Name Report For First Name OKE:
OKE
First name OKE's origin is Hawaiian. OKE means "a form of oscar; divine strength". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with OKE below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of oke.(Brown names are of the same origin (Hawaiian) with OKE and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
Rhymes with OKE - Names & Words
First Names Rhyming OKE
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES OKE AS A WHOLE:
brooke lokelani okelani haloke okello kailoken jumoke moke brookelyn cherokee lailoken moketavato moketaveto moketoveto okes stokeNAMES RHYMING WITH OKE (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (ke) - Names That Ends with ke:
federikke anke kandake kanake nike erssike ferike irenke morenike obike shermarke vandyke chike peterke mordke annikke asenke elke frederike larke lilike perke viheke blake bourke burke clarke deke drake duke falke harlake hillocke jake locke meinke mike nyke parke pike renke rocke rorke rourke sike sparke tasunke thorndike wake thorndyke driske evelake evike perzsike ilke helike dike vibeke ulrike fiske ike zeke berkeNAMES RHYMING WITH OKE (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (ok) - Names That Begins with ok:
okhmhaka oki okimma oko okoth okpara oksanaNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH OKE:
First Names which starts with 'o' and ends with 'e':
o'keefe o-yone obelie octave octe ocypete odale odayle ode odede odele odelette odelle odette odiane odile odwolfe oenone ogelsvie ogilvie ohanzee ohcumgache ohene oidhche oihane oilbhe olamide olathe ole oline olive olympe omette omorose omphale onilee onille onslowe ooljee opaline ophelie orabelle oralee oralie orane ordsone ordwine oreste orguelleuse orlaithe orlee orlege orlene ornette orvelle orville osaze osbourne oseye oswine otilie otthilde ottilie ove ozzieEnglish Words Rhyming OKE
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES OKE AS A WHOLE:
| artichoke | noun (n.) The Cynara scolymus, a plant somewhat resembling a thistle, with a dilated, imbricated, and prickly involucre. The head (to which the name is also applied) is composed of numerous oval scales, inclosing the florets, sitting on a broad receptacle, which, with the fleshy base of the scales, is much esteemed as an article of food. |
| noun (n.) See Jerusalem artichoke. |
| betokening | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Betoken |
| bloodstroke | noun (n.) Loss of sensation and motion from hemorrhage or congestion in the brain. |
| booked | adjective (a.) Registered. |
| adjective (a.) On the way; destined. | |
| (imp. & p. p.) of Book |
| booker | noun (n.) One who enters accounts or names, etc., in a book; a bookkeeper. |
| brokenness | noun (n.) The state or quality of being broken; unevenness. |
| noun (n.) Contrition; as, brokenness of heart. |
| brokerage | noun (n.) The business or employment of a broker. |
| noun (n.) The fee, reward, or commission, given or changed for transacting business as a broker. |
| brokerly | adjective (a.) Mean; servile. |
| brokery | noun (n.) The business of a broker. |
| cherokees | noun (n. pl.) An Appalachian tribe of Indians, formerly inhabiting the region about the head waters of the Tennessee River. They are now mostly settled in the Indian Territory, and have become one of the most civilized of the Indian Tribes. |
| choke | noun (n.) A stoppage or irritation of the windpipe, producing the feeling of strangulation. |
| noun (n.) The tied end of a cartridge. | |
| noun (n.) A constriction in the bore of a shotgun, case of a rocket, etc. | |
| verb (v. t.) To render unable to breathe by filling, pressing upon, or squeezing the windpipe; to stifle; to suffocate; to strangle. | |
| verb (v. t.) To obstruct by filling up or clogging any passage; to block up. | |
| verb (v. t.) To hinder or check, as growth, expansion, progress, etc.; to stifle. | |
| verb (v. t.) To affect with a sense of strangulation by passion or strong feeling. | |
| verb (v. t.) To make a choke, as in a cartridge, or in the bore of the barrel of a shotgun. | |
| verb (v. i.) To have the windpipe stopped; to have a spasm of the throat, caused by stoppage or irritation of the windpipe; to be strangled. | |
| verb (v. i.) To be checked, as if by choking; to stick. |
| chokeberry | noun (n.) The small apple-shaped or pear-shaped fruit of an American shrub (Pyrus arbutifolia) growing in damp thickets; also, the shrub. |
