English words starting with or

Meanings of Or:

conjunction

Used to link alternatives.

Usage examples:

A cup of tea or coffee

noun

A logical operation which gives the value one if at least one operand has the value one, and otherwise gives a value of zero.

suffix

(forming nouns) denoting a person or thing performing the action of a verb, or denoting another agent.

Usage examples:

Escalator

abbreviation

Operational research.

Meanings of Or-else:

idiom

Or

Usage examples:

We’d better be there by eight or else we’ll miss the beginning., you’d better remember to bring the…

Meanings of Orach:

noun

A plant of the goosefoot family with leaves that are sometimes covered in a white mealy substance. several kinds are edible and can be used as a substitute for spinach or sorrel.

Usage examples:

Spinach was a better green vegetable than the goosefoots, sorrels, orach, and similar plants which …

Meanings of Oraches:

noun

A plant of the goosefoot family with leaves that are sometimes covered in a white mealy substance. several kinds are edible and can be used as a substitute for spinach or sorrel.

Usage examples:

Spinach was a better green vegetable than the goosefoots, sorrels, orach, and similar plants which …

Meanings of Oracle:

noun

A priest or priestess acting as a medium through whom advice or prophecy was sought from the gods in classical antiquity.

Usage examples:

Her priests and oracles are all being kept in the tower.

Meanings of Oracles:

noun

A priest or priestess acting as a medium through whom advice or prophecy was sought from the gods in classical antiquity.

Usage examples:

Her priests and oracles are all being kept in the tower.

Meanings of Oracular:

adjective

Relating to an oracle.

Usage examples:

The oracular shrine

Meanings of Oraculous:

adjective

Uttered or decreed by an oracle; = "oracular". rare after 17th century.

Meanings of Oraculum:

noun

Oracle.

Meanings of Oracy:

noun

The ability to express oneself fluently and grammatically in speech.

Usage examples:

Infant teachers will be urged to concentrate on reading, writing, oracy and numeracy

Meanings of Orad:

adjective

Lying or progressing towards the region of the mouth; nearest to the region of the mouth.

adverb

Towards the region of the mouth.

Meanings of Oragious:

adjective

Stormy, tempestuous.

Meanings of Oral:

adjective

Spoken rather than written; verbal.

Usage examples:

They had reached an oral agreement

noun

A spoken examination or test.

Usage examples:

A french oral

Meanings of Oral-tradition:

noun

A system for preserving a group's beliefs, customs, and history, in which parents tell their children about them, and the children tell their children, and so on

Meanings of Oralism:

noun

The system of teaching profoundly deaf people to communicate by the use of speech and lip-reading rather than sign language.

Usage examples:

Elizabeth peet, dean of women at gallaudet college, was more colorful in her criticism of oralism's…

Meanings of Oralist:

adjective

Relating to or advocating oralism.

Usage examples:

Highly organized and well-funded oralist organizations dominated the field of education in america …

noun

A profoundly deaf person who uses speech and lip-reading to communicate, rather than sign language.

Meanings of Orality:

noun

The quality of being verbally communicated.

Usage examples:

Its orality, its political intentions and ramifications, and its promise of unspoken truths about t…

Meanings of Orally:

adverb

By means of speech; verbally.

Usage examples:

The terms were orally agreed

Meanings of Orals:

noun

A spoken examination or test.

Usage examples:

A french oral

adjective

Spoken rather than written; verbal.

Usage examples:

They had reached an oral agreement

Meanings of Orang:

noun

Short for orangutan.

Meanings of Orange:

noun

A large round juicy citrus fruit with a tough bright reddish-yellow rind.

Usage examples:

Eat plenty of oranges

adjective

Reddish yellow.

Usage examples:

There was an orange glow in the sky

proper noun

A town in southern france, on the river rhône, home of the ancestors of the dutch royal house.

Meanings of Orangeade:

noun

A carbonated drink flavoured with orange.

Usage examples:

And there were bottles of corona lemonade, limeade, orangeade and cherryade.

Meanings of Orangeist:

noun

A supporter of the house of orange in the netherlands.

Meanings of Orangeman:

noun

A member of the orange order.

Usage examples:

The marching by orangemen through nationalist areas has been contentious since the organisation's i…

Meanings of Orangeness:

noun

The quality of being orange

Usage examples:

I was struck by the orangeness of his orange jumpsuit., the degree of redness or orangeness of the …