.) Having the quality of a director, or authoritative guide; directive. |
| adjective (a.) Pertaining to: director or directory; specifically, relating to the Directory of France under the first republic. See Directory, 3. |
| disquisitorial | adjective (a.) Disquisitory. |
| dorian | noun (n.) A native or inhabitant of Doris in Greece. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the ancient Greeks of Doris; Doric; as, a Dorian fashion. | |
| adjective (a.) Same as Doric, 3. |
| dysphoria | noun (n.) Impatience under affliction; morbid restlessness; dissatisfaction; the fidgets. |
| editorial | noun (n.) A leading article in a newspaper or magazine; an editorial article; an article published as an expression of the views of the editor. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to an editor; written or sanctioned by an editor; as, editorial labors; editorial remarks. |
| electorial | adjective (a.) Electoral. |
| embassadorial | adjective (a.) Same as Ambassadorial. |
| enchorial | adjective (a.) Alt. of Enchoric |
| epichorial | adjective (a.) In or of the country. |
| equatorial | noun (n.) An instrument consisting of a telescope so mounted as to have two axes of motion at right angles to each other, one of them parallel to the axis of the earth, and each carrying a graduated circle, the one for measuring declination, and the other right ascension, or the hour angle, so that the telescope may be directed, even in the daytime, to any star or other object whose right ascension and declination are known. The motion in right ascension is sometimes communicated by clockwork, so as to keep the object constantly in the field of the telescope. Called also an equatorial telescope. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the equator; as, equatorial climates; also, pertaining to an equatorial instrument. |
| escorial | noun (n.) See Escurial. |
| escritorial | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to an escritoire. |
| excoriating | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Eccoriate |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH ORƯA (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (ria) - English Words That Ends with ria:
| actinaria | noun (n. pl.) A large division of Anthozoa, including those which have simple tentacles and do not form stony corals. Sometimes, in a wider sense, applied to all the Anthozoa, expert the Alcyonaria, whether forming corals or not. |
| adularia | noun (n.) A transparent or translucent variety of common feldspar, or orthoclase, which often shows pearly opalescent reflections; -- called by lapidaries moonstone. |
| adversaria | noun (n. pl.) A miscellaneous collection of notes, remarks, or selections; a commonplace book; also, commentaries or notes. |
| albuminuria | noun (n.) A morbid condition in which albumin is present in the urine. |
| alcyonaria | noun (n. pl.) One of the orders of Anthozoa. It includes the Alcyonacea, Pennatulacea, and Gorgonacea. |
| alfilaria | noun (n.) The pin grass (Erodium cicutarium), a weed in California. |
| appendicularia | noun (n.) A genus of small free-swimming Tunicata, shaped somewhat like a tadpole, and remarkable for resemblances to the larvae of other Tunicata. It is the type of the order Copelata or Larvalia. See Illustration in Appendix. |
| apteria | noun (n. pl.) Naked spaces between the feathered areas of birds. See Pteryliae. |
| araucaria | noun (n.) A genus of tall conifers of the pine family. The species are confined mostly to South America and Australia. The wood cells differ from those of other in having the dots in their lateral surfaces in two or three rows, and the dots of contiguous rows alternating. The seeds are edible. |
| aria | noun (n.) An air or song; a melody; a tune. |
| auricularia | noun (n. pl.) A kind of holothurian larva, with soft, blunt appendages. See Illustration in Appendix. |
| avicularia | noun (n. pl.) See prehensile processes on the cells of some Bryozoa, often having the shape of a bird's bill. |
| acetonuria | noun (n.) Excess of acetone in the urine, as in starvation or diabetes. |
| alfileria | noun (n.) Alt. of Alfilerilla |
| azoturia | noun (n.) Excess of urea or other nitrogenous substances in the urine. |
| bacteria | noun (n.p.) See Bacterium. |
| (pl. ) of Bacterium |
| balistraria | noun (n.) A narrow opening, often cruciform, through which arrows might be discharged. |
| baria | noun (n.) Baryta. |
| bipinnaria | noun (n.) The larva of certain starfishes as developed in the free-swimming stage. |
| brachiolaria | noun (n. pl.) A peculiar early larval stage of certain starfishes, having a bilateral structure, and swimming by means of bands of vibrating cilia. |
| calceolaria | noun (n.) A genus of showy herbaceous or shrubby plants, brought from South America; slipperwort. It has a yellow or purple flower, often spotted or striped, the shape of which suggests its name. |
