12-letter words containing ious
- insalubrious — unfavorable to health; unwholesome.
- labouriously — Alternative form of laboriously.
- lasciviously — inclined to lustfulness; wanton; lewd: a lascivious, girl-chasing old man.
- licentiously — In a licentious manner, rowdily, overwhelmed by passion and without control of appetites (especially sexual appetites).
- loquaciously — In a loquacious manner.
- lubriciously — In a lubricious manner.
- lugubriously — In a lugubrious manner.
- lusciousness — Property of being luscious.
- mendaciously — In a lying or deceitful manner.
- meretricious — alluring by a show of flashy or vulgar attractions; tawdry.
- mischievious — Misconstruction of mischievous.
- mock-serious — pretending to be serious as a joke, etc
- multifarious — having many different parts, elements, forms, etc.
- multivarious — Many and various.
- mysteriously — full of, characterized by, or involving mystery: a mysterious occurrence.
- non-spurious — not genuine, authentic, or true; not from the claimed, pretended, or proper source; counterfeit.
- nonconscious — aware of one's own existence, sensations, thoughts, surroundings, etc.
- nonreligious — of, relating to, or concerned with religion: a religious holiday.
- nonvexatious — Not vexatious.
- np-hilarious — (humour) An algorithm whose complexity is a joke, either literally, as in BogoSort, or metaphorically.
- nutritiously — In a way that provides nutrition; nourishment; food.
- obreptitious — having the characteristics of acquiring something by deceitful means
- obsequiously — characterized by or showing servile complaisance or deference; fawning: an obsequious bow.
- ostentatious — characterized by or given to pretentious or conspicuous show in an attempt to impress others: an ostentatious dresser.
- over-anxious — excessively anxious.
- overcautious — excessively or unnecessarily cautious: Sometimes it doesn't pay to be overcautious in business.
- parsimonious — characterized by or showing parsimony; frugal or stingy.
- perfidiously — deliberately faithless; treacherous; deceitful: a perfidious lover.
- perniciously — causing insidious harm or ruin; ruinous; injurious; hurtful: pernicious teachings; a pernicious lie.
- pertinacious — holding tenaciously to a purpose, course of action, or opinion; resolute.
- pervicacious — extremely willful; obstinate; stubborn.
- precariously — dependent on circumstances beyond one's control; uncertain; unstable; insecure: a precarious livelihood.
- preciousness — of high price or great value; very valuable or costly: precious metals.
- precociously — unusually advanced or mature in development, especially mental development: a precocious child.
- preconscious — Psychoanalysis. absent from but capable of being readily brought into consciousness.
- prodigiously — extraordinary in size, amount, extent, degree, force, etc.: a prodigious research grant.
- proditorious — traitorous
- propitiously — presenting favorable conditions; favorable: propitious weather.
- pugnaciously — inclined to quarrel or fight readily; quarrelsome; belligerent; combative.
- querimonious — Complaining; querulous. (from 17th c.).
- rambunctious — difficult to control or handle; wildly boisterous: a rambunctious child.
- rebelliously — defying or resisting some established authority, government, or tradition; insubordinate; inclined to rebel.
- sacrilegious — pertaining to or involving sacrilege: sacrilegious practices.
- semi-serious — having some seriousness; partly serious.
- semiprecious — (of a stone) having commercial value as a gem but not classified as precious, as the amethyst or garnet.
- spaciousness — containing much space, as a house, room, or vehicle; amply large.
- speciousness — apparently good or right though lacking real merit; superficially pleasing or plausible: specious arguments.
- studiousness — disposed or given to diligent study: a studious boy.
- subconscious — existing or operating in the mind beneath or beyond consciousness: the subconscious self. Compare preconscious, unconscious.
- subdelirious — having the symptoms of subdelirium; suffering from subdelirium