11-letter words containing ou
- handwrought — formed or shaped by hand, as metal objects.
- hang around — to fasten or attach (a thing) so that it is supported only from above or at a point near its own top; suspend.
- haplogroups — Plural form of haplogroup.
- harbourless — Without a harbour.
- harbourside — An area (especially a residential area) near a harbour (often in the form of converted warehouses etc).
- hard ground — an etching ground applied to the surface of a plate held over a small flame and spread by a dabber or brayer. Compare soft ground (def 1).
- hard labour — Hard labour is hard physical work which people have to do as punishment for a crime.
- hard-fought — firmly or passionately contested or struggled for
- hardmouthed — of or relating to a horse not sensitive to the pressure of a bit.
- harnoncourt — Nikolaus. 1929–2016, Austrian conductor and cellist, noted for his performances using period instruments
- have it out — Usually, haves. an individual or group that has wealth, social position, or other material benefits (contrasted with have-not).
- hazardously — In a hazardous manner.
- headborough — the official in charge of a tithing
- heat source — sth that generates warmth
- hederaceous — (rare) Of, pertaining to, or resembling ivy.
- hedge about — If you say that something such as an offer is hedged about or is hedged around with rules or conditions, you mean that there are a lot of rules or conditions.
- heinousness — The property of being heinous.
- hell around — the place or state of punishment of the wicked after death; the abode of evil and condemned spirits; Gehenna or Tartarus.
- helminthous — having intestinal worms
- hemipterous — belonging or pertaining to the Hemiptera, an order of insects having forewings that are thickened and leathery at the base and membranous at the apex, comprising the true bugs.
- heptagynous — (of a flower) having seven pistils
- heptamerous — consisting of or divided into seven parts.
- heptandrous — (of a flower) having seven stamens
- herbivorous — feeding on plants.
- hercogamous — (of flowers) incapable of self-fertilization
- hermoupolis — a port in Greece, capital of Cyclades department, on the E coast of Syros Island. Pop: (municipality): 13 496 (2001)
- hexyl group — any of five univalent, isomeric groups having the formula C 6 H 13 −.
- hiccoughing — Present participle of hiccough.
- hideousness — horrible or frightful to the senses; repulsive; very ugly: a hideous monster.
- high colour — (hardware) A colour depth of 16 (or 15) bits per pixel. Compare true colour.
- high ground — a position of moral or ethical superiority: The candidate has claimed the moral high ground.
- highwrought — extremely worked-up or excited
- hilariously — arousing great merriment; extremely funny: a hilarious story; a hilarious old movie.
- hills cloud — a hypothetical dense, disc-shaped area within the Oort cloud
- hippodamous — horse-taming
- hirsutulous — hirtellous.
- hispidulous — covered with stiff, short hairs.
- hold out on — to delay in or keep from telling (a person) some new or important information
- home ground — an area, locality, or subject with which one is intimately familiar: When you see those familiar mountains appear on the horizon, you'll know you are back on home ground. Baseball and football are home ground for this sports-loving community.
- homeomerous — showing or relating to homeomery; consisting of similar parts
- homogeneous — composed of parts or elements that are all of the same kind; not heterogeneous: a homogeneous population.
- homoiousian — a member of a 4th-century a.d. church party that maintained that the essence of the Son is similar to, but not the same as, that of the Father.
- homophilous — Homophilic.
- homophonous — identical in pronunciation.
- homopterous — belonging or pertaining to the Homoptera, an order of insects closely related to the hemipterous insects (in some classifications a suborder of Hemiptera) but having membranous forewings and hind wings, including the aphids, cicadas, leafhoppers, planthoppers, and scale insects.
- homosporous — having the spores of one kind only.
- honey mouse — a small agile Australian marsupial, Tarsipes spenserae, having dark-striped pale brown fur, a long prehensile tail, and a very long snout and tongue with which it feeds on honey, pollen, and insects: family Phalangeridae
- honor bound — bound by or placed under the obligation of honor: She felt honor-bound to defend her friend.
- honor-bound — bound by or placed under the obligation of honor: She felt honor-bound to defend her friend.
- honourarium — Nonstandard spelling of honorarium.