Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A pasta shaped like grains of rice, frequently used in soups.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Cookery) Pasta shaped like pearls of barley; frequently prepared with lamb in Greek cuisine.
WordNet 3.0
- n. pasta shaped like pearls of barley; frequently prepared with lamb in Greek cuisine
Etymologies
- From Italian orzo. (Wiktionary)
- Italian, barley, orzo, from Latin hordeum. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Making a risotto with orzo is so easy that I definitely will do it again in the future.”
“After this, stir the mixture and taste — check that the orzo is cooked through and adjust the seasoning if necessary.”
“I've always called the category "pilaf," but apparently that's technically incorrect, as tanaise informs me that a pilaf has to contain orzo or other pasta?”
“Remove the cooked orzo from the heat and add 1/4 cup of freshly squeezed lemon juice, three tablespoons of grated or shredded lemon zest, and 1 1/2 cups of feta cheese, mashed with a fork (and now: magic sauce).”
“And then I walked home with my newly-bought groceries and made the "I couldn't eat this before New Year's Eve" salad — chopped artichoke hearts, olives, sundried tomatoes, and baby spinach in orzo with feta cheese mixed in.”
“The cream of tomato with chicken and orzo is killer, chicken pot pie soup rocks, and they will stuff your burrito (whole wheat, even) to your gut’s content with guacamole, rice, chicken or steak, pico de gallo, vegetables, etc.”
“You can choose any tiny pasta shape, but I particularly like orzo, which is a pasta that looks like grains of rice.”
“After checking out the pasta section in the supermarket, I opted for orzo, which is a tiny pasta that looks like rice.”
“Optional: 1 cup cooked pasta, such as orzo, mezzi tubetti, conchiglie or orecciette”
“Several of his innovations include veloute of soup with cuttlefish ink and hazelnut foam; orzo with crayfish; sampagion , or savory sabayon sauce with roe fish from the western Greek town of Mesolongi; and red snapper with black truffle and aubergine mousse and white grouper with wild greens fri ç asse.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘orzo’.
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The Pasta Master
My favourite is potato
gnocchi,interesting that lists
devoted to pasta exclusively
missed pasta puttanesca,those who
really textually mine dictionaries
would not miss...trofie, torchio, sorprese lisce, strozzapreti, sorprese, rotini, ricciutelle, ricciolini, rotelle, radiatori, pipe, orecchiette and 391 more...
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Pasta! Pasta! Pasta!
Who knew unleavened dough and homey Italian know-how could taste so good?
...and look so great!ziti, vermicelli, tubetti, troffiette, tripolini, trennette, trenne, tortiglioni, tortelloni, tortellini, torchio, tonnarelli and 104 more...
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A Sequel to 250 Spelling Words
Words to quiz the intermediate and advanced speller alike
amatorio, esemplastic, etesian, cholecystitis, chantepleure, paternoster, mondegreen, aporia, kairos, idioglossia, klepht, phansigar and 238 more...
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scrabble j q x z 4 and 5 letter words
revising for a competition 30 games
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5-Letter words with J, X, Q or Z
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ADDAX ADMIX AFFIX ANNEX ATAXY AUXIN AXELS AXIAL AXILE AXILS A...azan, azon, boxy, brux, buzz, calx, chez, coax, coxa, cozy, crux, czar and 152 more...
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Waffalage
waffle, confuzzled, boggle, aberrant, ploogie, kumquat, blether, witter, prattle, defenestrate, coprolite, rambutan and 14 more...
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Really Cool Four-Letter Words
I marvel at the amazing variety of four-letter words in the English language. And that's not even counting really common (to me) words like fuck.
ibis, pelf, sofa, iota, oboe, lava, icon, sped, puha, pulp, puma, kyat and 150 more...
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Pasta la Vista
Because John's and colleen's and Lampbane's lists are their own, and they're such pasta hogs I have to make sure I get some for myself. :)
Includes noodles and other noodle-based items...zituane, rotini, rigati, marziani, salamini, fagioletti, eliche grandi, eliche, elefante, rotellini, rotelli, ziti and 296 more...
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je les adore!
fusillade, foal, celestial, abattoir, byzantium, berlin, casablanca, babylon, balkans, albion, avalon, between the devil... and 471 more...
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Professional Scrabble Lexicon (TWL)
A myriad of game-changing words every Scrabble addict must have in his arsenal.
Keep in mind that these are all tried-and-true feasibly playable words selected for their handiness, i.e...paragon, pignora, ganef, suttee, origan, ohia, aioli, abasement, lehr, mho, tallow, harelike and 843 more...
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Yet more words
hootowling, hoot owl, midday, prohibitive, shutdown, gerund, tripe, doweling, detestable, good measure, boojum, undergirding and 167 more...
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harveythechainsaw's Words
lickspittle, syllogism, redounds, boffo, maw, flibbertigibbet, elan, phalanx, plinth, wonk, janjaweed, madreporic and 142 more...
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Léxico de Scrabble Avanzado
Lista de palabras útiles, raras o esotéricas para Scrabble en Español recopiladas de partidas ordinarias.
Todas las palabras se encuentran en el DRAE.
Algunas palabras po...acocarse, ahelear, helear, pirulo, apirularse, sapirulo, pingar, mugar, her, dino, coquee, otri and 588 more...
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maccheroni
fettuccine, linguine, tagliatelle, fiori, fusilli, rotelle, conchiglie, farfalle, orecchiette, gigli, gemelli, gnocchi and 27 more...
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Flour, water, and eggs =
Pasta!
campanelle, cavatelli, conchiglie, farfalle, fioriettini, fusilli, lanterne, orecchiette, pipe, rotelle, rotini, strozzapreti and 33 more...
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"Z" Words
Scrabble List
zyme, zori, zoos, zoon, zoom, zonk, zone, zoic, zoea, zits, ziti, zing and 76 more...
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Pastas I have loved
Just because I love them, doesn't mean I've tried them--though I aspire to. I love all pasta on principle. I'm about 70% pasta by weight.
Most of these were thieved from--where else--Wik...gramigna, fioriettini, fiorentine, farfallone, creste di galli, cencioni, cechetti, cavatelli, campanelle, spaghetti, vermicelli, spaghettoni and 88 more...
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