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Words Containing OUS
5-Letter Words (19 found)
6-Letter Words (78 found)
- arouse
- aurous
- awmous
- bayous
- bijous
- blouse
- blousy
- boused
- bouses
- cerous
- chouse
- choush
- comous
- cousin
- crouse
- cymous
- doused
- douser
- douses
- famous
- fousty
- fucous
- grouse
- housed
- housel
- houser
- houses
- housey
- humous
- iodous
- jousts
- joyous
- kousso
- loused
- louses
- lupous
- miaous
- moused
- mouser
- mouses
- mousey
- mousse
- mucous
- nodous
- nouses
- odious
- osmous
- ousels
- ousted
- ouster
- parous
- pilous
- porous
- poyous
- ramous
- rimous
- roused
- rouser
- rouses
- rousts
- rufous
- rugous
- sajous
- scouse
- serous
- setous
- soused
- souser
- souses
- spouse
- torous
- toused
- touses
- tousle
- uveous
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7-Letter Words (176 found)
- acajous
- acerous
- acetous
- acinous
- adipous
- aeneous
- agamous
- amadous
- amorous
- anurous
- anxious
- apodous
- aqueous
- arduous
- arenous
- arousal
- aroused
- arouser
- arouses
- azygous
- bilious
- bloused
- blouses
- blouson
- boubous
- bousing
- brumous
- bulbous
- bullous
- burnous
- cachous
- callous
- carious
- carouse
- caseous
- choused
- chouser
- chouses
- chylous
- chymous
- cirrous
- citrous
- coccous
- congous
- copious
- cormous
- cousins
- coypous
- cuprous
- curious
- delouse
- devious
- dousers
- dousing
- dubious
- duteous
- emulous
- envious
- espouse
- estrous
- fatuous
- ferrous
- fibrous
- folious
- fulvous
- fungous
- furious
- fuscous
- gallous
- gaseous
- gibbous
- globous
- groused
- grouser
- grouses
75 of 176 words shown
8-Letter Words (287 found)
- acarpous
- acaulous
- acoelous
- acoustic
- aduncous
- alehouse
- anginous
- angulous
- anserous
- aphthous
- apterous
- araceous
- arborous
- arousals
- arousers
- arousing
- arsenous
- arsonous
- astomous
- baghouse
- bespouse
- bibulous
- bigamous
- bijugous
- bimanous
- biparous
- biramous
- blousier
- blousily
- blousing
- blousons
- bousouki
- bughouse
- butyrous
- caducous
- caesious
- canorous
- captious
- caribous
- carousal
- caroused
- carousel
- carouser
- carouses
- cathouse
- cautious
- cernuous
- chlorous
- chousers
- choushes
- chousing
- chromous
- citreous
- corneous
- couscous
- cousinly
- cousinry
- covetous
- crankous
- cribrous
- croupous
- crousely
- cumbrous
- cumulous
- cupreous
- decorous
- deloused
- delouser
- delouses
- desirous
- dextrous
- didymous
- diecious
- digamous
- dimerous
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9-Letter Words (352 found)
- acidulous
- acoustics
- alehouses
- almshouse
- aluminous
- ambiguous
- ambitious
- amorously
- amorphous
- analogous
- anestrous
- anhydrous
- anomalous
- anonymous
- anxiously
- apetalous
- arboreous
- arduously
- arsenious
- assiduous
- atrocious
- audacious
- backhouse
- baghouses
- barbarous
- bathhouse
- beauteous
- bespoused
- bespouses
- bicurious
- biliously
- biogenous
- birdhouse
- blousiest
- boathouse
- bodacious
- bonhomous
- bounteous
- bousoukia
- bousoukis
- bughouses
- bulbously
- bumptious
- bunkhouse
- burnouses
- calculous
- callalous
- calloused
- callouses
- callously
- cankerous
- capacious
- carcajous
- carousals
- carousels
- carousers
- carousing
- carrousel
- cathouses
- cavernous
- cetaceous
- chancrous
- chitinous
- chophouse
- cinereous
- clamorous
- clubhouse
- cobaltous
- cohousing
- congruous
- conscious
- cookhouse
- copiously
- coumarous
- courteous
75 of 352 words shown
10-Letter Words (396 found)
- abstemious
- acalculous
- acephalous
- acoustical
- adulterous
- alacritous
- albuminous
- alliaceous
- allogamous
- almshouses
- amphibious
- anadromous
- anasarcous
- anatropous
