Index of English words, starting with "or"

(1) - Ordinary (n.) A charge or bearing of simple form, one of nine or ten which are in constant use. The bend, chevron, chief, cross, fesse, pale, and saltire are uniformly admitted as ordinaries. Some authorities include bar, bend sinister, pile, and others. See Subordinary.
(2) - Ordinary (n.) A dining room or eating house where a meal is prepared for all comers, at a fixed price for the meal, in distinction from one where each dish is separately charged; a table d'hote; hence, also, the meal furnished at such a dining room.
(3) - Ordinary (n.) Anything which is in ordinary or common use.
(4) - Ordinary (n.) That which is so common, or continued, as to be considered a settled establishment or institution.
(5) - Ordinary (n.) The mass; the common run.
(6) - Ordinary (n.) A judicial officer, having generally the powers of a judge of probate or a surrogate.
(7) - Ordinary (n.) One who has immediate jurisdiction in matters ecclesiastical; an ecclesiastical judge; also, a deputy of the bishop, or a clergyman appointed to perform divine service for condemned criminals and assist in preparing them for death.
(8) - Ordinary (n.) An officer who has original jurisdiction in his own right, and not by deputation.
(9) - Ordinary (a.) Of common rank, quality, or ability; not distinguished by superior excellence or beauty; hence, not distinguished in any way; commonplace; inferior; of little merit; as, men of ordinary judgment; an ordinary book.
(10) - Ordinary (a.) Common; customary; usual.
(11) - Ordinary (a.) According to established order; methodical; settled; regular.

(1) - Ordinate (v. t.) To appoint, to regulate; to harmonize.
(2) - Ordinate (n.) The distance of any point in a curve or a straight line, measured on a line called the axis of ordinates or on a line parallel to it, from another line called the axis of abscissas, on which the corresponding abscissa of the point is measured.
(3) - Ordinate (a.) Well-ordered; orderly; regular; methodical.

(1) - Ordination (n.) Disposition; arrangement; order.
(2) - Ordination (n.) The act of setting apart to an office in the Christian ministry; the conferring of holy orders.
(3) - Ordination (n.) The act of ordaining, appointing, or setting apart; the state of being ordained, appointed, etc.

(1) - Ordnance (n.) Heavy weapons of warfare; cannon, or great guns, mortars, and howitzers; artillery; sometimes, a general term for all weapons and appliances used in war.