15-letter words that end in ous
- nonsimultaneous — existing, occurring, or operating at the same time; concurrent: simultaneous movements; simultaneous translation.
- odontorhynchous — (of birds) having toothlike ridges inside the beak
- odontostomatous — having jaws that resemble teeth
- opisthognathous — having receding jaws.
- over-scrupulous — excessively scrupulous.
- over-solicitous — too solicitous: oversolicitous concerning one's health.
- pamprodactylous — having all four toes directed forward, as in swifts and colies.
- passifloraceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Passifloraceae, a tropical and subtropical family of climbing plants including the passionflowers: the flowers have five petals and threadlike parts forming a dense mass (corona) around the central disc
- past continuous — past progressive.
- paurometabolous — designating or of a group of insect orders, as orthopterans or hemipterans, in which metamorphosis to the adult state from the juvenile state is gradual and without any sudden, radical change of body form
- pergamentaceous — (esp of plants) resembling parchment, whether in texture or composition
- plagiostomatous — plagiostome
- plantaginaceous — relating to or belonging to the family Plantaginaceae
- plumbaginaceous — belonging to the Plumbaginaceae, the leadwort family of plants.
- pulchritudinous — physically beautiful; comely.
- quasi-conscious — aware of one's own existence, sensations, thoughts, surroundings, etc.
- quasi-religious — of, relating to, or concerned with religion: a religious holiday.
- quasicontinuous — uninterrupted in time; without cessation: continuous coughing during the concert.
- sarcenchymatous — relating to the connective tissue of some sponges
- sarraceniaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Sarraceniaceae, an American family of pitcher plants
- scaphocephalous — of or relating to scaphocephalus
- sclerodermatous — Zoology. covered with a hardened tissue, as scales.
- semi-autonomous — acting independently to some degree
- strombuliferous — having organs coiled as spirals
- tentaculiferous — having tentacles
- the unconscious — the sum of all thoughts, memories, impulses, desires, feelings, etc. of which the individual is not conscious but which influence the emotions and behavior; that part of one's psyche which comprises repressed material of this nature
- tricotyledonous — having three cotyledons.
- ultra-religious — of, relating to, or concerned with religion: a religious holiday.
- ultrafastidious — extremely fastidious
- un-presumptuous — full of, characterized by, or showing presumption or readiness to presume in conduct or thought, as by saying or doing something without right or permission.
- unconscientious — governed by conscience; controlled by or done according to one's inner sense of what is right; principled: She's a conscientious judge, who does not let personal prejudices influence her decisions.
- unconsentaneous — disagreeable or discordant
- unfossiliferous — (of sediment, clay, rock, etc) not containing fossils
- unsanctimonious — Obsolete. holy; sacred.
- unselfconscious — not self-conscious; without affectation or pretense: an unselfconscious manner.
- vicissitudinous — a change or variation occurring in the course of something.
- zygophyllaceous — belonging to the Zygophyllaceae, the caltrop family of plants.