9-letter words containing o, i, r, e, a
- operatics — Exaggerated or overly emotional behaviour; histrionics.
- operating — used or engaged in performing operations: an operating surgeon.
- operation — an act or instance, process, or manner of functioning or operating.
- operative — a person engaged, employed, or skilled in some branch of work, especially productive or industrial work; worker.
- operatize — to turn (a play, novel, etc) into an opera
- orangeism — the principles and practices of the Orangemen.
- oratories — Plural form of oratory.
- ordinaire — an ordinary table wine
- ordinance — an authoritative rule or law; a decree or command.
- ordinated — Simple past tense and past participle of ordinate.
- ordinates — Plural form of ordinate.
- oregonian — of Oregon
- organised — to form as or into a whole consisting of interdependent or coordinated parts, especially for united action: to organize a committee.
- organiser — Standard spelling of organizer.
- organises — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of organise.
- organized — affiliated in an organization, especially a union: organized dockworkers.
- organizer — a person who organizes, especially one who forms and organizes a group.
- organizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of organize.
- organzine — silk that has been additionally twisted in opposite directions, used warpwise in weaving silk fabrics.
- orientals — Plural form of oriental.
- orientate — (UK, intransitive) To face (a given direction).
- oriflamme — the red banner of St. Denis, near Paris, carried before the early kings of France as a military ensign.
- originate — to take its origin or rise; begin; start; arise: The practice originated during the Middle Ages.
- orleanais — a former province in N France. Capital: Orléans.
- orleanist — a supporter of the Orléans branch of the former French royal family and of its claim to the throne of France through descent from the younger brother of Louis XIV.
- ortanique — A citrus fruit that is a cross between an orange and a tangerine, developed in Jamaica in the 1920s.
- orwellian — of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or resembling the literary work of George Orwell or the totalitarian future described in his antiutopian novel 1984 (1949).
- osmeteria — glands in some caterpillars that secrete foul-smelling substances to deter predators
- ossifrage — the lammergeier.
- ossuaries — Plural form of ossuary.
- ostiaries — Plural form of ostiary.
- ostracise — to exclude, by general consent, from society, friendship, conversation, privileges, etc.: His friends ostracized him after his father's arrest.
- ostracize — to exclude, by general consent, from society, friendship, conversation, privileges, etc.: His friends ostracized him after his father's arrest.
- ostrasize — Misspelling of ostracize.
- outlinear — relating to an outline
- outraised — Simple past tense and past participle of outraise.
- overawing — Present participle of overawe.
- overclaim — to demand by or as by virtue of a right; demand as a right or as due: to claim an estate by inheritance.
- overgrain — to apply a grainy texture to
- overhaile — to draw (a covering) over
- overpaint — to cover over with paint
- overplaid — a plaid pattern superimposed on another plaid
- overstain — to stain too much
- overtrain — to train excessively
- p/e ratio — price-to-earnings ratio
- padre pio — a form of punishment shooting employed by paramilitaries in Northern Ireland in which the victim is shot through the palms of both hands
- parboiled — to boil partially or for a short time; precook.
- parecious — paroicous.
- paregoric — a camphorated tincture of opium, containing benzoic acid, anise oil, etc., used chiefly to stop diarrhea in children.
- parhelion — a bright circular spot on a solar halo; a mock sun: usually one of two or more such spots seen on opposite sides of the sun, and often accompanied by additional luminous arcs and bands.