| calvaria | noun (n.) The bones of the cranium; more especially, the bones of the domelike upper portion. |
| cambria | noun (n.) The ancient Latin name of Wales. It is used by modern poets. |
| carinaria | noun (n.) A genus of oceanic heteropod Mollusca, having a thin, glassy, bonnet-shaped shell, which covers only the nucleus and gills. |
| cercaria | noun (n.) The larval form of a trematode worm having the shape of a tadpole, with its body terminated by a tail-like appendage. |
| chyluria | noun (n.) A morbid condition in which the urine contains chyle or fatty matter, giving it a milky appearance. |
| cineraria | noun (n.) A Linnaean genus of free-flowering composite plants, mostly from South Africa. Several species are cultivated for ornament. |
| cnidaria | noun (n. pl.) A comprehensive group equivalent to the true Coelenterata, i. e., exclusive of the sponges. They are so named from presence of stinging cells (cnidae) in the tissues. See Coelenterata. |
| convallaria | noun (n.) The lily of the valley. |
| crotalaria | noun (n.) A genus of leguminous plants; rattlebox. |
| curia | noun (n.) One of the thirty parts into which the Roman people were divided by Romulus. |
| noun (n.) The place of assembly of one of these divisions. | |
| noun (n.) The place where the meetings of the senate were held; the senate house. | |
| noun (n.) The court of a sovereign or of a feudal lord; also; his residence or his household. | |
| noun (n.) Any court of justice. | |
| noun (n.) The Roman See in its temporal aspects, including all the machinery of administration; -- called also curia Romana. |
| caballeria | noun (n.) An ancient Spanish land tenure similar to the English knight's fee; hence, in Spain and countries settled by the Spanish, a land measure of varying size. In Cuba it is about 33 acres; in Porto Rico, about 194 acres; in the Southwestern United States, about 108 acres. |
| cafeteria | noun (n.) A restaurant or cafe at which the patrons serve themselves with food kept at a counter, taking the food to small tables to eat. |
| ceria | noun (n.) Cerium oxide, CeO2, a white infusible substance constituting about one per cent of the material of the common incandescent mantle. |
| dataria | noun (n.) Formerly, a part of the Roman chancery; now, a separate office from which are sent graces or favors, cognizable in foro externo, such as appointments to benefices. The name is derived from the word datum, given or dated (with the indications of the time and place of granting the gift or favor). |
| decandria | noun (n. pl.) A Linnaean class of plants characterized by having ten stamens. |
| desmobacteria | noun (n. pl.) See Microbacteria. |
| desmomyaria | noun (n. pl.) The division of Tunicata which includes the Salpae. See Salpa. |
| diandria | noun (n. pl.) A Linnaean class of plants having two stamens. |
| dimyaria | noun (n. pl.) An order of lamellibranchiate mollusks having an anterior and posterior adductor muscle, as the common clam. See Bivalve. |
| dinosauria | noun (n. pl.) An order of extinct mesozoic reptiles, mostly of large size (whence the name). Notwithstanding their size, they present birdlike characters in the skeleton, esp. in the pelvis and hind limbs. Some walked on their three-toed hind feet, thus producing the large "bird tracks," so-called, of mesozoic sandstones; others were five-toed and quadrupedal. See Illust. of Compsognathus, also Illustration of Dinosaur in Appendix. |
| diphtheria | noun (n.) A very dangerous contagious disease in which the air passages, and especially the throat, become coated with a false membrane, produced by the solidification of an inflammatory exudation. Cf. Group. |
| dodecandria | noun (n. pl.) A Linnaean class of plants including all that have any number of stamens between twelve and nineteen. |
| dysuria | noun (n.) Alt. of Dysury |
| enaliosauria | noun (n. pl.) An extinct group of marine reptiles, embracing both the Ichthyosauria and the Plesiosauria, now regarded as distinct orders. |
| enheahedria | noun (n.) Alt. of Enheahedron |
| enneandria | noun (n.) A Linnaean class of plants having nine stamens. |
| feria | noun (n.) A week day, esp. a day which is neither a festival nor a fast. |
| filaria | noun (n.) A genus of slender, nematode worms of many species, parasitic in various animals. See Guinea worm. |
| fimbria | noun (n.) A fringe, or fringed border. |
| noun (n.) A band of white matter bordering the hippocampus in the brain. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH ORƯA (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (ori) - Words That Begins with ori:
| oricalche | noun (n.) See Orichalch. |
| orichalceous | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, orichalch; having a color or luster like that of brass. |