| chokecherry | noun (n.) The astringent fruit of a species of wild cherry (Prunus Virginiana); also, the bush or tree which bears such fruit. |
| chokedar | noun (n.) A watchman; an officer of customs or police. |
| choker | noun (n.) One who, or that which, chokes. |
| noun (n.) A stiff wide cravat; a stock. |
| choky chokey | adjective (a.) Tending to choke or suffocate, or having power to suffocate. |
| adjective (a.) Inclined to choke, as a person affected with strong emotion. |
| cloke | noun (n. & v.) See Cloak. |
| coke | noun (n.) Mineral coal charred, or depriver of its bitumen, sulphur, or other volatile matter by roasting in a kiln or oven, or by distillation, as in gas works. It is lagerly used where / smokeless fire is required. |
| verb (v. t.) To convert into coke. |
| cokenay | noun (n.) A cockney. |
| cokernut | noun (n.) The cocoanut. |
| cokes | noun (n.) A simpleton; a gull; a dupe. |
| cokewold | noun (n.) Cuckold. |
| cookee | noun (n.) A female cook. |
| cookery | noun (n.) The art or process of preparing food for the table, by dressing, compounding, and the application of heat. |
| noun (n.) A delicacy; a dainty. |
| cookey | noun (n.) Alt. of Cookie |
| counterstroke | noun (n.) A stroke or blow in return. |
| croker | noun (n.) A cultivator of saffron; a dealer in saffron. |
| crooked | adjective (a.) Characterized by a crook or curve; not straight; turning; bent; twisted; deformed. |
| adjective (a.) Not straightforward; deviating from rectitude; distorted from the right. | |
| adjective (a.) False; dishonest; fraudulent; as, crooked dealings. | |
| (imp. & p. p.) of Crook |
| crookedness | noun (n.) The condition or quality of being crooked; hence, deformity of body or of mind; deviation from moral rectitude; perverseness. |
| chokebore | noun (n.) In a shotgun, a bore which is tapered to a slightly smaller diameter at a short distance (usually 2/ to 3 inches) to the rear of the muzzle, in order to prevent the rapid dispersion of the shot. |
| noun (n.) A shotgun that is made with such a bore. | |
| verb (v. t.) To provide with a chokebore. |
| chokeboring | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Chokebore |
| downlooked | adjective (a.) Having a downcast countenance; dejected; gloomy; sullen. |
| downstroke | noun (n.) A stroke made with a downward motion of the pen or pencil. |
| equivoke | noun (n.) An ambiguous term; a word susceptible of different significations. |
| noun (n.) An equivocation; a guibble. |
| foretoken | noun (n.) Prognostic; previous omen. |
| verb (v. t.) To foreshow; to presignify; to prognosticate. |
| foretokening | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Foretoken |
| handystroke | noun (n.) A blow with the hand. |
| heartbroken | adjective (a.) Overcome by crushing sorrow; deeply grieved. |
| hogchoker | noun (n.) An American sole (Achirus lineatus, or A. achirus), related to the European sole, but of no market value. |
| hokeday | noun (n.) Same as Hockday. |
| hoker | noun (n.) Scorn; derision; abusive talk. |
| hooked | adjective (a.) Having the form of a hook; curvated; as, the hooked bill of a bird. |
| adjective (a.) Provided with a hook or hooks. | |
| (imp. & p. p.) of Hook |
| hookedness | noun (n.) The state of being bent like a hook; incurvation. |
| hooker | noun (n.) One who, or that which, hooks. |
| noun (n.) A Dutch vessel with two masts. | |
| noun (n.) A fishing boat with one mast, used on the coast of Ireland. | |
| noun (n.) A sailor's contemptuous term for any antiquated craft. |
| hookey | noun (n.) See Hockey. |
| instroke | noun (n.) An inward stroke; specif., in a steam or other engine, a stroke in which the piston is moving away from the crank shaft; -- opposed to outstroke. |
| joke | noun (n.) Something said for the sake of exciting a laugh; something witty or sportive (commonly indicating more of hilarity or humor than jest); a jest; a witticism; as, to crack good-natured jokes. |
| noun (n.) Something not said seriously, or not actually meant; something done in sport. | |
| verb (v. t.) To make merry with; to make jokes upon; to rally; to banter; as, to joke a comrade. | |
| verb (v. i.) To do something for sport, or as a joke; to be merry in words or actions; to jest. |
| joker | noun (n.) One who makes jokes or jests. |
| noun (n.) See Rest bower, under 2d Bower. |
| loke | noun (n.) A private path or road; also, the wicket or hatch of a door. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH OKE (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 2 Letters (ke) - English Words That Ends with ke:
