English Words: O

15,494 words · Page 122 of 310

Opelousasname

A city, the parish seat of St. Landry Parish, Louisiana, United States.

openadj

Physically unobstructed, uncovered, etc.

open a can of whoop assverb

A good-humored threat of physical harm.

open accessnoun

A set of principles and practices through which research outputs are distributed online, free of access charges or other barriers.

open bankingnoun

Third party API access to a consumer's banking data in order to create new services and products.

open barnoun

A bar at which drinks are served without charge, usually at a social event.

open booknoun

Something whose salient aspects are obvious or easily interpreted.

open carrynoun

The practice of openly carrying a firearm in public.

open circuitnoun

An incomplete electrical circuit through which no current can flow.

open citynoun

A city which has announced (during wartime) that it has abandoned all defensive efforts, generally in the event of its imminent capture.

open compoundnoun

A compound word with spaces in it, for example, high school, school bus, or science fiction.

open contentnoun

Creative work that others can freely and legally copy or modify.

open corenoun

A business model for software whereby the core is open-source and free, while closed-source add-ons are available for purchase.

open curvenoun

Any curve where its two endpoints do not touch.

open daynoun

A casual event where an institution is open for visiting and inspection by anyone interested.

open doorsverb

To lead to opportunities or social advantages.

open firenoun

An uncovered fire.

open goalnoun

An undefended goal.

open housenoun

A house habitually kept open to callers.

open indexnoun

index (on a tensor) that isn't summed over

open its doorsverb

To begin operating.

open letternoun

A letter addressed to one person, or more, but published (as for example in a newspaper) for the public to read.

open marriagenoun

A marital relationship in which each partner agrees that the other partner may have sexual relations with other people as he or she sees fit.

open matteadj

Of a soft matte film, transferred to a home video format with the full frame exposed, thus having the theatrical mattes removed.

open mindnoun

A mind willing to consider new ideas.

open morningnoun

A morning on which an establishment (such as a school or business) is open to the public, allowing visitors to view the premises and learn about the operation of the organisation.

open one's big mouthverb

To speak about things rashly or foolishly, when it would be better to stay silent.

open one's legsverb

Synonym of put out (consent to having sex).

open one's mouthverb

to speak

open outverb

To expand, to widen, to unwrap, unfold or uncover, to spread out from a compact state.

open outsourcingnoun

Crowdsourcing.

open Pandora's boxverb

To perform an action that causes problems to appear which did not exist beforehand, or were not known about prior.

open playnoun

The period of play outside set pieces; the phase where possession can change by passing and tackling.

open positionnoun

An active trade with unrealized profits and losses that has not yet been offset (“closed”) by a corresponding equivalent deal.

open questionnoun

A type of question that cannot be answered with a simple yes or no and requires a longer, more detailed response.

open ratenoun

A measure used by marketers as an indication of how many people "view" or "open" the electronic mail they send out.

open relationshipnoun

A romantic and/or sexual relationship in which the people involved are permitted or tolerated to be available to have additional simultaneous romantic and/or sexual relationships.

open roadnoun

The part of the road system that is away from urban and suburban areas and on which large distances can be travelled without needing to frequently slow for traffic or intersections.

open seanoun

That part of the sea out of sight of land.

open seasonnoun

A period of time during the calendar year when authorities within a jurisdiction permit the unrestricted hunting of one or more kinds of animal wildlife.

open secretnoun

Information that is widely known, but not acknowledged openly.

open sesamephrase

open up (especially referring to doors)

open shopverb

To begin work or operations.

open slathernoun

Freedom to act without repercussions; free rein.

open someone's eyesverb

To make someone aware of something they did not know or fully understand before; to enlighten someone.

open sourcerornoun

A programmer who works only on open source programs.

open speciesnoun

A species of furry that is open source, not copyrighted by its creator; a fictional furry species that anyone is allowed to create and sell.

open sunshinenoun

Total outdoor sunshine, without clouds, haze, or other obstruction.

open texturenoun

A philosophical concept that refers to the universal possibility of imprecision in empirical statements.

open the ballverb

To begin operations; to set things in motion.

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 122. 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.