11-letter words containing ou
- horned pout — a bullhead, especially the brown bullhead.
- horrisonous — sounding dreadful
- houndstooth — woven or printed with a pattern of broken or jagged checks: a hound's-tooth jacket.
- houppelande — (in the Middle Ages) a robe or long tunic, belted or with a fitted bodice, usually having full trailing sleeves and often trimmed or lined with fur.
- hour circle — a great circle on the celestial sphere passing through the celestial poles and containing a point on the celestial sphere, as a star or the vernal equinox.
- hourglasses — Plural form of hourglass.
- house agent — a real-estate agent.
- house brand — a brand name used by a retailer for a product or product line made specifically for or by the retailer.
- house finch — a small common finch, Carpodacus mexicanus, originally of the western U.S. and Mexico and now widely distributed: the males have a red forehead, throat, breast, and rump.
- house group — a group of Christians who regularly meet to worship, study the Bible, etc, in someone's house
- house guest — a person staying with a household as a guest for one night or longer.
- house mouse — a brownish-gray Old World mouse, Mus musculus, now common in the U.S. in or near houses.
- house music — an up-tempo style of disco music characterized by deep bass rhythms, piano or synthesizer melodies, and soul-music singing, sometimes with elements of rap music.
- house organ — a periodical issued by a business or other establishment for its employees, customers, and other interested readers, presenting news about the firm, its products, and its personnel.
- house owner — A house owner is a person who owns a house.
- house party — the guests at such an affair or party: The house party goes sailing today.
- house place — (in medieval architecture) a room common to all the inhabitants of a house, as a hall.
- house plant — an ornamental plant that is grown indoors or adapts well to indoor culture.
- house snake — any African snake of the genus Boaedon, some species of which are important mouse and rat catchers in areas of human habitation.
- house style — a set of rules concerning spellings, typography, etc, observed by editorial and printing staff in a particular publishing or printing company
- house white — a white wine sold unnamed by a restaurant, at a lower price than wines specified on the wine list
- house-clean — to clean the inside of a person's house
- house-craft — skill in domestic management
- house-proud — taking pride in one's house and housekeeping.
- house-train — to housebreak.
- houseboater — One who lives in a houseboat.
- housebreaks — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of housebreak.
- housebroken — (of a pet) trained to avoid excreting inside the house or in improper places.
- housefather — a man responsible for a group of young people, as students, living in a dormitory, hostel, etc.
- houseguests — Plural form of houseguest.
- householder — a person who holds title to or occupies a house.
- householdry — (archaic) The management and upkeep of a household.
- housekeeper — a person, often hired, who does or directs the domestic work and planning necessary for a home, as cleaning or buying food.
- houselander — Caryll [kar-uh l] /ˈkær əl/ (Show IPA), 1901–54, English writer on Roman Catholicism.
- houselights — (plural only) The lights that illuminate the audience section of an auditorium or theatre.
- housemaster — a man who is in charge of a house or a dormitory in a private school for boys.
- housemother — a woman in charge of a residence, especially for children, students, or young women, who acts as hostess, chaperon, and occasionally as housekeeper.
- houseparent — one of a married couple responsible for a group of young people, as students, living in a dormitory, hostel, etc., sometimes acting solely as an advisor, but often serving as host or hostess, chaperon, housekeeper, etc.
- houseperson — someone who manages a household; househusband or housewife.
- houseplants — Plural form of houseplant.
- housesitter — Alternative spelling of house-sitter.
- housewifely — of, like, or befitting a housewife.
- housewifery — the function or work of a housewife; housekeeping.
- houseworker — a paid employee in a home, as a maid or cook.
- hugeousness — hugeness
- humouristic — Alternative spelling of humoristic.
- humourously — (UK, uncommon, nonstandard) alternative spelling of humorously.
- hydrogenous — of or containing hydrogen.
- hylophagous — xylophagous (def 1).
- hypercolour — a dye that causes a fabric to change colour with a change of temperature