| airlike | adjective (a.) Resembling air. |
| ake | noun (n. & v.) See Ache. |
| aldermanlike | adjective (a.) Like or suited to an alderman. |
| alestake | noun (n.) A stake or pole projecting from, or set up before, an alehouse, as a sign; an alepole. At the end was commonly suspended a garland, a bunch of leaves, or a "bush." |
| alike | adjective (a.) Having resemblance or similitude; similar; without difference. |
| adverb (adv.) In the same manner, form, or degree; in common; equally; as, we are all alike concerned in religion. |
| alsike | noun (n.) A species of clover with pinkish or white flowers; Trifolium hybridum. |
| archduke | noun (n.) A prince of the imperial family of Austria. |
| arsmetrike | noun (n.) Arithmetic. |
| awake | adjective (a.) Not sleeping or lethargic; roused from sleep; in a state of vigilance or action. |
| verb (v. t.) To rouse from sleep; to wake; to awaken. | |
| verb (v. t.) To rouse from a state resembling sleep, as from death, stupidity., or inaction; to put into action; to give new life to; to stir up; as, to awake the dead; to awake the dormant faculties. | |
| verb (v. i.) To cease to sleep; to come out of a state of natural sleep; and, figuratively, out of a state resembling sleep, as inaction or death. |
| bake | noun (n.) The process, or result, of baking. |
| verb (v. t.) To prepare, as food, by cooking in a dry heat, either in an oven or under coals, or on heated stone or metal; as, to bake bread, meat, apples. | |
| verb (v. t.) To dry or harden (anything) by subjecting to heat, as, to bake bricks; the sun bakes the ground. | |
| verb (v. t.) To harden by cold. | |
| verb (v. i.) To do the work of baking something; as, she brews, washes, and bakes. | |
| verb (v. i.) To be baked; to become dry and hard in heat; as, the bread bakes; the ground bakes in the hot sun. |
| barleybrake | noun (n.) Alt. of Barleybreak |
| beadsnake | noun (n.) A small poisonous snake of North America (Elaps fulvius), banded with yellow, red, and black. |
| beastlike | adjective (a.) Like a beast. |
| bibliotheke | noun (n.) A library. |
| bike | noun (n.) A nest of wild bees, wasps, or ants; a swarm. |
| birdlike | adjective (a.) Resembling a bird. |
| bishoplike | adjective (a.) Resembling a bishop; belonging to a bishop. |
| black snake | noun (n.) Alt. of Blacksnake |
| blacksnake | noun (n.) A snake of a black color, of which two species are common in the United States, the Bascanium constrictor, or racer, sometimes six feet long, and the Scotophis Alleghaniensis, seven or eight feet long. |
| blocklike | adjective (a.) Like a block; stupid. |
| brake | noun (n.) A fern of the genus Pteris, esp. the P. aquilina, common in almost all countries. It has solitary stems dividing into three principal branches. Less properly: Any fern. |
| noun (n.) A thicket; a place overgrown with shrubs and brambles, with undergrowth and ferns, or with canes. | |
| verb (v. t.) An instrument or machine to break or bruise the woody part of flax or hemp so that it may be separated from the fiber. | |
| verb (v. t.) An extended handle by means of which a number of men can unite in working a pump, as in a fire engine. | |
| verb (v. t.) A baker's kneading though. | |
| verb (v. t.) A sharp bit or snaffle. | |
| verb (v. t.) A frame for confining a refractory horse while the smith is shoeing him; also, an inclosure to restrain cattle, horses, etc. | |
| verb (v. t.) That part of a carriage, as of a movable battery, or engine, which enables it to turn. | |
| verb (v. t.) An ancient engine of war analogous to the crossbow and ballista. | |
| verb (v. t.) A large, heavy harrow for breaking clods after plowing; a drag. | |
| verb (v. t.) A piece of mechanism for retarding or stopping motion by friction, as of a carriage or railway car, by the pressure of rubbers against the wheels, or of clogs or ratchets against the track or roadway, or of a pivoted lever against a wheel or drum in a machine. | |
| verb (v. t.) An apparatus for testing the power of a steam engine, or other motor, by weighing the amount of friction that the motor will overcome; a friction brake. | |
| verb (v. t.) A cart or carriage without a body, used in breaking in horses. | |
| verb (v. t.) An ancient instrument of torture. | |
| () imp. of Break. | |
| () of Break |
| bridecake | noun (n.) Rich or highly ornamented cake, to be distributed to the guests at a wedding, or sent to friends after the wedding. |
