11-letter words containing ou
- ominousness — portending evil or harm; foreboding; threatening; inauspicious: an ominous bank of dark clouds.
- omnifarious — of all forms, varieties, or kinds.
- omnivourous — Misspelling of omnivorous.
- on the hour — If something happens on the hour, it happens every hour at, for example, nine o'clock, ten o'clock, and so on, and not at any number of minutes past an hour.
- on the outs — on unfriendly terms
- onagraceous — belonging to the Onagraceae, the evening primrose family of plants.
- onerousness — The state or characteristic of of being onerous.
- open ground — uncovered or unobstructed ground in a wide open space
- open source — Computers. pertaining to or denoting software whose source code is available free of charge to the public to use, copy, modify, sublicense, or distribute.
- open-source — Computers. pertaining to or denoting software whose source code is available free of charge to the public to use, copy, modify, sublicense, or distribute.
- opera house — a theater devoted chiefly to operas.
- opprobrious — conveying or expressing opprobrium, as language or a speaker: opprobrious invectives.
- optocoupler — An optoisolator.
- oraculously — in an oraculous manner
- order about — to bully or domineer
- osteogenous — the formation of bone.
- ostreaceous — oyster-like
- otoacoustic — Of or pertaining to sounds generated by the inner ear.
- otter hound — one of an English breed of water dogs having a thick, shaggy, oily coat, trained to hunt otter.
- ouagadougou — a republic in W Africa: formerly part of French West Africa. 106,111 sq. mi. (274,827 sq. km). Capital: Ouagadougou.
- ouija board — board used by spiritualists
- our time(s) — When you refer to our time or our times you are referring to the present period in the history of the world.
- out of date — gone out of style or fashion; outmoded; obsolete: out-of-date fashions; out-of-date ideas.
- out of gear — out of order; not functioning properly
- out of hand — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
- out of line — a mark or stroke long in proportion to its breadth, made with a pen, pencil, tool, etc., on a surface: a line down the middle of the page.
- out of luck — the force that seems to operate for good or ill in a person's life, as in shaping circumstances, events, or opportunities: With my luck I'll probably get pneumonia.
- out of step — a movement made by lifting the foot and setting it down again in a new position, accompanied by a shifting of the weight of the body in the direction of the new position, as in walking, running, or dancing.
- out of sync — out of synchronization (with)
- out of time — having passed a deadline
- out of town — of, relating to, or from another city or town: We're expecting out-of-town visitors tomorrow.
- out of true — not properly set, adjusted, aligned, etc.; inexact
- out of turn — to cause to move around on an axis or about a center; rotate: to turn a wheel.
- out of work — exertion or effort directed to produce or accomplish something; labor; toil.
- out with it — a command to make something known immediately, without missing any details
- out-a-sight — out-of-sight.
- out-and-out — complete; total; thoroughgoing: an out-and-out lie.
- out-compete — to strive to outdo another for acknowledgment, a prize, supremacy, profit, etc.; engage in a contest; vie: to compete in a race; to compete in business.
- out-country — a remote area or region; hinterland.
- out-lodging — a lodging found outside an area
- out-migrant — a person who out-migrates.
- out-migrate — to leave a region, community, etc., to move or settle into a different part of one's country or home territory: People are no longer out-migrating from the South in such large numbers.
- out-of-band — 1. (communications) The exchange of call control information on a dedicated channel, separate from that used by the telephone call or data transmission. 2. Sometimes used to describe what communications people call "shift characters", such as the ESC that leads control sequences for many terminals, or the level shift indicators in the old 5-bit Baudot codes. 3. In personal communication, using methods other than electronic mail, such as telephone or snail-mail. 4. (software) Values returned by a function that are not in its "natural" range of return values, but rather signal some kind of exception. Many C functions that normally return a non-negative integer return -1 to indicate failure. This use confuses "out-of-band" with "out-of-range". It is actually a clear example of in-band signalling since it uses the same "channel" for control and data. Compare hidden flag, green bytes, fence.
- out-of-body — of, relating to, or characterized by the dissociative sensation of perceiving oneself from an external vantage point, as though the mind or soul has left the body and is acting on its own: an alleged out-of-body experience.
- out-of-date — gone out of style or fashion; outmoded; obsolete: out-of-date fashions; out-of-date ideas.
- out-of-door — Also, out-of-door. outdoor.
- out-of-town — of, relating to, or from another city or town: We're expecting out-of-town visitors tomorrow.
- out-process — to end a military tour of duty, accompanied by necessary paperwork: All enlisted soldiers out-process as a class.
- outbalanced — Simple past tense and past participle of outbalance.
- outbalances — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outbalance.