11-letter words containing ou
- cloud grass — a grass, Agrostis nebulosa, of Spain, having clusters of tiny spikelets on slender stalks, used in bouquets.
- cloud layer — a continuous or fragmented distribution of clouds all sharing the same cloud base.
- cloud-based — Cloud-based technology allows you to use programs and information that are stored on the Internet rather than on your own computer.
- cloudbursts — Plural form of cloudburst.
- cloudlessly — Without clouds.
- cloudscapes — Plural form of cloudscape.
- cnidogenous — producing or containing nematocysts.
- coach house — a building in which a coach is kept
- coat armour — a coat of arms
- cocciferous — (of a plant) bearing berries
- coconscious — a division within the subconscious
- coffee hour — an informal gathering of people at which coffee and refreshments are served.
- coffeehouse — an establishment that sells coffee and usually other refreshments and that commonly serves as an informal club for its regular customers
- collagenous — any of a class of extracellular proteins abundant in higher animals, especially in the skin, bone, cartilage, tendon, and teeth, forming strong insoluble fibers and serving as connective tissue between cells, yielding gelatin when denatured by boiling.
- colour code — a system of easily distinguishable colours, as for the identification of electrical wires or resistors
- colour film — a film for use in cameras that produces coloured pictures
- colour line — the social separation of racial groups within a community (esp in the phrase to cross the colour line)
- colouration — (British spelling) alternative spelling of coloration.
- colourblind — Alternative form of colour blind.
- colourbreed — to breed (animals or plants) to be a particular colour
- colourfully — Alternative spelling of colorfully.
- colourpoint — a breed of domestic cat
- combustious — turbulent
- come around — If someone comes around or comes round to your house, they call there to see you.
- come out in — If you come out in spots, you become covered with them.
- come out of — costs: be subtracted
- comment out — (programming) To surround a section of code with comment delimiters or to prefix every line in the section with a comment marker. This prevents it from being compiled or interpreted. It is often done to temporarily disable the code, e.g. during debugging or when the code is redundant or obsolete, but is being left in the source to make the intent of the active code clearer. The word "comment" is sometimes replaced with whatever syntax is used to mark comments in the language in question, e.g. "hash out" (shell script, Perl), "REM out" (BASIC), etc. Compare condition out.
- common noun — A common noun is a noun such as 'tree', 'water', or 'beauty' that is not the name of one particular person or thing. Compare proper noun.
- compendious — containing or stating the essentials of a subject in a concise form; succinct
- compositous — relating to or belonging to the plant family Asteraceae
- compounding — the addition of interest on interest already earned or charged
- conceptious — prolific or fruitful
- conchylious — Archaic form of conchylaceous.
- concolorous — concolor
- confounders — Plural form of confounder.
- confounding — to perplex or amaze, especially by a sudden disturbance or surprise; bewilder; confuse: The complicated directions confounded him.
- congenerous — Having the same (kind of) origin or action.
- congruously — In a congruous manner.
- consciouses — aware of one's own existence, sensations, thoughts, surroundings, etc.
- consciously — aware of one's own existence, sensations, thoughts, surroundings, etc.
- conspicious — Misspelling of conspicuous.
- conspicuous — If someone or something is conspicuous, people can see or notice them very easily.
- contaminous — to make impure or unsuitable by contact or mixture with something unclean, bad, etc.: to contaminate a lake with sewage.
- contentious — A contentious issue causes a lot of disagreement or arguments.
- contour map — a map that indicates the physical features of the land; topographic map
- contrarious — (of people or animals) perverse or obstinate
- contre-jour — the technique of taking photographs into the light, with the light source behind the subject
- contrecoups — Plural form of contrecoup.
- cook's tour — a rapid but extensive tour or survey of anything
- copiousness — large in quantity or number; abundant; plentiful: copious amounts of food.