6-letter words starting with or
- orihon — a manuscript scroll having columns running across the width, folded in accordion fashion along the separating margins.
- orihou — a small New Zealand tree, Pseudopanax colensoi, with leaves in five parts
- orinda — a town in W California.
- oriole — any of several usually brightly colored, passerine birds of the family Oriolidae, of the Old World. Compare golden oriole.
- orisha — A divine entity that possesses the supernatural capability of reflecting some of the manifestations of Ol\u00f3d\u00f9mar\u00e8.
- orison — a prayer.
- orissa — a state in E India. 60,136 sq. mi. (155,752 sq. km). Capital: Bhubaneshwar.
- orkhon — a river in E central Asia, flowing E, N, and then NE from the N central Mongolian People's Republic to the Selenga River. About 400 miles (645 km) long.
- orkney — a group of over 70 islands off the N coast of Scotland, separated from the mainland by the Pentland Firth: constitutes an island authority of Scotland; low-lying and treeless; many important prehistoric remains. Administrative centre: Kirkwall. Pop: 19 310 (2003 est). Area: 974 sq km (376 sq miles)
- orlfly — an alderfly, Sialis lutaria.
- orlich — Francisco J [frahn-sees-kaw] /frɑnˈsis kɔ/ (Show IPA), 1906–69, Costa Rican engineer and statesman: president 1962–66.
- ormazd — Ahura Mazda.
- ormers — Plural form of ormer.
- ormolu — Also called mosaic gold. an alloy of copper and zinc used to imitate gold.
- ormuzd — Ahura Mazda.
- ornate — elaborately or sumptuously adorned, often excessively or showily so: They bought an ornate Louis XIV sofa.
- ornery — ugly and unpleasant in disposition or temper: No one can get along with my ornery cousin.
- orogen — an extensive belt of rocks deformed by orogeny, associated in places with plutonic and metamorphic rocks.
- oroide — an alloy containing copper, tin, etc., used to imitate gold.
- oronym — A word or phrase that sounds the same as another word or phrase.
- orozco — José Clemente [haw-se kle-men-te] /hɔˈsɛ klɛˈmɛn tɛ/ (Show IPA), 1883–1949, Mexican painter.
- orphan — a child who has lost both parents through death, or, less commonly, one parent.
- orphic — of or relating to Orpheus.
- orpine — a plant, Sedum telephium, of the stonecrop family, having purplish flowers.
- orrery — an apparatus for representing the positions, motions, and phases of the planets, satellites, etc., in the solar system.
- orsini — an Italian aristocratic family that was prominent in Rome from the 12th to the 18th century
- ortega — Daniel, full surname Ortega Saavedra. born 1945, Nicaraguan politician and former resistance leader; president of Nicaragua (1985–90) and from 2007
- ortho- — straight or upright
- orthos — Plural form of ortho.
- ortler — a range of the Alps in N Italy.
- ortles — a range of the Alps in N Italy. Highest peak: 3899 m (12 792 ft)
- orwell — George (Eric Arthur Blair) 1903–50, English novelist and essayist.