| bridestake | noun (n.) A stake or post set in the ground, for guests at a wedding to dance round. |
| brike | noun (n.) A breach; ruin; downfall; peril. |
| businesslike | adjective (a.) In the manner of one transacting business wisely and by right methods. |
| caduke | adjective (a.) Perishable; frail; transitory. |
| cake | noun (n.) A small mass of dough baked; especially, a thin loaf from unleavened dough; as, an oatmeal cake; johnnycake. |
| noun (n.) A sweetened composition of flour and other ingredients, leavened or unleavened, baked in a loaf or mass of any size or shape. | |
| noun (n.) A thin wafer-shaped mass of fried batter; a griddlecake or pancake; as buckwheat cakes. | |
| noun (n.) A mass of matter concreted, congealed, or molded into a solid mass of any form, esp. into a form rather flat than high; as, a cake of soap; an ague cake. | |
| verb (v. i.) To form into a cake, or mass. | |
| verb (v. i.) To concrete or consolidate into a hard mass, as dough in an oven; to coagulate. | |
| verb (v. i.) To cackle as a goose. |
| canebrake | noun (n.) A thicket of canes. |
| catlike | adjective (a.) Like a cat; stealthily; noiselessly. |
| childlike | adjective (a.) Resembling a child, or that which belongs to children; becoming a child; meek; submissive; dutiful. |
| christianlike | adjective (a.) Becoming to a Christian. |
| christlike | adjective (a.) Resembling Christ in character, actions, etc. |
| churchlike | adjective (a.) Befitting a church or a churchman; becoming to a clergyman. |
| clake | noun (n.) Alt. of Claik |
| clambake | noun (n.) The backing or steaming of clams on heated stones, between layers of seaweed; hence, a picnic party, gathered on such an occasion. |
| clapcake | noun (n.) Oatmeal cake or bread clapped or beaten till it is thin. |
| clerklike | adjective (a.) Scholarlike. |
| clocklike | adjective (a.) Like a clock or like clockwork; mechanical. |
| corncrake | noun (n.) A bird (Crex crex or C. pratensis) which frequents grain fields; the European crake or land rail; -- called also corn bird. |
| courtlike | adjective (a.) After the manner of a court; elegant; polite; courtly. |
| cowlike | adjective (a.) Resembling a cow. |
| cowquake | noun (n.) A genus of plants (Briza); quaking grass. |
| crake | noun (n.) A boast. See Crack, n. |
| noun (n.) Any species or rail of the genera Crex and Porzana; -- so called from its singular cry. See Corncrake. | |
| verb (v. t. & i.) To cry out harshly and loudly, like the bird called crake. | |
| verb (v. t. & i.) To boast; to speak loudly and boastfully. |
| creamcake | noun (n.) A kind of cake filled with custard made of cream, eggs, etc. |
| crouke | noun (n.) A crock; a jar. |
| deathlike | adjective (a.) Resembling death. |
| adjective (a.) Deadly. |
| dike | noun (n.) A ditch; a channel for water made by digging. |
| noun (n.) An embankment to prevent inundations; a levee. | |
| noun (n.) A wall of turf or stone. | |
| noun (n.) A wall-like mass of mineral matter, usually an intrusion of igneous rocks, filling up rents or fissures in the original strata. | |
| verb (v. t.) To surround or protect with a dike or dry bank; to secure with a bank. | |
| verb (v. t.) To drain by a dike or ditch. | |
| verb (v. i.) To work as a ditcher; to dig. |
| dislike | noun (n.) A feeling of positive and usually permanent aversion to something unpleasant, uncongenial, or offensive; disapprobation; repugnance; displeasure; disfavor; -- the opposite of liking or fondness. |
| noun (n.) Discord; dissension. | |
| verb (v. t.) To regard with dislike or aversion; to disapprove; to disrelish. | |
| verb (v. t.) To awaken dislike in; to displease. |
| dovelike | adjective (a.) Mild as a dove; gentle; pure and lovable. |
| dragonlike | adjective (a.) Like a dragon. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH OKE (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 2 Letters (ok) - Words That Begins with ok:
| oke | noun (n.) A Turkish and Egyptian weight, equal to about 2/ pounds. |
| noun (n.) An Hungarian and Wallachian measure, equal to about 2/ pints. |
| okenite | noun (n.) A massive and fibrous mineral of a whitish color, chiefly hydrous silicate of lime. |
| oker | noun (n.) See Ocher. |
| 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. |