- antonymous
- aquiferous
- arenaceous
- armigerous
- arousingly
- auriferous
- auspicious
- autoecious
- autogamous
- autogenous
- autologous
- autonomous
- autotomous
- avaricious
- backhouses
- bathhouses
- battailous
- bespousing
- bibulously
- bigamously
- birdhouses
- bituminous
- blockhouse
- blusterous
- boathouses
- boisterous
- bunkhouses
- cadaverous
- calamitous
- calcareous
- caliginous
- callousing
- calumnious
- cancellous
- canorously
- capricious
- captiously
- carrousels
- cautiously
- censorious
- ceruminous
- chivalrous
- chophouses
- circuitous
- clangorous
- clubhouses
- coetaneous
- cohousings
- commodious
- coniferous
- contagious
- contiguous
- continuous
- cookhouses
- coriaceous
- courageous
- courthouse
- couscouses
- cousinages
- cousinhood
- cousinries
75 of 396 words shown
11-Letter Words (352 found)
- abstentious
- acoustician
- acrimonious
- adenomatous
- adventurous
- ambiguously
- ambitiously
- amorousness
- amorphously
- anachronous
- analogously
- androgynous
- anfractuous
- angiomatous
- anisogamous
- anomalously
- anonymously
- anxiousness
- arduousness
- arenicolous
- assiduously
- atrabilious
- atrociously
- audaciously
- barbarously
- barrelhouse
- beauteously
- biliousness
- blasphemous
- blockhouses
- bodaciously
- bounteously
- bumptiously
- burglarious
- cacophonous
- calcicolous
- calciferous
- calcifugous
- callipygous
- callousness
- capaciously
- carnivorous
- catadromous
- cataractous
- cavernously
- ceremonious
- champertous
- clamorously
- coffeehouse
- collagenous
- compendious
- congenerous
- congruously
- consciouses
- consciously
- conspicuous
- contentious
- contrarious
- copiousness
- coterminous
- courteously
- courthouses
- cousinhoods
- cousinships
- credulously
- cruciferous
- crustaceous
- cupriferous
- curiousness
- customhouse
- cutaneously
- dangerously
- declivitous
- deleterious
- deliriously
75 of 352 words shown
12-Letter Words (344 found)
- abstemiously
- acoustically
- acousticians
- adscititious
- adulterously
- advantageous
- adventitious
- altitudinous
- ambidextrous
- amentiferous
- amphibiously
- anemophilous
- anthophilous
- argillaceous
- ascomycetous
- asynchronous
- atheromatous
- auspiciously
- autoeciously
- autogenously
- autonomously
- avariciously
- barrelhouses
- bibulousness
- bioacoustics
- biohazardous
- boisterously
- bootylicious
- cadaverously
- calamitously
- calcareously
- calumniously
- canorousness
- cantankerous
- capriciously
- captiousness
- carbonaceous
- cautiousness
- cementitious
- censoriously
- chivalrously
- circuitously
- circumfluous
- clangorously
- coffeehouses
- coleopterous
- collembolous
- commodiously
- complicitous
- compunctious
- contagiously
- contemptuous
- conterminous
- contiguously
- continuously
- contumacious
- contumelious
- coprophagous
- coprophilous
- courageously
- covetousness
- cryptogamous
- cumbrousness
- customhouses
- customshouse
- decorousness
- desirousness
- despiteously
- diaphanously
- diatomaceous
- disastrously
- discourteous
- disingenuous
- disputatious
- dolorousness
75 of 344 words shown
13-Letter Words (274 found)
- acrimoniously
- adventurously
- ambiguousness
- ambitiousness
- amorousnesses
- amorphousness
- anachronously
- analogousness
- androgynously
- angiospermous
- anomalousness
- anonymousness
- argentiferous
- arteriovenous
- assiduousness
- atrociousness
- audaciousness
- autocephalous
- autochthonous
- barbarousness
- beauteousness
- bibliolatrous
- blasphemously
- boardinghouse
- bounteousness
- boustrophedon
- brachypterous
- bumptiousness
- burglariously
- cacophonously
- camphoraceous
- capaciousness
- carcinomatous
- carnivorously
- cartilaginous
- cavernicolous
- ceremoniously
- clamorousness
