Here are the definitions for the letter "o"

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Oaxaca (Wah-HAH-kuh), Oaxaca Pluma

Market name for coffee from the southern Mexico state of Oaxaca.

Ocoa

Market name for one of the better-respected coffees of the Dominican Republic.

oily

A term sometimes used to denote a coffee that has a roasted oily taste due to a high degree of roasting or an oily coffee having a greasy but not rancid taste.

old

A roasted coffee that has been left for too long changes aroma and acquires a specific and disagreeable flavor. Similar to oldish but with stronger hay-like flavor.

Old Arabicas

Botanical varieties or cultivars of the Coffea arabica species that were developed by selection relatively early in the history of coffee, such as var. bourbon and var. typica, as opposed to hybrid varieties that have been developed more recently in deliberate efforts to increase disease resistance and production. Many experts contend that the modern varieties of Coffea arabica produce coffee that is inferior in cup quality and interest to the coffee produced by the more traditional old arabica varieties.

Old Crop

Coffee that has been held in warehouses before shipping. Old crop differs from aged or vintage and mature coffees in two ways: First, it has not been held for as long a period, and second, it may not have been handled with as much deliberateness. Depending on the characteristics of the original coffee and the quality of the handling, old crop may or may not be considered superior in cup characteristics to a new crop version of the same coffee. See also New Crop.

Old Crop

any crop which has been sitting around a long time. Generally, any crop which is older than one crop. Depending on handling, this may not be aged or mature crop.

Old Java, Old Government, Old Brown

Arabica coffee from Java that, like mature coffee, has been deliberately held in warehouses in port cities to reduce acidity and increase body. The purpose is to mimic the flavor characteristics of the original Java coffee, which was inadvertently aged in the holds of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century sailing ships during their passage to Europe.

Old Tavern Coffee Estate

A small, highly regarded producer of certified Jamaica Blue Mountain and trade; coffee using traditional wet processing methods.

oldish

A complete lack of freshness. Somewhat flat taste with a slight flavor of hay.

oniony

Has a flavor of onions.

Open Pot

one of the oldest methods, leave the coffee in an open pot where the grind separates from the brew by settling or straining.

Open-Pot Method

Brewing method in which the ground coffee is steeped (not boiled) in an open pot, and separated from the brewed coffee by settling or straining.

ordinary

Below average quality for growth, grade and type. Bland.

organic

Organic is an important descriptive term in the contemporary coffee world. An organically-grown coffee must be certified by an international agency as having been grown without synthetic chemical fertilizers, pesticides, or herbicides. Somewhat lower yields and the considerable cost of the certification process account for the higher prices demanded for many organic coffees.