9-letter words containing ou
- at source — at the point of origin
- atrocious — If you describe something as atrocious, you are emphasizing that its quality is very bad.
- audacious — Someone who is audacious takes risks in order to achieve something.
- autecious — autoecious
- autoicous — (of plants, esp mosses) having male and female reproductive organs on the same plant
- autoroute — a French motorway
- avouching — Present participle of avouch.
- ayckbourn — Sir Alan. born 1939, English dramatist. His plays include Absurd Person Singular (1973), the trilogy The Norman Conquests (1974), A Chorus of Disapproval (1985), House and Garden (2000), and Private Fears in Public Places (2004)
- azo group — the bivalent group −N=N− united to two aromatic groups, as in azobenzene.
- babyhouse — A place for children's dolls and dolls' furniture.
- bachelour — Obsolete form of bachelor.
- back four — the defensive players in many modern team formations: usually two fullbacks and two centre backs
- backcourt — In sports such tennis and badminton, the backcourt is the section of each side of the court that is furthest from the net. In basketball, the backcourt is the rear part of the court, where the defense plays. You can also use backcourt to refer to the members of a team who play mainly in this part of the court.
- backhouse — an outdoor privy; outhouse
- backround — Misspelling of background.
- bad mouth — Slang. to speak critically and often disloyally of; disparage: Why do you bad-mouth your family so much?
- bad-mouth — If someone bad-mouths you, they say unpleasant things about you, especially when you are not there to defend yourself.
- badmouths — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of badmouth.
- bakehouse — a building or room to bake in; bakery.
- baragouin — incomprehensible language; gibberish
- barbarous — If you describe something as barbarous, you strongly disapprove of it because you think that it is rough and uncivilized.
- barfulous — /bar'fyoo-l*s/ (Or "barfucious", /bar-fyoo-sh*s/) Said of something that would make anyone barf, if only for aesthetic reasons.
- barklouse — any of numerous insects of the order Psocoptera that live on the bark of trees and other plants.
- barouches — Plural form of barouche.
- bathhouse — A bathhouse is a public or private building containing baths and often other facilities such as a sauna.
- beadhouse — an almshouse in which inhabitants were expected to pray for the soul of the founder
- beauteous — Beauteous means the same as beautiful.
- beclamour — to clamour excessively
- beclouded — Simple past tense and past participle of becloud.
- bedehouse — beadhouse
- beerhouse — an establishment licensed to serve only liquors fermented from malt, as beer, ale, or the like.
- beglamour — to endow with glamour
- behaviour — People's or animals' behaviour is the way that they behave. You can refer to a typical and repeated way of behaving as a behaviour.
- bernoulli — Daniel (danjɛl), son of Jean Bernoulli. 1700–82, Swiss mathematician and physicist, who developed an early form of the kinetic theory of gases and stated the principle of conservation of energy in fluid dynamics
- bethought — simple past tense and past participle of bethink.
- bi-hourly — occurring every two hours.
- bibacious — tending to drink in excess
- bifarious — having parts arranged in two rows on either side of a central axis
- big house — a penitentiary (usually preceded by the).
- big mouth — If you say that someone is a big mouth or that they have a big mouth, you mean that they tell other people things that should have been kept secret.
- biliously — in a bilious or bad manner
- biofouler — an animal that obstructs or pollutes the environment
- biogenous — the production of living organisms from other living organisms.
- birdhouse — a small shelter or box for birds to nest in
- black out — If you black out, you lose consciousness for a short time.
- bland out — to become bland
- blank out — If you blank out a particular feeling or thought, you do not allow yourself to experience that feeling or to have that thought.
- blast out — If music or noise is blasting out, loud music or noise is being produced.
- bleed out — to die as a result of losing blood through an unattended wound
- bleep out — In a television or radio programme, when someone bleeps out an offensive word, they use an electronic device to make the sound of a bleep so that people cannot hear the word.