6-letter words containing ou
- course — Course is often used in the expression 'of course', or instead of 'of course' in informal spoken English. See of course.
- courts — Plural form of court.
- cousin — Your cousin is the child of your uncle or aunt.
- couter — a piece of armour designed to protect the elbow
- couthy — Alternative form of couthie.
- coutil — a tightly-woven twill cloth used in corsetry
- couzin — a friend
- crouch — If you are crouching, your legs are bent under you so that you are close to the ground and leaning forward slightly.
- croupe — That part of an animal that corresponds to the human buttocks.
- croups — Plural form of croup.
- croupy — pertaining to or resembling croup.
- crouse — lively, confident, or saucy
- croute — a small round of toasted bread on which a savoury mixture is served
- cutout — A cardboard cutout is a shape that has been cut from cardboard.
- cymous — Cymose.
- davout — Louis Nicolas [lwee nee-kaw-lah] /lwi ni kɔˈlɑ/ (Show IPA), Duke of Auerstadt [ou-er-stat] /ˈaʊ ərˌstæt/ (Show IPA), Prince of Eckmühl [ek-myool] /ˈɛk myul/ (Show IPA), 1770–1823, marshal of France: one of Napoleon's leading generals.
- defoul — corruption; defilement
- degout — to cover (something) with gouts or drops of something
- detour — If you make a detour on a journey, you go by a route which is not the shortest way, because you want to avoid something such as a traffic jam, or because there is something you want to do on the way.
- devour — If a person or animal devours something, they eat it quickly and eagerly.
- devout — A devout person has deep religious beliefs.
- dimout — a dimming or reduction of the night lighting, as in a city, to make it less easily visible, as to enemy aircraft
- do out — decorate
- dolour — sorrow; grief.
- donour — Obsolete form of donor.
- douala — a seaport in W Cameroon.
- douane — a custom house; customs.
- double — twice as large, heavy, strong, etc.; twofold in size, amount, number, extent, etc.: a double portion; a new house double the size of the old one.
- doubly — to a double measure or degree: to be doubly cautious.
- doubts — Plural form of doubt.
- doucer — sedate; modest; quiet.
- doucet — (obsolete except in dialects) A sweetened dish.
- douche — a jet or current of water, sometimes with a dissolved medicating or cleansing agent, applied to a body part, organ, or cavity for medicinal or hygienic purposes.
- douchy — (pejorative) Like a douche bag.
- doudou — A term of endearment.
- doughs — Plural form of dough.
- dought — a simple past tense of dow1 .
- doughy — of or like dough, especially in being soft and heavy or pallid and flabby: a doughy consistency; a fat, doughy face.
- doulas — Plural form of doula.
- doumas — duma.
- dourah — a type of grain sorghum with slender stalks, cultivated in Asia and Africa and introduced into the U.S.
- dourly — sullen; gloomy: The captain's dour look depressed us all.
- doused — Simple past tense and past participle of douse.
- douser — a person or thing that douses.
- douses — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of douse.
- douted — Simple past tense and past participle of dout.
- douter — an implement for snuffing out candles, consisting either of a scissorlike device with two broad flat blades or of a cone at the end of a handle.
- drouth — a period of dry weather, especially a long one that is injurious to crops.
- dryout — the process or an instance of drying out: applying compost to the garden soil to retard dryout.
- dugout — a boat made by hollowing out a log.