ora-, or-, orat-; os- +
(Latin: oris, mouth, face; opening, entrance; talk, speak, say)
aborad
1. Away from the mouth or oral region.
2. The opposite of orad.
aboral
Opposite to, away from, or distantly remote from the mouth.
adorable
1. Charming, lovable, and usually very attractive.
2. Etymology: from French adorer, "to adore, to worship"; from Latin adorare, "to speak to, to entreat, to ask in prayer, to worship"; from ad-, "to" and orare, "to speak, to pray".
adorably
1. In an adorable manner; that is, worthy of being adored.
2. Characterized by being extremely charming.
adoral
1. Situated toward or near the mouth.
2. Directed toward the mouth.
adoration
1. A feeling of profound love and admiration.
2. Worship given to God alone.
3. The act of strongly admiring.
adore
1. To love someone intensely.
2. To like something or someone very much.
3. To regard with deep, often rapturous love.
4. To worship God, a god, or a spirit.
5. Etymology: from Old French aourer, "to adore, to worship"; from Latin adorare, "to speak to, to entreat, to beseech, to ask in prayer, to worship"; from ad-, "to" and orare, "to speak, to pray".
adorer
1. Someone who regards another person with deep, often rapturous love.
2. Anyone who likes someone, or something, very much.
3. A person who likes or admires something, someone, or groups, very much.
adoringly
Characterized with loving admiration and devotion.
deosculate, deosculation
To kiss affectionately or warmly.
exorable
1. Capable of being moved by entreaty; pitiful; tender.
2. Etymology: from Latin exorabilis, "easily moved by entreaty"; from exorare, "to move by entreaty, to persuade"; from ex-, "out, away" and orare, "to pray".
exosculate
To kiss; especially, to kiss repeatedly or fondly.
inexorable
1. Not to be placated, appeased, or moved by entreaty.
2. Not capable of being swayed or diverted from a course; unsusceptible to persuasion.
3. Unstoppable or impossible to stop.
4. Adamant and pitiless; that is, someone who is not moved by anyone's attempts to plead or to persuade to do, or not to do, something.
inexorably
In an inexorable manner or continuing without any possibility of being stopped.
inosculate, inosculation
1. To join and blend with something else, or to join or blend one thing with another.
2. To unite by openings, as arteries in anastomosis.
3. To connect or join so as to become or make continuous, as fibers; to blend.
4. To unite (blood vessels, nerve fibers, or ducts) by small openings.
5. To unite intimately.
6. To unite or join together; as in continuity.
Cross references of word families related directly, or indirectly, to: "talk, speak, speech; words, language; tongue, etc.":
cit-;
clam-;
dic-;
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fa-;
-farious;
glosso-;
glotto-;
lalo-;
linguo-;
locu-;
logo-;
loqu-;
mythico-;
-ology;
-phasia;
-phemia;
phon-;
phras-;
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serm-;
tongue;
voc-.
A cross reference of other word family units that are related directly, indirectly, or partially with: "opening, hole, cavity, tract, tube":
alveolo-;
antro-;
anu-;
celo-;
coelio-;
concho-;
fenestra-;
hernio-;
hiat-;
meato-;
parieto-;
poro-;
pyl-, pyle-;
pylor-;
sphinctero-;
splanchn-;
stomato-;
syringo-;
uretero-;
urethro-;
vagino-;
ventricul-.
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