ora-, or-, orat-; os- +
(Latin: oris, mouth, face; opening, entrance; talk, speak, say)
osculatory
1. Of or pertaining to kissing; kissing: "The osculatory ceremony."
2. In church history, a tablet or board, with the picture of Christ or the virgin, etc. which is kissed by the priest and then delivered to the people for the same purpose.
3. An osculatory circle, in geometry, is a circle having the same curvature with any curve at any given point.
oscule
1. The mouthlike opening in a sponge, used to expel water.
2. One of the excurrent (projecting beyond the tip) openings of sponges.
osculocentric
Sexual arousal from kissing.
osculum
1. An opening like a mouth, through which a sponge expels water.
2. A minute opening.
peroration
The concluding part of a speech or discourse, in which the speaker or writer recapitulates the principal points and urges them with greater earnestness and force.
per os; P.O.; p.o.
Through the mouth.
A pharmaceutical instruction for the administration of medicine.
suboral
Under, or below, the mouth.
Cross references of word families related directly, or indirectly, to: "talk, speak, speech; words, language; tongue, etc.":
cit-;
clam-;
dic-;
English Words: Origins and Histories;
fa-;
-farious;
glosso-;
glotto-;
lalo-;
linguo-;
locu-;
logo-;
loqu-;
mythico-;
-ology;
-phasia;
-phemia;
phon-;
phras-;
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Quotes: Language, Part 2;
Quotes: Language, Part 3;
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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