5-letter words containing ou
- doubs — a river in E France, flowing into the Saône River. About 260 miles (420 km) long.
- doubt — to be uncertain about; consider questionable or unlikely; hesitate to believe.
- douce — sedate; modest; quiet.
- doucs — Plural form of douc.
- dough — flour or meal combined with water, milk, etc., in a mass for baking into bread, cake, etc.; paste of bread.
- doula — a woman who assists women during labor and after childbirth.
- douma — duma.
- doune — Obsolete spelling of down.
- doupe — (UK, dialect, obsolete) The carrion crow.
- doura — a type of grain sorghum with slender stalks, cultivated in Asia and Africa and introduced into the U.S.
- douro — a river in SW Europe, flowing W from N Spain through N Portugal to the Atlantic. About 475 miles (765 km) long.
- douse — to plunge into water or the like; drench: She doused the clothes in soapy water.
- doust — (obsolete, West Country) Dust.
- douth — (rare, or, obsolete) Virtue; excellence; atheldom; nobility; power; riches.
- drouk — to wet thoroughly; drench.
- floud — Obsolete spelling of flood.
- flour — the finely ground meal of grain, especially the finer meal separated by bolting.
- flout — to treat with disdain, scorn, or contempt; scoff at; mock: to flout the rules of propriety.
- fogou — (archaeology) A Cornish souterrain, a underground, dry-stone-walled chamber open on two ends.
- fouat — a succulent pink-flowered plant
- fouer — crazy; foolish.
- fouet — a whip
- fough — Obsolete spelling of faugh.
- foule — type of woollen cloth
- fouls — something that is foul.
- found — simple past tense and past participle of find.
- fount — font2 .
- foure — Obsolete spelling of four.
- fours — Plural form of four.
- fouse — Ready, eager, prompt, quick, striving forward, inclined to, willing.
- fouth — an abundance or fullness
- fouty — (obsolete) despicable.
- ghoul — an evil demon, originally of Muslim legend, supposed to feed on human beings, and especially to rob graves, prey on corpses, etc.
- glour — Alternative spelling of glower.
- glout — to scowl or frown.
- gouda — a city in the W Netherlands, NE of Rotterdam.
- goudy — Frederic William, 1865–1947, U.S. designer of printing types.
- gouge — a chisel having a partly cylindrical blade with the bevel on either the concave or the convex side.
- gould — Chester, 1900–85, U.S. cartoonist: creator of the comic strip “Dick Tracy.”.
- gound — (UK dialectal) Mucus produced by the eyes during sleep.
- goura — any of several species of large, crested ground pigeons found in New Guinea
- gourd — the hard-shelled fruit of any of various plants, especially those of Lagenaria siceraria (white-flowered gourd or bottle gourd) whose dried shell is used for bowls and other utensils, and Cucurbita pepo (yellow-flowered gourd) used ornamentally. Compare gourd family.
- gouts — Plural form of gout.
- gouty — pertaining to or of the nature of gout.
- group — any collection or assemblage of persons or things; cluster; aggregation: a group of protesters; a remarkable group of paintings.
- grout — a thin, coarse mortar poured into various narrow cavities, as masonry joints or rock fissures, to fill them and consolidate the adjoining objects into a solid mass.
- hough — Emerson, 1857–1923, U.S. novelist.
- hould — Obsolete spelling of hold.
- houma — a city in S Louisiana.
- hound — Nautical. either of a pair of fore-and-aft members at the lower end of the head of a mast, for supporting the trestletrees, that support an upper mast at its heel. Compare cheek (def 12).