10-letter words that end in ous
- exophagous — (of an insect larva) living on the outside of, and feeding upon, the host
- extraneous — Irrelevant or unrelated to the subject being dealt with.
- facinorous — extremely wicked
- factitious — not spontaneous or natural; artificial; contrived: factitious laughter; factitious enthusiasm.
- fallacious — containing a fallacy; logically unsound: fallacious arguments.
- fastidious — excessively particular, critical, or demanding; hard to please: a fastidious eater.
- felicitous — well-suited for the occasion, as an action, manner, or expression; apt; appropriate: The chairman's felicitous anecdote set everyone at ease.
- fetiparous — (of a marsupial) bearing young before they are fully developed.
- fibrillous — composed of small fibres
- fictitious — created, taken, or assumed for the sake of concealment; not genuine; false: fictitious names.
- fimicolous — of or relating to an organism that lives on or in animal excrement.
- flagitious — shamefully wicked, as persons, actions, or times.
- flatterous — flattering
- flavourous — Alternative spelling of flavorous.
- florideous — belonging to the Florideae family of algae, or having the characteristics thereof
- flosculous — (botany) Consisting of many gamopetalous florets.
- foliaceous — of, like, or of the nature of a plant leaf; leaflike.
- folivorous — any chiefly leaf-eating animal or other organism, as the koala of Australia that subsists on eucalyptus.
- fortuitous — happening or produced by chance; accidental: a fortuitous encounter.
- founderous — likely to cause foundering; miry; swampy.
- fucivorous — feeding on seaweed
- fuliginous — sooty; smoky: the fuliginous air hanging over an industrial city.
- gangrenous — necrosis or death of soft tissue due to obstructed circulation, usually followed by decomposition and putrefaction.
- gelatinous — having the nature of or resembling jelly, especially in consistency; jellylike.
- gemmaceous — of, relating to, or resembling gemmae.
- geophilous — Zoology. terrestrial, as certain snails.
- glamourous — full of glamour; charmingly or fascinatingly attractive, especially in a mysterious or magical way.
- glanderous — Characteristic of, pertaining to, or afflicted by glanders.
- glandulous — glandular.
- glumaceous — glumelike; chaffy.
- gluttonous — tending to eat and drink excessively; voracious.
- goloptious — voluptuous
- gramineous — grasslike.
- gratuitous — given, done, bestowed, or obtained without charge or payment; free; voluntary.
- gregarious — fond of the company of others; sociable.
- gynandrous — having stamens and pistils united in a column, as in orchids.
- halogenous — (chemistry)describes a compound containing a halogen as part of the molecule.
- harmonious — marked by agreement in feeling, attitude, or action: a harmonious group.
- hellacious — remarkable; astonishing: They're raising a hellacious amount of money in taxes.
- hemizygous — an individual having only one of a given pair of genes.
- herbaceous — of, relating to, or characteristic of an herb; herblike.
- hexagynous — (of a plant) having six pistils
- hexamerous — consisting of or divided into six parts.
- hexandrous — (of a plant) having six stamen
- hexapodous — (zoology) Having six feet; belonging to the Hexapoda.
- hirtellous — minutely hirsute.
- hirudinous — leech-like
- hologamous — of or relating to an organism having reproductive cells similar in size and structure to the somatic cells.
- homoecious — designating or of parasites that spend their entire life cycle on one species of host
- homogamous — Botany. having flowers or florets that do not differ sexually (opposed to heterogamous). having the stamens and pistils maturing simultaneously (opposed to dichogamous).