| okapi | noun (n.) A peculiar mammal (Okapia johnostoni) closely related to the giraffe, discovered in the deep forests of Belgian Kongo in 1900. It is smaller than an ox, and somewhat like a giraffe, except that the neck is much shorter. Like the giraffe, it has no dewclaws. There is a small prominence on each frontal bone of the male. The color of the body is chiefly reddish chestnut, the cheeks are yellowish white, and the fore and hind legs above the knees and the haunches are striped with purplish black and cream color. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH OKE:
English Words which starts with 'o' and ends with 'e':
| oatcake | noun (n.) A cake made of oatmeal. |
| oathable | adjective (a.) Capable of having an oath administered to. |
| obcordate | adjective (a.) Heart-shaped, with the attachment at the pointed end; inversely cordate: as, an obcordate petal or leaf. |
| obdurate | adjective (a.) Hardened in feelings, esp. against moral or mollifying influences; unyielding; hard-hearted; stubbornly wicked. |
| adjective (a.) Hard; harsh; rugged; rough; intractable. | |
| verb (v. t.) To harden. |
| obdure | adjective (a.) Alt. of Obdured |
| verb (v. t.) To harden. |
| obbe | noun (n.) See Obi. |
| obedible | adjective (a.) Obedient. |
| obedience | noun (n.) The act of obeying, or the state of being obedient; compliance with that which is required by authority; subjection to rightful restraint or control. |
| noun (n.) Words or actions denoting submission to authority; dutifulness. | |
| noun (n.) A following; a body of adherents; as, the Roman Catholic obedience, or the whole body of persons who submit to the authority of the pope. | |
| noun (n.) A cell (or offshoot of a larger monastery) governed by a prior. | |
| noun (n.) One of the three monastic vows. | |
| noun (n.) The written precept of a superior in a religious order or congregation to a subject. |
| obeisance | noun (n.) Obedience. |
| noun (n.) A manifestation of obedience; an expression of difference or respect; homage; a bow; a courtesy. |
| obese | adjective (a.) Excessively corpulent; fat; fleshy. |
| obfuscate | adjective (a.) Obfuscated; darkened; obscured. |
| verb (v. t.) To darken; to obscure; to becloud; hence, to confuse; to bewilder. |
| obimbricate | adjective (a.) Imbricated, with the overlapping ends directed downward. |
| objectable | adjective (a.) Such as can be presented in opposition; that may be put forward as an objection. |
| objectionable | adjective (a.) Liable to objection; likely to be objected to or disapproved of; offensive; as, objectionable words. |
| objective | noun (n.) The objective case. |
| noun (n.) An object glass. See under Object, n. | |
| noun (n.) Same as Objective point, under Objective, a. | |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to an object. | |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to an object; contained in, or having the nature or position of, an object; outward; external; extrinsic; -- an epithet applied to whatever ir exterior to the mind, or which is simply an object of thought or feeling, and opposed to subjective. | |
| adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or designating, the case which follows a transitive verb or a preposition, being that case in which the direct object of the verb is placed. See Accusative, n. |
| oblanceolate | adjective (a.) Lanceolate in the reversed order, that is, narrowing toward the point of attachment more than toward the apex. |
| oblate | adjective (a.) Flattened or depressed at the poles; as, the earth is an oblate spheroid. |
| adjective (a.) Offered up; devoted; consecrated; dedicated; -- used chiefly or only in the titles of Roman Catholic orders. See Oblate, n. | |
| adjective (a.) One of an association of priests or religious women who have offered themselves to the service of the church. There are three such associations of priests, and one of women, called oblates. | |
| adjective (a.) One of the Oblati. |
| obligable | adjective (a.) Acknowledging, or complying with, obligation; trustworthy. |
| obligee | noun (n.) The person to whom another is bound, or the person to whom a bond is given. |
| oblique | noun (n.) An oblique line. |
| adjective (a.) Not erect or perpendicular; neither parallel to, nor at right angles from, the base; slanting; inclined. | |
| adjective (a.) Not straightforward; indirect; obscure; hence, disingenuous; underhand; perverse; sinister. | |
| adjective (a.) Not direct in descent; not following the line of father and son; collateral. | |
| verb (v. i.) To deviate from a perpendicular line; to move in an oblique direction. | |
