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Words Containing IOUS
5-Letter Words (1 found)
6-Letter Words (1 found)
7-Letter Words (23 found)
8-Letter Words (26 found)
9-Letter Words (70 found)
- ambitious
- anxiously
- arsenious
- atrocious
- audacious
- bicurious
- biliously
- bodacious
- bumptious
- capacious
- conscious
- copiously
- curiouser
- curiously
- delirious
- deviously
- dioecious
- dubiously
- egregious
- enviously
- facetious
- felonious
- ferocious
- fractious
- fugacious
- furiously
- hilarious
- imperious
- impiously
- incurious
- ingenious
- injurious
- insidious
- invidious
- judicious
- laborious
- litigious
- luxurious
- malarious
- malicious
- melodious
- monecious
- nefarious
- notorious
- noxiously
- oblivious
- obnoxious
- obviously
- penurious
- piousness
- rapacious
- religious
- sagacious
- salacious
- seditious
- seriously
- silicious
- tediously
- tenacious
- uncurious
- unenvious
- unserious
- vagarious
- variously
- veracious
- vexatious
- vicarious
- viciously
- vivacious
- voracious
10-Letter Words (73 found)
- abstemious
- amphibious
- auspicious
- autoecious
- avaricious
- calumnious
- capricious
- captiously
- cautiously
- censorious
- commodious
- contagious
- curiousest
- curvacious
- euphonious
- factiously
- factitious
- fallacious
- fastidious
- fictitious
- flagitious
- gloriously
- graciously
- gregarious
- harmonious
- hellacious
- impervious
- incautious
- infectious
- inglorious
- lascivious
- licentious
- loquacious
- lubricious
- lugubrious
- lusciously
- mendacious
- monoecious
- mysterious
- nonobvious
- nonserious
- nutritious
- obsequious
- odiousness
- perfidious
- perjurious
- precarious
- preciouses
- preciously
- precocious
- predacious
- previously
- prodigious
- propitious
- pugnacious
- rebellious
- robustious
- salubrious
- scabiouses
- sequacious
- spaciously
- speciously
- spuriously
- struthious
- studiously
- suspicious
- tenebrious
- tortiously
- ungracious
- uproarious
- usuriously
- uxoriously
- victorious
11-Letter Words (100 found)
- abstentious
- acrimonious
- ambitiously
- anxiousness
- atrabilious
- atrociously
- audaciously
- biliousness
- bodaciously
- bumptiously
- burglarious
- capaciously
- ceremonious
- compendious
- consciouses
- consciously
- contentious
- contrarious
- copiousness
- curiousness
- deleterious
- deliriously
- deviousness
- dissentious
- dubiousness
- efficacious
- egregiously
- enviousness
- expeditious
- facetiously
- feloniously
- ferociously
- flirtatious
- fractiously
- hilariously
- homoiousian
- ignominious
- illustrious
- impecunious
- imperiously
- incuriously
- industrious
- ingeniously
- injudicious
- injuriously
- insidiously
- invidiously
- irreligious
- judiciously
- laboriously
- litigiously
- luxuriously
- maliciously
- melodiously
- meritorious
- nefariously
- notoriously
- noxiousness
- obliviously
- obnoxiously
- obviousness
- omnifarious
- opprobrious
- overanxious
- overobvious
- overserious
- penuriously
- piousnesses
- prestigious
- pretentious
- punctilious
- rapaciously
- religiously
- repetitious
- rumbustious
75 of 100 words shown
12-Letter Words (99 found)
- abstemiously
- adscititious
- adventitious
- amphibiously
- auspiciously
- autoeciously
- avariciously
- bootylicious
- calumniously
- capriciously
- captiousness
- cautiousness
- cementitious
- censoriously
- commodiously
- compunctious
- contagiously
- contumacious
- contumelious
- disputatious
- euphoniously
- factiousness
- factitiously
- fallaciously
- fastidiously
- fictitiously
- flagitiously
- gloriousness
- graciousness
- gregariously
- harmoniously
- hellaciously
- heteroecious
- homoiousians
- imperviously
- inauspicious
- incautiously
- incommodious
- infectiously
- ingloriously
- inharmonious
- insalubrious
- lasciviously
- licentiously
- loquaciously
- lubriciously
- lugubriously
- lusciousness
- mendaciously
- multifarious
- mysteriously
- nonconscious
- nonreligious
- nutritiously
- obsequiously
- odiousnesses
- ostentatious
- overcautious
- parsimonious
- perfidiously
- perjuriously
- pertinacious
