9-letter words containing ious
- injurious — harmful, hurtful, or detrimental, as in effect: injurious eating habits.
- innoxious — harmless; innocuous.
- insidious — intended to entrap or beguile: an insidious plan.
- invidious — calculated to create ill will or resentment or give offense; hateful: invidious remarks.
- judicious — using or showing judgment as to action or practical expediency; discreet, prudent, or politic: judicious use of one's money.
- laborious — requiring much work, exertion, or perseverance: a laborious undertaking.
- litigious — of or relating to litigation.
- lustrious — Fantastic; amazing; splendid.
- luxurious — characterized by luxury; ministering or conducive to luxury: a luxurious hotel.
- maladious — (obsolete) sickly.
- malarious — Pathology. any of a group of diseases, usually intermittent or remittent, characterized by attacks of chills, fever, and sweating: formerly supposed to be due to swamp exhalations but now known to be caused by a parasitic protozoan, which is transferred to the human bloodstream by a mosquito of the genus Anopheles and which occupies and destroys red blood cells.
- malicious — full of, characterized by, or showing malice; intentionally harmful; spiteful: malicious gossip.
- malitious — Obsolete form of malicious.
- melodious — of the nature of or characterized by melody; tuneful.
- meritious — Having merit.
- minacious — menacing; threatening.
- monecious — monoecious.
- nefarious — extremely wicked or villainous; iniquitous: a nefarious plot.
- negotious — Engaged in negotiation; Occupied with a conversation.
- notorious — widely and unfavorably known: a notorious gambler. Synonyms: infamous, egregious, outrageous, arrant, flagrant, disreputable.
- noxiously — harmful or injurious to health or physical well-being: noxious fumes.
- nugacious — trivial; unimportant or insignificant; nugatory.
- oblivious — unmindful; unconscious; unaware (usually followed by of or to): She was oblivious of his admiration.
- obnoxious — highly objectionable or offensive; odious: obnoxious behavior.
- obsidious — (rare) besieging; besetting, obsessional.
- obviously — easily seen, recognized, or understood; open to view or knowledge; evident: an obvious advantage.
- officious — objectionably aggressive in offering one's unrequested and unwanted services, help, or advice; meddlesome: an officious person.
- parecious — paroicous.
- pecunious — having plenty of money; wealthy
- penurious — extremely stingy; parsimonious; miserly.
- piousness — having or showing a dutiful spirit of reverence for God or an earnest wish to fulfill religious obligations.
- prescious — prescient
- rapacious — given to seizing for plunder or the satisfaction of greed.
- religious — of, relating to, or concerned with religion: a religious holiday.
- sagacious — having or showing acute mental discernment and keen practical sense; shrewd: a sagacious lawyer.
- salacious — lustful or lecherous.
- seditious — of, relating to, or of the nature of sedition.
- selenious — containing tetravalent or bivalent selenium.
- semipious — quite pious; somewhat pious
- semipious — quite pious; somewhat pious
- seriously — in a serious manner: He shook his head seriously.
- silicious — containing, consisting of, or resembling silica.
- solacious — providing solace
- spongious — spongy or relating to a sponge
- synecious — synoicous.
- tediously — marked by monotony or tedium; long and tiresome: tedious tasks; a tedious journey.
- tenacious — holding fast; characterized by keeping a firm hold (often followed by of): a tenacious grip on my arm; tenacious of old habits.
- thallious — having a surplus of thallium
- triecious — of or relating to a species having male, female, and hermaphrodite flowers on different plants.
- unanxious — not anxious or concerned