English words starting with ort

Meanings of Ort:

noun

A scrap or remainder of food from a meal.

Usage examples:

The men's job was to operate the sweepers, brushing up the vegetable waste, the paper bags, the scr…

Meanings of Ortanique:

noun

A citrus fruit which is a cross between an orange and a tangerine, developed in jamaica in the 1920s.

Usage examples:

There are large round dishes with ortaniques around the rim (an ortanique is a citrus fruit) and th…

Meanings of Orterde:

noun

A compacted, but not cemented, lower horizon of a podzol.

Meanings of Ortet:

noun

An individual plant that gives rise to a clone of plants (ramets) by vegetative reproduction or propagation.

Meanings of Orth:

noun

As much of something as could be bought for a penny

Usage examples:

It won't make a pennyworth of difference to me.

Meanings of Orthian:

adjective

Designating a style of singing of very high pitch, or a song sung in this style.

Meanings of Orthic:

adjective

Of a polyhedron: composed of pairs of equal parallel faces of which equivalent points are connected by lines perpendicular to the faces.

Meanings of Orthicon:

noun

An early form of television camera tube similar to an iconoscope.

Meanings of Orthiconoscope:

noun

An early form of television camera tube; = orthicon .

Meanings of Orthicons:

noun

An early form of television camera tube similar to an iconoscope.

Meanings of Orthid:

noun

A fossil articulate brachiopod of the genus orthis, family orthidae, or order orthida, of the palaeozoic era.

adjective

Of or relating to the family orthidae or order orthida of fossil brachiopods.

Meanings of Orthite:

noun

A silicate of cerium, iron, aluminium, and other metals, occurring as elongated crystals and now regarded as a variety of allanite.

Meanings of Ortho:

combining form

Denoting a compound from which a meta -compound is formed by dehydration.

Usage examples:

Orthophosphoric acid

Straight; rectangular; upright.

Usage examples:

Orthodontics

Meanings of Orthocenter:

noun

The point of intersection of the three perpendiculars drawn from the vertices of a triangle to the opposite sides.

Meanings of Orthocentre:

noun

The point of intersection of the three perpendiculars drawn from the vertices of a triangle to the opposite sides.

Meanings of Orthocephalic:

adjective

Having a head with a medium ratio of breadth to height.

Meanings of Orthoceras:

noun

A fossil orthoconic shell of a nautiloid cephalopod mollusc of the palaeozoic or early mesozoic eras; specifically a member of the genus orthoceras.

Meanings of Orthoceratite:

noun

A fossil shell of a nautiloid cephalod mollusc of the palaeozoic or early mesozoic eras, having a long, straight (or nearly straight) chambered shell; specifically a member of the former genus orthoceratites or family orthoceratidae; compare orthoceras . also in latin form orthoceratites (in later use only as the name of a genus).

Meanings of Orthochromatic:

adjective

(of black-and-white photographic film) sensitive to all visible light except red. orthochromatic film can therefore be handled in red light in the darkroom but does not produce black-and-white tones that correspond very closely to the colours seen by the eye.

Usage examples:

Even the orthochromatic films were not sensitive to red light.

Meanings of Orthoclase:

noun

A common rock-forming mineral occurring typically as white or pink crystals. it is a potassium-rich alkali feldspar and is used in ceramics and glass-making.

Usage examples:

Feldspars are added as orthoclase in order to reduce the devitrification of the glass.

Meanings of Orthodiagram:

noun

A radiographic image showing the exact size and shape of an organ, produced by orthodiagraphy or orthoroentgenography.

Meanings of Orthodiagraphic:

adjective

Of or relating to orthodiagraphy; performed by means of orthodiagraphy.

Meanings of Orthodome:

noun

In a monoclinic crystal: a dome with faces parallel to the orthodiagonal axis. compare "dome".

Meanings of Orthodontia:

plural noun

The treatment of irregularities in the teeth and jaws.

Usage examples:

The branch of dentistry that specialises in aligning teeth is called orthodontics.

Meanings of Orthodontic:

adjective

Relating to the job or activity of correcting the position of teeth and dealing with and preventing problems of the teeth

Usage examples:

Does she need orthodontic treatment to have her teeth straightened?, he has been impressed with res…