| verb (v. i.) To march in a direction oblique to the line of the column or platoon; -- formerly accomplished by oblique steps, now by direct steps, the men half-facing either to the right or left. |
| oblite | adjective (a.) Indistinct; slurred over. |
| obliterate | adjective (a.) Scarcely distinct; -- applied to the markings of insects. |
| verb (v. t.) To erase or blot out; to efface; to render undecipherable, as a writing. | |
| verb (v. t.) To wear out; to remove or destroy utterly by any means; to render imperceptible; as. to obliterate ideas; to obliterate the monuments of antiquity. |
| obliterative | adjective (a.) Tending or serving to obliterate. |
| obmutescence | noun (n.) A becoming dumb; loss of speech. |
| noun (n.) A keeping silent or mute. |
| oboe | noun (n.) One of the higher wind instruments in the modern orchestra, yet of great antiquity, having a penetrating pastoral quality of tone, somewhat like the clarinet in form, but more slender, and sounded by means of a double reed; a hautboy. |
| obole | noun (n.) A weight of twelve grains; or, according to some, of ten grains, or half a scruple. |
| obovate | adjective (a.) Inversely ovate; ovate with the narrow end downward; as, an obovate leaf. |
| obscure | noun (n.) Obscurity. |
| adjective (a.) To render obscure; to darken; to make dim; to keep in the dark; to hide; to make less visible, intelligible, legible, glorious, beautiful, or illustrious. | |
| superlative (superl.) Covered over, shaded, or darkened; destitute of light; imperfectly illuminated; dusky; dim. | |
| superlative (superl.) Of or pertaining to darkness or night; inconspicuous to the sight; indistinctly seen; hidden; retired; remote from observation; unnoticed. | |
| superlative (superl.) Not noticeable; humble; mean. | |
| superlative (superl.) Not easily understood; not clear or legible; abstruse or blind; as, an obscure passage or inscription. | |
| superlative (superl.) Not clear, full, or distinct; clouded; imperfect; as, an obscure view of remote objects. | |
| verb (v. i.) To conceal one's self; to hide; to keep dark. |
| obsequience | noun (n.) Obsequiousness. |
| observable | adjective (a.) Worthy or capable of being observed; discernible; noticeable; remarkable. |
| observance | noun (n.) The act or practice of observing or noticing with attention; a heeding or keeping with care; performance; -- usually with a sense of strictness and fidelity; as, the observance of the Sabbath is general; the strict observance of duties. |
| noun (n.) An act, ceremony, or rite, as of worship or respect; especially, a customary act or service of attention; a form; a practice; a rite; a custom. | |
| noun (n.) Servile attention; sycophancy. |
| observantine | noun (n.) One of a branch of the Order of Franciscans, who profess to adhere more strictly than the Conventuals to the intention of the founder, especially as to poverty; -- called also Observants. |
| observative | adjective (a.) Observing; watchful. |
| obsolescence | noun (n.) The state of becoming obsolete. |
| obsolete | adjective (a.) No longer in use; gone into disuse; disused; neglected; as, an obsolete word; an obsolete statute; -- applied chiefly to words, writings, or observances. |
| adjective (a.) Not very distinct; obscure; rudimental; imperfectly developed; abortive. | |
| verb (v. i.) To become obsolete; to go out of use. |
| obstinate | adjective (a.) Pertinaciously adhering to an opinion, purpose, or course; persistent; not yielding to reason, arguments, or other means; stubborn; pertinacious; -- usually implying unreasonableness. |
| adjective (a.) Not yielding; not easily subdued or removed; as, obstinate fever; obstinate obstructions. |
| obstructive | noun (n.) An obstructive person or thing. |
| adjective (a.) Tending to obstruct; presenting obstacles; hindering; causing impediment. |
| obstupefactive | adjective (a.) Stupefactive. |
| obtainable | adjective (a.) Capable of being obtained. |
| obtrusive | adjective (a.) Disposed to obtrude; inclined to intrude or thrust one's self or one's opinions upon others, or to enter uninvited; forward; pushing; intrusive. |
| obverse | adjective (a.) Having the base, or end next the attachment, narrower than the top, as a leaf. |
| adjective (a.) The face of a coin which has the principal image or inscription upon it; -- the other side being the reverse. | |
| adjective (a.) Anything necessarily involved in, or answering to, another; the more apparent or conspicuous of two possible sides, or of two corresponding things. |
