English Words: O
15,494 words · Page 106 of 310
A supposed unusual and little-known solution to a problem, offered in deceptive and misleading advertising on the Internet.
Said of a conversation which suddenly develops in a way that was not planned or anticipated by any of the people involved, sometimes in a positive context, but especially of an escalating argument.
One feels a physical shock upon realizing a direct threat to one's life, similar to the loss of blood in the brain. It affects the entire body for a few minutes, but does not cause the person to lose consciousness.
Alternative form of damned if one does and damned if one doesn't.
Some period of time, such as a term of employment or a lifetime, is coming to an end.
A person must do what they feel is necessary or imperative.
Expresses that someone has great sympathy or sadness for another's plight or suffering.
One is unpopular, in disgrace or embroiled in scandal; one's reputation is tarnished.
Preceded by a verb and followed by an adverbial prepositional phrase to express a successfully completed action in a literal or figurative space, where the verb denotes the means or manner of the action, while the prepositional phrase specifies the direction or goal of the action:
A gaming machine having a long arm-like handle at one side that a player pulls down to make reels spin; the player wins money or tokens when certain combinations of symbols line up on these reels.
A very small town in the desert, especially one of a rural nature and/or offering very few or no attractions.
A policy of population control in China, whereby a married couple is allowed only one child.
The notion that one drop of black blood (i.e., any African ancestry at all) makes a person black.
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 106. 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.
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