10-letter words that end in ous
- omnivorous — eating both animal and plant foods.
- omophagous — the eating of raw food, especially raw meat.
- ossiferous — containing bones, especially fossil bones: ossiferous caves and rock beds.
- ossivorous — bone-eating
- ostentious — Misspelling of ostentatious.
- outrageous — of the nature of or involving gross injury or wrong: an outrageous slander.
- palaverous — a conference or discussion.
- palmaceous — belonging to the plant family Palmae.
- panivorous — subsisting on bread; bread-eating.
- paroecious — (of certain mosses) having the male and female reproductive organs beside or near each other.
- paronymous — containing the same root or stem, as the words wise and wisdom.
- pediculous — the state of being infested with lice.
- pellagrous — a disease caused by a deficiency of niacin in the diet, characterized by skin changes, severe nerve dysfunction, mental symptoms, and diarrhea.
- pemphigous — of, relating to, or affected by pemphigus
- pennaceous — having the texture of a penna; not downy.
- perfidious — deliberately faithless; treacherous; deceitful: a perfidious lover.
- periculous — dangerous; perilous
- perigynous — situated around the pistil on the edge of a cuplike receptacle, as stamens or petals.
- perjurious — the willful giving of false testimony under oath or affirmation, before a competent tribunal, upon a point material to a legal inquiry.
- pernicious — causing insidious harm or ruin; ruinous; injurious; hurtful: pernicious teachings; a pernicious lie.
- petroleous — having or consisting of petroleum or an oil obtained from rock
- piliferous — having or producing hair.
- polydomous — living in more than one nest, as certain ant colonies.
- polygamous — of, pertaining to, characterized by, or practicing polygamy; polygamic.
- polygenous — polygenetic
- polygynous — of, pertaining to, characterized by, or practicing polygyny.
- polymerous — Biology. composed of many parts.
- polysemous — a condition in which a single word, phrase, or concept has more than one meaning or connotation.
- polytocous — flowering multiple times during a lifetime
- polytomous — the act or process of dividing into more than three parts.
- pomiferous — bearing pomes or pomelike fruits.
- pompelmous — pomelo.
- poriferous — bearing or having pores.
- porphyrous — of or relating to porphyry
- porraceous — resembling a leek, esp in colour
- portentous — of the nature of a portent; momentous.
- posthumous — arising, occurring, or continuing after one's death: a posthumous award for bravery.
- precarious — dependent on circumstances beyond one's control; uncertain; unstable; insecure: a precarious livelihood.
- precocious — unusually advanced or mature in development, especially mental development: a precocious child.
- predacious — predatory; rapacious.
- preludious — characteristic of a prelude
- procacious — insolent
- procellous — stormy, as the sea.
- procoelous — describing vertebrae with a concave cranial surface
- prodigious — extraordinary in size, amount, extent, degree, force, etc.: a prodigious research grant.
- prolixious — (of speech, music, writing) long-winded; drawn out
- propitious — presenting favorable conditions; favorable: propitious weather.
- prosperous — having or characterized by financial success or good fortune; flourishing; successful: a prosperous business.
- proteinous — Biochemistry. any of numerous, highly varied organic molecules constituting a large portion of the mass of every life form and necessary in the diet of all animals and other nonphotosynthesizing organisms, composed of 20 or more amino acids linked in a genetically controlled linear sequence into one or more long polypeptide chains, the final shape and other properties of each protein being determined by the side chains of the amino acids and their chemical attachments: proteins include such specialized forms as collagen for supportive tissue, hemoglobin for transport, antibodies for immune defense, and enzymes for metabolism.
- pugnacious — inclined to quarrel or fight readily; quarrelsome; belligerent; combative.