| obvolute | adjective (a.) Alt. of Obvoluted |
| occasionable | adjective (a.) Capable of being occasioned or caused. |
| occasive | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the setting sun; falling; descending; western. |
| occluse | adjective (a.) Shut; closed. |
| occurrence | noun (n.) A coming or happening; as, the occurence of a railway collision. |
| noun (n.) Any incident or event; esp., one which happens without being designed or expected; as, an unusual occurrence, or the ordinary occurrences of life. |
| occurse | noun (n.) Same as Occursion. |
| ocellate | adjective (a.) Same as Ocellated. |
| ochre | noun (n.) A impure earthy ore of iron or a ferruginous clay, usually red (hematite) or yellow (limonite), -- used as a pigment in making paints, etc. The name is also applied to clays of other colors. |
| noun (n.) A metallic oxide occurring in earthy form; as, tungstic ocher or tungstite. | |
| noun (n.) See Ocher. |
| ochreate | adjective (a.) Alt. of Ochreated |
| ocreate | adjective (a.) Alt. of Ocreated |
| octahedrite | noun (n.) Titanium dioxide occurring in acute octahedral crystals. |
| octane | noun (n.) Any one of a group of metametric hydrocarcons (C8H18) of the methane series. The most important is a colorless, volatile, inflammable liquid, found in petroleum, and a constituent of benzene or ligroin. |
| octastyle | adjective (a.) See Octostyle. |
| octave | noun (n.) The eighth day after a church festival, the festival day being included; also, the week following a church festival. |
| noun (n.) The eighth tone in the scale; the interval between one and eight of the scale, or any interval of equal length; an interval of five tones and two semitones. | |
| noun (n.) The whole diatonic scale itself. | |
| noun (n.) The first two stanzas of a sonnet, consisting of four verses each; a stanza of eight lines. | |
| noun (n.) A small cask of wine, the eighth part of a pipe. | |
| adjective (a.) Consisting of eight; eight. |
| octene | noun (n.) Same as Octylene. |
| octile | noun (n.) Same as Octant, 2. |
| octoate | noun (n.) A salt of an octoic acid; a caprylate. |
| octodentate | adjective (a.) Having eight teeth. |
| octonaphthene | noun (n.) A colorless liquid hydrocarbon of the octylene series, occurring in Caucasian petroleum. |
| octopede | noun (n.) An animal having eight feet, as a spider. |
| octostyle | noun (n.) An octostyle portico or temple. |
| adjective (a.) Having eight columns in the front; -- said of a temple or portico. The Parthenon is octostyle, but most large Greek temples are hexastele. See Hexastyle. |
| octosyllable | noun (n.) A word of eight syllables. |
| adjective (a.) Octosyllabic. |
| octuple | adjective (a.) Eightfold. |
| octylene | noun (n.) Any one of a series of metameric hydrocarbons (C8H16) of the ethylene series. In general they are combustible, colorless liquids. |
| oculate | adjective (a.) Alt. of Oculated |
| odalisque | noun (n.) A female slave or concubine in the harem of the Turkish sultan. |
| ode | noun (n.) A short poetical composition proper to be set to music or sung; a lyric poem; esp., now, a poem characterized by sustained noble sentiment and appropriate dignity of style. |
| odible | adjective (a.) Fitted to excite hatred; hateful. |
| odontocete | noun (n.pl.) A subdivision of Cetacea, including the sperm whale, dolphins, etc.; the toothed whales. |
| odontolcae | noun (n. pl.) An extinct order of ostrichlike aquatic birds having teeth, which are set in a groove in the jaw. It includes Hesperornis, and allied genera. See Hesperornis. |
| odontolite | noun (n.) A fossil tooth colored a bright blue by phosphate of iron. It is used as an imitation of turquoise, and hence called bone turquoise. |
| odontophore | noun (n.) A special structure found in the mouth of most mollusks, except bivalves. It consists of several muscles and a cartilage which supports a chitinous radula, or lingual ribbon, armed with teeth. Also applied to the radula alone. See Radula. |
| odontotormae | noun (n.pl.) An order of extinct toothed birds having the teeth in sockets, as in the genus Ichthyornis. See Ichthyornis. |
| odorate | adjective (a.) Odorous. |
| odorline | noun (n.) A pungent oily substance obtained by redistilling bone oil. |
| odyle | noun (n.) See Od. [Archaic]. |
| oeillade | noun (n.) A glance of the eye; an amorous look. |
| oenanthate | noun (n.) A salt of the supposed /nanthic acid. |