| orichalch | noun (n.) A metallic substance, resembling gold in color, but inferior in value; a mixed metal of the ancients, resembling brass; -- called also aurichalcum, orichalcum, etc. |
| oriel | noun (n.) A gallery for minstrels. |
| noun (n.) A small apartment next a hall, where certain persons were accustomed to dine; a sort of recess. | |
| noun (n.) A bay window. See Bay window. |
| oriency | noun (n.) Brightness or strength of color. |
| orient | noun (n.) The part of the horizon where the sun first appears in the morning; the east. |
| noun (n.) The countries of Asia or the East. | |
| noun (n.) A pearl of great luster. | |
| adjective (a.) Rising, as the sun. | |
| adjective (a.) Eastern; oriental. | |
| adjective (a.) Bright; lustrous; superior; pure; perfect; pellucid; -- used of gems and also figuratively, because the most perfect jewels are found in the East. | |
| verb (v. t.) To define the position of, in relation to the orient or east; hence, to ascertain the bearings of. | |
| verb (v. t.) Fig.: To correct or set right by recurring to first principles; to arrange in order; to orientate. | |
| verb (v. t.) Same as Orientate, 2. | |
| verb (v. t.) To place (a map or chart) so that its east side, north side, etc., lie toward the corresponding parts of the horizon; | |
| verb (v. t.) to rotate (a map attached to a plane table) until the line of direction between any two of its points is parallel to the corresponding direction in nature. |
| oriental | noun (n.) A native or inhabitant of the Orient or some Eastern part of the world; an Asiatic. |
| noun (n.) Eastern Christians of the Greek rite. | |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the orient or east; eastern; concerned with the East or Orientalism; -- opposed to occidental; as, Oriental countries. |
| orientalism | noun (n.) Any system, doctrine, custom, expression, etc., peculiar to Oriental people. |
| noun (n.) Knowledge or use of Oriental languages, history, literature, etc. |
| orientalist | noun (n.) An inhabitant of the Eastern parts of the world; an Oriental. |
| noun (n.) One versed in Eastern languages, literature, etc.; as, the Paris Congress of Orientalists. |
| orientality | noun (n.) The quality or state of being oriental or eastern. |
| orientalizing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Orientalize |
| orientating | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Orientate |
| orientation | noun (n.) The act or process of orientating; determination of the points of the compass, or the east point, in taking bearings. |
| noun (n.) The tendency of a revolving body, when suspended in a certain way, to bring the axis of rotation into parallelism with the earth's axis. | |
| noun (n.) An aspect or fronting to the east; especially (Arch.), the placing of a church so that the chancel, containing the altar toward which the congregation fronts in worship, will be on the east end. | |
| noun (n.) Fig.: A return to first principles; an orderly arrangement. |
| orientness | noun (n.) The quality or state of being orient or bright; splendor. |
| orifice | noun (n.) A mouth or aperture, as of a tube, pipe, etc.; an opening; as, the orifice of an artery or vein; the orifice of a wound. |
| oriflamb | noun (n.) Alt. of Oriflamme |
| oriflamme | noun (n.) The ancient royal standard of France. |
| noun (n.) A standard or ensign, in battle. |
| origan | noun (n.) Alt. of Origanum |
| 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. |
| origenist | noun (n.) A follower of Origen of Alexandria. |
| origin | noun (n.) The first existence or beginning of anything; the birth. |
| noun (n.) That from which anything primarily proceeds; the fountain; the spring; the cause; the occasion. | |
| noun (n.) The point of attachment or end of a muscle which is fixed during contraction; -- in contradistinction to insertion. |
| originable | adjective (a.) Capable of being originated. |
| original | noun (n.) Origin; commencement; source. |
| noun (n.) That which precedes all others of its class; archetype; first copy; hence, an original work of art, manuscript, text, and the like, as distinguished from a copy, translation, etc. | |
| noun (n.) An original thinker or writer; an originator. | |
| noun (n.) A person of marked eccentricity. | |
| noun (n.) The natural or wild species from which a domesticated or cultivated variety has been derived; as, the wolf is thought by some to be the original of the dog, the blackthorn the original of the plum. | |
| adjective (a.) Pertaining to the origin or beginning; preceding all others; first in order; primitive; primary; pristine; as, the original state of man; the original laws of a country; the original inventor of a process. | |
| adjective (a.) Not copied, imitated, or translated; new; fresh; genuine; as, an original thought; an original process; the original text of Scripture. | |
