English Words: O
15,494 words · Page 105 of 310
An event or achievement which is unpleasant for someone, especially for those who considered it impossible or unwelcome; an annoyance.
Humour satirising transgender and non-binary gender identities through mocking self-identifications (typically by "identifying" as something absurd or self-evident).
Alternative form of one man's meat is another man's poison.
one's view on war and political violence depends on perspective
What is useless to one person is valuable to another.
If one is going to commit a sin, it may as well be a major one as a minor one.
A short period of time, typically anywhere from several seconds to several minutes or more.
A single sexual encounter can lead to a lifetime of disease and treatment.
A phrase chanted by a member or members of the in-group (almost always more than once) when a new member has joined or been accepted, willingly or by doing a behavior or action that is considered to have brought them into the group.
It is highly doubtful: indicating that something is not likely to happen to the person specified.
(used imitatively) A cliché used to exaggerate an accomplishment or milestone.
A situation in which progress is more than offset by adverse developments.
One instance of an event (such as the arrival of a single bird) does not necessarily indicate a trend.
A succession of things that are tedious, problematic, or otherwise unwanted.
Used in a common chronometric counting scheme, in which each iteration is sequentially numbered and supposed to be approximately one second in length.
Alternative form of one for the money, two for the show, three to make ready, and four to go.
A person under a train; a person hit by a train after jumping or falling in front of it.
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English alphabetical index for the letter O contains 15,494 headwords drawn from our Wiktionary-derived dictionary table. At 50 entries per page the browse splits into 310 pages, and you are currently viewing page 105. Every row above is a dictionary-backed entry with a canonical slug, and each links through to a full definition page with pronunciation, senses, etymology, and related-word data where available.
On this page 50 of 50 entries carry a part-of-speech tag and 50 carry at least one stored definition. Coverage varies across letters because Wiktionary volunteers build entries at different speeds for different parts of the alphabet, letters with common starting sounds (S, C, T, P) usually have the densest coverage, while less frequent starters (X, Q, Z) tend to have shorter but more specialised lists. PlainSpell surfaces whatever data is present and links back to the source when a definition is not yet recorded.
For readers using this index as a spelling reference, the guarantee is that every form you see on the list is a documented English headword, not a guess, not a derived inflection lacking a lemma row. If a word you expected to find is absent from the "O" list, it usually means the form exists only as an inflection of another lemma (e.g. a past participle stored under the infinitive) or the entry has not yet been imported from Wiktionary. Use the search bar or the misspelling lookup to resolve these cases.