| oenanthone | noun (n.) The ketone of oenanthic acid. |
| oenanthylate | noun (n.) A salt of /nanthylic acid; as, potassium oenanthylate. |
| oenanthylidene | noun (n.) A colorless liquid hydrocarbon, having a garlic odor; heptine. |
| offence | noun (n.) See Offense. |
| noun (n.) The act of offending in any sense; esp., a crime or a sin, an affront or an injury. | |
| noun (n.) The state of being offended or displeased; anger; displeasure. | |
| noun (n.) A cause or occasion of stumbling or of sin. |
| offense | noun (n.) Alt. of Offence |
| offensible | adjective (a.) That may give offense. |
| offensive | noun (n.) The state or posture of one who offends or makes attack; aggressive attitude; the act of the attacking party; -- opposed to defensive. |
| adjective (a.) Giving offense; causing displeasure or resentment; displeasing; annoying; as, offensive words. | |
| adjective (a.) Giving pain or unpleasant sensations; disagreeable; revolting; noxious; as, an offensive smell; offensive sounds. | |
| adjective (a.) Making the first attack; assailant; aggressive; hence, used in attacking; -- opposed to defensive; as, an offensive war; offensive weapons. |
| offerable | adjective (a.) Capable of being offered; suitable or worthy to be offered. |
| offerture | noun (n.) Offer; proposal; overture. |
| office | noun (n.) That which a person does, either voluntarily or by appointment, for, or with reference to, others; customary duty, or a duty that arises from the relations of man to man; as, kind offices, pious offices. |
| noun (n.) A special duty, trust, charge, or position, conferred by authority and for a public purpose; a position of trust or authority; as, an executive or judical office; a municipal office. | |
| noun (n.) A charge or trust, of a sacred nature, conferred by God himself; as, the office of a priest under the old dispensation, and that of the apostles in the new. | |
| noun (n.) That which is performed, intended, or assigned to be done, by a particular thing, or that which anything is fitted to perform; a function; -- answering to duty in intelligent beings. | |
| noun (n.) The place where a particular kind of business or service for others is transacted; a house or apartment in which public officers and others transact business; as, the register's office; a lawyer's office. | |
| noun (n.) The company or corporation, or persons collectively, whose place of business is in an office; as, I have notified the office. | |
| noun (n.) The apartments or outhouses in which the domestics discharge the duties attached to the service of a house, as kitchens, pantries, stables, etc. | |
| noun (n.) Any service other than that of ordination and the Mass; any prescribed religious service. | |
| verb (v. t.) To perform, as the duties of an office; to discharge. |
| offshore | adjective (a.) From the shore; as, an offshore wind; an offshore signal. |
| ogee | noun (n.) A molding, the section of which is the form of the letter S, with the convex part above; cyma reversa. See Illust. under Cyma. |
| noun (n.) Hence, any similar figure used for any purpose. |
| ogive | noun (n.) The arch or rib which crosses a Gothic vault diagonally. |
| ogle | noun (n.) An amorous side glance or look. |
| verb (v. t.) To view or look at with side glances, as in fondness, or with a design to attract notice. |
| ogre | noun (n.) An imaginary monster, or hideous giant of fairy tales, who lived on human beings; hence, any frightful giant; a cruel monster. |
| oilstone | noun (n.) A variety of hone slate, or whetstone, used for whetting tools when lubricated with oil. |
| oleandrine | noun (n.) One of several alkaloids found in the leaves of the oleander. |
| oleate | noun (n.) A salt of oleic acid. Some oleates, as the oleate of mercury, are used in medicine by way of inunction. |
| olefine | noun (n.) Olefiant gas, or ethylene; hence, by extension, any one of the series of unsaturated hydrocarbons of which ethylene is a type. See Ethylene. |
| oleomargarine | noun (n.) A liquid oil made from animal fats (esp. beef fat) by separating the greater portion of the solid fat or stearin, by crystallization. It is mainly a mixture of olein and palmitin with some little stearin. |
| noun (n.) An artificial butter made by churning this oil with more or less milk. |
| oleone | noun (n.) An oily liquid, obtained by distillation of calcium oleate, and probably consisting of the ketone of oleic acid. |
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