| adjective (a.) Having the power to suggest new thoughts or combinations of thought; inventive; as, an original genius. | |
| adjective (a.) Before unused or unknown; new; as, a book full of original matter. |
| originalist | noun (n.) One who is original. |
| originality | noun (n.) The quality or state of being original. |
| originalness | noun (n.) The quality of being original; originality. |
| originant | adjective (a.) Originating; original. |
| originary | adjective (a.) Causing existence; productive. |
| adjective (a.) Primitive; primary; original. |
| originating | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Originate |
| origination | noun (n.) The act or process of bringing or coming into existence; first production. |
| noun (n.) Mode of production, or bringing into being. |
| originative | adjective (a.) Having power, or tending, to originate, or bring into existence; originating. |
| originator | noun (n.) One who originates. |
| orillon | noun (n.) A semicircular projection made at the shoulder of a bastion for the purpose of covering the retired flank, -- found in old fortresses. |
| oriol | noun (n.) See Oriel. |
| oriole | noun (n.) Any one of various species of Old World singing birds of the family Oriolidae. They are usually conspicuously colored with yellow and black. The European or golden oriole (Oriolus galbula, or O. oriolus) has a very musical flutelike note. |
| noun (n.) In America, any one of several species of the genus Icterus, belonging to the family Icteridae. See Baltimore oriole, and Orchard oriole, under Orchard. |
| orion | noun (n.) A large and bright constellation on the equator, between the stars Aldebaran and Sirius. It contains a remarkable nebula visible to the naked eye. |
| oriskany | adjective (a.) Designating, or pertaining to, certain beds, chiefly limestone, characteristic of the latest period of the Silurian age. |
| orismological | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to orismology. |
| orismology | noun (n.) That departament of natural history which treats of technical terms. |
| orison | noun (n.) A prayer; a supplication. |
| orisont | noun (n.) Horizon. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH ORƯA:
English Words which starts with 'o' and ends with 'a':
| oblongata | noun (n.) The medulla oblongata. |
| oca | noun (n.) A Peruvian name for certain species of Oxalis (O. crenata, and O. tuberosa) which bear edible tubers. |
| ochrea | noun (n.) A greave or legging. |
| noun (n.) A kind of sheath formed by two stipules united round a stem. |
| ocra | noun (n.) See Okra. |
| ocrea | noun (n.) See Ochrea. |
| octandria | noun (n.pl.) A Linnaean class of plants, in which the flowers have eight stamens not united to one another or to the pistil. |
| octocera | noun (n.pl.) Octocerata. |
| octocerata | noun (n.pl.) A suborder of Cephalopoda including Octopus, Argonauta, and allied genera, having eight arms around the head; -- called also Octopoda. |
| octogynia | noun (n.pl.) A Linnaean order of plants having eight pistils. |
| octopoda | noun (n.pl.) Same as Octocerata. |
| noun (n.pl.) Same as Arachnida. |
| octopodia | noun (n.pl.) Same as Octocerata. |
| oculina | noun (n.) A genus of tropical corals, usually branched, and having a very volid texture. |
| oculinacea | noun (n.pl.) A suborder of corals including many reef-building species, having round, starlike calicles. |
| odonata | noun (n. pl.) The division of insects that includes the dragon flies. |
| odontalgia | noun (n.) Toothache. |
| odontophora | noun (n.pl.) Same as Cephalophora. |
| oedema | noun (n.) A swelling from effusion of watery fluid in the cellular tissue beneath the skin or mucous membrance; dropsy of the subcutaneous cellular tissue. |
| oenomania | noun (n.) Delirium tremens. |
| noun (n.) Dipsomania. |
| oinomania | noun (n.) See oenomania. |
| okra | noun (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. |
| olea | noun (n.) A genus of trees including the olive. |
| oligochaeta | noun (n. pl.) An order of Annelida which includes the earthworms and related species. |
| oliva | noun (n.) A genus of polished marine gastropod shells, chiefly tropical, and often beautifully colored. |
| olla | noun (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. |
| omagra | noun (n.) Gout in the shoulder. |
| omega | noun (n.) The last letter of the Greek alphabet. See Alpha. |
| noun (n.) The last; the end; hence, death. |
| omnivora | noun (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. |
| onagga | noun (n.) The dauw. |
| onomatopoeia | noun (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. |
| onycha | noun (n.) An ingredient of the Mosaic incense, probably the operculum of some kind of strombus. |
| noun (n.) The precious stone called onyx. |
| onychia | noun (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. |
