Phrase Hound found 51 phrases and 63 compound words that contain oral. The most common are listed below. Open oral in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 51
- oral sexStimulation of another person's genitals or anus using the mouth, lips, and/or tongue.
- oral historyThe collection and study of historical information about individuals, families, important events, or everyday life using audiotapes, videotapes, or transcriptions of planned interviews.
- oral traditionCultural material transmitted orally from one generation to another.
- oral cavityThe cavity of the mouth, especially the part of the mouth behind the gums and teeth that is bounded above by the hard and soft palates and below by the tongue and by the mucous membrane connecting it with the inner part of the mandible.
- oral hygieneThe practice of keeping the mouth clean in order to prevent cavities (dental caries), gingivitis, periodontitis, bad breath (halitosis), and other dental disorders.
- oral test
- oral argumentA portion of a legal proceeding wherein the attorneys present their argument by speaking directly to the judge and answering the judge's questions.
- Oral health
- Oral presentation
- oral examinationSynonym of oral exam: A type of assessment that evaluates a student's knowledge, skills, and abilities through verbal communication.
- Oral contraceptives
- Oral Communication
- oral stageIn Freudian psychoanalysis, the first stage of psychosexual development, during early infancy, when the baby's mouth is their primary erogenous zone.
- oral argumentsplural of oral argument: A portion of a legal proceeding wherein the attorneys present their argument by speaking directly to the judge and answering the judge's questions.
- oral historiesplural of oral history: The collection and study of historical information about individuals, families, important events, or everyday life using audiotapes, videotapes, or transcriptions of planned interviews.
- Oral administration
- oral availabilityThe quality of being efficacious when taken by mouth (usually of a medicinal drug).
- oral examA type of assessment that evaluates a student's knowledge, skills, and abilities through verbal communication.
- oral candidiasisInfection on the mucous membranes of the mouth due to yeast of the genus Candida.
- oral lawA code of conduct in use in a given culture, religion or community, by which a body of rules of human behavior is transmitted by oral tradition and effectively respected.
- oral surgeryAny type of surgical procedure performed on the teeth, gums, jaws or other oral structures.
- Oral TorahThe Mishna
- fecal-oralInvolving fecal matter being consumed through the food pathway.
- oral traditionsplural of oral tradition: Cultural material transmitted orally from one generation to another.
- oral vowelA vowel that is produced without nasalization.
Compound words 63
- intraoralWithin the mouth
- oralcareThe care and hygiene of the mouth.
- perioralSurrounding the mouth.
- oratureThe oral equivalent of literature: a collection of traditional folk songs, stories, etc., that is communicated orally rather than in writing.
- peroralBy way of the mouth, oral cavity.
- oralisticOf or pertaining to oralism.
- oralnessThe quality or condition of being oral.
- suboralunderneath the mouth
- transoralThrough the mouth.
- deoralizationSynonym of debuccalization: A sound change in which a consonant loses its original place of articulation and becomes glottal [h] or [ʔ].