12-Letter Words Containing OU

Extraneous

""FABULOUS amazing,excellent""

FACTIOUS turbulent

Factitious

Fallacious

Famousness

Fastidious

Felicitous

Fictitious

Flagitious

""An antineoplastic agent, C 4 H 3 FN 2 O 2 , used especially in the treatment of cancers of the skin, breast, and digestive system.""

Foreground

Forethought

By chance

""FOUNDATION The act of founding, fixing, establishing, or beginning to erect.""

Make a wish here at beginning of spring

Wellspring (2 words)

Chief source

Fourdrinier

In a smoky manner.

Resembling the domestic fowls and pheasants; of or pertaining to the Gallinae.

The formation or production of gametes.

Having the petals united or joined so as to form a tube or cup; monopetalous.

Gelatinous

GENEROUS willing to give

Having revolting habits means lushes need hosing to be reformed

GLAMOURIZE

GLAUCOUS bluish green

GLORIOUS magnificent

Gluttonous

GORGEOUS beautiful

Gourmandise

Gourmandism

GOURMANDIZE

Gourmandize

Indulgent, elegant, courtesy

Gratuitous

How some people socialize

GRIEVOUS causing grief

Groundburst

Groundfish

Groundless

Groundmass

Layers beneath kippers of crushed leaves

Groundswell

Groundwater

Groupuscule

Harmonious

Dull or lifeless, from the Latin for 'blunt'

Adjective (-ous)

Hellacious

Producing blood.

""Spending different stages of a life cycle on different, usually unrelated hosts. Used of parasites such as rust fungi and tapeworms.""

""The condition of having two or more kinds of flowers which differ in regard to stamens and pistils, as in the aster.""

Not from the same source

""Characterized by heterology; consisting of different elements, or of like elements in different proportions; different; opposed to homologous; as, heterologous organs. homologous; as, heterologous organs.""

Subject to external controls

Having different alleles at one or more corresponding chromosomal loci.

Homoiousian

In an homonymous manner; so as to have the same name or relation.

Homozygous

Or only rushed (anagram)

HOUSEBOATER houseboat

Demolition worker who shows criminal intent

Burglar

Houseclean

Housedress

Housefather

HOUSEHOLDER The master or head of a family; one who occupies a house with his family.

Male with an iron and a feather duster (wordplay)

To save on accommodation, he works at home

What Mr. Incredible becomes in "Incredibles 2"

They clean up after clerics and footballer in bars

They clean up after clerics in family castle on riverside at the centre

Accommodate the last lines of defence for those cleaning up after the clergy

Maid's profession

Oikologist's study

Money set aside for domestic costs

They keep an eye on the school children for the Ceann Comhairles perhaps

Housemother

Take in rope for craftsman

Job that involves ladder climbing

Man with a ladder

Houseparent

Houseperson

Politicians at work maintaining domestic security

Keeping an eye on the flat? That's why the politicians are all there!

Moving tribute (wordplay)

Party for those on the move

Party for the new neighbors

Moodiness; capriciousness.

HYGROPHILE

AROUSAL the act of {arousing=v}

Excessively adoring

Impervious

""Of the nature of, or pertaining to, impetigo.""

Impoundment

Sinister in area, wary heading off

Boding ill

Unpromising

Incautious

Incestuous

Cramped - inconvenient

In an indecorous manner.

Indigenous

In an infectious manner.

Unfortunate; not appropriate

Inappropriate, unfortunate

Unfortunate; inappropriate

In an inglorious manner; dishonorably; with shame; ignominiously; obscurely.

Off-key in tune after family members start off

In an iniquitous manner; unjustly; wickedly.

""Not salubrious or healthful; unwholesome; as, an insalubrious air or climate. as, an insalubrious air or climate.""

Insouciance

Insouciant

Between divisions of Greater New York

COUNTRY the territory of a nation

Intercourse

Like newspaper writers

Journalizer

JOURNALIZE To enter or record in a journal or diary.

Journeywork

Joyousness

Langoustine

With a dreamy inertia

Lascivious

Libidinous

Licentious

In a loquacious manner.

They get the message out powerfully - these can affect one hearing things!

Lubricious

Lugubrious

Producing or being a medium of light

Producing light

The quality of being luminous; emitting or reflecting light.

LUSCIOUS having a delicious taste

LUSTROUS reflecting light evenly and efficiently

LYMPHOMA a type of {tumour=n}

Having long wings.

Provided with inadequate sustenance

With oil run out, abandoned after parent became short of food

Starved

Malodorous

Hesitant to state facts (2 words)

Smooth tongued - too squeamish

Afraid to speak frankly

Quaker place of worship

Quaker church

Quaker building

Membranous

In a lying manner

Courier-Times (anagram) - tacky

Superficially attractive but worthless

Concentrated on going after funny bone

Wishbone, however, swallowed by slightly drunk head of table

MESOPHYLL

Meticulous

""MICROSPORE One of the exceedingly minute spores found in certain flowerless plants, as Selaginella and Isoetes, which bear two kinds of spores, one very much smaller than the other. Cf. Macrospore. Selaginella and Isoetes, which bear two kinds of spores, one very much smaller than the other. Cf. Macrospore.""

