ora-, or-, orat-; os- +

1. To make a speech, especially a public, formal, or ceremonial speech.
2. To speak in a pompous, or boring way, or for an inappropriately long time.

1. A speech, lecture, or other instance of formal or ceremonial public speaking.
2. A speech that is considered pompous, boring, or inappropriately long.
3. An academic speech that is designed to show the speaker's rhetorical skills, especially a speech given as an exercise in public speaking, often in a public speaking contest.

1. A person who delivers a speech or oration.
2. Someone who gives speeches; especially, somebody skilled in giving formal, ceremonial, or persuasive public addresses.

Like, or characteristic of, oratory or an orator.

1. A place for prayers.
2. A small chapel; especially, for private worship.

1. The art of speaking in public with style, cogency, and grace.
2. Eloquence in public speaking; especially, of the kind that shows the speaker's rhetorical skills.

1. A woman who delivers an oration.
2. A female public speaker; especially, one of great eloquence.

1. An aperture, or hole, opening into a bodily cavity.
2. The entrance, or outlet, of any body cavity.
3. An opening, especially the mouth, anus, vagina, or other opening into a cavity or passage in the body.

An archaic term for "a prayer".

1. Kissing; hence, meeting; clinging.
2. A reference to a close embrace or long kiss.
3. Adhering closely; embracing; applied to certain creeping animals; such as, caterpillars.
4. Intermediate in character, or on the border, between two genera, groups, families, etc, of animals or plants, and partaking somewhat of the characters of each, thus forming a connecting link.

A fear or dread of kissing.

Relating to the mouth or activities of the mouth: such as, kissing: "There was oscular stimulation as they embraced and kissed."

1. To touch with the lips or to press the lips (against someone's mouth or other body part) as an expression of love, greeting, etc.
2. To touch with the lips or to press the lips (against someone's mouth or other body part) as an expression of love, greeting, etc.: "The newly married couple kissed", "Her grandfather kissed her on the forehead when she entered the room."
3. To touch closely, so as to have a common curvature at the point of contact.
4. From Latin osculari, from osculum, "kiss"; literally, "little mouth" diminutive of os, "mouth".

1. The act of kissing.
2. A kiss.
3. Close contact.
4. In mathematics, a contact, as between two curves or surfaces, at three or more common points.

Someone who kisses; such as, "He was a politician known as an inveterate osculator of babies."