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8-letter words that end in ous

  • -androus — (in botany) indicating number or type of stamens
  • -anthous — having flowers (of a specified kind or number)
  • -carpous — (in botany) indicating a certain kind or number of fruit
  • -chroous — coloured in a specified way
  • -dromous — moving or running
  • -florous — indicating number or type of flowers
  • -folious — having (a specified number or kind of) leaves
  • -iferous — containing or yielding
  • -phagous — that eats (something specified)
  • -philous — indicating love of or fondness for
  • -phorous — bearing, producing
  • -pterous — indicating a specified number or type of wings
  • -sporous — (in botany) having a specified type or number of spores
  • -stomous — having a specified type of mouth
  • -tropous — indicating a turning away
  • acarpous — (of plants) producing no fruit
  • achelous — a river god who changed into a snake and a bull while fighting Hercules but was defeated when Hercules broke off one of his horns
  • achroous — Colorless; achromatic.
  • acoelous — not having a true digestive tract
  • alcinous — (in Homer's Odyssey) a Phaeacian king at whose court the shipwrecked Odysseus told of his wanderings
  • amberous — of, relating to or resembling amber
  • amourous — Alternative form of amorous.
  • amyelous — congenital absence of the spinal cord.
  • anctious — Obsolete form of anxious.
  • anemious — (of a plant) Growing in exposed windy places.
  • anginous — of, noting, or pertaining to angina, especially angina pectoris.
  • angulous — angular or having angles
  • anourous — anurous.
  • anticous — (in plants) facing the axis of the flower
  • antinous — the chief suitor of Penelope, killed by Odysseus upon his return from Troy.
  • aphonous — without voice; voiceless
  • aphthous — Of, or relating to aphtha.
  • apterous — (of insects) without wings, as silverfish and springtails
  • araceous — belonging to the plant family Araceae.
  • araneous — resembling a spider's web
  • arborous — relating to, or formed by, trees
  • arsenous — of or containing trivalent arsenic
  • arsonous — relating to arson
  • asperous — Rough, rugged, uneven.
  • atropous — growing straight, without inversion
  • automous — Misspelling of autonomous.
  • azureous — (zoology) of a fine blue color; azure.
  • bibulous — addicted to alcohol
  • bigamous — A bigamous marriage is one in which one of the partners is already legally married to someone else.
  • bimanous — (of man and the higher primates) having two hands distinct in form and function from the feet
  • biparous — producing offspring in pairs
  • biramous — divided into two parts, as the appendages of crustaceans
  • butyrous — resembling butter; butyraceous
  • caducous — (of parts of a plant or animal) shed during the life of the organism
  • caesious — having a waxy bluish-grey coating

On this page, we collect all 8-letter words ending in OUS. It’s easy to find right word with a certain length. It is the easiest way to find 8-letter word that ends in OUS to use in Scrabble or Crossword puzzles.

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