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Definitions of oratory
  1. noun
    addressing an audience formally (usually a long and rhetorical address and often pompous)
    "he loved the sound of his own oratory"
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Definition that contains oratory
  • field somewhere (away from a studio or office or library or laboratory) where practical work is done or data is collected
  • bore a hole or passage made by a drill; usually made for exploratory purposes
  • laboratory a region resembling a laboratory inasmuch as it offers opportunities for observation and practice and experimentation
  • burke British statesman famous for his oratory; pleaded the cause of the American colonists in British Parliament and defended the parliamentary system (1729-1797)
  • probe an exploratory action or expedition
  • wildcat an exploratory oil well drilled in land not known to be an oil field
  • nrl the United States Navy's defense laboratory that conducts basic and applied research for the Navy in a variety of scientific and technical disciplines
  • wildcatter an oilman who drills exploratory wells in territory not known to be an oil field
  • moonwalk an exploratory walk by an astronaut on the surface of the moon
  • clinician a practitioner (of medicine or psychology) who does clinical work instead of laboratory experiments
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