| onychophora | noun (n. pl.) Malacopoda. |
| ootheca | noun (n.) An egg case, especially those of many kinds of mollusks, and of some insects, as the cockroach. Cf. Ooecium. |
| oozoa | noun (n. pl.) Same as Acrita. |
| opera | noun (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 |
| opercula | noun (n. pl.) See Operculum. |
| (pl. ) of Operculum |
| operetta | noun (n.) A short, light, musical drama. |
| ophidia | noun (n. pl.) The order of reptiles which includes the serpents. |
| (pl. ) of Ophidion |
| ophiomorpha | noun (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. |
| ophiura | noun (n.) A genus of ophiurioid starfishes. |
| ophiurida | noun (n. pl.) Same as Ophiurioidea. |
| ophiurioidea | noun (n. pl.) Alt. of Ophiuroidea |
| ophiuroidea | noun (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. |
| ophthalmia | noun (n.) An inflammation of the membranes or coats of the eye or of the eyeball. |
| opisthobranchia | noun (n. pl.) Alt. of Opisthobranchiata |
| opisthobranchiata | noun (n. pl.) A division of gastropod Mollusca, in which the breathing organs are usually situated behind the heart. It includes the tectibranchs and nudibranchs. |
| opisthoglypha | noun (n. pl.) A division of serpents which have some of the posterior maxillary teeth grooved for fangs. |
| optocoelia | noun (n.) The cavity of one of the optic lobes of the brain in many animals. |
| opuntia | noun (n.) A genus of cactaceous plants; the prickly pear, or Indian fig. |
| oquassa | noun (n.) A small, handsome trout (Salvelinus oquassa), found in some of the lakes in Maine; -- called also blueback trout. |
| ora | noun (n.) A money of account among the Anglo-Saxons, valued, in the Domesday Book, at twenty pence sterling. |
| (pl. ) of Os |
| orbicula | noun (n.) Same as Discina. |
| orbulina | noun (n.) A genus of minute living Foraminifera having a globular shell. |
| orchestra | noun (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. |
| oreosoma | noun (n. pl.) A genus of small oceanic fishes, remarkable for the large conical tubercles which cover the under surface. |
| organista | noun (n.) Any one of several South American wrens, noted for the sweetness of their song. |
| orgyia | noun (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. |
| ornithodelphia | noun (n. pl.) Same as Monotremata. |
| ornithopoda | noun (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. |
| ornithosauria | noun (n. pl.) An order of extinct flying reptiles; -- called also Pterosauria. |
| ornithoscelida | noun (n. pl.) A group of extinct Reptilia, intermediate in structure (especially with regard to the pelvis) between reptiles and birds. |
| orthopn/a | noun (n.) Alt. of Orthopny |
| orthopoda | noun (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. |
| orthoptera | noun (n. pl.) An order of mandibulate insects including grasshoppers, locusts, cockroaches, etc. See Illust. under Insect. |
| oryza | noun (n.) A genus of grasses including the rice plant; rice. |
| oscillaria | noun (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. |
| oscillatoria | noun (n. pl.) Same as Oscillaria. |
| osteocolla | noun (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. |
| osteocomma | noun (n.) A metamere of the vertebrate skeleton; an osteomere; a vertebra. |
| osteoma | noun (n.) A tumor composed mainly of bone; a tumor of a bone. |
| osteomalacia | noun (n.) A disease of the bones, in which they lose their earthy material, and become soft, flexible, and distorted. Also called malacia. |
| osteosarcoma | noun (n.) A tumor having the structure of a sacroma in which there is a deposit of bone; sarcoma connected with bone. |
| osteozoa | noun (n. pl.) Same as Vertebrata. |
| ostracea | noun (n. pl.) A division of bivalve mollusks including the oysters and allied shells. |
| ostracoda | noun (n. pl.) Ostracoidea. |
| ostracoidea | noun (n. pl.) An order of Entomostraca possessing hard bivalve shells. They are of small size, and swim freely about. |
| ostrea | noun (n.) A genus of bivalve Mollusca which includes the true oysters. |
| otalgia | noun (n.) Pain in the ear; earache. |
| otorrh/a | noun (n.) A flow or running from the ear, esp. a purulent discharge. |
| ova | noun (n. pl.) See Ovum. |
| (pl. ) of Ovum |
| oversea | adjective (a.) Beyond the sea; foreign. |
| adverb (adv.) Alt. of Overseas |
| ovipara | noun (n. pl.) An artifical division of vertebrates, including those that lay eggs; -- opposed to Vivipara. |
| ovoplasma | noun (n.) Yolk; egg yolk. |
| oxyammonia | noun (n.) Same as Hydroxylamine. |
| oxyopia | noun (n.) Alt. of Oxyopy |
| oxyrhyncha | noun (n. pl.) The maioid crabs. |
| ozena | noun (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. |
| ocarina | noun (n.) A kind of small simple wind instrument. |
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