Words starting with oortc
Maybe these words will be useful:
- oort — Jan Hendrick. 1900–92, Dutch astronomer, who confirmed (1927) and developed the theory of galactic rotation. He was the first to propose (1950) the existence of a mass of comets orbiting the sun far beyond the orbit of Pluto (the Oort cloud)
- oort cloud — a region of the solar system far beyond the orbit of the dwarf planet Pluto in which billions of comets move in nearly circular orbits unless one is pulled into a highly eccentric elliptical orbit by a passing star. Compare Kuiper belt.
- oorali — a tribe of people found in the Idukki District in India
- oorial — a wild, horned Himalayan sheep, a subspecies of Ovis orientalis, with a red coat
- oorie — gloomy, dismal, or chilled with cold
- oory — shabby; dingy.
- oojamaflip — a thing whose name is temporarily forgotten
- oomiac — umiak
- oophorectomize — to surgically remove (one or both ovaries)