7-letter words containing ous
- callous — A callous person or action is very cruel and shows no concern for other people or their feelings.
- calvous — lacking all or most of the hair on the head; bald.
- carious — (of teeth or bone) affected with caries; decayed
- carnous — carnose.
- carouse — If you say that people are carousing, you mean that they are behaving very noisily and drinking a lot of alcohol as they enjoy themselves.
- caseous — of or like cheese
- catouse — New England. a noisy disturbance; commotion.
- cereous — resembling wax; wax-like
- choused — Simple past tense and past participle of chouse.
- chouser — a person who deceives, defrauds, or tricks
- chylous — (physiology) Consisting of, or similar to, chyle.
- cirrous — having a cirrus or cirri.
- copious — A copious amount of something is a large amount of it.
- cousins — A child of one's uncle or aunt.
- cuprous — of or containing copper in the monovalent state
- curious — eager to learn; inquisitive
- delouse — to rid (a person or animal) of lice as a sanitary measure
- devious — If you describe someone as devious you do not like them because you think they are dishonest and like to keep things secret, often in a complicated way.
- dousing — Present participle of douse.
- dubious — doubtful; marked by or occasioning doubt: a dubious reply.
- duteous — dutiful; obedient.
- emulous — Seeking to emulate or imitate someone or something.
- envious — Feeling or showing envy.
- espouse — Adopt or support (a cause, belief, or way of life).
- estrous — Of, pertaining to, or in a state of estrus.
- fashous — (Geordie) That which fashes one; troublesome.
- fatuous — foolish or inane, especially in an unconscious, complacent manner; silly.
- ferrous — of or containing iron, especially in the bivalent state.
- fibrous — containing, consisting of, or resembling fibers.
- folious — foolish
- fulvous — tawny; dull yellowish-gray or yellowish-brown.
- fungous — of, relating to, or caused by fungi; fungal.
- furious — full of fury, violent passion, or rage; extremely angry; enraged: He was furious about the accident.
- fuscous — of brownish-gray or dusky color.
- gallous — Fit to be hanged; wicked; mischievous.
- gaseous — existing in the state of a gas; not solid or liquid.
- genious — Misspelling of genius.
- gibbous — Astronomy. (of a heavenly body) convex at both edges, as the moon when more than half full.
- glebous — clod-like; earthy
- groused — to grumble; complain: I've never met anyone who grouses so much about his work.
- grouser — to grumble; complain: I've never met anyone who grouses so much about his work.
- grouses — Plural form of grouse.
- grumous — Also, grumose [groo-mohs] /ˈgru moʊs/ (Show IPA). Botany. formed of clustered grains or granules.
- gummous — consisting of or resembling gum; gummy.
- hainous — Obsolete spelling of heinous.
- heinous — hateful; odious; abominable; totally reprehensible: a heinous offense.
- herbous — Of or relating to herbs; herbaceous.
- hideous — horrible or frightful to the senses; repulsive; very ugly: a hideous monster.
- houmous — Houmous is a smooth food made from chick peas which people usually eat with bread or vegetables.
- housing — a covering of cloth for the back and flanks of a horse or other animal, for protection or ornament.