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9-letter words containing ou

  • bless you — You can say 'bless you' to someone who has just sneezed.
  • blimp out — to become greatly overweight
  • bliss out — supreme happiness; utter joy or contentment: wedded bliss.
  • block out — If someone blocks out a thought, they try not to think about it.
  • bloodnoun — a bullfrog, especially Rana catesbeiana.
  • bluemouth — a deep water fish, Helicolenus dactylopterus
  • blurt out — If someone blurts something out, they blurt it.
  • board out — If someone in your care is boarded out, they are sent to stay with someone else.
  • boarhound — a hound used to chase boar
  • boathouse — A boathouse is a building at the edge of a lake, in which boats are kept.
  • bodacious — If you say that someone or something is bodacious, you mean that they are very good or impressive.
  • bogue out — /bohg owt/ To become bogus, suddenly and unexpectedly. "His talk was relatively sane until somebody asked him a trick question; then he bogued out and did nothing but flame afterward." See also bogosity.
  • bonhomous — exhibiting bonhomie
  • booklouse — any small insect of the order Psocoptera, esp Trogium pulsatorium (common booklouse), a wingless species that feeds on bookbinding paste, etc
  • boughless — (of trees) having no boughs
  • boulanger — Georges (ʒɔrʒ). 1837–91, French general and minister of war (1886–87). Accused of attempting a coup d'état, he fled to Belgium, where he committed suicide
  • boulderer — a rock climber
  • boulevard — A boulevard is a wide street in a city, usually with trees along each side.
  • bound for — going or intending to go; on the way to; destined (usually followed by for): The train is bound for Denver.
  • boundable — able to be bound or limited
  • boundedly — having bounds or limits.
  • boundless — If you describe something as boundless, you mean that there seems to be no end or limit to it.
  • boundness — the quality of being bound or obligated
  • bounteous — giving freely; generous
  • bountiful — A bountiful supply or amount of something pleasant is a large one.
  • bountyhed — the quality of being bounteous
  • bourasque — a tempest
  • bourgeois — If you describe people, their way of life, or their attitudes as bourgeois, you disapprove of them because you consider them typical of conventional middle-class people.
  • bourgogne — Burgundy2
  • bourguiba — Habib ben Ali (hæˈbɪb bɛn ˈɑːlɪ). 1903–2000, Tunisian statesman: president of Tunisia (1957–87); a moderate and an advocate of gradual social change. He was deposed in a coup and kept under house arrest for the rest of his life
  • boutiquey — having the characteristics of a boutique
  • bouvardia — a genus of flowering herbs and shrubs of the family Rubiaceae, native to tropical parts of Central America
  • boxed out — a container, case, or receptacle, usually rectangular, of wood, metal, cardboard, etc., and often with a lid or removable cover.
  • boy scout — The Boy Scouts is an organization for boys which teaches them discipline and practical skills.
  • break out — If something such as war, fighting, or disease breaks out, it begins suddenly.
  • brewhouse — a brewery
  • brighouse — a town in N England, in Calderdale unitary authority, West Yorkshire: machine tools, textiles, engineering. Pop: 32 360 (2001)
  • bring out — When a person or company brings out a new product, especially a new book or CD, they produce it and put it on sale.
  • brown out — a dark tertiary color with a yellowish or reddish hue.
  • buckhound — a hound, smaller than a staghound, used for hunting the smaller breeds of deer, esp fallow deer
  • bumptious — If you say that someone is bumptious, you are criticizing them because they are very pleased with themselves and their opinions.
  • bunkhouse — (in the US and Canada) a building containing the sleeping quarters of workers on a ranch
  • burdenous — burdensome
  • burnt-out — Burnt-out vehicles or buildings have been so badly damaged by fire that they can no longer be used.
  • burroughs — Edgar Rice. 1875–1950, US novelist, author of the Tarzan stories
  • burst out — If someone bursts out laughing, crying, or making another noise, they suddenly start making that noise. You can also say that a noise bursts out.
  • cabassous — Plural form of cabassou.
  • cagoulard — a member of a secret French organization, active 1932–40, that conspired to overthrow the Third Republic.
  • calculous — of or suffering from a calculus
  • calembour — a pun
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