Adjective (-ous)

Magically

Say "cachet" as "ca-CHET," say

Say wrongly

Timid people, covering second part of speech, don't sound right

Of or pertaining to the Monadelphia; having the stamens united in one body by the filaments.

Monogamous

With boring regularity

Motherhouse

They're inclined to explore county without borders in state west of Queen's

Skier's place

Increase area within ski slope, maybe (wordplay)

Where marmots and chamois live

Mountaintop

Mountebank

Superlative adjective

Sad feeling

I needed a few pointers, and I was...

'I needed a few pointers, and I was...'

""Any of various fishes, especially of the genera Haplochromis and Tilapia, that carry their eggs and young in the mouth.""

""Partaking of the nature of, or resembling, mucilage; moist, soft, and viscid; slimy; ropy; as, a mucilaginous liquid. as, a mucilaginous liquid.""

Plural or third person singular

Many and various

Of various kinds

Having many aspects

MUTINOUS disposed to mutiny

MYCETOMA a fungus infection

In an incomprehensible and obscure manner

MYXEDEMA a disease caused by decreased activity of the thyroid gland

NAUSEOUS affected with nausea

NEBULOUS {unclear=adj}

Of or pertaining to the Necrophaga; eating carrion. See Necrophagan. Necrophaga; eating carrion. See Necrophagan.

Adjacent, nearby

Adjoining

Neuropteral.

""AMBIGUOUS Doubtful or uncertain, particularly in respect to signification; capable of being understood in either of two or more possible senses; equivocal; as, an ambiguous course; an ambiguous expression. as, an ambiguous course; an ambiguous expression.""

""CANCEROUS Like a cancer; having the qualities or virulence of a cancer; affected with cancer; as, a cancerous growth.as, a cancerous growth.""

Word with prefix non-

CONSCIOUS Possessing the faculty of knowing one's own thoughts or mental operations.

Plural or third person singular

""FRIVOLOUS Of little weight or importance; not worth notice; slight; as, a frivolous argument. as, a frivolous argument.""

""Inflected form of GLAMOROUS Inflected form of GLAMOR to bewitch, also GLAMOUR""

HAZARDOUS Exposed to hazard; dangerous; risky.

POISONOUS Having the qualities or effects of poison; venomous; baneful; corrupting; noxious.

""RELIGIOUS Of or pertaining to religion; concerned with religion; teaching, or setting forth, religion; set apart to religion; as, a religious society; a religious sect; a religious place; religious subjects, books, teachers, houses, wars. as, a religious society; a religious sect; a religious place; religious subjects, books, teachers, houses, wars.""

""UNANIMOUS Being of one mind; agreeing in opinion, design, or determination; consentient; not discordant or dissentient; harmonious; as, the assembly was unanimous; the members of the council were unanimous. as, the assembly was unanimous; the members of the council were unanimous.""

Nourishment

NUMEROUS {many=adj}

NUMINOUS a {divinity=n}

Nutritious

In a sycophantic way ("Richard III")

In a servile way

Drunken bore's posture becomes unruly

Sober posture (anagram) - unruly

Noisy, hard to control

Odiousness

Offscouring

Oleaginous

OLEORESIN A natural mixture of a terebinthinate oil and a resin.

""Feeding on a restricted range of food substances, especially a limited number of plants. Used chiefly of insects.""

Omnivorous

""Pertaining to, or resembling, a natural order (Orchidace\'91) of endogenous plants of which the genus Orchis is the type. They are mostly perennial herbs having the stamens and pistils united in a single column, and normally three petals and three sepals, all adherent to the ovary. The flowers are curiously shaped, often resembling insects, the odd or lower petal (called the lip) being unlike the others, and sometimes of a strange and unexpected appearance. About one hundred species occur in the United States, but several thousand in the tropics. Orchidace\'91) of endogenous plants of which the genus Orchis is the type. They are mostly perennial herbs having the stamens and pistils united in a single column, and normally three petals and three sepals, all adherent to the ovary. The flowers are curiously shaped, often resembling insects, the odd or lower petal (called the lip) being unlike the others, and sometimes of a strange and unexpected appearance. About one hundred species occur in the United States, but several thousand in the tropics.""

Having the axis of an ovule or seed straight from the hilum and chalaza to the orifice or the micropyle; atropous.

Given to showy display

Gaudy and garish

Showy and vulgar

OUTACHIEVE

OUTBALANCE To outweight; to exceed in weight or effect.

Outbargain

Outbreeding

Sheds what's not popular in the architects plans

Sheds what's not popular from groundbreaking developments

Outcavil

OUTCOMPETE

Outcropping

OUTDATED outdate

Outdeliver

Outdesign

Left (a competitor) far behind

Leaves behind.

Excelled in military skill

Outglitter

OUTGOING expenditure