- perviousness
- precariously
- preciousness
- precociously
- preconscious
- previousness
- prodigiously
- propitiously
- pugnaciously
- rambunctious
- rebelliously
- robustiously
- sacrilegious
75 of 99 words shown
13-Letter Words (97 found)
- acrimoniously
- ambitiousness
- atrociousness
- audaciousness
- bumptiousness
- burglariously
- capaciousness
- ceremoniously
- compendiously
- conscientious
- consciousness
- contentiously
- deleteriously
- deliriousness
- deviousnesses
- disharmonious
- efficaciously
- egregiousness
- expeditiously
- facetiousness
- feloniousness
- ferociousness
- flirtatiously
- fractiousness
- hilariousness
- hypercautious
- ignominiously
- illustriously
- impecuniously
- imperiousness
- incuriousness
- industriously
- inefficacious
- ingeniousness
- injudiciously
- injuriousness
- insidiousness
- invidiousness
- irreligiously
- judiciousness
- laboriousness
- litigiousness
- luxuriousness
- maliciousness
- melodiousness
- meritoriously
- noncontagious
- nongregarious
- noninfectious
- nonnutritious
- obliviousness
- obnoxiousness
- obviousnesses
- opprobriously
- overambitious
- overconscious
- overingenious
- overseriously
- penuriousness
- perspicacious
- prestigiously
- pretentiously
- punctiliously
- rapaciousness
- religiousness
- repetitiously
- rumbustiously
- sagaciousness
- salaciousness
- sanctimonious
- scrumptiously
- seditiousness
- semiconscious
- semireligious
- sententiously
75 of 97 words shown
14-Letter Words (78 found)
- abstemiousness
- adventitiously
- amphibiousness
- auspiciousness
- avariciousness
- capriciousness
- censoriousness
- commodiousness
- contagiousness
- contradictious
- contumaciously
- contumeliously
- disputatiously
- euphoniousness
- factitiousness
- fallaciousness
- fastidiousness
- fictitiousness
- flagitiousness
- graciousnesses
- gregariousness
- harmoniousness
- hyperconscious
- imperviousness
- inauspiciously
- incautiousness
- incommodiously
- infectiousness
- ingloriousness
- inharmoniously
- interreligious
- lasciviousness
- licentiousness
- loquaciousness
- lugubriousness
- mendaciousness
- multireligious
- mysteriousness
- nonconsciously
- nonobviousness
- nutritiousness
- obsequiousness
- ostentatiously
- overcautiously
- overfastidious
- oversuspicious
- parsimoniously
- perfidiousness
- pertinaciously
- postinfectious
- precariousness
- preciousnesses
- precociousness
- preconsciously
- prodigiousness
- propitiousness
- pugnaciousness
- rambunctiously
- rebelliousness
- robustiousness
- sacrilegiously
- salubriousness
- socioreligious
- subconsciously
- superambitious
- superciliously
- superluxurious
- supposititious
- suspiciousness
- trepidatiously
- ultrareligious
- ungraciousness
- unostentatious
- unpropitiously
- unsuspiciously
75 of 78 words shown
15-Letter Words (51 found)
- acrimoniousness
- atrabiliousness
- ceremoniousness
- compendiousness
- conscientiously
- consciousnesses
- contentiousness
- deleteriousness
- efficaciousness
- excrementitious
- expeditiousness
- facetiousnesses
- flirtatiousness
- hyperfastidious
- ignominiousness
- illustriousness
- impecuniousness
- industriousness
- inefficaciously
- ingeniousnesses
- injudiciousness
- injuriousnesses
- insidiousnesses
- luxuriousnesses
- maliciousnesses
- meritoriousness
- obliviousnesses
- obnoxiousnesses
- opprobriousness
- overambitiously
- perspicaciously
- prestigiousness
- pretentiousness
- punctiliousness
- repetitiousness
- rumbustiousness
- sanctimoniously
- scrumptiousness
- sententiousness
- subreptitiously
- superstitiously
- surreptitiously
- temerariousness
- tendentiousness
- ultrafastidious
- unceremoniously
- unconsciousness
- unmelodiousness
- unpretentiously
- unselfconscious
- unseriousnesses
How many SCRABBLE® words contain IOUS?
There are 619 words that contain IOUS in the Official SCRABBLE® Dictionary, ranging from 5-letter words to 15-letter words. The highest-scoring SCRABBLE® words containing IOUS is inefficaciously, which is worth 28 points, followed by hyperfastidious at 27 points.
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