English words starting with orn

Meanings of Ornament:

noun

A thing used or serving to make something look more attractive but usually having no practical purpose, especially a small object such as a figurine.

Usage examples:

Tables covered with ornaments and books

verb

Make (something) look more attractive by adding decorative items.

Usage examples:

A jewel to ornament your wife's lovely throat

Meanings of Ornamental:

adjective

Serving or intended as an ornament; decorative.

Usage examples:

An ornamental fountain

noun

A plant grown for its attractive appearance.

Usage examples:

Scale insects enjoy perennial plants and can devastate nut and fruit trees, greenhouse plants, fore…

Meanings of Ornamentality:

noun

The condition of being ornamental; (occasionally also) a thing which is ornamental.

Meanings of Ornamentalize:

verb

To make ornamental.

Meanings of Ornamentary:

adjective

Ornamental.

Meanings of Ornamentation:

noun

Decorative elements added to something to enhance its appearance.

Usage examples:

A baroque chandelier with plasterwork ornamentation

Meanings of Ornamented:

verb

Make (something) look more attractive by adding decorative items.

Usage examples:

A jewel to ornament your wife's lovely throat

noun

A thing used or serving to make something look more attractive but usually having no practical purpose, especially a small object such as a figurine.

Usage examples:

Tables covered with ornaments and books

Meanings of Ornamenter:

noun

A person who or thing which ornaments something; specifically an artisan skilled in decoration.

Meanings of Ornamenting:

verb

Make (something) look more attractive by adding decorative items.

Usage examples:

A jewel to ornament your wife's lovely throat

noun

A thing used or serving to make something look more attractive but usually having no practical purpose, especially a small object such as a figurine.

Usage examples:

Tables covered with ornaments and books

Meanings of Ornamentist:

noun

A person who ornaments; especially a professional decorator, a designer of ornaments.

Meanings of Ornaments:

noun

A thing used or serving to make something look more attractive but usually having no practical purpose, especially a small object such as a figurine.

Usage examples:

Tables covered with ornaments and books

verb

Make (something) look more attractive by adding decorative items.

Usage examples:

A jewel to ornament your wife's lovely throat

Meanings of Ornate:

adjective

Elaborately or highly decorated.

Usage examples:

An ornate wrought-iron railing

Meanings of Ornately:

adverb

In a way that has a lot of complicated decoration

Usage examples:

A pair of ornately carved doors, ornately painted tiles covered every surface.

Meanings of Ornature:

noun

Ornament, adornment, decoration; embellishment, finery.

Meanings of Ornery:

adjective

Bad-tempered or difficult to deal with.

Usage examples:

An ornery old military man

Meanings of Ornis:

noun

The birds of a region collectively; = "avifauna".

Meanings of Orniscopy:

noun

The observation of birds for the purposes of divination.

Meanings of Ornithic:

adjective

Of, relating to, or characteristic of birds; avian.

Meanings of Ornithichnite:

noun

Edward hitchcock's name for: a fossil footprint, originally thought to be of a bird or birdlike reptile, now usually attributed to a dinosaur.

Meanings of Ornithine:

noun

An amino acid which is produced by the body and is important in protein metabolism.

Usage examples:

About 50-percent of ingested arginine is rapidly converted in the body to ornithine, primarily by t…

Meanings of Ornithischia:

adjective

Relating to or denoting herbivorous dinosaurs of an order distinguished by having a pelvic structure resembling that of birds.

Usage examples:

The university of california museum of paleontology is proud to present displays of ornithischian d…

noun

An ornithischian dinosaur.

Usage examples:

The reasons for the extreme rarity of ornithischians in the lower jurassic of china are unclear at …

Meanings of Ornithischian:

adjective

Relating to or denoting herbivorous dinosaurs of an order distinguished by having a pelvic structure resembling that of birds.

Usage examples:

The university of california museum of paleontology is proud to present displays of ornithischian d…

noun

An ornithischian dinosaur.

Usage examples:

The reasons for the extreme rarity of ornithischians in the lower jurassic of china are unclear at …

Meanings of Ornithodelphia:

noun

With plural agreement. a subclass or infraclass of mammals including the monotremes and sometimes also the extinct multituberculates.

Meanings of Ornithodelphian:

noun

With plural agreement. a subclass or infraclass of mammals including the monotremes and sometimes also the extinct multituberculates.

Meanings of Ornithogalum:

noun

Any plant of the genus ornithogalum (family liliaceae), comprising perennial herbs native to the mediterranean region and southern africa, with bulbous roots and (usually) racemes of greenish-white flowers; especially o. umbellatum. also (in form ornithogalum): the genus itself.