10-letter words containing ou
- campground — A campground is the same as a campsite.
- cancel out — If one thing cancels out another thing, the two things have opposite effects, so that when they are combined no real effect is produced.
- cancellous — having a porous or spongelike structure
- canorously — In a canorous manner.
- cantaloupe — A cantaloupe is a type of melon.
- canteloube — (Marie) Joseph (French ʒozɛf). 1879–1957, French composer, best known for his Chants d'Auvergne (1923–30)
- caoutchouc — rubber; esp. India rubber, or crude, natural rubber, obtained from latex
- capacitous — Having the legal capacity to do something.
- capricious — Someone who is capricious often changes their mind unexpectedly.
- captiously — In a captious manner.
- cartouches — Plural form of cartouche.
- cast about — to make a mental or visual search
- cat around — to search promiscuously for sexual partners; be promiscuous
- catamounts — Plural form of catamount.
- cautiously — showing, using, or characterized by caution: a cautious man; To be cautious is often to show wisdom.
- celebrious — (obsolete) famous.
- celeritous — (rare) Swift, speedy, fast.
- censorious — If you describe someone as censorious, you do not like the way they strongly disapprove of and criticize someone else's behaviour.
- ceriferous — producing or bearing wax
- ceruminous — earwax.
- chairbound — unable to walk; dependent on a wheelchair for mobility
- charthouse — the compartment on a ship or boat where charts are kept
- cheekpouch — (in animals such as the chipmunk) a dilatation of the cheek forming a bag
- chicoutimi — city in SC Quebec, Canada, on the Saguenay River: pop. 63,000
- chiungchou — Qiongzhou.
- chivalrous — A chivalrous man is polite, kind, and unselfish, especially towards women.
- chop-house — a restaurant specializing in chop, steaks, and the like.
- chophouses — Plural form of chophouse.
- choucroute — a dish, resembling sauerkraut, that consists of cabbage that has been preserved by soaking in pickle
- chow hound — a person who eats food in large quantities or with great gusto; glutton.
- chunderous — nauseating
- chylaceous — of or resembling chyle.
- circle-out — a closed plane curve consisting of all points at a given distance from a point within it called the center. Equation: x 2 + y 2 = r 2 .
- circuitous — A circuitous route is long and complicated rather than simple and direct.
- cistaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Cistaceae, a family of shrubby or herbaceous plants that includes the rockroses
- clamouring — a loud uproar, as from a crowd of people: the clamor of the crowd at the gates.
- clamourous — Archaic spelling of clamorous.
- clangorous — a loud, resonant sound; clang.
- clay court — a tennis court with a playing surface topped by a layer of crushed shale, brick, or stone
- clay flour — dried and pulverized clay.
- clock-hour — a full 60-minute period, as of class instruction or therapeutic consultation. Compare hour (def 11).
- clothbound — (of a book) bound in stiff boards covered in cloth
- cloud base — the apparent lower surface of a cloud or cloud layer.
- cloud nine — a condition of great joy or bliss; euphoric state
- cloud over — If the sky clouds over, it becomes covered with clouds.
- cloud peak — a mountain in N central Wyoming: highest peak in the Bighorn Mountains. 13,175 feet (4018 meters).
- cloud rack — a group of moving clouds
- cloudberry — a creeping Eurasian herbaceous rosaceous plant, Rubus chamaemorus, with white flowers and orange berry-like fruits (drupelets)
- cloudburst — A cloudburst is a sudden, very heavy fall of rain.
- cloudiness — full of or overcast by clouds: a cloudy sky.