Index of English words, starting with "op"

(1) - Ophiology (n.) That part of natural history which treats of the ophidians, or serpents.

(1) - Ophiophagous (a.) Feeding on serpents; -- said of certain birds and reptiles.

(1) - Ophiophagus (n.) A genus of venomous East Indian snakes, which feed on other snakes. Ophiophagus elaps is said to be the largest and most deadly of poisonous snakes.

(1) - Ophite (a.) A mamber of a Gnostic serpent-worshiping sect of the second century.
(2) - Ophite (n.) A greenish spotted porphyry, being a diabase whose pyroxene has been altered to uralite; -- first found in the Pyreness. So called from the colored spots which give it a mottled appearance.
(3) - Ophite (a.) Of or pertaining to a serpent.