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15-letter words containing ou

  • incredulousness — not credulous; disinclined or indisposed to believe; skeptical.
  • indirect labour — work done in administration and sales rather than in the manufacturing of a product
  • industriousness — working energetically and devotedly; hard-working; diligent: an industrious person.
  • inefficaciously — Without efficacy or effect.
  • inhomogeneously — lack of homogeneity.
  • injudiciousness — The state or condition of being injudicious.
  • instantaneously — occurring, done, or completed in an instant: an instantaneous response.
  • interfoliaceous — situated between leaves, especially opposite leaves.
  • into the ground — beyond what is requisite or can be endured; to exhaustion
  • irish wolfhound — one of an Irish breed of large, tall dogs having a rough, wiry coat ranging in color from white to brindle to black.
  • irreligiousness — The state or quality of being irreligious; ungodliness.
  • islands council — (in Scotland since 1975) any of the three divisions (Orkney, Shetland, and the Western Isles) into which the Scottish islands are divided for purposes of local government
  • isopropyl group — the univalent group C 3 H 7 , an isomer of the propyl group.
  • it's sb's shout — If you are in a pub and someone you are with says 'It's your shout' or 'It's my shout', they mean that it is your turn or their turn to buy a round of drinks.
  • jewelers' rouge — the brownish-red oxide of iron produced by heating ferrous sulfate: used chiefly as a pigment in paints and theatrical rouge, and as a polishing agent.
  • john ousterhout — (person)   /oh'st*r-howt/ John K. Ousterhout, the designer of Tcl and Tk, and founder of Scriptics. See also: Ousterhout's dichotomy. E-mail: [email protected]
  • joint favourite — one of two or more competitors in a race or contest that are considered equally likely to win
  • joint-household — a type of extended family composed of parents, their children, and the children's spouses and offspring in one household.
  • journal bearing — a plain cylindrical bearing to support a shaft or axle
  • justice's court — an inferior tribunal, not of record, having limited jurisdiction, both civil and criminal, and presided over by a justice of the peace.
  • keep open house — to be always ready to provide hospitality
  • kick into touch — to kick the ball out of the playing area and into touch
  • kissing cousins — any more or less distant kin familiar enough to be greeted with a kiss, as a cousin (kissing cousin)
  • kissing gourami — a whitish labyrinth fish, Helostoma temmincki, found in southeastern Asia, noted for the habit of pressing its fleshy, protrusible lips against those of another: often kept in aquariums.
  • knebworth house — a Tudor mansion in Knebworth in Hertfordshire: home of Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton; decorated (1843) in the Gothic style
  • labour shortage — a shortage or insufficiency of qualified candidates for employment (in an economy, country, etc)
  • lancaster sound — an arm of Baffin Bay, Nunavut Territory, Canada, leading W to the Parry Channel. 200 miles (320 km) long and 40 miles (64 km) wide.
  • largemouth bass — a North American freshwater game fish, Micropterus salmoides, having an upper jaw extending behind the eye and a broad, dark, irregular stripe along each side of the body. Compare smallmouth bass.
  • lateran council — any of the five ecumenical councils (1123, 1139, 1179, 1215, 1512–17) held in the Lateran Palace.
  • lavatory humour — humour characterized by excessive mention of lavatories and the excretory functions; vulgar or scatological humour
  • lay oneself out — to put or place in a horizontal position or position of rest; set down: to lay a book on a desk.
  • leading counsel — the more senior of two counsels
  • left outer join — outer join
  • let yourself go — If you let yourself go, you relax and behave much more freely than usual.
  • licensing hours — hours during which alcoholic drinks may be sold legally
  • lighthouse tube — a vacuum tube with the electrodes arranged in parallel layers closely spaced, giving a relatively high-power output at high frequencies.
  • lissencephalous — having the cephalic disorder of a lack of developed brain folds
  • little missouri — a river in the NW United States, rising in NE Wyoming and flowing NE into the Missouri through N Dakota. 560 miles (900 km) long.
  • lose your heart — If you lose your heart to someone, you fall in love with them.
  • loudspeaker van — a motor vehicle carrying a public address system
  • louis d'orleans — Louis Philippe Joseph [lwee fee-leep zhaw-zef] /lwi fiˈlip ʒɔˈzɛf/ (Show IPA), Duc (Philippe Égalité) 1747–93, French political leader.
  • louis of nassau — 1538–74, a leader (1568–74) of the revolt of the Netherlands against Spain: died in battle
  • louisiana heron — tricolored heron.
  • luminous energy — light1 (def 2a).
  • magnanimousness — The quality of being magnanimous.
  • magnetic course — a course whose bearing is given relative to the magnetic meridian of the area.
  • make the rounds — having a flat, circular surface, as a disk.
  • man of the hour — a man who is honored by a group.
  • manukau harbour — an inlet of the Tasman Sea near Auckland in New Zealand on NW North Island
  • margaritiferous — yielding or wearing pearls
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