- clearinghouse
- cleistogamous
- compendiously
- condylomatous
- congruousness
- conscientious
- consciousness
- consentaneous
- conspicuously
- contentiously
- coterminously
- countinghouse
- courteousness
- credulousness
- customshouses
- dangerousness
- deciduousness
- deleteriously
- deliriousness
- deviousnesses
- dexterousness
- dichotomously
- discontinuous
- disharmonious
- duplicitously
- efficaciously
- egregiousness
- emphysematous
- enterocoelous
- entomophagous
- entomophilous
- erroneousness
- exanthematous
- expeditiously
- facetiousness
- fatuousnesses
- feloniousness
75 of 274 words shown
14-Letter Words (188 found)
- abstemiousness
- advantageously
- adventitiously
- ambidextrously
- amphibiousness
- asynchronously
- auspiciousness
- avariciousness
- bioacoustician
- boardinghouses
- boisterousness
- boustrophedons
- campylotropous
- cantankerously
- capriciousness
- censoriousness
- chivalrousness
- chlorophyllous
- circuitousness
- clearinghouses
- commodiousness
- consanguineous
- contagiousness
- contemptuously
- conterminously
- contiguousness
- continuousness
- contradictious
- contumaciously
- contumeliously
- countinghouses
- courageousness
- curvaceousness
- diamondiferous
- diaphanousness
- dicotyledonous
- discourteously
- disingenuously
- disputatiously
- euphoniousness
- extemporaneous
- extraneousness
- fabulousnesses
- factitiousness
- fallaciousness
- fastidiousness
- felicitousness
- fictitiousness
- flagitiousness
- fortuitousness
- gelatinousness
- geosynchronous
- gluttonousness
- graciousnesses
- gratuitousness
- gregariousness
- harmoniousness
- hemimetabolous
- heterologously
- heterophyllous
- holometabolous
- housebreakings
- housecleanings
- hyperconscious
- ichthyophagous
- idolatrousness
- imperviousness
- inauspiciously
- incautiousness
- incestuousness
- incommodiously
- indecorousness
- infectiousness
- infelicitously
- ingloriousness
75 of 188 words shown
15-Letter Words (119 found)
- acrimoniousness
- adventurousness
- anthropophagous
- antituberculous
- atrabiliousness
- autochthonously
- barbarousnesses
- basidiomycetous
- bioacousticians
- blasphemousness
- boustrophedonic
- carnivorousness
- ceremoniousness
- cleistogamously
- collenchymatous
- compendiousness
- conscientiously
- consciousnesses
- consentaneously
- conspicuousness
- contemporaneous
- contentiousness
- deleteriousness
- deuteranomalous
- dichotomousness
- disadvantageous
- discontinuously
- echinodermatous
- efficaciousness
- electroacoustic
- enantiomorphous
- epitheliomatous
- erroneousnesses
- excrementitious
- expeditiousness
- facetiousnesses
- fissiparousness
- flirtatiousness
- floriferousness
- heterogeneously
- homogeneousness
- housewifeliness
- hyperfastidious
- ignominiousness
- illustriousness
- impecuniousness
- incongruousness
- inconspicuously
- industriousness
- inefficaciously
- ingeniousnesses
- ingenuousnesses
- injudiciousness
- injuriousnesses
- innocuousnesses
- insidiousnesses
- instantaneously
- ludicrousnesses
- luxuriousnesses
- magnanimousness
- maliciousnesses
- mellifluousness
- meritoriousness
- miscellaneously
- mischievousness
- mountainousness
- multitudinously
- necessitousness
- nonsimultaneous
- obliviousnesses
- obnoxiousnesses
- odoriferousness
- opprobriousness
- overambitiously
- overzealousness
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How many SCRABBLE® words contain OUS?
There are 2589 words that contain OUS in the Official SCRABBLE® Dictionary, ranging from 4-letter words to 15-letter words. The highest-scoring SCRABBLE® words containing OUS is homozygously, which is worth 33 points, followed by zygodactylous at 32 points.
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